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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Assessing the ‘cowboy style’ injuries of Neanderthals:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...ne-age-rodeo-riders/
Now we’re being told it was a mysterious Neanderderthal ‘sister species’
which humans interbred with:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/cousi...ientists-report.html
www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-feature...es-interbred-with-us
chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/mystery-h...-african-genes/30223
www.sfgate.com/science/article/DNA-evide...-species-3739420.php
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...odern-human-origins/
… and modern humans are again being blamed for Neanderthals’ demise:
phys.org/news/2012-07-modern-humans-grea...at-neanderthals.html
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...2c3351763af178e8.4b1
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...ish-the-neandertals/
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...ed-off-neanderthals/
www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/huma...frfkui-1226433458590
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...y-thought-hoped.html
Neanderthal diet suggests they knew the medicinal properties of some plants:
www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/...edics-says-study.htm
www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill...b7-fe8248fed956.html
John Noble Wilford interviews Chris Stringer:
video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/science...811622277/index.html
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AFRICA
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The US returned some antiquities to Nigeria:
www.suntimes.com/news/nation/14035254-41...ties-to-nigeria.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-statues-smuggled-...-home-002844756.html
… and Nigeria wants more from the Boston MFA:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/ni...-of-benin-artifacts/
OpEddish on Timbuktu:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18968508
On DNA studies in Africa:
phys.org/news/2012-07-whole-genome-seque...rers-elucidates.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A French team has found the funerary boat of the pharaoh Den:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48...red-at-Egypts-A.aspx
phys.org/news/2012-07-french-archaeologi...th-pharaoh-boat.html
www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Ju...onic-solar-boat.ashx
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=53572
uk.news.yahoo.com/french-archaeologists-...-boat-160334114.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178839...-archaeologists.html
Someone has suggested merging the culture and antiquities ministries in
Egypt:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/48...es-can-be-merge.aspx
… but archaeologists don’t like the idea:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48...nistry,-Egypts-.aspx
A ‘mysterious’ 3200 years b.p. lion statue(s) from Karakiz (Turkey):
www.livescience.com/21838-ancient-lion-statutes-turkey.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48327084/ns/technol...and_science-science/
news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-st...tists-175738865.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-st...tists-175738865.html
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/ancie...s-baffle-scientists/
Iron age ‘ritual platforms’ from North Khorasan (Iran):
www.presstv.ir/detail/252236.html
Pithoi full of burnt wheat found during excavations at Tel Hatzor
National Park:
www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=278651
… which in some accounts is being connected to Joshua:
www.timesofisrael.com/3000-year-old-whea...rchaeologist-claims/
Feature on Gath:
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-archaeolo...ehind-the-headlines/
Nice feature on the Aleppo Codex:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/the-...o-codex-mystery.html
Somewhat vague item on excavation of underwater sites near Siraf:
en.trend.az/regions/iran/2049681.html
A while back we mentioned some group was calling for the destruction
of the pyramids … that was a hoax, apparently:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middlee...e-proves-flimsy.html
frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/hu...2%80%99s-pyramids/2/
Another one on the ongoing threat to Syrian antiquities:
www.france24.com/en/20120726-syria-smoki...eritage-sites-danger
This week’s developments at Temple Mount (different):
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244306
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/245583
More on Crusader gold from Arsur:
www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17005
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/afot-hoc072612.php
phys.org/news/2012-07-hoard-crusader-gold-uncovers-trove.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726122129.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Archaeologists have reconstructed/raised the roof at the House of the
Telephus relief:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/23/h...elephus-relief-roman
Interesting course in Rome to learn Latin and Greek:
www.romereports.com/palio/learning-latin...me-english-7388.html
Posthumous honours for John Geyssen:
www.thedailyobserver.ca/2012/07/21/educa...es-posthumous-honour
Interpol thinks items stolen from Olympia last year might show up at the
Olympics:
sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--interpol...museum-20120724.html
Earlier this week I collated a pile of news items on the Ancient
Olympics:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/27/ancient-olympics-compendium/
… to which can be added a couple of items from History Today:
www.historytoday.com/david-gribble/gold-...nze-ancient-olympics
www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/07/visito...ide-ancient-olympics
Boris Johnson recited Armand D’Angour’s ode:
www.scotsman.com/news/uk/new-ode-in-anci...k-for-2012-1-2428175
www.standard.co.uk/olympics/olympic-news...mmittee-7972527.html
news.discovery.com/history/ancient-greek...mpic-ode-120723.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigg...on-ancient-greek-ode
www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120723_1.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/...n-ancient-Greek.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18929408
… and here’s the text, if you want to try yourself:
www.ox.ac.uk/media/arts_at_oxford/120723.html
Latest journalist foray into Roman numerals:
www.livemint.com/2012/07/19200852/I-ask-for-nothing.html
A mini-feature on that head of Claudius found at Suffolk years ago:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/picture/...us-story-british-art
Police have recovered a Roman sarcophagus which was stolen some
20 years ago:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Outstan...+than+20+years/26947
Review of Michael Kellogg, *The Greek Search for Wisdom*:
galvestondailynews.com/story/330970
More coverage of the Silchester dig:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-in-iron-age-britain
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some Upper Paleolithic ceramics from Croatia:
phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-unc...hic-ceramic-art.html
www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00487.html
Also from Croatia … a 6500 years b.p. hunting trophy:
www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/...d_in_eastern_Croatia
Pondering whether a tsunami hit the Kerry coastline in medieval times:
www.irishcentral.com/news/Kerry-island-s...times-163836556.html
A Celtic tomb from 500 B.C. which was raided by Himmler turns out to have
more in/near it:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/celtic-...nd-near-tomb-1163640
A medieval nit comb from Enniskillin:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18998749
Not sure where to put this one … a ‘perplexing’ find at a nunnery/Roman
site in Alderney:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19027764
Not sure what date these ‘early’ Christian tombs from Serbia are:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/section...covered_7245554.html
Some medieval banking records found hidden beneath some coats
of arms:
phys.org/news/2012-07-qm-historians-medi...-banking-hidden.html
Berlin has a 450 year old debt with another German town:
news.yahoo.com/cash-strapped-berlin-stal...-debt-122001949.html
Assorted items of interest in an online stained glass magazine called
Vidimus:
vidimus.org/issues/issue-62/feature/
Plans to restore Guernsey’s Brehon Tower:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-18968803
Some idiots graffitied Wolsey’s Gate in Ipswich:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18987611
They’ve set up a statue of Alice Nutter:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19028459
Latest guy up for exhumation: Garibaldi:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19006337
Review of Paul Murphy, *Shooting Victoria*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/...l-thomas-murphy.html
More on medieval lingerie:
www.historyextra.com/lingerie
www.timescolonist.com/life/fashion-beaut...s/6964051/story.html
More on European climate:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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All chickens seem to have their roots in Asia:
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news...south-east-Asia.html
A New York art dealer had a pile of purloined Indian (and other)
antiquities in his apartment:
www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/ar...1TWZ28mwC0p6X7zR9edI
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/in...t-stolen-from-india/
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/design/u...ine-collections.html
The UK is returning a pile of antiquities to Afghanistan:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/48884/massive-...urn-to-kabul-museum/
Not sure how old this one is (the date seems to change every day) … on the
threat
to antiquities in Pakistan:
www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...dhist-past-1.1346250
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Fossilized feces might give a clue about modern Native Americans’
susceptibility to type II diabetes:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uocp-ffy072412.php
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724104434.htm
news.yahoo.com/ancient-poop-gives-clues-...demic-113056682.html
sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/07/24/...43156987_723109.html
Possible Native American remains found during highway construction
in Wisconsin:
www.therepublic.com/view/story/0a50efc9e...tion-Ancient-Remains
An early courthouse being excavated in Stafford (Va):
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Archaeologis...urthouse-3726934.php
Some pre-Penn timbers from Philadelphia:
articles.philly.com/2012-07-28/news/3290...timbers-trench-hertz
I think we mentioned this Coos Bay shipwreck (survivor) site last week:
www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/2012072...k-excavated-Coos-Bay
… but I’m not sure whether we ever mentioned this feature on some
petroglyphs
near the Rio Grande:
discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decodin...rets-of-white-shaman
Big bucks for a Chief Joseph war shirt:
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-joseph...500-auction-16833212
More on multiple migrations to North America:
phys.org/news/2012-07-mystery-native-americans.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A trio of 1000 year b.p. tombs from MonteAlban in Oaxaca:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56687
A new way of studying an Incan mummy revealsshe had a lung
infection at the time of death:
phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-mummy-lung...tion-proteomics.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/plos-amh072312.php
They’re resuming the search for evidence of the real Captain Morgan:
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/500-y...real-captain-morgan/
On the dangers of digging in Mexico of late:
www.archaeology.org/1207/letter/mexico_c...e_casas_grandes.html
A metal library find from Ecuador … sounds a little too much
like some lead codices we’ve heard about in the past:
socyberty.com/activism/legendary-metal-l...yos-cave-in-ecuador/
Port Royal is getting heritage status:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18601357
They’ve reconstructed the face of Simon Bolivar:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143
More on the finds at El Zotz:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07...ces-science-houston/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Video news from the Archaeology Channel:
www.archaeologychannel.org/
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22jul12.mp3
Nice feature on LiDAR:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/r...eology-a-846793.html
freeinternetpress.com/story/Revolutioniz...tructures-35538.html
Folks might be interested in the Looted Heritage project:
electricarchaeology.ca/2012/06/08/mining...oted-heritage-draft/
Studying language evolution (sort of):
phys.org/news/2012-07-science-english-evolution.html
Rare Book School sounds interesting:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/books/rare-bo...ity-of-virginia.html
… see also:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/th...olars-secret-weapon/
This one’s being spun in various ways, but it’s actually about the
plausibility of an Irish epic:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120725090933.htm
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/ju...iction?newsfeed=true
www.stuff.co.nz/science/7346191/Deciphering-myths-into-legends
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9423516/Beow...han-Shakespeare.html
cf:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/25/on-the-pl...and-social-networks/
‘Citizen Scientists’ are doing genetic stuff in Europe:
phys.org/news/2012-07-citizen-science-eu...enetic-heritage.html
On relations to Vlad the Impaler:
phys.org/news/2012-07-basarab-surname-vlad-impaler.html
A pile of manuscripts from the Bodleian are coming to New York:
www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/uk-ex...dUKBRE86510E20120706
Interesting method of recreating the world’s oldest record:
www.petapixel.com/2012/07/02/worlds-olde...-printed-photograph/
Feature on patois/patwah:
chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/07/24/patwah-patois/
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Beit Guvrin Caves (Israel):
www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=279038
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest edition of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n31.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Antico:
www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/2...-recasting-ancients/
Pure Gold:
www.timesofisrael.com/a-bible-lands-muse...bit-thats-pure-gold/
A Taste for Impressionism:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/arts/21iht-melikian21.html
Ladies of the Trianon:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/a-...adies-of-versailles/
Michael Brand on why he was ousted:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ex-dire...-he-was-ousted/26926
The Louvre’s Islamic galleries will be opening in September:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/lo...o-open-in-september/
Feature on the Russia Bible Museum:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/l...0723,0,7968987.story
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Tartufe:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/a-re...untry-playhouse.html
Richard III:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/murd...-by-shakespeare.html
Fen Yi Ting:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/music/fe...center-festival.html
I Briganti:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-loomis25.html?ref=arts
A Doll’s House (and Ten Billion):
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-lon25.html
I Caupuleti e i Montecchi:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/arts/music/i-...-music-festival.html
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Lou Bolchazy:
www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries...=1545080&fh_id=13417
Herbert Vogel:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/arts/design/h...ctor-dies-at-89.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Assessing the ‘cowboy style’ injuries of Neanderthals:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...ne-age-rodeo-riders/
Now we’re being told it was a mysterious Neanderderthal ‘sister species’
which humans interbred with:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/science/cousi...ientists-report.html
www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-feature...es-interbred-with-us
chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/mystery-h...-african-genes/30223
www.sfgate.com/science/article/DNA-evide...-species-3739420.php
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...odern-human-origins/
… and modern humans are again being blamed for Neanderthals’ demise:
phys.org/news/2012-07-modern-humans-grea...at-neanderthals.html
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...2c3351763af178e8.4b1
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...ish-the-neandertals/
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...ed-off-neanderthals/
www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/huma...frfkui-1226433458590
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...y-thought-hoped.html
Neanderthal diet suggests they knew the medicinal properties of some plants:
www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/...edics-says-study.htm
www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill...b7-fe8248fed956.html
John Noble Wilford interviews Chris Stringer:
video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/science...811622277/index.html
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AFRICA
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The US returned some antiquities to Nigeria:
www.suntimes.com/news/nation/14035254-41...ties-to-nigeria.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-statues-smuggled-...-home-002844756.html
… and Nigeria wants more from the Boston MFA:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/ni...-of-benin-artifacts/
OpEddish on Timbuktu:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18968508
On DNA studies in Africa:
phys.org/news/2012-07-whole-genome-seque...rers-elucidates.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A French team has found the funerary boat of the pharaoh Den:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48...red-at-Egypts-A.aspx
phys.org/news/2012-07-french-archaeologi...th-pharaoh-boat.html
www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Ju...onic-solar-boat.ashx
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=53572
uk.news.yahoo.com/french-archaeologists-...-boat-160334114.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178839...-archaeologists.html
Someone has suggested merging the culture and antiquities ministries in
Egypt:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/48...es-can-be-merge.aspx
… but archaeologists don’t like the idea:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/48...nistry,-Egypts-.aspx
A ‘mysterious’ 3200 years b.p. lion statue(s) from Karakiz (Turkey):
www.livescience.com/21838-ancient-lion-statutes-turkey.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48327084/ns/technol...and_science-science/
news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-st...tists-175738865.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-life-size-lion-st...tists-175738865.html
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/ancie...s-baffle-scientists/
Iron age ‘ritual platforms’ from North Khorasan (Iran):
www.presstv.ir/detail/252236.html
Pithoi full of burnt wheat found during excavations at Tel Hatzor
National Park:
www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=278651
… which in some accounts is being connected to Joshua:
www.timesofisrael.com/3000-year-old-whea...rchaeologist-claims/
Feature on Gath:
www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-archaeolo...ehind-the-headlines/
Nice feature on the Aleppo Codex:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/the-...o-codex-mystery.html
Somewhat vague item on excavation of underwater sites near Siraf:
en.trend.az/regions/iran/2049681.html
A while back we mentioned some group was calling for the destruction
of the pyramids … that was a hoax, apparently:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middlee...e-proves-flimsy.html
frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/hu...2%80%99s-pyramids/2/
Another one on the ongoing threat to Syrian antiquities:
www.france24.com/en/20120726-syria-smoki...eritage-sites-danger
This week’s developments at Temple Mount (different):
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244306
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/245583
More on Crusader gold from Arsur:
www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17005
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/afot-hoc072612.php
phys.org/news/2012-07-hoard-crusader-gold-uncovers-trove.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726122129.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Archaeologists have reconstructed/raised the roof at the House of the
Telephus relief:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/23/h...elephus-relief-roman
Interesting course in Rome to learn Latin and Greek:
www.romereports.com/palio/learning-latin...me-english-7388.html
Posthumous honours for John Geyssen:
www.thedailyobserver.ca/2012/07/21/educa...es-posthumous-honour
Interpol thinks items stolen from Olympia last year might show up at the
Olympics:
sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--interpol...museum-20120724.html
Earlier this week I collated a pile of news items on the Ancient
Olympics:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/27/ancient-olympics-compendium/
… to which can be added a couple of items from History Today:
www.historytoday.com/david-gribble/gold-...nze-ancient-olympics
www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/07/visito...ide-ancient-olympics
Boris Johnson recited Armand D’Angour’s ode:
www.scotsman.com/news/uk/new-ode-in-anci...k-for-2012-1-2428175
www.standard.co.uk/olympics/olympic-news...mmittee-7972527.html
news.discovery.com/history/ancient-greek...mpic-ode-120723.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigg...on-ancient-greek-ode
www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120723_1.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/...n-ancient-Greek.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18929408
… and here’s the text, if you want to try yourself:
www.ox.ac.uk/media/arts_at_oxford/120723.html
Latest journalist foray into Roman numerals:
www.livemint.com/2012/07/19200852/I-ask-for-nothing.html
A mini-feature on that head of Claudius found at Suffolk years ago:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/picture/...us-story-british-art
Police have recovered a Roman sarcophagus which was stolen some
20 years ago:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Outstan...+than+20+years/26947
Review of Michael Kellogg, *The Greek Search for Wisdom*:
galvestondailynews.com/story/330970
More coverage of the Silchester dig:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-in-iron-age-britain
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some Upper Paleolithic ceramics from Croatia:
phys.org/news/2012-07-archaeologists-unc...hic-ceramic-art.html
www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00487.html
Also from Croatia … a 6500 years b.p. hunting trophy:
www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/...d_in_eastern_Croatia
Pondering whether a tsunami hit the Kerry coastline in medieval times:
www.irishcentral.com/news/Kerry-island-s...times-163836556.html
A Celtic tomb from 500 B.C. which was raided by Himmler turns out to have
more in/near it:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/celtic-...nd-near-tomb-1163640
A medieval nit comb from Enniskillin:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18998749
Not sure where to put this one … a ‘perplexing’ find at a nunnery/Roman
site in Alderney:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19027764
Not sure what date these ‘early’ Christian tombs from Serbia are:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/section...covered_7245554.html
Some medieval banking records found hidden beneath some coats
of arms:
phys.org/news/2012-07-qm-historians-medi...-banking-hidden.html
Berlin has a 450 year old debt with another German town:
news.yahoo.com/cash-strapped-berlin-stal...-debt-122001949.html
Assorted items of interest in an online stained glass magazine called
Vidimus:
vidimus.org/issues/issue-62/feature/
Plans to restore Guernsey’s Brehon Tower:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-18968803
Some idiots graffitied Wolsey’s Gate in Ipswich:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18987611
They’ve set up a statue of Alice Nutter:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19028459
Latest guy up for exhumation: Garibaldi:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19006337
Review of Paul Murphy, *Shooting Victoria*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/...l-thomas-murphy.html
More on medieval lingerie:
www.historyextra.com/lingerie
www.timescolonist.com/life/fashion-beaut...s/6964051/story.html
More on European climate:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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All chickens seem to have their roots in Asia:
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news...south-east-Asia.html
A New York art dealer had a pile of purloined Indian (and other)
antiquities in his apartment:
www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/ar...1TWZ28mwC0p6X7zR9edI
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/in...t-stolen-from-india/
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/design/u...ine-collections.html
The UK is returning a pile of antiquities to Afghanistan:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/48884/massive-...urn-to-kabul-museum/
Not sure how old this one is (the date seems to change every day) … on the
threat
to antiquities in Pakistan:
www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...dhist-past-1.1346250
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Fossilized feces might give a clue about modern Native Americans’
susceptibility to type II diabetes:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uocp-ffy072412.php
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724104434.htm
news.yahoo.com/ancient-poop-gives-clues-...demic-113056682.html
sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/07/24/...43156987_723109.html
Possible Native American remains found during highway construction
in Wisconsin:
www.therepublic.com/view/story/0a50efc9e...tion-Ancient-Remains
An early courthouse being excavated in Stafford (Va):
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Archaeologis...urthouse-3726934.php
Some pre-Penn timbers from Philadelphia:
articles.philly.com/2012-07-28/news/3290...timbers-trench-hertz
I think we mentioned this Coos Bay shipwreck (survivor) site last week:
www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/2012072...k-excavated-Coos-Bay
… but I’m not sure whether we ever mentioned this feature on some
petroglyphs
near the Rio Grande:
discovermagazine.com/2012/may/11-decodin...rets-of-white-shaman
Big bucks for a Chief Joseph war shirt:
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-joseph...500-auction-16833212
More on multiple migrations to North America:
phys.org/news/2012-07-mystery-native-americans.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A trio of 1000 year b.p. tombs from MonteAlban in Oaxaca:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56687
A new way of studying an Incan mummy revealsshe had a lung
infection at the time of death:
phys.org/news/2012-07-ancient-mummy-lung...tion-proteomics.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/plos-amh072312.php
They’re resuming the search for evidence of the real Captain Morgan:
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/500-y...real-captain-morgan/
On the dangers of digging in Mexico of late:
www.archaeology.org/1207/letter/mexico_c...e_casas_grandes.html
A metal library find from Ecuador … sounds a little too much
like some lead codices we’ve heard about in the past:
socyberty.com/activism/legendary-metal-l...yos-cave-in-ecuador/
Port Royal is getting heritage status:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18601357
They’ve reconstructed the face of Simon Bolivar:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143
More on the finds at El Zotz:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07...ces-science-houston/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Video news from the Archaeology Channel:
www.archaeologychannel.org/
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22jul12.mp3
Nice feature on LiDAR:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/r...eology-a-846793.html
freeinternetpress.com/story/Revolutioniz...tructures-35538.html
Folks might be interested in the Looted Heritage project:
electricarchaeology.ca/2012/06/08/mining...oted-heritage-draft/
Studying language evolution (sort of):
phys.org/news/2012-07-science-english-evolution.html
Rare Book School sounds interesting:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/books/rare-bo...ity-of-virginia.html
… see also:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/th...olars-secret-weapon/
This one’s being spun in various ways, but it’s actually about the
plausibility of an Irish epic:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120725090933.htm
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/ju...iction?newsfeed=true
www.stuff.co.nz/science/7346191/Deciphering-myths-into-legends
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9423516/Beow...han-Shakespeare.html
cf:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/07/25/on-the-pl...and-social-networks/
‘Citizen Scientists’ are doing genetic stuff in Europe:
phys.org/news/2012-07-citizen-science-eu...enetic-heritage.html
On relations to Vlad the Impaler:
phys.org/news/2012-07-basarab-surname-vlad-impaler.html
A pile of manuscripts from the Bodleian are coming to New York:
www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/uk-ex...dUKBRE86510E20120706
Interesting method of recreating the world’s oldest record:
www.petapixel.com/2012/07/02/worlds-olde...-printed-photograph/
Feature on patois/patwah:
chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/07/24/patwah-patois/
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Beit Guvrin Caves (Israel):
www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=279038
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest edition of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n31.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Antico:
www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/2...-recasting-ancients/
Pure Gold:
www.timesofisrael.com/a-bible-lands-muse...bit-thats-pure-gold/
A Taste for Impressionism:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/arts/21iht-melikian21.html
Ladies of the Trianon:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/a-...adies-of-versailles/
Michael Brand on why he was ousted:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ex-dire...-he-was-ousted/26926
The Louvre’s Islamic galleries will be opening in September:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/lo...o-open-in-september/
Feature on the Russia Bible Museum:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/l...0723,0,7968987.story
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Tartufe:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/a-re...untry-playhouse.html
Richard III:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/nyregion/murd...-by-shakespeare.html
Fen Yi Ting:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/arts/music/fe...center-festival.html
I Briganti:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-loomis25.html?ref=arts
A Doll’s House (and Ten Billion):
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/25iht-lon25.html
I Caupuleti e i Montecchi:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/arts/music/i-...-music-festival.html
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Lou Bolchazy:
www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries...=1545080&fh_id=13417
Herbert Vogel:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/arts/design/h...ctor-dies-at-89.html
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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More on that ‘sister species’:
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3427...can_cousin_to_humans
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AFRICA
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Modern culture emerged in Africa some 20 000 years earlier than previously
thought:
www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...0730,0,4412702.story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19069560
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120730155047.htm
phys.org/news/2012-07-onset-date-south-africa-stone.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56821
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/south-af...d134gw-1226439306287
news.yahoo.com/researchers-modern-cultur...start-171918659.html
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...s-of-modern-culture/
… and the Onion’s spin:
www.theonion.com/articles/human-culture-...-than-thought,29024/
Interesting finds from a mass grave site in Malindi:
www.the-star.co.ke/local/coast/88081-mal...make-new-discoveries
Plans for the Oranjemund shipwreck:
allafrica.com/stories/201208040080.html
On the threat to African artifacts:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/arts/design/a...n-djenne-djenno.html
More on the return of some purloined Nigerian artifacts:
www.livescience.com/21891-nigeria-nok-statues-smuggled.html
… and a followup item:
leadership.ng/nga/articles/31738/2012/08...fficking_others.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some mummies from the British Museum are the latest to get the CT scan
treatment:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howa...-of-the-mummies.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...cient-Egyptians.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-British-Museum.html
They’ve opened up some more tombs in Egypt to get more tourist interest:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east...gJQAsK8fHX_print.htm
Some Egyptian artifacts were recoveredat the international bridge in Laredo
(!):
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56790
www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=782264#.UB5ZqKDJ2So
www.pro8news.com/news/local/Egyptian-Art...ridge-164332276.html
As might be expected after years of reading this sort of thing, there is
much
hype attending a seal depicting (maybe) Samson:
news.discovery.com/history/seal-may-give...n-legend-120803.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middl...dence-of-Samson.html
Interesting claim of an unsubstantiated find of victims of the destruction
of
Jerusalem in 70 A.D./C.E. (the second one provides additional detail):
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5278
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158417
Latest from the Tel Azekeh dig:
azekah.wordpress.com/
… see also:
A Neolithic mass grave site in Turkey is being hyped as evidence for early
humans
having a “feminine” (or compassionate) side:
phys.org/news/2012-07-stone-age-feminine-side.html
The folks working on the Tayinat Archaeological Project uncovered a massive
statue of Suppiluliuma:
phys.org/news/2012-07-archeologists-unea...human-sculpture.html
media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/environ...sculpture-in-turkey/
news.discovery.com/history/royal-statue-hittite-120731.html
www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/07/31/...ck_to_1000_b_c_.html
www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0730/Colo...-unearthed-in-Turkey
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/giant_s..._by_assyrians_found/
Feature on Canadian involvement at Tel es Safi:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/29/f...cities-canadian.html
… and here’s the latest from the dig blog:
gath.wordpress.com/
Not quite sure where to put this one on medieval Jewish scribes in various
parts of the world:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=279843
Latest strategy to preserve Egyptian heritage:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/49...-heritage-Retur.aspx
This week’s installment of Temple Mount:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158387
More on that Egyptian funerary boat find:
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1109/he1.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Colosseum is getting a facelift, we are told (again):
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/31/rom...losseum-25m-facelift
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19064763
www.scotsman.com/news/international/colo...-6m-revamp-1-2443054
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...t-gets-go-ahead.html
Remains of a Roman road near a pub in Colchester:
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/984503..._the_Stockwell_Arms/
Fires threatened the Golyamata Kosmatka mound site in Bulgaria:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141982
Searching for the Gigli helmet:
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9853339...Greek_helmet_puzzle/
Remains of a ‘luxury villa’ from Kourion:
www.cyprus-mail.com/kourion/ancient-luxu...und-kourion/20120802
www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/292...rium-dig-is-finished
Pondering the future of Alderney Roman Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19067007
A Greek inscription from Plovdiv:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n284464
Greek, Roman, and Celtic artifacts found during Romanian highway
construction:
www.romania-insider.com/archeologists-un...anian-highway/62275/
The Getty has a ‘Lion Attacking a Horse’:
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...561023846396232.html
Building a hotel around a Hellenistic mosaic in Turkey:
worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/1...aeology-site-or-both
On the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program:
www.thebayonet.com/2012/08/01/338852/tou...ical-literature.html
Boris Johnson reciting the Olympian Ode (full version):
rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/03/boris-joh...ngours-olympian-ode/
More Silchester coverage:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silche...-britain?INTCMP=SRCH
Review of Anne Carson, “Antigonick” (warning: beyond turgid prose):
www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1093904.ece
More on Rome’s leaning Colosseum (did I mention this?):
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...ower-than-other.html
www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/leaning-coloss...bzs1v0-1226439245363
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/col...ials-say?INTCMP=SRCH
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/italian-g...alLinksEnabled=false
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86s0lo-us-italy-colosseum/
www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/29/us-it...dUSBRE86S0LO20120729
More on that recovered Roman sarcophagus:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-sarcopha...=26682&NewsCatID=375
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A dig at a Neolithic site on the Isle of Eday (Orkney) has a very detailed
dig diary under way as well:
sites.google.com/site/bevarsweb/dig-diary-1
Studying ancient evidence of earthquakes in Aquila:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm
phys.org/news/2012-08-ancient-italian-ea...kes-aquila-area.html
Medieval business wasn’t so greedy:
news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/greed...dle-ages-080212.html
Feature on some Renaissance villas:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181957...e-lie-abandoned.html
A 300 years b.p. skull from a shipwreck off Sweden:
www.thelocal.se/42190/20120723/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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We’re starting to hear from museums who purchased items from that
dealer busted a week or so ago:
www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/nga-admits...frg8n6-1226442632719
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-des...-20120803-23lii.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting feature on that iron ax found at the Mantle site:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...ter-of-disaster.html
… see also:
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/07/tr...historic-period.html
They’re digging at Pike’s Cantonment:
pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x614300479...-at-Pikes-Cantonment
On St Augustine’s Lighthouse Archaeology program:
jacksonville.com/entertainment/2012-08-0...house-archaeological
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of chocolate use 2500 years b.p. from the Yucatan peninsula:
www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodand...r-old-chocolate.html
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/16-a...2500-anos-en-yucatan
www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...%2C0%2C5012936.story
www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_america...JQAWME0SX_story.html
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXIC...OME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Tomb of a Maya prince from Uxul:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56841
phys.org/news/2012-07-tomb-maya-prince-mexico.html
www.sciencecodex.com/archaeologists_from..._a_maya_prince-95722
Nice feature/slideshow on women/children burial from Tepanec:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07...mexico-city-science/
Reconstructing Simon Bolivar’s visage:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29jul12.mp3
On the use of SUAV (aerial drones) in archaeology:
news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/08/archaeological-mapping/
www.spacedaily.com/reports/Test_flight_o...cal_mapping_999.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-flight-peru-revolu...-archaeological.html
… and how radioactivity is useful:
blog.oup.com/2012/07/radioactivity-science-vsi-tuniz/
The Bodleian has a project/appeal to get Shakespeare’s First Folio
collectively online:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19076860
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/02/b...e-first-folio-online
Honoring Flinders Petrie:
www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalem-a-cro...ant-flinders-petrie/
Someone’s going to sail a Phoenician ship replica across the Atlantic:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...across-Atlantic.html
An interesting etymology piece (potentially offensive):
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/the-wo...ology_n_1721585.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Antico:
www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/2...-recasting-ancients/
Folk Art in Four Directions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/c...-street-seaport.html
Century of the Child:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/r...moma.html?ref=design
The Paley collection is on its way to San Francisco:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/pa...ms-in-san-francisco/
Feature on the Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/arts/design/b...seum-in-wyoming.html
The Sharing Treasures project:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19051810
Review of a couple of exhibitions (Messerschmidt and Klimt) at the Getty:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...0804,0,7334040.story
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Timon of Athens/Richard III:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/arts/01iht-lon01.html
Maometto II:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/a-...s-time.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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James Mellaart:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9450610/James-Mellaart.html
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-sit...=26946&NewsCatID=375
www.timeturk.com/tr/2012/08/01/anadolu-asigi-mellaart-oldu.html
John Keegan:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/boo...c4375504a_story.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/books/sir-joh...-war-dies-at-78.html
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...565612993526428.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/cult...Sir-John-Keegan.html
Brian Dobson:
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9856129.H...expert_dies_aged_80/
Gene Smith:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-sm...ders-dies-at-83.html
Gore Vidal:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vi...iter-dies-at-86.html
www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/12...thor-playwright-dies
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/au...-origins-of-cold-war
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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More on that ‘sister species’:
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3427...can_cousin_to_humans
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AFRICA
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Modern culture emerged in Africa some 20 000 years earlier than previously
thought:
www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...0730,0,4412702.story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19069560
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120730155047.htm
phys.org/news/2012-07-onset-date-south-africa-stone.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56821
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/south-af...d134gw-1226439306287
news.yahoo.com/researchers-modern-cultur...start-171918659.html
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...s-of-modern-culture/
… and the Onion’s spin:
www.theonion.com/articles/human-culture-...-than-thought,29024/
Interesting finds from a mass grave site in Malindi:
www.the-star.co.ke/local/coast/88081-mal...make-new-discoveries
Plans for the Oranjemund shipwreck:
allafrica.com/stories/201208040080.html
On the threat to African artifacts:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/arts/design/a...n-djenne-djenno.html
More on the return of some purloined Nigerian artifacts:
www.livescience.com/21891-nigeria-nok-statues-smuggled.html
… and a followup item:
leadership.ng/nga/articles/31738/2012/08...fficking_others.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some mummies from the British Museum are the latest to get the CT scan
treatment:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howa...-of-the-mummies.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...cient-Egyptians.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-British-Museum.html
They’ve opened up some more tombs in Egypt to get more tourist interest:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east...gJQAsK8fHX_print.htm
Some Egyptian artifacts were recoveredat the international bridge in Laredo
(!):
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56790
www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=782264#.UB5ZqKDJ2So
www.pro8news.com/news/local/Egyptian-Art...ridge-164332276.html
As might be expected after years of reading this sort of thing, there is
much
hype attending a seal depicting (maybe) Samson:
news.discovery.com/history/seal-may-give...n-legend-120803.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middl...dence-of-Samson.html
Interesting claim of an unsubstantiated find of victims of the destruction
of
Jerusalem in 70 A.D./C.E. (the second one provides additional detail):
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5278
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158417
Latest from the Tel Azekeh dig:
azekah.wordpress.com/
… see also:
A Neolithic mass grave site in Turkey is being hyped as evidence for early
humans
having a “feminine” (or compassionate) side:
phys.org/news/2012-07-stone-age-feminine-side.html
The folks working on the Tayinat Archaeological Project uncovered a massive
statue of Suppiluliuma:
phys.org/news/2012-07-archeologists-unea...human-sculpture.html
media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/environ...sculpture-in-turkey/
news.discovery.com/history/royal-statue-hittite-120731.html
www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/07/31/...ck_to_1000_b_c_.html
www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0730/Colo...-unearthed-in-Turkey
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/giant_s..._by_assyrians_found/
Feature on Canadian involvement at Tel es Safi:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/29/f...cities-canadian.html
… and here’s the latest from the dig blog:
gath.wordpress.com/
Not quite sure where to put this one on medieval Jewish scribes in various
parts of the world:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=279843
Latest strategy to preserve Egyptian heritage:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/49...-heritage-Retur.aspx
This week’s installment of Temple Mount:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158387
More on that Egyptian funerary boat find:
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1109/he1.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Colosseum is getting a facelift, we are told (again):
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/31/rom...losseum-25m-facelift
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19064763
www.scotsman.com/news/international/colo...-6m-revamp-1-2443054
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...t-gets-go-ahead.html
Remains of a Roman road near a pub in Colchester:
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/984503..._the_Stockwell_Arms/
Fires threatened the Golyamata Kosmatka mound site in Bulgaria:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=141982
Searching for the Gigli helmet:
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9853339...Greek_helmet_puzzle/
Remains of a ‘luxury villa’ from Kourion:
www.cyprus-mail.com/kourion/ancient-luxu...und-kourion/20120802
www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/292...rium-dig-is-finished
Pondering the future of Alderney Roman Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19067007
A Greek inscription from Plovdiv:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n284464
Greek, Roman, and Celtic artifacts found during Romanian highway
construction:
www.romania-insider.com/archeologists-un...anian-highway/62275/
The Getty has a ‘Lion Attacking a Horse’:
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...561023846396232.html
Building a hotel around a Hellenistic mosaic in Turkey:
worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/1...aeology-site-or-both
On the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program:
www.thebayonet.com/2012/08/01/338852/tou...ical-literature.html
Boris Johnson reciting the Olympian Ode (full version):
rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/03/boris-joh...ngours-olympian-ode/
More Silchester coverage:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/31/silche...-britain?INTCMP=SRCH
Review of Anne Carson, “Antigonick” (warning: beyond turgid prose):
www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1093904.ece
More on Rome’s leaning Colosseum (did I mention this?):
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...ower-than-other.html
www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/leaning-coloss...bzs1v0-1226439245363
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/30/col...ials-say?INTCMP=SRCH
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/italian-g...alLinksEnabled=false
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre86s0lo-us-italy-colosseum/
www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/29/us-it...dUSBRE86S0LO20120729
More on that recovered Roman sarcophagus:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-sarcopha...=26682&NewsCatID=375
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A dig at a Neolithic site on the Isle of Eday (Orkney) has a very detailed
dig diary under way as well:
sites.google.com/site/bevarsweb/dig-diary-1
Studying ancient evidence of earthquakes in Aquila:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm
phys.org/news/2012-08-ancient-italian-ea...kes-aquila-area.html
Medieval business wasn’t so greedy:
news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/greed...dle-ages-080212.html
Feature on some Renaissance villas:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181957...e-lie-abandoned.html
A 300 years b.p. skull from a shipwreck off Sweden:
www.thelocal.se/42190/20120723/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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We’re starting to hear from museums who purchased items from that
dealer busted a week or so ago:
www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/nga-admits...frg8n6-1226442632719
www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-des...-20120803-23lii.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting feature on that iron ax found at the Mantle site:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...ter-of-disaster.html
… see also:
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/07/tr...historic-period.html
They’re digging at Pike’s Cantonment:
pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x614300479...-at-Pikes-Cantonment
On St Augustine’s Lighthouse Archaeology program:
jacksonville.com/entertainment/2012-08-0...house-archaeological
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of chocolate use 2500 years b.p. from the Yucatan peninsula:
www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodand...r-old-chocolate.html
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/16-a...2500-anos-en-yucatan
www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...%2C0%2C5012936.story
www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_america...JQAWME0SX_story.html
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXIC...OME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Tomb of a Maya prince from Uxul:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56841
phys.org/news/2012-07-tomb-maya-prince-mexico.html
www.sciencecodex.com/archaeologists_from..._a_maya_prince-95722
Nice feature/slideshow on women/children burial from Tepanec:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07...mexico-city-science/
Reconstructing Simon Bolivar’s visage:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29jul12.mp3
On the use of SUAV (aerial drones) in archaeology:
news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/08/archaeological-mapping/
www.spacedaily.com/reports/Test_flight_o...cal_mapping_999.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-flight-peru-revolu...-archaeological.html
… and how radioactivity is useful:
blog.oup.com/2012/07/radioactivity-science-vsi-tuniz/
The Bodleian has a project/appeal to get Shakespeare’s First Folio
collectively online:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19076860
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/02/b...e-first-folio-online
Honoring Flinders Petrie:
www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalem-a-cro...ant-flinders-petrie/
Someone’s going to sail a Phoenician ship replica across the Atlantic:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...across-Atlantic.html
An interesting etymology piece (potentially offensive):
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/the-wo...ology_n_1721585.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n32.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Antico:
www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/2...-recasting-ancients/
Folk Art in Four Directions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/c...-street-seaport.html
Century of the Child:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/r...moma.html?ref=design
The Paley collection is on its way to San Francisco:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/pa...ms-in-san-francisco/
Feature on the Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/arts/design/b...seum-in-wyoming.html
The Sharing Treasures project:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19051810
Review of a couple of exhibitions (Messerschmidt and Klimt) at the Getty:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...0804,0,7334040.story
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Timon of Athens/Richard III:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/arts/01iht-lon01.html
Maometto II:
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/a-...s-time.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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James Mellaart:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9450610/James-Mellaart.html
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-sit...=26946&NewsCatID=375
www.timeturk.com/tr/2012/08/01/anadolu-asigi-mellaart-oldu.html
John Keegan:
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/boo...c4375504a_story.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/books/sir-joh...-war-dies-at-78.html
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...565612993526428.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/cult...Sir-John-Keegan.html
Brian Dobson:
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9856129.H...expert_dies_aged_80/
Gene Smith:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-sm...ders-dies-at-83.html
Gore Vidal:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vi...iter-dies-at-86.html
www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/12...thor-playwright-dies
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/au...-origins-of-cold-war
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Geoff Roberts, Rochelle Altman, Dorothy King, Richard Campbell,
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and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Possible new species named homo rudolfensis:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19184370
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/science/new-f...man-family-tree.html
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...rly-human-diversity/
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/o-humanit...ic-article-1.1133030
news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/09/researc...om-fossils-in-kenya/
phys.org/news/2012-08-kenyan-fossils-early-human-evolution.html
… and I think this is talking about the same thing:
www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158501282/paleont...le-pre-human-fossils
On meat eating and the development of brain capacity:
mg.co.za/article/2012-08-09-taste-for-me...ted-ancestors-brains
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...an-hominin-died-out/
On walking upright:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-of-walking-upright/
Now a volcano is being blamed (partially) for Neanderthals’ demise:
phys.org/news/2012-08-invisible-volcanic...ues-neanderthal.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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*editor’s note: Ha’aretz recently went to a payfer model wherein if you
are registered, you get ten free articles a month; as might be imagined,
I go through that in about a day, so much of what I include from Ha’aretz
I know only because of the headline. I am trying to find alternate sources
for the same story, but it isn’t always possible*
Some anomalies in Upper Egypt spotted on Google Earth might be a
pyramid complex of some sort:
news.discovery.com/history/lost-egyptian...ids-found-120810.htm
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/12/231774.html
Feature on the Beni Hassan tombs project:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46...s-sites-starts-.aspx
A number of severed hands have been found during excavations at Avaris:
www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-...nt-egypt-palace.html
Some Neolithic phallus thingies from Sha’ar HaGolan are now being
identified as ‘early matches’:
www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-...nt-egypt-palace.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19168047
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ritua...lus.premium-1.456922
phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-tools-clues-climate.html
cf (the actual article):
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0042213
Also on the Neolithic front, the transition from hunting to agricultural
societies
parallels the development of woodworking tools:
www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17065
phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-lumberjack.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/plos-ntp080612.php
cf (the actual article):
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0042442
A 3rd century C.E./A.D. image (relief) of a man from Susita:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158683
A Byzantine olive press from Hod HaSharon:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158681
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/not-j...ron.premium-1.456678
Feature on Domus Tepe:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-neolithic-near-east
Latest from Tell es-Gafi:
gath.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/great-arti...aretz-about-the-dig/
cf:
www.haaretz.com/news/national/looking-fo...-in.premium-1.457254
Feature on what is being identified as the site of ancient Hiri:
www.startribune.com/world/165050496.html...epage=1&c=y#continue
Some early photos of the Kotel are now online:
www.israeldailypicture.com/2012/08/the-k...-with-advent-of.html
An article on the mosaics (and other things) from Huqoq:
www.bibleinterp.com/articles/fle368009.shtml
As might have been feared, sites in Syria are being damaged … e.g., the
citadel of Aleppo:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/20...n.ashx#axzz23BbEcFXx
… in a similar vein:
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...verised-8007768.html
www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...ead-cities-1.1359522
An Israeli scholar has spent three decades coming up with the definitive
version of the Bible:
news.yahoo.com/israeli-scholar-completes...bible-063009279.html
… and, of course, the Temple Mount saga continues:
www.timesofisrael.com/timber-israel-blam...ees-on-temple-mount/
More on that statue of Suppiluliuma:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/3000-...-age-creativity.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of a Roman shipwreck near Genoa with some intact
amphorae:
news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwre...od-italy-120808.html
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/intact-ro...ly-article-1.1134109
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ved-FOOD-intact.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19169983
www.batangastoday.com/2000-year-old-ship...-divers-video/24159/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19153732
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/1...aden-with-cargo?lite
www.theage.com.au/world/sea-gives-up-a-p...-20120807-23sdr.html
… and another Roman shipwreck from Antibes:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ient-port-of-antibes
A 4th century B.C. tomb from Paestum:
www.stiletv.it/index.php/news/8266/Paest...SCLUSIVA%29(Italian)
They’ve located some of Vindolanda’s piping system:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19164918
Finds from various periods at Yersonisos:
www.cyprus-mail.com/features/people-frie...archaeology/20120812
www.cyprus-mail.com/yeronisos/ancient-am...d-yeronisos/20120809
Plans to excavate another Thracian tumulus in Bulgaria:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n285021
Latest on the search for Cleopatra’s tomb:
www.dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2012/8...ect-seeks-Cleopatras
Josiah Ober on the Ancient Greek economy:
www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/08/ober_on_the_anc.html
The Acropolis Museum is looking at colorization of ancient statuary:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/49742/coloured...f-archaic-sculpture/
Hopes/plans to keep the Evesham Hoard in the county it was found:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19151489
www.droitwichadvertiser.co.uk/news/local...hoard_in_the_county/
There has been a wave of ‘ancient Olympics’ posts this week; I’ve gathered
them
together here:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/10/catching-...he-ancient-olympics/
… to which may be added:
www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-the-ancient-olympics
There’s a major fire burning near Mt Athos:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...ugreecewildfire.html
Latest on plans to repair the Colosseum:
www.france24.com/en/20120730-italys-lean...ew-delay-restoration
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/o...te-december-16894677
Reviews of Anthony Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:
www.wbur.org/npr/157668413/a-story-of-an...-in-the-rise-of-rome
www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/0...s_the_rise_of_r.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some early Christian graves near Maryport Roman Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-19097827
Did a distant volcano lead to thousands of deaths in medieval London?:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/05/mediev...saster-london-graves
blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/...y-a-distant-volcano/
A medieval silver hoard from Gotland:
www.thelocal.se/42422/20120804/
Remains of a medieval Jewish ‘toilet’ from Cologne:
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-worl...gne.premium-1.456380
Searching for a 12th century gatehouse in Warwick:
www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local/hunt...-gatehouse-1-4146501
Remains of Anglo Saxon (?) warriors found during a Salisbury plain dig:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/06/soldie...iscovery-afghanistan
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-19147035
Sixteenth-century houses found after a fire in Cowgate:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19170017
Not sure if we mentioned this Northumberland mill dig (which began last
year):
www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/to...thed-61634-31600712/
Plenty of Italian castles are for sale:
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...573432043902926.html
Semi touristy feature on what lies beneath Paris:
www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/europe/wus-...catacombs/index.html
More on Italian earthquake data:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A section of the Great Wall of China collapsed:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...-wall-collapses.html
rt.com/art-and-culture/news/great-wall-china-collapse-355/
Brief item on twelve sites found in South China Sea:
zeenews.india.com/news/world/cultural-re...hina-sea_790450.html
A possible pirate ship find in Tongan waters:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/austr...e-treasure-ship.html
www.news.com.au/news/tong-shipwreck-may-...elnuip-1226447132516
I thought we’d mentioned the return of Afghan artifacts by Britain already:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16147041,00.html
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/05/art...turned-afghan-museum
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...res-repatriated.html
www.timesonline.com/news/world/asia/brit...94-9a88678d4e38.html
www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/05/af...istan-artifacts.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19116195
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Traces of the ‘black drink’ which fueled some rituals in the 17th century
American
southeast:
news.discovery.com/history/vomit-drink-b....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
www.livescience.com/22136-caffeinated-bl...rink-first-city.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoia-rfe080112.php
phys.org/news/2012-08-black-scientists-e...ual-caffeinated.html
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/early...ican-caffeine-trade/
Remains of a Civil War encampment at the College of William and Mary:
www.startribune.com/nation/165737036.html
Excavating a 19th century community hospital site in Virginia City:
www.10tv.com/content/stories/apexchange/...y-virginia-city.html
On why yellow fever had a “green bias” in the mid-19th century US:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806131256.htm
Evidence of an early fur trading post near Edmonton:
www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Footp...s/7060600/story.html
Feature on a Utah collector of Native American artifacts:
www.standard.net/stories/2012/08/05/top-...e-american-artifacts
Assorted finds from a dig in Boise:
www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012...k-archaeological-dig
On the origins of Mormonism:
www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2...3crat_atlarge_gopnik
A grant to study sites along the Potomac:
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/...logical-sites-127981
A 400 year old treaty dispute:
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/..._a_legendary_ir.html
They’ve identified a shipwreck off Cape Henlopen:
phys.org/news/2012-08-shipwreck-mystery.html
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s online ceramics database might be of
use to some of our readers:
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A very interesting Aztec female burial from the Templo Mayor:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/08/mex...iscover-aztec-burial
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mexico-fi...c-burial-3770075.php
phys.org/news/2012-08-mexico-hundreds-bones-aztec-burial.html
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-a...tos-de-arbol-sagrado
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56959#.UCer2aDJ2So
The Maya domesticated turkeys:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809090706.htm
www.livescience.com/22222-ancient-mayans...ticated-turkeys.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-earliest-mexican-t...ys-ancient-maya.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uof-urd080812.php
An antiquities bust in Mexico:
latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/0...d-in-western-mexico/
Plans to search for ‘the treasure of Lima’:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centr...d-their-plunder.html
More on using drones to map Peruvian sites:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19111257
phys.org/news/2012-08-drone-ancient-peru.html
More on Mayan chocolate use:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...e-food.html?ITO=1490
phys.org/news/2012-08-experts-mayas-chocolate-spice.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews5aug12.mp3
Although Ontario-specific, this 3d digitizing of artifacts project seems
like
it will be used elsewhere, if it isn’t already:
phys.org/news/2012-08-future-students-di...gical-artifacts.html
Wordsworth as ‘management guru’:
www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/09/b...hem-about-wordsworth
Medieval clerics apparently didn’t like the celibacy thing:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806085143.htm
Fundraising kept a Manet in the UK:
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/08/a...t-mademoiselle-claus
www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/08/manet-britain.html
A possible DaVinci from a Scottish farmhouse (hmmmm):
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/possible-d...could-183847385.html
… and an interesting feature on arguing about authenticity in the courtroom:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/arts/design/w...w-vs-the-market.html
Duke University has acquired Joshua Herschel’s papers:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/du...raham-joshua-heschel
BYU’s multi spectral imaging project:
lib.byu.edu/sites/scholarsarchive/colleg...ral-imaging-project/
Crossing bison and cattle didn’t have the anticipated effects:
phys.org/news/2012-08-reveals-impact-his...domestic-cattle.html
A genetic map of how North African jews fit into the picture:
www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=280344
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8751ei-us-genetics-jews/
Evidence of a cold spell some 3000 years before the ‘Little Ice Age’:
phys.org/news/2012-08-cold-europe-years-ice-age.html
Not quite sure where to put this ‘chinese bear paw’ piece:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/dining/the-fr...chinese-cooking.html
The Huntington Free Library is trying to figure out what to do:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/nyregion/priv...-relevant-again.html
… and a different sort of DNA thing (interesting story):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19012179
Reviewish of several books on the depiction of (African) slaves in history:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/e...tions-of-slaves.html
Review of Craig Brown, *Hello, Goodbye, Hello”:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/books/hello-g...-by-craig-brown.html
More on medieval attitudes toward greed:
phys.org/news/2012-08-greed-middle-ages.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Santorini:
www.rrstar.com/updates/x1568953258/Laura...ces-ancient-citizens
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for an 1873 US dime:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...for-1.6-million.html
www.timesunion.com/news/article/1873-dim...-million-3777692.php
Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n34.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Folk Art in Four Directions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/c...-street-seaport.html
Joan Miro:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/j...ational-gallery.html
Willem van Aelst:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/w...ational-gallery.html
Feature on Nicosia’s Leventis Museum:
www.cyprus-mail.com/loukia-loizou-hadjig...asure-trove/20120810
Feature on the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ at the Museum of Biblical Art:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/t...of-biblical-art.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/theater/r...y-alloy-theater.html
Love’s Labour’s Lost:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/theater/r...est.html?ref=theater
Tempest:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/theater/r...espeare-company.html
York Mystery Plays:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19180093
Coriolanus:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/theater/r...he-park-ing-lot.html
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Gene Smith:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-sm...ders-dies-at-83.html
Roy Bryce Laporte:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/nyregion/roy-...yale-dies-at-78.html
Lou Bolchazy:
camwsnecrologies.blogspot.com/2012/08/la...chazy-1937-2012.html
John Keegan:
www.npr.org/2012/08/07/158367338/fresh-a...istorian-john-keegan
Jacques DesAutels:
cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb18/ccb18_11.1.html
Amos Hakham:
www.timesofisrael.com/prime-minister-exp...scholar-amos-hakham/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Possible new species named homo rudolfensis:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19184370
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/science/new-f...man-family-tree.html
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...rly-human-diversity/
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/o-humanit...ic-article-1.1133030
news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/09/researc...om-fossils-in-kenya/
phys.org/news/2012-08-kenyan-fossils-early-human-evolution.html
… and I think this is talking about the same thing:
www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158501282/paleont...le-pre-human-fossils
On meat eating and the development of brain capacity:
mg.co.za/article/2012-08-09-taste-for-me...ted-ancestors-brains
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...an-hominin-died-out/
On walking upright:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-of-walking-upright/
Now a volcano is being blamed (partially) for Neanderthals’ demise:
phys.org/news/2012-08-invisible-volcanic...ues-neanderthal.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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*editor’s note: Ha’aretz recently went to a payfer model wherein if you
are registered, you get ten free articles a month; as might be imagined,
I go through that in about a day, so much of what I include from Ha’aretz
I know only because of the headline. I am trying to find alternate sources
for the same story, but it isn’t always possible*
Some anomalies in Upper Egypt spotted on Google Earth might be a
pyramid complex of some sort:
news.discovery.com/history/lost-egyptian...ids-found-120810.htm
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/12/231774.html
Feature on the Beni Hassan tombs project:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46...s-sites-starts-.aspx
A number of severed hands have been found during excavations at Avaris:
www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-...nt-egypt-palace.html
Some Neolithic phallus thingies from Sha’ar HaGolan are now being
identified as ‘early matches’:
www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-...nt-egypt-palace.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19168047
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ritua...lus.premium-1.456922
phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-tools-clues-climate.html
cf (the actual article):
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0042213
Also on the Neolithic front, the transition from hunting to agricultural
societies
parallels the development of woodworking tools:
www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17065
phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-lumberjack.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/plos-ntp080612.php
cf (the actual article):
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0042442
A 3rd century C.E./A.D. image (relief) of a man from Susita:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158683
A Byzantine olive press from Hod HaSharon:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158681
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/not-j...ron.premium-1.456678
Feature on Domus Tepe:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-neolithic-near-east
Latest from Tell es-Gafi:
gath.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/great-arti...aretz-about-the-dig/
cf:
www.haaretz.com/news/national/looking-fo...-in.premium-1.457254
Feature on what is being identified as the site of ancient Hiri:
www.startribune.com/world/165050496.html...epage=1&c=y#continue
Some early photos of the Kotel are now online:
www.israeldailypicture.com/2012/08/the-k...-with-advent-of.html
An article on the mosaics (and other things) from Huqoq:
www.bibleinterp.com/articles/fle368009.shtml
As might have been feared, sites in Syria are being damaged … e.g., the
citadel of Aleppo:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/20...n.ashx#axzz23BbEcFXx
… in a similar vein:
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...verised-8007768.html
www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...ead-cities-1.1359522
An Israeli scholar has spent three decades coming up with the definitive
version of the Bible:
news.yahoo.com/israeli-scholar-completes...bible-063009279.html
… and, of course, the Temple Mount saga continues:
www.timesofisrael.com/timber-israel-blam...ees-on-temple-mount/
More on that statue of Suppiluliuma:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/3000-...-age-creativity.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of a Roman shipwreck near Genoa with some intact
amphorae:
news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwre...od-italy-120808.html
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/intact-ro...ly-article-1.1134109
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ved-FOOD-intact.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19169983
www.batangastoday.com/2000-year-old-ship...-divers-video/24159/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19153732
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/08/1...aden-with-cargo?lite
www.theage.com.au/world/sea-gives-up-a-p...-20120807-23sdr.html
… and another Roman shipwreck from Antibes:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ient-port-of-antibes
A 4th century B.C. tomb from Paestum:
www.stiletv.it/index.php/news/8266/Paest...SCLUSIVA%29(Italian)
They’ve located some of Vindolanda’s piping system:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19164918
Finds from various periods at Yersonisos:
www.cyprus-mail.com/features/people-frie...archaeology/20120812
www.cyprus-mail.com/yeronisos/ancient-am...d-yeronisos/20120809
Plans to excavate another Thracian tumulus in Bulgaria:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n285021
Latest on the search for Cleopatra’s tomb:
www.dominicantoday.com/dr/tourism/2012/8...ect-seeks-Cleopatras
Josiah Ober on the Ancient Greek economy:
www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/08/ober_on_the_anc.html
The Acropolis Museum is looking at colorization of ancient statuary:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/49742/coloured...f-archaic-sculpture/
Hopes/plans to keep the Evesham Hoard in the county it was found:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19151489
www.droitwichadvertiser.co.uk/news/local...hoard_in_the_county/
There has been a wave of ‘ancient Olympics’ posts this week; I’ve gathered
them
together here:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/08/10/catching-...he-ancient-olympics/
… to which may be added:
www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-the-ancient-olympics
There’s a major fire burning near Mt Athos:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...ugreecewildfire.html
Latest on plans to repair the Colosseum:
www.france24.com/en/20120730-italys-lean...ew-delay-restoration
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/o...te-december-16894677
Reviews of Anthony Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:
www.wbur.org/npr/157668413/a-story-of-an...-in-the-rise-of-rome
www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/0...s_the_rise_of_r.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some early Christian graves near Maryport Roman Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-19097827
Did a distant volcano lead to thousands of deaths in medieval London?:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/05/mediev...saster-london-graves
blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/...y-a-distant-volcano/
A medieval silver hoard from Gotland:
www.thelocal.se/42422/20120804/
Remains of a medieval Jewish ‘toilet’ from Cologne:
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-worl...gne.premium-1.456380
Searching for a 12th century gatehouse in Warwick:
www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local/hunt...-gatehouse-1-4146501
Remains of Anglo Saxon (?) warriors found during a Salisbury plain dig:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/06/soldie...iscovery-afghanistan
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-19147035
Sixteenth-century houses found after a fire in Cowgate:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-19170017
Not sure if we mentioned this Northumberland mill dig (which began last
year):
www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/to...thed-61634-31600712/
Plenty of Italian castles are for sale:
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...573432043902926.html
Semi touristy feature on what lies beneath Paris:
www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/europe/wus-...catacombs/index.html
More on Italian earthquake data:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803131932.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A section of the Great Wall of China collapsed:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...-wall-collapses.html
rt.com/art-and-culture/news/great-wall-china-collapse-355/
Brief item on twelve sites found in South China Sea:
zeenews.india.com/news/world/cultural-re...hina-sea_790450.html
A possible pirate ship find in Tongan waters:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/austr...e-treasure-ship.html
www.news.com.au/news/tong-shipwreck-may-...elnuip-1226447132516
I thought we’d mentioned the return of Afghan artifacts by Britain already:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16147041,00.html
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/05/art...turned-afghan-museum
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/...res-repatriated.html
www.timesonline.com/news/world/asia/brit...94-9a88678d4e38.html
www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/05/af...istan-artifacts.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19116195
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Traces of the ‘black drink’ which fueled some rituals in the 17th century
American
southeast:
news.discovery.com/history/vomit-drink-b....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
www.livescience.com/22136-caffeinated-bl...rink-first-city.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoia-rfe080112.php
phys.org/news/2012-08-black-scientists-e...ual-caffeinated.html
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/early...ican-caffeine-trade/
Remains of a Civil War encampment at the College of William and Mary:
www.startribune.com/nation/165737036.html
Excavating a 19th century community hospital site in Virginia City:
www.10tv.com/content/stories/apexchange/...y-virginia-city.html
On why yellow fever had a “green bias” in the mid-19th century US:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806131256.htm
Evidence of an early fur trading post near Edmonton:
www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Footp...s/7060600/story.html
Feature on a Utah collector of Native American artifacts:
www.standard.net/stories/2012/08/05/top-...e-american-artifacts
Assorted finds from a dig in Boise:
www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2012...k-archaeological-dig
On the origins of Mormonism:
www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2...3crat_atlarge_gopnik
A grant to study sites along the Potomac:
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/...logical-sites-127981
A 400 year old treaty dispute:
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/..._a_legendary_ir.html
They’ve identified a shipwreck off Cape Henlopen:
phys.org/news/2012-08-shipwreck-mystery.html
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s online ceramics database might be of
use to some of our readers:
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery_types/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A very interesting Aztec female burial from the Templo Mayor:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/08/mex...iscover-aztec-burial
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mexico-fi...c-burial-3770075.php
phys.org/news/2012-08-mexico-hundreds-bones-aztec-burial.html
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-a...tos-de-arbol-sagrado
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56959#.UCer2aDJ2So
The Maya domesticated turkeys:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120809090706.htm
www.livescience.com/22222-ancient-mayans...ticated-turkeys.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-earliest-mexican-t...ys-ancient-maya.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uof-urd080812.php
An antiquities bust in Mexico:
latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/0...d-in-western-mexico/
Plans to search for ‘the treasure of Lima’:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centr...d-their-plunder.html
More on using drones to map Peruvian sites:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19111257
phys.org/news/2012-08-drone-ancient-peru.html
More on Mayan chocolate use:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...e-food.html?ITO=1490
phys.org/news/2012-08-experts-mayas-chocolate-spice.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews5aug12.mp3
Although Ontario-specific, this 3d digitizing of artifacts project seems
like
it will be used elsewhere, if it isn’t already:
phys.org/news/2012-08-future-students-di...gical-artifacts.html
Wordsworth as ‘management guru’:
www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/09/b...hem-about-wordsworth
Medieval clerics apparently didn’t like the celibacy thing:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120806085143.htm
Fundraising kept a Manet in the UK:
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/08/a...t-mademoiselle-claus
www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/08/manet-britain.html
A possible DaVinci from a Scottish farmhouse (hmmmm):
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/possible-d...could-183847385.html
… and an interesting feature on arguing about authenticity in the courtroom:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/arts/design/w...w-vs-the-market.html
Duke University has acquired Joshua Herschel’s papers:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/du...raham-joshua-heschel
BYU’s multi spectral imaging project:
lib.byu.edu/sites/scholarsarchive/colleg...ral-imaging-project/
Crossing bison and cattle didn’t have the anticipated effects:
phys.org/news/2012-08-reveals-impact-his...domestic-cattle.html
A genetic map of how North African jews fit into the picture:
www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=280344
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8751ei-us-genetics-jews/
Evidence of a cold spell some 3000 years before the ‘Little Ice Age’:
phys.org/news/2012-08-cold-europe-years-ice-age.html
Not quite sure where to put this ‘chinese bear paw’ piece:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/dining/the-fr...chinese-cooking.html
The Huntington Free Library is trying to figure out what to do:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/nyregion/priv...-relevant-again.html
… and a different sort of DNA thing (interesting story):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19012179
Reviewish of several books on the depiction of (African) slaves in history:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/e...tions-of-slaves.html
Review of Craig Brown, *Hello, Goodbye, Hello”:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/books/hello-g...-by-craig-brown.html
More on medieval attitudes toward greed:
phys.org/news/2012-08-greed-middle-ages.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Santorini:
www.rrstar.com/updates/x1568953258/Laura...ces-ancient-citizens
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for an 1873 US dime:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...for-1.6-million.html
www.timesunion.com/news/article/1873-dim...-million-3777692.php
Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n33.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n34.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Folk Art in Four Directions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/c...-street-seaport.html
Joan Miro:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/arts/design/j...ational-gallery.html
Willem van Aelst:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/w...ational-gallery.html
Feature on Nicosia’s Leventis Museum:
www.cyprus-mail.com/loukia-loizou-hadjig...asure-trove/20120810
Feature on the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ at the Museum of Biblical Art:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/t...of-biblical-art.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/theater/r...y-alloy-theater.html
Love’s Labour’s Lost:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/theater/r...est.html?ref=theater
Tempest:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/theater/r...espeare-company.html
York Mystery Plays:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19180093
Coriolanus:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/theater/r...he-park-ing-lot.html
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Gene Smith:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/gene-sm...ders-dies-at-83.html
Roy Bryce Laporte:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/nyregion/roy-...yale-dies-at-78.html
Lou Bolchazy:
camwsnecrologies.blogspot.com/2012/08/la...chazy-1937-2012.html
John Keegan:
www.npr.org/2012/08/07/158367338/fresh-a...istorian-john-keegan
Jacques DesAutels:
cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb18/ccb18_11.1.html
Amos Hakham:
www.timesofisrael.com/prime-minister-exp...scholar-amos-hakham/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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This week we’re told that most Neanderthals were right-handed:
phys.org/news/2012-08-neandertal-right-h...nguage-capacity.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48781052/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-research-finds.html
Feature on five accidental hominid discoveries:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-fossil-discoveries/
There’s a special edition of the Journal of Human Evolution available:
phys.org/news/2012-08-dawn-humanity-illu...special-journal.html
More coverage of the non-interbreeding thing:
news.discovery.com/human/neanderthals-hu...terbreed-120816.html
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AFRICA
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Latest coverage of sectarian destruction of monuments in Libya:
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2...tory_26-8-2012_pg4_1
www.abc.es/fotos-internacional/20120826/...l-1503264181255.html
www.libya-index.com/news/islamists-destr...d-library-in-zlitan/
Another OpEd seeking the return of Nigerian antiquities:
allafrica.com/stories/201208260083.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Mummies in Australia get the CT scan treatment:
phys.org/news/2012-08-mummy-mysteries-unraveled-high-tech.html
Suggestion that a seal found in the City of David shoulbe be read
‘the other way’:
www.jpost.com/israel/article.aspx?id=90998
A couple of videos about the Israel State archives … commentary is in
Hebrew, but it’s interesting to see all the items behind the scenes:
Basic feature on the pyramids and sphinx:
www.livescience.com/22621-pyramids-giza-sphinx.html
Feature on Marcella Frangipane’s work at Aslantepe:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dedicating-a-l...=28104&NewsCatID=375
A research project looking to bring together a pile of Nubian bones from
excavating prior to WWI:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ife-for-nubian-bones
Items from Tel Qashish are going on display:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=281866
www.nmm.org.il/Museum/Templates/showpage...=1&TMID=846&FID=1364
cf:
www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng....d=1706&module_id=#as
That Northampton museum which discovered it had a valuable Egyptian statue
might sell it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19311048
Feature on colours in Egyptian art:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/colorcode.htm
We’re still hearing rumblings about a proposal to turn Hagia Sophia back
into a mosque:
www.asianews.it/news-en/Bartholomew-I:-D...-a-mosque-25568.html
More on the threat to antiquities in Syria (different sources):
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...l?mod=googlenews_wsj
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wars-destroy-t...=27697&NewsCatID=375
Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamun’s Curse*:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A recently-translated POxy is a poem about the deification of Poppaea:
www.livescience.com/22650-ancient-poem-p...es-nero-poppaea.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48771790/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/25/ancie...raises-emperor-nero/
There was much excitement over the discovery of a bronze lion head in
the waters off Calabria:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/9231/...ded-bronze-lion.html
www.france24.com/en/20120821-ancient-bro...mour-found-off-italy
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...8dd39955badeb004.dc1
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english...ze-lion_7363198.html
Hellenistic hairpins from Canakkale:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-rev...=28106&NewsCatID=375
A Caligula aureus was found in the water near Cyprus:
eu.greekreporter.com/2012/08/21/emperor-...erwater-near-cyprus/
‘Solving’ an ancient ‘cold case’ at Knidos:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-cold-c....UDSxDny06xs.twitter
A Roman dig near Gainsborough:
www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Expert-sear...46-detail/story.html
More Roman finds from Devon:
phys.org/news/2012-08-archaeological-devon-unearths-roman.html
Assorted Vesuvius/Pompeii coverage to mark the eruption:
blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-...-rumbling-mountains/
… of special note, Pliny the Elder was tweeting the event:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/24/pliny-el...ruption-mt-vesuvius/
Remains of a pre-Roman/Roman-influenced village at Ipplepen:
www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Village-pre-d...09-detail/story.html
The Maryport dig will continue for another three years at least:
www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/three-...23?referrerPath=news
Someone’s found Gibbon’s earliest use of irony:
phys.org/news/2012-08-gibbon-earliest-ir...aled-manuscript.html
This one is kind of confusing to follow … first we heard that Greece and the
British Museum were talking about the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:
www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_det...=23798&icid=4&d_str=
www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Au...museum-director.ashx
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...12c2a959ae285e36.ba1
… and supposedly there was a loan afoot:
www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-...in_marbles_to_greece
… then the BM was denying plans to lend them to Greece:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...9d0cd4c30751455a.131
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-n...3dxix6-1226457803033
www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_w..._1_25/08/2012_458261
mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#label/%...ics/1395ef9a78dca4ba
Overviewish, somewhat touristy thing on Messene:
www.athensnews.gr/issue/13509/57725
Reviewish of David Gwynn, *The Roman Republic*:
blog.oup.com/2012/08/roman-republic-gwynn-vsi/
More on the unrolling and translating of that curse tablet from Kent:
news.discovery.com/history/curse-ancient...d-scroll-120821.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ad-dozen-people.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plans to dig up a parking lot to find Richard III’s remains:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19361350
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9497194/Rich...-remains-begins.html
news.discovery.com/history/king-richard-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-richard-iii-dig-032624776.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uol-hsf082312.php
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/24/r...emains-leicester-dig
A Bronze Age pottery sherd from Scilly may be the UK’s earliest depiction of
a boat:
www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20her...rchaeology/art397577
A metal detectorist has found a big stash of 3000 years b.p. weaponry in
Nottinghamshire:
www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Mr-Treasure-f...79-detail/story.html
Looking for remains of a Synagogue in Ukraine:
www.day.kiev.ua/233801
More on Scots DNA:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plans to dig up a parking lot to find Richard III’s remains:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19361350
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9497194/Rich...-remains-begins.html
news.discovery.com/history/king-richard-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-richard-iii-dig-032624776.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uol-hsf082312.php
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/24/r...emains-leicester-dig
A Bronze Age pottery sherd from Scilly may be the UK’s earliest depiction of
a boat:
www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20her...rchaeology/art397577
A metal detectorist has found a big stash of 3000 years b.p. weaponry in
Nottinghamshire:
www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Mr-Treasure-f...79-detail/story.html
Looking for remains of a Synagogue in Ukraine:
www.day.kiev.ua/233801
More on Scots DNA:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Canada is extending the search for the Franklin expeidition remains:
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre87m12j-us-expedition/
Mapping Charleston Harbor:
www.newswise.com/articles/view/592914/?s...se%3A+Latest+News%29
OpEddish thing on Mormon priesthoods:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunda...mon-church.html?_r=1
Searching for a colonial-era black school in Virginia:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...0819,0,2903235.story
The USS Constitution is sailing again:
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/08/19/USS-C.../UPI-94481345418483/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Fifteen Huastec burials from Queretaro:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57311#.UDmjyUKI3u1
Overviewish thing on various digs in and around Copan:
www.ticotimes.net/Region/Archaeologists-...riday-August-24-2012
Google Streetview comes to assorted Mexican sites:
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/1...t-mexican-ruins?lite
Mayan razing of forests made droughts worse, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-08-multiple-factors-c...se-depopulation.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-forest-razing-ancient-maya-worsened.html
On that Mayan War Vase recently-acquired by the CMA:
lootingmatters.blogspot.ca/2012/08/the-m...-mayan-war-vase.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews19aug12.mp3
UNESCO has launched a Heritage of Astronomy web portal:
www2.astronomicalheritage.net/
Turkey has been identified as the home of Indo-European languages:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823175406.htm
mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/science/in...nalysis-suggests.xml
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/s...ce/0824-origins.html
uk.news.yahoo.com/turkey-birthplace-hind...study-172221442.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-turkey-birthplace-hindi-english.html
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...971dee30a_story.html
www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6097/957
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...y-experts-claim.html
Another case of iPads being used in archaeology:
news.liv.ac.uk/2012/08/16/archaeology-tr...for-fieldwork-study/
Suggestion that there are two self-portraits in Leonardo’s Last Supper:
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/last-suppe...vinci-201400070.html
APOD of a Perseid above Albrechtberg Castle:
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120825.html
Reissuing a 16th century woman’s siddur:
www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/24/3105...r-reissued-in-hebrew
In case you haven’t seen this botched restoration of a portrait of Jesus:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/nationa...co-shocks-spain.html
The Dorak Treasure hoax (this could be in the ANE section, perhaps):
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1208/S00131/de...ak-treasure-hoax.htm
A Picasso doesn’t get its travel papers:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/br...raveling/?ref=design
Interesting sand castle competition:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/design/c...ists.html?ref=design
More on Amelia Earhart:
m.gizmodo.com/5936462/a-search-team-migh...rhart-after-75-years
Review of Alexandra Popoff, *The Wives*;
www.tnr.com/book/review/the-wives-bhind-...nts-alexandra-popoff
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Israel’s Kfar Kedem biblical park recently outfitted its donkeys with wifi:
phys.org/news/2012-08-israeli-biblical-o...s-donkeys-wi-fi.html
Dupnisa Cave:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/old-cave-ready...=28343&NewsCatID=379
Ephesus:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ephesus-ancien...=28358&NewsCatID=375
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n35.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n36.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Alexander the Great:
au.greekreporter.com/2012/08/20/alexande...res-comes-to-sydney/
Chinese Gardens:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/arts/design/c...-art.html?ref=design
Feature on the Aydin Archaeological Museum:
www.sfgate.com/travel/article/New-Turkis...00-items-3814006.php
www.turizmtatilseyahat.com/en/archeology...ors-for-eid-4840.htm
The Louvre is going to exhibit that bronze head of Seuthes III:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-08-25&article=39888
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Rape of Lucrece:
www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/37148/the-rape-of-lucrece
Antigone Unearthed:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/ne...-unearthed/?ref=arts
Rossini Operas:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/arts/18iht-loomis18.html?ref=arts
Stelladaura Vindicante:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/arts/15iht-loomis15.html?ref=arts
Henry VIII:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/arts/music/le...tival.html?ref=music
Mostly Mozart:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/music/mo...uctor.html?ref=music
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Daryl Hine:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/arts/daryl-hi...ator-dies-at-76.html
Harry Harrison:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/books/harry-h...tion-dies-at-87.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
David Critchley, Mata Kimasitayo, Jennifer Cosham, Joanne Conman,
Rochelle Altman, Richard Campbell,Bob Heuman, Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping
I have left no one out).
================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
================================================================
This week we’re told that most Neanderthals were right-handed:
phys.org/news/2012-08-neandertal-right-h...nguage-capacity.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48781052/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-research-finds.html
Feature on five accidental hominid discoveries:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-fossil-discoveries/
There’s a special edition of the Journal of Human Evolution available:
phys.org/news/2012-08-dawn-humanity-illu...special-journal.html
More coverage of the non-interbreeding thing:
news.discovery.com/human/neanderthals-hu...terbreed-120816.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Latest coverage of sectarian destruction of monuments in Libya:
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2...tory_26-8-2012_pg4_1
www.abc.es/fotos-internacional/20120826/...l-1503264181255.html
www.libya-index.com/news/islamists-destr...d-library-in-zlitan/
Another OpEd seeking the return of Nigerian antiquities:
allafrica.com/stories/201208260083.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Mummies in Australia get the CT scan treatment:
phys.org/news/2012-08-mummy-mysteries-unraveled-high-tech.html
Suggestion that a seal found in the City of David shoulbe be read
‘the other way’:
www.jpost.com/israel/article.aspx?id=90998
A couple of videos about the Israel State archives … commentary is in
Hebrew, but it’s interesting to see all the items behind the scenes:
Basic feature on the pyramids and sphinx:
www.livescience.com/22621-pyramids-giza-sphinx.html
Feature on Marcella Frangipane’s work at Aslantepe:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dedicating-a-l...=28104&NewsCatID=375
A research project looking to bring together a pile of Nubian bones from
excavating prior to WWI:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ife-for-nubian-bones
Items from Tel Qashish are going on display:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=281866
www.nmm.org.il/Museum/Templates/showpage...=1&TMID=846&FID=1364
cf:
www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng....d=1706&module_id=#as
That Northampton museum which discovered it had a valuable Egyptian statue
might sell it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19311048
Feature on colours in Egyptian art:
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/colorcode.htm
We’re still hearing rumblings about a proposal to turn Hagia Sophia back
into a mosque:
www.asianews.it/news-en/Bartholomew-I:-D...-a-mosque-25568.html
More on the threat to antiquities in Syria (different sources):
online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904...l?mod=googlenews_wsj
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wars-destroy-t...=27697&NewsCatID=375
Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamun’s Curse*:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A recently-translated POxy is a poem about the deification of Poppaea:
www.livescience.com/22650-ancient-poem-p...es-nero-poppaea.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48771790/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/25/ancie...raises-emperor-nero/
There was much excitement over the discovery of a bronze lion head in
the waters off Calabria:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/9231/...ded-bronze-lion.html
www.france24.com/en/20120821-ancient-bro...mour-found-off-italy
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...8dd39955badeb004.dc1
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english...ze-lion_7363198.html
Hellenistic hairpins from Canakkale:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-rev...=28106&NewsCatID=375
A Caligula aureus was found in the water near Cyprus:
eu.greekreporter.com/2012/08/21/emperor-...erwater-near-cyprus/
‘Solving’ an ancient ‘cold case’ at Knidos:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-cold-c....UDSxDny06xs.twitter
A Roman dig near Gainsborough:
www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Expert-sear...46-detail/story.html
More Roman finds from Devon:
phys.org/news/2012-08-archaeological-devon-unearths-roman.html
Assorted Vesuvius/Pompeii coverage to mark the eruption:
blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-...-rumbling-mountains/
… of special note, Pliny the Elder was tweeting the event:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/24/pliny-el...ruption-mt-vesuvius/
Remains of a pre-Roman/Roman-influenced village at Ipplepen:
www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Village-pre-d...09-detail/story.html
The Maryport dig will continue for another three years at least:
www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/three-...23?referrerPath=news
Someone’s found Gibbon’s earliest use of irony:
phys.org/news/2012-08-gibbon-earliest-ir...aled-manuscript.html
This one is kind of confusing to follow … first we heard that Greece and the
British Museum were talking about the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:
www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_det...=23798&icid=4&d_str=
www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Au...museum-director.ashx
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...12c2a959ae285e36.ba1
… and supposedly there was a loan afoot:
www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-...in_marbles_to_greece
… then the BM was denying plans to lend them to Greece:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...9d0cd4c30751455a.131
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-n...3dxix6-1226457803033
www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_w..._1_25/08/2012_458261
mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#label/%...ics/1395ef9a78dca4ba
Overviewish, somewhat touristy thing on Messene:
www.athensnews.gr/issue/13509/57725
Reviewish of David Gwynn, *The Roman Republic*:
blog.oup.com/2012/08/roman-republic-gwynn-vsi/
More on the unrolling and translating of that curse tablet from Kent:
news.discovery.com/history/curse-ancient...d-scroll-120821.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ad-dozen-people.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plans to dig up a parking lot to find Richard III’s remains:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19361350
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9497194/Rich...-remains-begins.html
news.discovery.com/history/king-richard-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-richard-iii-dig-032624776.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uol-hsf082312.php
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/24/r...emains-leicester-dig
A Bronze Age pottery sherd from Scilly may be the UK’s earliest depiction of
a boat:
www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20her...rchaeology/art397577
A metal detectorist has found a big stash of 3000 years b.p. weaponry in
Nottinghamshire:
www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Mr-Treasure-f...79-detail/story.html
Looking for remains of a Synagogue in Ukraine:
www.day.kiev.ua/233801
More on Scots DNA:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plans to dig up a parking lot to find Richard III’s remains:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19361350
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9497194/Rich...-remains-begins.html
news.discovery.com/history/king-richard-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-richard-iii-dig-032624776.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uol-hsf082312.php
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/24/r...emains-leicester-dig
A Bronze Age pottery sherd from Scilly may be the UK’s earliest depiction of
a boat:
www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20her...rchaeology/art397577
A metal detectorist has found a big stash of 3000 years b.p. weaponry in
Nottinghamshire:
www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Mr-Treasure-f...79-detail/story.html
Looking for remains of a Synagogue in Ukraine:
www.day.kiev.ua/233801
More on Scots DNA:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Canada is extending the search for the Franklin expeidition remains:
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre87m12j-us-expedition/
Mapping Charleston Harbor:
www.newswise.com/articles/view/592914/?s...se%3A+Latest+News%29
OpEddish thing on Mormon priesthoods:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunda...mon-church.html?_r=1
Searching for a colonial-era black school in Virginia:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...0819,0,2903235.story
The USS Constitution is sailing again:
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/08/19/USS-C.../UPI-94481345418483/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Fifteen Huastec burials from Queretaro:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57311#.UDmjyUKI3u1
Overviewish thing on various digs in and around Copan:
www.ticotimes.net/Region/Archaeologists-...riday-August-24-2012
Google Streetview comes to assorted Mexican sites:
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/1...t-mexican-ruins?lite
Mayan razing of forests made droughts worse, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-08-multiple-factors-c...se-depopulation.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-forest-razing-ancient-maya-worsened.html
On that Mayan War Vase recently-acquired by the CMA:
lootingmatters.blogspot.ca/2012/08/the-m...-mayan-war-vase.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews19aug12.mp3
UNESCO has launched a Heritage of Astronomy web portal:
www2.astronomicalheritage.net/
Turkey has been identified as the home of Indo-European languages:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823175406.htm
mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/science/in...nalysis-suggests.xml
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/s...ce/0824-origins.html
uk.news.yahoo.com/turkey-birthplace-hind...study-172221442.html
phys.org/news/2012-08-turkey-birthplace-hindi-english.html
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...971dee30a_story.html
www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6097/957
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...y-experts-claim.html
Another case of iPads being used in archaeology:
news.liv.ac.uk/2012/08/16/archaeology-tr...for-fieldwork-study/
Suggestion that there are two self-portraits in Leonardo’s Last Supper:
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/last-suppe...vinci-201400070.html
APOD of a Perseid above Albrechtberg Castle:
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120825.html
Reissuing a 16th century woman’s siddur:
www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/24/3105...r-reissued-in-hebrew
In case you haven’t seen this botched restoration of a portrait of Jesus:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/nationa...co-shocks-spain.html
The Dorak Treasure hoax (this could be in the ANE section, perhaps):
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1208/S00131/de...ak-treasure-hoax.htm
A Picasso doesn’t get its travel papers:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/br...raveling/?ref=design
Interesting sand castle competition:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/design/c...ists.html?ref=design
More on Amelia Earhart:
m.gizmodo.com/5936462/a-search-team-migh...rhart-after-75-years
Review of Alexandra Popoff, *The Wives*;
www.tnr.com/book/review/the-wives-bhind-...nts-alexandra-popoff
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Israel’s Kfar Kedem biblical park recently outfitted its donkeys with wifi:
phys.org/news/2012-08-israeli-biblical-o...s-donkeys-wi-fi.html
Dupnisa Cave:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/old-cave-ready...=28343&NewsCatID=379
Ephesus:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ephesus-ancien...=28358&NewsCatID=375
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n35.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n36.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Alexander the Great:
au.greekreporter.com/2012/08/20/alexande...res-comes-to-sydney/
Chinese Gardens:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/arts/design/c...-art.html?ref=design
Feature on the Aydin Archaeological Museum:
www.sfgate.com/travel/article/New-Turkis...00-items-3814006.php
www.turizmtatilseyahat.com/en/archeology...ors-for-eid-4840.htm
The Louvre is going to exhibit that bronze head of Seuthes III:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-08-25&article=39888
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Rape of Lucrece:
www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/37148/the-rape-of-lucrece
Antigone Unearthed:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/ne...-unearthed/?ref=arts
Rossini Operas:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/arts/18iht-loomis18.html?ref=arts
Stelladaura Vindicante:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/arts/15iht-loomis15.html?ref=arts
Henry VIII:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/arts/music/le...tival.html?ref=music
Mostly Mozart:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/music/mo...uctor.html?ref=music
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Daryl Hine:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/arts/daryl-hi...ator-dies-at-76.html
Harry Harrison:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/books/harry-h...tion-dies-at-87.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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What we’re learning from Denisovan DNA:
phys.org/news/2012-09-human-evolution-multi-colored.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19423147
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/aaft-sst082412.php
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...n-modern-humans.html
www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-30/anc...nates-rise-of-brains
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/31/sci-denisovan.html
www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2012/august/...rbreeding113697.html
www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/science_tech/h...to-yet-another-group
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...c842a6d89_story.html
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/30/s...science&type=article
www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160302659/pinky-d...about-ancient-humans
On Neanderthal right-handedness and capacity for language:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827160825.htm
On cannibalism among early hominids:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...territorial-defense/
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AFRICA
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Floods in Dakar have exposed artifacts dating somewhere between
2000 and 7000 B.C.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19474531
Latest on efforts to recover Nigerian antiquities:
allafrica.com/stories/201208280522.html
Sufi shrines in Libya are the latest to be attacked:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19380083
A response thereto:
allafrica.com/stories/201208270986.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A New Kingdom era stele find from northern Cairo:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...-offerings-to-a.aspx
An 8th century B.C./B.C.E inscription from Ziyarettepe possibly is evidence
of a hitherto
unknown language:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mysterious-tab...pageID=238&nID=28636
Some pre-pottery Neolithic B figures from Tell Motza:
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History...otza_29-Aug-2012.htm
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/248628
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/stone-...tside-jerusalem.html
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/1...found-in-israel?lite
www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57505517/95...nes-found-in-israel/
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/i...age-figures-17105083
news.discovery.com/history/two-stone-age-statuettes-120830.html
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...raelarchaeology.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57417
phys.org/news/2012-08-israeli-archeologists-rare-stone-age.html
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5604
Interesting study of obsidian tools from Tell Mozan:
www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/syrian-obsidian-d...ern-studies-1.205697
phys.org/news/2012-09-obsidian-discovery...year-old-syrian.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120904135334.htm
Plenty of coverage of the find of a First Temple era water reservoir in
Jerusalem:
news.yahoo.com/first-temple-era-reservoi...salem-123218560.html
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5725
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4278061,00.html
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=284115
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=284049
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159696
www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-ar...lem.premium-1.463226
… some video of the site (Hebrew commentary):
Highway construction near Beersheba revealed the remains of a 1500 years
b.p.
Jewish town:
www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-une...-in-southern-israel/
www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/1500-ye...scovered/2012/09/03/
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159539
www.haaretz.com/byzantine-era-ritual-bat...e-6.premium-1.462429
The Ophel Excavation website:
www.keytodavidscity.com/
… and a video of this year’s work:
!
Latest theory on the death of Tutankhamun:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528812....h-of-monotheism.html
Plans to celebrate the centennial of the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti:
english.ahram.org.eg/News/51403.aspx
cf:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...bust-of-Neferti.aspx
Feature on the Nahal Me'arot/Wadi el-Mughara caves, which are now a UNESCO
World Heritage Site:
www.haaretz.com/news/features/in-the-hil...iew.premium-1.460491
… while Yemen is seeking the status for Zabid:
al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/featur...012/08/29/feature-03
The Western Wall has passed its safety check:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5693
Feature on debt cancellation in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt:
www.globalresearch.ca/debt-cancellation-...rom-3000-to-1000-bc/
An attempted coin-smuggling attempt thwarted in Alexandria:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/52...tempts-of-authe.aspx
… and a similar situation in Abu Dhabi:
www.7daysindubai.com/Abu-Dhabi-police-ar...98-detail/story.html
More on damage to antiquities in Aleppo:
www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/us-sy...dUSBRE87R0US20120828
… and concerns at Tell el Fakhariya:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16191710,00.html
They’re apparently using the playing-card-strategy to educate the military
again:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16195430,00.html
Vague item on the theft of bones from an archaeological site at Beit
Shemesh:
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274050,00.html
Overviewish thing on Turkey’s attempts at repatriation of artifacts:
www.voanews.com/content/turkey-art-theft/1499524.html
More on Israel returning some purloined coffin lids to Egypt:
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-return-s...ptian-coffin-covers/
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274800,00.html
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...in-lid-to-Egypt.aspx
www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/30/3105...coffin-lids-to-egypt
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of an ancient ‘pub’ near Stracathro Fort:
www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/ale-...b-together-1-2514282
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/344711
… coverage with a different spin:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19392180
Interesting ‘cold case’ from Vindolanda (not sure if we’ve mentioned this
before or not):
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9898645.R...fort_murder_mystery/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...d-hands-tied-up.html
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...verseas-8084214.html
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/28/roma...-wall_n_1835717.html
A Roman bath and other structures from an excavation near Cockermouth:
www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/papcas...referrerPath=1242444
Very interesting Etruscan ‘pyramids’ from Orvieto:
www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/NH-professor-s.../l7lins/-/index.html
A 6th century B.C. incense thing in the shape of a bull’s head from near
Sozopol:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/08/31/archaeology-in...f-bulgarias-sozopol/
Apollonia’s ancient necropolis appears to have been found as well:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/09/03/archaeology-ol...n-bulgarias-sozopol/
They’ve excavated a stadium at Aydin:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-stadi...=29283&NewsCatID=375
Some headless statuary from Aphrodisias:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/headless-statu...=29194&NewsCatID=375
Roman bones found during renovations at the Ankara Opera House:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bones-in-opera...=29021&NewsCatID=375
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bones-skull-re...=28924&NewsCatID=375
Plans to dig at the Roman sites of Adana:
www.turizmtatilseyahat.com/en/archeologi...begin-adana-4857.htm
Theater masks from Ilisu:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/theater-masks-...=28638&NewsCatID=375
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ater-masks-in-turkey
Arguing over the site of the battle of Alesia:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19167600
Feature on the Roman Gask project:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...s-forgotten-frontier
Nice feature on the use of GPR (etc.) to map the site of Interamna Lirenas:
phys.org/news/2012-09-images-lost-roman-town.html
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...led-street-by-street
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/...archers-8105249.html
Feature on the dig at the Roman fort at ‘Ayn Gharandal:
asorblog.org/?p=2992&utm_source=rss&utm_...chaeological-project
Nice video feature on colorizing Roman statues:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/19442872
The Pope wants to set up a Latin academy:
rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/...nto-a-dead-language/
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...irth-in-schools.html
Philip Freeman on attack ads in Pompeii:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/...i-style/?ref=opinion
Can’t remember if we’ve mentioned this poem about Nero and Poppaea:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...200-years-death.html
Plans to dig more at the Roman forum at Plovdiv:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/08/27/archaeology-pl...after-several-finds/
A Great Lives BBC thing on Juvenal:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m5jtk
The Penn Museum has made an arrangement regarding some Troy jewellery
being exchanged for some objects associated with Midas:
phys.org/news/2012-09-penn-museum-turkey-troy-gold.html
www.philly.com/philly/news/local/2012090...items_to_Turkey.html
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...5e3f88849_story.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-penn-museum-turkey-troy-gold.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57532#.UEx8Lq757Ak
The Colosseum is apparently okay, despite the chunks falling off of it:
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/09/.../UPI-50201347033840/
… but they’re going to put in a safety ‘buffer zone’:
www.wantedinrome.com/news/2001556/safety...romes-colosseum.html
… and repairs will begin in December:
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/...frf7k6-1226439996728
Feature on plans to unroll/conserve a lead curse tablet:
www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/201.../1/roman_scroll.aspx
Evidence of the Cimmerians:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...und-in-anatolian-dig
Latest on plans for hockey in the Pula amphitheatre:
austrianindependent.com/news/Sports/2012...s_become_gladiators_
sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/be...-141229032--nhl.html
Folks were marking Caligula’s bimillennial birthday:
tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/09/this-week-...aligulas-2000th.html
Hollywood is cooling to using Roman numerals:
www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/23/...ce_and_for_all_.html
A followup feature on that tattooed siberian ‘princess’:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198222...rs-ago-revealed.html
A Roman wedding of sorts is being held at Nicopolis ad Istrum:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n286422
OpEd on the future of ancient Greek:
blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2012/08/31/the-future-of-ancient-greek/
In case you’re wondering how far Ryan Hall runs while listening to the
Odyssey:
www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/28/...to_the_odyssey_.html
More on the Thermae Romae movie:
filmsandbooks.com/2012/09/05/thermae-rom...-from-rome-to-japan/
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns...0903,0,5686135.story
Winter/Spring 2012 APA newsletter:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...ing_2012_newsletter/
… and the latest issue of Amphora:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...f_amphora_available/
Review of A. Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:
www.courier-journal.com/article/20120908...ok-review-Rise-Rome-
More on that Roman shipwreck in Antibes:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57485
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/04/r...france?newsfeed=true
www.maritime-executive.com/article/ancie...ure-parking-lot-site
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Another 5000 years b.p. figurine from Orkney:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-eas...ey-shetland-19397929
Archaeologists have found evidence of the church where Richard III
was buried (and an associated garden):
news.discovery.com/history/medieval-church-king-120905.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-archaeology-team-huge-king-richard.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uol-ata090512.php
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uol-au090712.php
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9522570/Rich...sts-find-church.html
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/31/churc...beneath-parking-lot/
… and they’re thinking of extending the dig:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19516669
Excavating an Iron Age hill fort at Ham Hill:
phys.org/news/2012-08-iron-age-hillfort-reveals-secrets.html
A pile of Saxon graves from the Ipswich waterfront:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19507960
Evidence of a settlement with a monastery found in Co Donegal:
www.independent.ie/national-news/find-hi...nastery-3217257.html
Not sure we’ve mentioned this Viking port find yet:
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/08/21/Dive...577239/?spt=hs&or=sn
Suggestion the ‘herders, not farmers’ built Stonehenge:
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3439...%2C_built_Stonehenge
Searching for evidence of a henge in west London:
www.bdpost.co.uk/news/heritage/dagenham_...est_london_1_1499964
A family found a medieval well under their house:
www.npr.org/2012/08/31/160370088/family-...heir-house?sc=17&f=3
The Vasa is deteriorating:
phys.org/news/2012-08-deterioration-famo...sh-warship-vasa.html
The BM is studying trees used for various purposes:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18323677
Feature on the Battle of Borodino:
www.npr.org/2012/09/02/160453589/in-russ...le-a-day-to-remember
Feature on Sharon DeWitte’s work with skeletal remains of folk who
died from the Black Death:
phys.org/news/2012-09-decoding-black-death.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120905134826.htm
An Anglo-Saxon brooch is going on display at Oxfordshire Museum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19488731
An exhibition of medieval Macedonian manuscripts is causing a kerfuffle:
www.medievalhistories.com/medieval-macedonia/
The People of Medieval Scotland project is putting a pile of documents
online:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19475461
Vandals destroyed a 16th century polychrome Pieta in a church in
Chateauroux:
www.christianophobie.fr/breves/vandalism...-chateauroux(French)
The Solovetsky monastery has been restored:
french.ruvr.ru/2012_08_23/monastere-rest...-Patriarche-Cyrille/
(French)
… as has the Basilica of St Augustine of Hippo:
www.riposte-catholique.fr/osservatore-va...#.UEyOh6757Al(ditto)
They’ve conserved St Dwynwen’s church:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19438216
A study of human impact on the Black Sea:
phys.org/news/2012-09-human-impact-felt-black-sea.html
More on that massive sacrifice/burial/bog site in Denmark:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/warri...ark.html?ref=science
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Neolithic boat from Korea:
www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/news/20120827-Ulchin-Boat.html
Evidence of a Bronze Age settlement from northern China:
m.upi.com/story/UPI-58041346449582/
Four 2000 years b.p. Tibetan tombs:
www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2012...content_26320071.htm
A possible pre-Cook shipwreck in Kaipara Harbour?:
www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/dating-o...edated-cook/1523196/
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/nort...-shipwreck-confirmed
A rescue dig at a construction site at Barangaroo is revealing plenty:
www.smh.com.au/nsw/barangaroo-holds-the-...-20120901-257cn.html
Some Gandara artifacts seized a while ago are a mix of genuine and fake:
dawn.com/2012/09/04/all-seized-artefacts-not-fake-report/
Artifact thieves in Sri Lanka face harsher punishments:
www.dailynews.lk/2012/08/28/news14.asp
More on the return of artifacts and revival of the Kabul Museum:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57617#.UEyRZ6757Ak
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journ...ms-returned-to-kabul
www.chron.com/news/article/Afghan-museum...rtifacts-3841200.php
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists are working at Wind Cave Buffalo Jump:
newsok.com/archaeologists-study-wind-cav.../article/feed/431046
… not quite sure if this is the same:
www.oudaily.com/news/2012/aug/30/bisonkillsite/
Finding evidence of the Sheshatshiu people:
www.thelabradorian.ca/News/2012-08-28/ar...eshatshiu-unveiled/1
Cultural resource management in Ohio:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...s-ohios-history.html
On leadership in Ohio Hopewell societies:
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/09/a-n...ights-on-nature.html
Trying to dig a 500 years b.p. Alaskan site before the sea takes it away:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19521091
They’ve completed a survery of the Charleston Harbor Civil War Battle site:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823175352.htm
Interesting ‘voter suppression’ story associated with Frederick Douglass:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/...ession-then-and-now/
They’re going to be poking around the Queen Anne’s Revenge again:
www.sacbee.com/2012/09/06/4793710/divers...ine-queen-annes.html
Hurricane Isaac revealed a possible Civil War shipwreck in Alabama:
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious...civil-154038655.html
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article...hipwreck-3837837.php
Conserving the Capitol dome:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/fate-...ome.html?ref=opinion
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Water treatment plant construction in Atontonilco de Tula has revealed
Pleistocene remains,
some of which may be human:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57503
phys.org/news/2012-08-mexico-wastewater-uncovers-ice-age.html
A possible jaguar sculpture from Izapa:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57365#.UEyZJ6757Ak
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-a...onolitico-en-chiapas
Overviewish thing on recent finds in Mexico City:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/america...-in-the-present.html
Feature on the Mayan theatre at Plan de Ayutla:
news.discovery.com/history/mayan-theater-120905.html
Mayan murals in a Guatemalan family’s kitchen:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09...ience-mayan/(photos)
Latest on the dig of that pre-Incan Sican tomb at Chotuna-Chornancap:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09...-water-cult-science/
Another feature on the collapse of the Maya:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08...-and-climate-change/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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ArchaeoNews podcast (08/29)
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-212
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
The Indo-European homeland is apparently in Turkey:
phys.org/news/2012-08-indo-european-languages-anatolia.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/indo_eu...uages_origin_turkey/
www.chicagotribune.com/news/plus/chi-nsc...logy,0,3935656.story
Another feature on Robert Scott’s shipwreck:
www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120830-NEWS-208300406
… and another one on Lidar:
www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
Robert Ballard’s latest expedition is getting general coverage (finds from
assorted periods):
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/08/28/hell...s-found-near-cyprus/
www.cyprus-mail.com/features/whale-bones...-expedition/20120826
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16206778,00.html...2098-html-newsletter
Funding to prevent corrosion of metal artifacts:
phys.org/news/2012-08-corrosion-metal-artifacts.html
Blue moon info:
phys.org/news/2012-08-blue-moon.html
Galileo didn’t invent the thermometer that bears his name, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-09-galileo-didnt-thermometer.html
An archaeology dog:
www.news.com.au/national/this-dog-has-a-...do4ckr-1226463394595
Radio program on assorted technologies being used in assorted ways by
assorted historians:
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/fu...ly-old-stuff/4227728
Feature on Edward Lear’s artwork (and other nonsense, of course):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19409112
Interesting feature on beliefs about music in recent western history:
phys.org/news/2012-09-piano-plague-d-minor.html
The odyssey of a stolen Cranach:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/m...church-a-854266.html
abcnews.go.com/International/odyssey-sto...ng/story?id=17184261
Another computer analysis of connections between great pieces of literature:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827073906.htm
… and the author of that Iliad/Beowulf one has a piece in the NYT which
explains
things much more clearly than the journalists did:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunda...tworks-of-myths.html
A photo of Emily Dickenson has been found (maybe):
news.discovery.com/history/rare-photo-of....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
On art fraud via the internet:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/arts/design/g...ings-more-fraud.html
A major Frank Lloyd Wright archive is moving to New York:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/04/art.../20120904MUSEUM.html
The Royal Society is trying to remain relevant:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/royal...nce.html?ref=science
Feature on the worst art restorations of all time:
io9.com/5938377/the-worst-art-restoration-mistakes-of-all-time
… in case you missed the story that spawned it:
news.discovery.com/human/church-painting...toration-120826.html
I think we had this fungus/Stradivarius story a while ago:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120908081611.htm
Review of Bucholz and Ward, *London*:
www.tnr.com/book/review/london-social-cu...history-bucholz-ward
Review of Katherine Frank, *Crusoe*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/...frank.html?ref=books
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Russia’s ‘golden ring’:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/travel/dri...ved-golden-ring.html
Tzipori:
www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=283193
Kidron Valley:
www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=282747
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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There are three issues of the eSylum to catch up on (the last appearing
later today, of course):
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n36.html
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n37.html
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n38.html
Cambridgeshire Museum has purchased the Kimbolton hoard:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-19341681
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Porcelain:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/arts/04iht-melvin04.html?ref=arts
Carlo Scarpa:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/arts/27iht-design27.html?ref=arts
African Cosmos:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/arts/design/a...an-art.html?ref=arts
Electric Currents:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/arts/design/e...rn-art.html?ref=arts
Hudson River School:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/nyregion/foll...states.html?ref=arts
Athenian Potters and Painters:
flathatnews.com/2012/09/03/a-classical-p...-of-the-time-period/
History of New York in 50 Objects:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/n...k-in-50-objects.html
?
Olympia: Myth-Cult-Games:
www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57427#.UEyi7a757Al
Raphael’s ‘Head of an Apostle’ is coming to auction:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/ra...sothebys/?ref=design
We mentioned that Egyptian statue ‘discovered’ in a Northampton museum and
their intention (maybe) to sell it … might cause problems though:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19521785
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Taming of the Shrew:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/arts/05iht-lon05.html?ref=arts
4x4 Baroque Festival:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/arts/music/ba...church.html?ref=arts
Art of Fuge:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/arts/music/ta...-rouge.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Yonah Frenkel:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/248914
Alexander Saxton:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/alexand...rian-dies-at-93.html
Daryl Hine:
evanston.patch.com/articles/evanston-poet-daryl-hine-dies-at-76
Wesley Hall:
www.legacy.com/obituaries/starnewsonline...h-hall&pid=159534303
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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What we’re learning from Denisovan DNA:
phys.org/news/2012-09-human-evolution-multi-colored.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19423147
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/aaft-sst082412.php
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...n-modern-humans.html
www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-30/anc...nates-rise-of-brains
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/31/sci-denisovan.html
www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2012/august/...rbreeding113697.html
www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/science_tech/h...to-yet-another-group
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...c842a6d89_story.html
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/30/s...science&type=article
www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160302659/pinky-d...about-ancient-humans
On Neanderthal right-handedness and capacity for language:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827160825.htm
On cannibalism among early hominids:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...territorial-defense/
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AFRICA
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Floods in Dakar have exposed artifacts dating somewhere between
2000 and 7000 B.C.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19474531
Latest on efforts to recover Nigerian antiquities:
allafrica.com/stories/201208280522.html
Sufi shrines in Libya are the latest to be attacked:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19380083
A response thereto:
allafrica.com/stories/201208270986.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A New Kingdom era stele find from northern Cairo:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...-offerings-to-a.aspx
An 8th century B.C./B.C.E inscription from Ziyarettepe possibly is evidence
of a hitherto
unknown language:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mysterious-tab...pageID=238&nID=28636
Some pre-pottery Neolithic B figures from Tell Motza:
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History...otza_29-Aug-2012.htm
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/248628
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/stone-...tside-jerusalem.html
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/1...found-in-israel?lite
www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57505517/95...nes-found-in-israel/
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/i...age-figures-17105083
news.discovery.com/history/two-stone-age-statuettes-120830.html
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...raelarchaeology.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57417
phys.org/news/2012-08-israeli-archeologists-rare-stone-age.html
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5604
Interesting study of obsidian tools from Tell Mozan:
www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/syrian-obsidian-d...ern-studies-1.205697
phys.org/news/2012-09-obsidian-discovery...year-old-syrian.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120904135334.htm
Plenty of coverage of the find of a First Temple era water reservoir in
Jerusalem:
news.yahoo.com/first-temple-era-reservoi...salem-123218560.html
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5725
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4278061,00.html
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=284115
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=284049
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159696
www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-ar...lem.premium-1.463226
… some video of the site (Hebrew commentary):
Highway construction near Beersheba revealed the remains of a 1500 years
b.p.
Jewish town:
www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-une...-in-southern-israel/
www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/1500-ye...scovered/2012/09/03/
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159539
www.haaretz.com/byzantine-era-ritual-bat...e-6.premium-1.462429
The Ophel Excavation website:
www.keytodavidscity.com/
… and a video of this year’s work:
!
Latest theory on the death of Tutankhamun:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528812....h-of-monotheism.html
Plans to celebrate the centennial of the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti:
english.ahram.org.eg/News/51403.aspx
cf:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...bust-of-Neferti.aspx
Feature on the Nahal Me'arot/Wadi el-Mughara caves, which are now a UNESCO
World Heritage Site:
www.haaretz.com/news/features/in-the-hil...iew.premium-1.460491
… while Yemen is seeking the status for Zabid:
al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/featur...012/08/29/feature-03
The Western Wall has passed its safety check:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5693
Feature on debt cancellation in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt:
www.globalresearch.ca/debt-cancellation-...rom-3000-to-1000-bc/
An attempted coin-smuggling attempt thwarted in Alexandria:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/52...tempts-of-authe.aspx
… and a similar situation in Abu Dhabi:
www.7daysindubai.com/Abu-Dhabi-police-ar...98-detail/story.html
More on damage to antiquities in Aleppo:
www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/us-sy...dUSBRE87R0US20120828
… and concerns at Tell el Fakhariya:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16191710,00.html
They’re apparently using the playing-card-strategy to educate the military
again:
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16195430,00.html
Vague item on the theft of bones from an archaeological site at Beit
Shemesh:
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274050,00.html
Overviewish thing on Turkey’s attempts at repatriation of artifacts:
www.voanews.com/content/turkey-art-theft/1499524.html
More on Israel returning some purloined coffin lids to Egypt:
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-return-s...ptian-coffin-covers/
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4274800,00.html
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/51...in-lid-to-Egypt.aspx
www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/30/3105...coffin-lids-to-egypt
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of an ancient ‘pub’ near Stracathro Fort:
www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/ale-...b-together-1-2514282
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/344711
… coverage with a different spin:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19392180
Interesting ‘cold case’ from Vindolanda (not sure if we’ve mentioned this
before or not):
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9898645.R...fort_murder_mystery/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...d-hands-tied-up.html
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...verseas-8084214.html
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/28/roma...-wall_n_1835717.html
A Roman bath and other structures from an excavation near Cockermouth:
www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/papcas...referrerPath=1242444
Very interesting Etruscan ‘pyramids’ from Orvieto:
www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/NH-professor-s.../l7lins/-/index.html
A 6th century B.C. incense thing in the shape of a bull’s head from near
Sozopol:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/08/31/archaeology-in...f-bulgarias-sozopol/
Apollonia’s ancient necropolis appears to have been found as well:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/09/03/archaeology-ol...n-bulgarias-sozopol/
They’ve excavated a stadium at Aydin:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-stadi...=29283&NewsCatID=375
Some headless statuary from Aphrodisias:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/headless-statu...=29194&NewsCatID=375
Roman bones found during renovations at the Ankara Opera House:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bones-in-opera...=29021&NewsCatID=375
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bones-skull-re...=28924&NewsCatID=375
Plans to dig at the Roman sites of Adana:
www.turizmtatilseyahat.com/en/archeologi...begin-adana-4857.htm
Theater masks from Ilisu:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/theater-masks-...=28638&NewsCatID=375
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...ater-masks-in-turkey
Arguing over the site of the battle of Alesia:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19167600
Feature on the Roman Gask project:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...s-forgotten-frontier
Nice feature on the use of GPR (etc.) to map the site of Interamna Lirenas:
phys.org/news/2012-09-images-lost-roman-town.html
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...led-street-by-street
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/...archers-8105249.html
Feature on the dig at the Roman fort at ‘Ayn Gharandal:
asorblog.org/?p=2992&utm_source=rss&utm_...chaeological-project
Nice video feature on colorizing Roman statues:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/19442872
The Pope wants to set up a Latin academy:
rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/...nto-a-dead-language/
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...irth-in-schools.html
Philip Freeman on attack ads in Pompeii:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/...i-style/?ref=opinion
Can’t remember if we’ve mentioned this poem about Nero and Poppaea:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...200-years-death.html
Plans to dig more at the Roman forum at Plovdiv:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/08/27/archaeology-pl...after-several-finds/
A Great Lives BBC thing on Juvenal:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m5jtk
The Penn Museum has made an arrangement regarding some Troy jewellery
being exchanged for some objects associated with Midas:
phys.org/news/2012-09-penn-museum-turkey-troy-gold.html
www.philly.com/philly/news/local/2012090...items_to_Turkey.html
www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...5e3f88849_story.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-penn-museum-turkey-troy-gold.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57532#.UEx8Lq757Ak
The Colosseum is apparently okay, despite the chunks falling off of it:
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/09/.../UPI-50201347033840/
… but they’re going to put in a safety ‘buffer zone’:
www.wantedinrome.com/news/2001556/safety...romes-colosseum.html
… and repairs will begin in December:
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/...frf7k6-1226439996728
Feature on plans to unroll/conserve a lead curse tablet:
www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/201.../1/roman_scroll.aspx
Evidence of the Cimmerians:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...und-in-anatolian-dig
Latest on plans for hockey in the Pula amphitheatre:
austrianindependent.com/news/Sports/2012...s_become_gladiators_
sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/be...-141229032--nhl.html
Folks were marking Caligula’s bimillennial birthday:
tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/09/this-week-...aligulas-2000th.html
Hollywood is cooling to using Roman numerals:
www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/23/...ce_and_for_all_.html
A followup feature on that tattooed siberian ‘princess’:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198222...rs-ago-revealed.html
A Roman wedding of sorts is being held at Nicopolis ad Istrum:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n286422
OpEd on the future of ancient Greek:
blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2012/08/31/the-future-of-ancient-greek/
In case you’re wondering how far Ryan Hall runs while listening to the
Odyssey:
www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/28/...to_the_odyssey_.html
More on the Thermae Romae movie:
filmsandbooks.com/2012/09/05/thermae-rom...-from-rome-to-japan/
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns...0903,0,5686135.story
Winter/Spring 2012 APA newsletter:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...ing_2012_newsletter/
… and the latest issue of Amphora:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...f_amphora_available/
Review of A. Everitt, *Rise of Rome*:
www.courier-journal.com/article/20120908...ok-review-Rise-Rome-
More on that Roman shipwreck in Antibes:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57485
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/04/r...france?newsfeed=true
www.maritime-executive.com/article/ancie...ure-parking-lot-site
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Another 5000 years b.p. figurine from Orkney:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-eas...ey-shetland-19397929
Archaeologists have found evidence of the church where Richard III
was buried (and an associated garden):
news.discovery.com/history/medieval-church-king-120905.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-archaeology-team-huge-king-richard.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uol-ata090512.php
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uol-au090712.php
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9522570/Rich...sts-find-church.html
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/31/churc...beneath-parking-lot/
… and they’re thinking of extending the dig:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19516669
Excavating an Iron Age hill fort at Ham Hill:
phys.org/news/2012-08-iron-age-hillfort-reveals-secrets.html
A pile of Saxon graves from the Ipswich waterfront:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19507960
Evidence of a settlement with a monastery found in Co Donegal:
www.independent.ie/national-news/find-hi...nastery-3217257.html
Not sure we’ve mentioned this Viking port find yet:
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/08/21/Dive...577239/?spt=hs&or=sn
Suggestion the ‘herders, not farmers’ built Stonehenge:
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3439...%2C_built_Stonehenge
Searching for evidence of a henge in west London:
www.bdpost.co.uk/news/heritage/dagenham_...est_london_1_1499964
A family found a medieval well under their house:
www.npr.org/2012/08/31/160370088/family-...heir-house?sc=17&f=3
The Vasa is deteriorating:
phys.org/news/2012-08-deterioration-famo...sh-warship-vasa.html
The BM is studying trees used for various purposes:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18323677
Feature on the Battle of Borodino:
www.npr.org/2012/09/02/160453589/in-russ...le-a-day-to-remember
Feature on Sharon DeWitte’s work with skeletal remains of folk who
died from the Black Death:
phys.org/news/2012-09-decoding-black-death.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120905134826.htm
An Anglo-Saxon brooch is going on display at Oxfordshire Museum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19488731
An exhibition of medieval Macedonian manuscripts is causing a kerfuffle:
www.medievalhistories.com/medieval-macedonia/
The People of Medieval Scotland project is putting a pile of documents
online:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19475461
Vandals destroyed a 16th century polychrome Pieta in a church in
Chateauroux:
www.christianophobie.fr/breves/vandalism...-chateauroux(French)
The Solovetsky monastery has been restored:
french.ruvr.ru/2012_08_23/monastere-rest...-Patriarche-Cyrille/
(French)
… as has the Basilica of St Augustine of Hippo:
www.riposte-catholique.fr/osservatore-va...#.UEyOh6757Al(ditto)
They’ve conserved St Dwynwen’s church:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-19438216
A study of human impact on the Black Sea:
phys.org/news/2012-09-human-impact-felt-black-sea.html
More on that massive sacrifice/burial/bog site in Denmark:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/warri...ark.html?ref=science
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Neolithic boat from Korea:
www.fas.harvard.edu/~ekp/news/20120827-Ulchin-Boat.html
Evidence of a Bronze Age settlement from northern China:
m.upi.com/story/UPI-58041346449582/
Four 2000 years b.p. Tibetan tombs:
www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2012...content_26320071.htm
A possible pre-Cook shipwreck in Kaipara Harbour?:
www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/dating-o...edated-cook/1523196/
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/nort...-shipwreck-confirmed
A rescue dig at a construction site at Barangaroo is revealing plenty:
www.smh.com.au/nsw/barangaroo-holds-the-...-20120901-257cn.html
Some Gandara artifacts seized a while ago are a mix of genuine and fake:
dawn.com/2012/09/04/all-seized-artefacts-not-fake-report/
Artifact thieves in Sri Lanka face harsher punishments:
www.dailynews.lk/2012/08/28/news14.asp
More on the return of artifacts and revival of the Kabul Museum:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57617#.UEyRZ6757Ak
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journ...ms-returned-to-kabul
www.chron.com/news/article/Afghan-museum...rtifacts-3841200.php
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists are working at Wind Cave Buffalo Jump:
newsok.com/archaeologists-study-wind-cav.../article/feed/431046
… not quite sure if this is the same:
www.oudaily.com/news/2012/aug/30/bisonkillsite/
Finding evidence of the Sheshatshiu people:
www.thelabradorian.ca/News/2012-08-28/ar...eshatshiu-unveiled/1
Cultural resource management in Ohio:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...s-ohios-history.html
On leadership in Ohio Hopewell societies:
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/09/a-n...ights-on-nature.html
Trying to dig a 500 years b.p. Alaskan site before the sea takes it away:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19521091
They’ve completed a survery of the Charleston Harbor Civil War Battle site:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823175352.htm
Interesting ‘voter suppression’ story associated with Frederick Douglass:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/...ession-then-and-now/
They’re going to be poking around the Queen Anne’s Revenge again:
www.sacbee.com/2012/09/06/4793710/divers...ine-queen-annes.html
Hurricane Isaac revealed a possible Civil War shipwreck in Alabama:
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious...civil-154038655.html
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article...hipwreck-3837837.php
Conserving the Capitol dome:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/fate-...ome.html?ref=opinion
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Water treatment plant construction in Atontonilco de Tula has revealed
Pleistocene remains,
some of which may be human:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57503
phys.org/news/2012-08-mexico-wastewater-uncovers-ice-age.html
A possible jaguar sculpture from Izapa:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57365#.UEyZJ6757Ak
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-a...onolitico-en-chiapas
Overviewish thing on recent finds in Mexico City:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/world/america...-in-the-present.html
Feature on the Mayan theatre at Plan de Ayutla:
news.discovery.com/history/mayan-theater-120905.html
Mayan murals in a Guatemalan family’s kitchen:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09...ience-mayan/(photos)
Latest on the dig of that pre-Incan Sican tomb at Chotuna-Chornancap:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09...-water-cult-science/
Another feature on the collapse of the Maya:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08...-and-climate-change/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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ArchaeoNews podcast (08/29)
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-212
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
The Indo-European homeland is apparently in Turkey:
phys.org/news/2012-08-indo-european-languages-anatolia.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/24/indo_eu...uages_origin_turkey/
www.chicagotribune.com/news/plus/chi-nsc...logy,0,3935656.story
Another feature on Robert Scott’s shipwreck:
www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120830-NEWS-208300406
… and another one on Lidar:
www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
Robert Ballard’s latest expedition is getting general coverage (finds from
assorted periods):
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/08/28/hell...s-found-near-cyprus/
www.cyprus-mail.com/features/whale-bones...-expedition/20120826
www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16206778,00.html...2098-html-newsletter
Funding to prevent corrosion of metal artifacts:
phys.org/news/2012-08-corrosion-metal-artifacts.html
Blue moon info:
phys.org/news/2012-08-blue-moon.html
Galileo didn’t invent the thermometer that bears his name, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-09-galileo-didnt-thermometer.html
An archaeology dog:
www.news.com.au/national/this-dog-has-a-...do4ckr-1226463394595
Radio program on assorted technologies being used in assorted ways by
assorted historians:
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/fu...ly-old-stuff/4227728
Feature on Edward Lear’s artwork (and other nonsense, of course):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19409112
Interesting feature on beliefs about music in recent western history:
phys.org/news/2012-09-piano-plague-d-minor.html
The odyssey of a stolen Cranach:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/m...church-a-854266.html
abcnews.go.com/International/odyssey-sto...ng/story?id=17184261
Another computer analysis of connections between great pieces of literature:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827073906.htm
… and the author of that Iliad/Beowulf one has a piece in the NYT which
explains
things much more clearly than the journalists did:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunda...tworks-of-myths.html
A photo of Emily Dickenson has been found (maybe):
news.discovery.com/history/rare-photo-of....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
On art fraud via the internet:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/arts/design/g...ings-more-fraud.html
A major Frank Lloyd Wright archive is moving to New York:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/04/art.../20120904MUSEUM.html
The Royal Society is trying to remain relevant:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/royal...nce.html?ref=science
Feature on the worst art restorations of all time:
io9.com/5938377/the-worst-art-restoration-mistakes-of-all-time
… in case you missed the story that spawned it:
news.discovery.com/human/church-painting...toration-120826.html
I think we had this fungus/Stradivarius story a while ago:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120908081611.htm
Review of Bucholz and Ward, *London*:
www.tnr.com/book/review/london-social-cu...history-bucholz-ward
Review of Katherine Frank, *Crusoe*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/...frank.html?ref=books
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Russia’s ‘golden ring’:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/travel/dri...ved-golden-ring.html
Tzipori:
www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=283193
Kidron Valley:
www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=282747
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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There are three issues of the eSylum to catch up on (the last appearing
later today, of course):
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n36.html
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n37.html
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n38.html
Cambridgeshire Museum has purchased the Kimbolton hoard:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-19341681
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Porcelain:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/arts/04iht-melvin04.html?ref=arts
Carlo Scarpa:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/arts/27iht-design27.html?ref=arts
African Cosmos:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/arts/design/a...an-art.html?ref=arts
Electric Currents:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/arts/design/e...rn-art.html?ref=arts
Hudson River School:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/nyregion/foll...states.html?ref=arts
Athenian Potters and Painters:
flathatnews.com/2012/09/03/a-classical-p...-of-the-time-period/
History of New York in 50 Objects:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/n...k-in-50-objects.html
?
Olympia: Myth-Cult-Games:
www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57427#.UEyi7a757Al
Raphael’s ‘Head of an Apostle’ is coming to auction:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/ra...sothebys/?ref=design
We mentioned that Egyptian statue ‘discovered’ in a Northampton museum and
their intention (maybe) to sell it … might cause problems though:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19521785
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Taming of the Shrew:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/arts/05iht-lon05.html?ref=arts
4x4 Baroque Festival:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/arts/music/ba...church.html?ref=arts
Art of Fuge:
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/arts/music/ta...-rouge.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Yonah Frenkel:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/248914
Alexander Saxton:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/alexand...rian-dies-at-93.html
Daryl Hine:
evanston.patch.com/articles/evanston-poet-daryl-hine-dies-at-76
Wesley Hall:
www.legacy.com/obituaries/starnewsonline...h-hall&pid=159534303
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
A Landreau, Patrick Swan, George Somsel, Mata Kimasitayo,
Joanne Conman, Bob Heuman, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, A.K. Eyma,
Geoffrey Fishburn, Richard Pettigrew, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Neanderthal’s used feathers as decoration:
phys.org/news/2012-09-evidence-neanderthals-feathers-adorn.html
news.discovery.com/history/neanderthal-feathers-120919.html
blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/...feathery-neandertal/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19623929
www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112696537...s-or-jewelry-091912/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
On Neanderthals at Gibraltar:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...erthals-last-refuge/
… and more on the theme park mentioned in the article:
www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/09/15/161203...d-park-for-gibraltar
Weapons possibly associated with homo heidelbergensis found in Germany:
phys.org/news/2012-09-skilled-hunters-years.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917085535.htm
Evidence from Tanzania that humans were hunting some 2 millions years b.p.:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/23/h...ution-2million-years
A genetic mutation allowed humans to become vegetarian and migrate
out of Africa (I don’t quite follow this one):
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/wfbm-gmm091912.php
www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12261/2012...on-allowed-human.htm
Another study connects the out-of-Africa theory to climate change:
phys.org/news/2012-09-scientists-genetic...tructions-track.html
www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161278993/what-dr...globe-climate-change
Christopher Stringer on the out-of-Africa hypothesis:
www.edge.org/conversation/rethinking-out-of-africa
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AFRICA
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On the DNA front, Africa’s Khoe-San people were the first to split from
other humans (not sure if this is the same story as the one I couldn’t
understand
in the previous category):
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120920141139.htm
uk.news.yahoo.com/africas-khoe-san-were-...umans-195425010.html
sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/09/20/...48161847_268572.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The big news this week was the publication of a papyrus fragment which
purports to mention Jesus’ wife … we’ll first give the ‘offical’ press
stuff from
Harvard:
www.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/articles...an-gospel-from-egypt
harvardmagazine.com/2012/09/new-gospel
www.hds.harvard.edu/sites/hds.harvard.ed...oThem_draft_0917.pdf (draft
paper)
www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/res...ospel-of-jesuss-wife
… then a related and lengthy piece from Smithsonian Magazine:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeolo...Jesus-170177076.html
… then a taste of the rest of the coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-...s-to-jesus-wife.html
www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/09/18/harv...cra30wfQK/story.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-scholar-jesus-wife-ancient-script.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19645273
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205235...ancient-papyrus.html
www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Coptic+note+s...d/7284889/story.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49075679/ns/technol...-the_new_york_times/
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doubts-over-...s-3876763.php#page-1
www.telegram.com/article/20120920/NEWS/109209846/1052
news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-an....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
phys.org/news/2012-09-jesusancient-papyr...stians-believed.html
… and by the end of the week, skepticism was growing:
phys.org/news/2012-09-harvard-jesus-wife...rus-scrutinized.html
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/21/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207038...us-married-fake.html
www.registerguard.com/web/news/28775011-...arvard-king.html.csp
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/18/1...us-and-his-wife?lite
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/...tion-Harvard-finding
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49080173/ns/technol...and_science-science/
… and Harvard appears to be having second thoughts:
phys.org/news/2012-09-harvard-publishing-jesus-wife.html
… my thoughts (and links to other bloggers’ opinions) can be found here:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/22/the-gospe...ssicist-perspective/
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary project is complete (for now):
news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/09/17/chi...influential-language
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc-dco091812.php
phys.org/news/2012-09-chicago-demotic-di...fines-knowledge.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/science/new-d...cient-egyptians.html
Feature on Aramaic texts from Qumran:
asorblog.org/?p=3199
This year’s finds at Hala Sultan Tekke:
www.fischerarchaeology.se/?page_id=1295
Egypt banned religious activities at archaeological sites:
allafrica.com/stories/201209210613.html
… and reopened the Serapeum at Saqqara to tourists:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/53...ypts-Saqqara-Ne.aspx
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/21/239414.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-egypt-reopens-hist...erapeum-saqqara.html
travel.iafrica.com/bulletinboard/817616.html
More on that mummy at Cambridge which was ‘restored’ with Lego:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-19635413
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A major Roman mosaic find from Antiochia ad Cragum:
newsroom.unl.edu/announce/artsatunl/1473/8558
www.livescience.com/23250-enormous-roman...nd-farmer-field.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html
(video)
www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/18/enorm...-under-farmer-field/
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uon-cum091312.php
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49064354/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918083903.htm
news.discovery.com/history/roman-mosaic-field-120918.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/roman_empire_mosaic_turkey/
… while a Hellenistic mosaic find from southern Italy didn’t get quite as
much
coverage:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english...n-Italy_7504984.html
Reiterating that the ‘Tophet’ in Carthage was not a site of child sacrifice:
www.livescience.com/23298-carthage-grave...child-sacrifice.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-baby-graveyard-no...tists-145910745.html
cf:
bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/an...fant-sacrifice-site/
Some headless Roman statues from Turkey (I think we mentioned these):
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/headle...urkey_n_1893901.html
Phrygian and Lydian inscriptions from northwest Turkey:
www.news.leiden.edu/news-2012/linguists-from-leiden-d
ecipher-phrygian-and-lydian-inscriptions.html
A Roman sarcophagus from a Dorset garden:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...us-worth-50-000.html
Possible Roman remains at a hospital site in Henley:
www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1163800
What Cory Brennan is up to:
news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2012-08-28....012-09-19.1011849344
A Chalkidian helmet is coming to auction:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/21/rare-ch...enbaugh-ancient-art/
A third-century temple find at Peperikon:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/09/21/archaeology-th...ulgarias-perperikon/
Vague item with lots of problems about a ‘pan’ found near Sozopol:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=143316
Bulgaria is trying to get heritage status for the Valley of the Thracian
Kings:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-09-22&article=40079
A cross-dressing Alexander?:
www.historytoday.com/tony-spawforth/alex...sing-conqueror-world
Pompeii in pop culture:
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/...-poular-culture.html
Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon marbles issue:
www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_w..._1_19/09/2012_462088
More on Etruscan pyramids:
www.unionleader.com/article/20120917/NEW...709179956&source=RSS
news.discovery.com/history/etruscan-pyramids-120918.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49088030/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-discovered-in-italy
More on the ‘crisis’ and Greek antiquities:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/19/greek-c...-victim-antiquities/
More on that Caesar-associated fort in Germany:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/roman-...rmany_n_1885271.html
www.uni-mainz.de/presse/15699_ENG_HTML.php
Review(ish) of Persian Fire and Rubicon:
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/1...ire-and-rubicon.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of paleolithic ‘recycling’ from Spain:
phys.org/news/2012-09-humans-recycling-years.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/f-sf-hwa092012.php
Plenty of coverage of evidence of neolithic dentistry done on a 6500 years
b.p.
tooth from Slovenia:
www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/need-...-20120919-267e0.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-tooth-evidence-early-human.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/plos-atm091712.php
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0044904
www.slashgear.com/researchers-discover-s...al-filling-20248677/
Did the English inspire the Vikings to build cities?:
sciencenordic.com/english-inspired-vikings-build-cities
The restored Sheldon Tapestry Map may include the first depiction of the
Rollright Stones:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ancient...ed+on+tapestry/27052
Digging for evidence of the Battle of Bannockburn:
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/ar...-of-Bannockburn.html
Funding to repair Worcester’s medieval walls:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-19676984
Trying to fund a survey of a Northampton Roses battlefield:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19639324
Low water levels in Poland are allowing archaeologists to recover a pile of
17th century things:
phys.org/news/2012-09-17th-century-treas...ecovered-poland.html
www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/21/17th-ce...R2TB?test=latestnews
worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/1...nd?lite?ocid=twitter
More on Richard III in the car park:
www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/richar...ester-car-park-bones
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting 1000 years b.p. burials from the Philippines:
phys.org/news/2012-09-unique-tombs-philippines.html
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/AP-Exclus...lippines-3879530.php
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49100660/ns/local_news-clarksburg_wv/
news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-unique-tombs...pines-101521679.html
… and already the tomb raiders have done damage:
phys.org/news/2012-09-tomb-raiders-phili...-archaeological.html
Traces of the Yamato kingdom found in Japan’s Niigato prefecture:
www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120916001832.htm
More on efforts to save a 14th century Viet Nam shipwreck from despoliation:
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/2...-from-shipwreck.html
… and on the shipwreck itself:
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/2...om-14th-century.html
www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2012/9/102742/
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a comet causing Younger-Dryas cooling from the Topper site?:
phys.org/news/2012-09-topper-site-middle-comet-controversy.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-clovis-age-impact-...y-key-protocols.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918111320.htm
Overviewish thing of the technology being used in the search for the remains
of the Franklin Expedition:
finance.yahoo.com/news/government-canada...nklin-181450964.html
Marking the 150th anniversary of Antietam:
news.discovery.com/history/bloody-antietam-photos-120917.html
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7421864n
… and some stereographs of same:
www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161167847/re-trac...vil-war-photographer
Feature on Algernon Squier:
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/15...-giant-stays-behind/
On the history of Rosh Hashana in the US:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=285180
This was a strange one … early in the week we read of petroglyphs in
southern Alberta being destroyed:
news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/18/alberta...l-power-washer-acid/
www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/18/aborigi...berta_n_1894129.html
… then it turned out there weren’t any petroglyphs there to begin with:
news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/21/vandali...-never-existed-rcmp/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Update on the Chan Chich dig (Belize) and plans for next year:
www.depts.ttu.edu/sociologyanthropologya...d_school_Belize2.php
A 1000 years b.p. tomb from Michoacan:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57844
latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/2...d-in-western-mexico/
The ‘Maiden Mummy’ who was sacrificed some 500 years b.p. apparently
had suffered from a lung infection:
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/maide...on-before-sacrifice/
Archaeologists entered the tomb of K’uk Bahlam I at Palenque for the
first time:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57759
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The September edition of video news from the Archaeology Channel:
www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
A pile of writing by a young Edmund Burke has been discovered:
phys.org/news/2012-09-historian-uncovers-rare-18th-century.html
A study showing the links between language families:
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-language-families.html
Applying DNA techniques to 19th century potatoes:
phys.org/news/2012-09-modern-dna-techniq...entury-potatoes.html
Pondering when bare breasts became taboo:
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics...s_become_taboo_.html
Feature on six child monarchs who changed history:
www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-chi...-who-changed-history
Artificial intelligence through the ages:
www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech/2012/0916/AI-through-the-ages
Survival guide to the Oxbridge interview:
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9550464/A-...ridge-interview.html
On ridding the planet of rinderpest:
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...ders-rinderpest.html
That ‘restored Jesus’ picture has become a ‘global phenomenon”:
www.timesnews.net/article/9051992/disfig...es-global-phenomenon
bigstory.ap.org/article/disfigured-spain...co-rides-global-fame
… and the restoratrix wants royalties:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19674622
For fans of Moby Dick:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/ne...-moby-dick/?ref=arts
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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The most striking monuments in the US:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/nation...erica_n_1891694.html
Venetian secrets:
elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2012/09/1...48063983_777589.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest art-related lawsuit:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/ju...it-against-gagosian/
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Another feature on using tomography on coin hoards:
www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp...icle&ArticleId=25760
A Jersey coin hoard has brought a pile of folks into the museum to see it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-19628169
A major Roman coin collection is being auctioned in Toronto:
www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1259495...at-toronto-coin-expo
Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n39.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n40.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Art of Hair:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57813
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57810
www.dallasartnews.com/2012/09/sketching-...tonio-museum-of-art/
www.artmediaagency.com/en/52485/aphrodit...tonio-museum-of-art/
Goya:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep...n-art-british-museum
www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41c886f4-fe57-11e1-8228-00144feabdc0.html
An Enlightened Empress:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/arts/18iht-sulcas18.html
Athenian Potters:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/16/virgini...t-athenian-artisans/
Kazakhstan:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19508683
Alexander the Great:
au.greekreporter.com/2012/08/20/alexande...res-comes-to-sydney/
Warriors of the Plains:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/52573/warriors...-the-british-museum/
Circus and the City:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/nyregion/circ...enter-galleries.html
In Death Lamented:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/m...olzer-sculpture.html
Bronze:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep...cademy?newsfeed=true
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/bronze/
Pompeii (Getty):
www.vcstar.com/news/2012/sep/19/ancient-...bject-of-getty-show/
Giacometti:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/s...ds-a-giacometti.html
The Louvre opened its Islamic art wing:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57794
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/arts/design/t...riches-to-light.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19662573
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-22/louvre-op...ection=entertainment
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/arts/design/t...-light.html?ref=arts
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/arts/22iht-melikian22.html
Hype for an exhibition on Pompeii and Herculaneum at the BM next year:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19659387
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57850
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-feat...-British-Museum.html
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mus...50cd65f97_story.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/20/b...hibits?newsfeed=true
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...pompeii-8160847.html
A new museum for Kabul:
www.france24.com/en/20120919-new-afghan-...ity-kabul-archeology
www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/09/18/world...istan-museum.html?hp
One of the versions of the Scream is going on display at MoMA:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/arts/design/m...moma.html?ref=design
The Smithsonian is trying to not appear so stodgy:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/s...-image.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Three Sisters:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/19iht-lon19.html?ref=arts
Job:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/theater/r...heater.html?ref=arts
Cyrano de Bergerac:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/theater/patri...ano.html?ref=theater
Not sure if we mentioned this feature on ‘The Rite of Spring’:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/music/ra...subtle.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Brian Dobson:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9558984/Brian-Dobson.html
John Brinkley:
www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2012/s...rofessor-ar-2216012/
www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesdispatch/...inkley&pid=159958004
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PODCASTS
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www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Neanderthal’s used feathers as decoration:
phys.org/news/2012-09-evidence-neanderthals-feathers-adorn.html
news.discovery.com/history/neanderthal-feathers-120919.html
blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/...feathery-neandertal/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19623929
www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112696537...s-or-jewelry-091912/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
On Neanderthals at Gibraltar:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...erthals-last-refuge/
… and more on the theme park mentioned in the article:
www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/09/15/161203...d-park-for-gibraltar
Weapons possibly associated with homo heidelbergensis found in Germany:
phys.org/news/2012-09-skilled-hunters-years.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917085535.htm
Evidence from Tanzania that humans were hunting some 2 millions years b.p.:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/23/h...ution-2million-years
A genetic mutation allowed humans to become vegetarian and migrate
out of Africa (I don’t quite follow this one):
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/wfbm-gmm091912.php
www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12261/2012...on-allowed-human.htm
Another study connects the out-of-Africa theory to climate change:
phys.org/news/2012-09-scientists-genetic...tructions-track.html
www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161278993/what-dr...globe-climate-change
Christopher Stringer on the out-of-Africa hypothesis:
www.edge.org/conversation/rethinking-out-of-africa
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AFRICA
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On the DNA front, Africa’s Khoe-San people were the first to split from
other humans (not sure if this is the same story as the one I couldn’t
understand
in the previous category):
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120920141139.htm
uk.news.yahoo.com/africas-khoe-san-were-...umans-195425010.html
sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/09/20/...48161847_268572.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The big news this week was the publication of a papyrus fragment which
purports to mention Jesus’ wife … we’ll first give the ‘offical’ press
stuff from
Harvard:
www.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/articles...an-gospel-from-egypt
harvardmagazine.com/2012/09/new-gospel
www.hds.harvard.edu/sites/hds.harvard.ed...oThem_draft_0917.pdf (draft
paper)
www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/res...ospel-of-jesuss-wife
… then a related and lengthy piece from Smithsonian Magazine:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeolo...Jesus-170177076.html
… then a taste of the rest of the coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-...s-to-jesus-wife.html
www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/09/18/harv...cra30wfQK/story.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-scholar-jesus-wife-ancient-script.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19645273
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205235...ancient-papyrus.html
www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Coptic+note+s...d/7284889/story.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49075679/ns/technol...-the_new_york_times/
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doubts-over-...s-3876763.php#page-1
www.telegram.com/article/20120920/NEWS/109209846/1052
news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-an....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
phys.org/news/2012-09-jesusancient-papyr...stians-believed.html
… and by the end of the week, skepticism was growing:
phys.org/news/2012-09-harvard-jesus-wife...rus-scrutinized.html
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/21/gospel-jesus-wife-forgery
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207038...us-married-fake.html
www.registerguard.com/web/news/28775011-...arvard-king.html.csp
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/18/1...us-and-his-wife?lite
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/...tion-Harvard-finding
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49080173/ns/technol...and_science-science/
… and Harvard appears to be having second thoughts:
phys.org/news/2012-09-harvard-publishing-jesus-wife.html
… my thoughts (and links to other bloggers’ opinions) can be found here:
rogueclassicism.com/2012/09/22/the-gospe...ssicist-perspective/
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary project is complete (for now):
news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/09/17/chi...influential-language
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc-dco091812.php
phys.org/news/2012-09-chicago-demotic-di...fines-knowledge.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/science/new-d...cient-egyptians.html
Feature on Aramaic texts from Qumran:
asorblog.org/?p=3199
This year’s finds at Hala Sultan Tekke:
www.fischerarchaeology.se/?page_id=1295
Egypt banned religious activities at archaeological sites:
allafrica.com/stories/201209210613.html
… and reopened the Serapeum at Saqqara to tourists:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/53...ypts-Saqqara-Ne.aspx
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/21/239414.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-egypt-reopens-hist...erapeum-saqqara.html
travel.iafrica.com/bulletinboard/817616.html
More on that mummy at Cambridge which was ‘restored’ with Lego:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-19635413
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A major Roman mosaic find from Antiochia ad Cragum:
newsroom.unl.edu/announce/artsatunl/1473/8558
www.livescience.com/23250-enormous-roman...nd-farmer-field.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html
(video)
www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/18/enorm...-under-farmer-field/
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uon-cum091312.php
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49064354/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918083903.htm
news.discovery.com/history/roman-mosaic-field-120918.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/roman_empire_mosaic_turkey/
… while a Hellenistic mosaic find from southern Italy didn’t get quite as
much
coverage:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english...n-Italy_7504984.html
Reiterating that the ‘Tophet’ in Carthage was not a site of child sacrifice:
www.livescience.com/23298-carthage-grave...child-sacrifice.html
news.yahoo.com/ancient-baby-graveyard-no...tists-145910745.html
cf:
bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/an...fant-sacrifice-site/
Some headless Roman statues from Turkey (I think we mentioned these):
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/headle...urkey_n_1893901.html
Phrygian and Lydian inscriptions from northwest Turkey:
www.news.leiden.edu/news-2012/linguists-from-leiden-d
ecipher-phrygian-and-lydian-inscriptions.html
A Roman sarcophagus from a Dorset garden:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...us-worth-50-000.html
Possible Roman remains at a hospital site in Henley:
www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1163800
What Cory Brennan is up to:
news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2012-08-28....012-09-19.1011849344
A Chalkidian helmet is coming to auction:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/21/rare-ch...enbaugh-ancient-art/
A third-century temple find at Peperikon:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/09/21/archaeology-th...ulgarias-perperikon/
Vague item with lots of problems about a ‘pan’ found near Sozopol:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=143316
Bulgaria is trying to get heritage status for the Valley of the Thracian
Kings:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-09-22&article=40079
A cross-dressing Alexander?:
www.historytoday.com/tony-spawforth/alex...sing-conqueror-world
Pompeii in pop culture:
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/...-poular-culture.html
Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon marbles issue:
www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_w..._1_19/09/2012_462088
More on Etruscan pyramids:
www.unionleader.com/article/20120917/NEW...709179956&source=RSS
news.discovery.com/history/etruscan-pyramids-120918.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49088030/ns/technol...and_science-science/
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-discovered-in-italy
More on the ‘crisis’ and Greek antiquities:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/19/greek-c...-victim-antiquities/
More on that Caesar-associated fort in Germany:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/roman-...rmany_n_1885271.html
www.uni-mainz.de/presse/15699_ENG_HTML.php
Review(ish) of Persian Fire and Rubicon:
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/1...ire-and-rubicon.html
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of paleolithic ‘recycling’ from Spain:
phys.org/news/2012-09-humans-recycling-years.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/f-sf-hwa092012.php
Plenty of coverage of evidence of neolithic dentistry done on a 6500 years
b.p.
tooth from Slovenia:
www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/need-...-20120919-267e0.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-tooth-evidence-early-human.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/plos-atm091712.php
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0044904
www.slashgear.com/researchers-discover-s...al-filling-20248677/
Did the English inspire the Vikings to build cities?:
sciencenordic.com/english-inspired-vikings-build-cities
The restored Sheldon Tapestry Map may include the first depiction of the
Rollright Stones:
www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ancient...ed+on+tapestry/27052
Digging for evidence of the Battle of Bannockburn:
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/ar...-of-Bannockburn.html
Funding to repair Worcester’s medieval walls:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-19676984
Trying to fund a survey of a Northampton Roses battlefield:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19639324
Low water levels in Poland are allowing archaeologists to recover a pile of
17th century things:
phys.org/news/2012-09-17th-century-treas...ecovered-poland.html
www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/21/17th-ce...R2TB?test=latestnews
worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/1...nd?lite?ocid=twitter
More on Richard III in the car park:
www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/richar...ester-car-park-bones
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting 1000 years b.p. burials from the Philippines:
phys.org/news/2012-09-unique-tombs-philippines.html
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/AP-Exclus...lippines-3879530.php
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49100660/ns/local_news-clarksburg_wv/
news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-unique-tombs...pines-101521679.html
… and already the tomb raiders have done damage:
phys.org/news/2012-09-tomb-raiders-phili...-archaeological.html
Traces of the Yamato kingdom found in Japan’s Niigato prefecture:
www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120916001832.htm
More on efforts to save a 14th century Viet Nam shipwreck from despoliation:
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/2...-from-shipwreck.html
… and on the shipwreck itself:
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/2...om-14th-century.html
www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2012/9/102742/
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a comet causing Younger-Dryas cooling from the Topper site?:
phys.org/news/2012-09-topper-site-middle-comet-controversy.html
phys.org/news/2012-09-clovis-age-impact-...y-key-protocols.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918111320.htm
Overviewish thing of the technology being used in the search for the remains
of the Franklin Expedition:
finance.yahoo.com/news/government-canada...nklin-181450964.html
Marking the 150th anniversary of Antietam:
news.discovery.com/history/bloody-antietam-photos-120917.html
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7421864n
… and some stereographs of same:
www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161167847/re-trac...vil-war-photographer
Feature on Algernon Squier:
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/15...-giant-stays-behind/
On the history of Rosh Hashana in the US:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=285180
This was a strange one … early in the week we read of petroglyphs in
southern Alberta being destroyed:
news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/18/alberta...l-power-washer-acid/
www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/18/aborigi...berta_n_1894129.html
… then it turned out there weren’t any petroglyphs there to begin with:
news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/21/vandali...-never-existed-rcmp/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Update on the Chan Chich dig (Belize) and plans for next year:
www.depts.ttu.edu/sociologyanthropologya...d_school_Belize2.php
A 1000 years b.p. tomb from Michoacan:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57844
latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/2...d-in-western-mexico/
The ‘Maiden Mummy’ who was sacrificed some 500 years b.p. apparently
had suffered from a lung infection:
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/maide...on-before-sacrifice/
Archaeologists entered the tomb of K’uk Bahlam I at Palenque for the
first time:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57759
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The September edition of video news from the Archaeology Channel:
www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
A pile of writing by a young Edmund Burke has been discovered:
phys.org/news/2012-09-historian-uncovers-rare-18th-century.html
A study showing the links between language families:
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-language-families.html
Applying DNA techniques to 19th century potatoes:
phys.org/news/2012-09-modern-dna-techniq...entury-potatoes.html
Pondering when bare breasts became taboo:
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics...s_become_taboo_.html
Feature on six child monarchs who changed history:
www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-chi...-who-changed-history
Artificial intelligence through the ages:
www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech/2012/0916/AI-through-the-ages
Survival guide to the Oxbridge interview:
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9550464/A-...ridge-interview.html
On ridding the planet of rinderpest:
www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...ders-rinderpest.html
That ‘restored Jesus’ picture has become a ‘global phenomenon”:
www.timesnews.net/article/9051992/disfig...es-global-phenomenon
bigstory.ap.org/article/disfigured-spain...co-rides-global-fame
… and the restoratrix wants royalties:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19674622
For fans of Moby Dick:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/ne...-moby-dick/?ref=arts
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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The most striking monuments in the US:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/nation...erica_n_1891694.html
Venetian secrets:
elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2012/09/1...48063983_777589.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest art-related lawsuit:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/ju...it-against-gagosian/
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Another feature on using tomography on coin hoards:
www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp...icle&ArticleId=25760
A Jersey coin hoard has brought a pile of folks into the museum to see it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-19628169
A major Roman coin collection is being auctioned in Toronto:
www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1259495...at-toronto-coin-expo
Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n39.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n40.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Art of Hair:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57813
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57810
www.dallasartnews.com/2012/09/sketching-...tonio-museum-of-art/
www.artmediaagency.com/en/52485/aphrodit...tonio-museum-of-art/
Goya:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep...n-art-british-museum
www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41c886f4-fe57-11e1-8228-00144feabdc0.html
An Enlightened Empress:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/arts/18iht-sulcas18.html
Athenian Potters:
usa.greekreporter.com/2012/09/16/virgini...t-athenian-artisans/
Kazakhstan:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19508683
Alexander the Great:
au.greekreporter.com/2012/08/20/alexande...res-comes-to-sydney/
Warriors of the Plains:
www.artmediaagency.com/en/52573/warriors...-the-british-museum/
Circus and the City:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/nyregion/circ...enter-galleries.html
In Death Lamented:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/m...olzer-sculpture.html
Bronze:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep...cademy?newsfeed=true
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/bronze/
Pompeii (Getty):
www.vcstar.com/news/2012/sep/19/ancient-...bject-of-getty-show/
Giacometti:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/s...ds-a-giacometti.html
The Louvre opened its Islamic art wing:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57794
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/arts/design/t...riches-to-light.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19662573
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-22/louvre-op...ection=entertainment
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/arts/design/t...-light.html?ref=arts
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/arts/22iht-melikian22.html
Hype for an exhibition on Pompeii and Herculaneum at the BM next year:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19659387
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57850
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-feat...-British-Museum.html
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mus...50cd65f97_story.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/20/b...hibits?newsfeed=true
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...pompeii-8160847.html
A new museum for Kabul:
www.france24.com/en/20120919-new-afghan-...ity-kabul-archeology
www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/09/18/world...istan-museum.html?hp
One of the versions of the Scream is going on display at MoMA:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/arts/design/m...moma.html?ref=design
The Smithsonian is trying to not appear so stodgy:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/arts/design/s...-image.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Three Sisters:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/19iht-lon19.html?ref=arts
Job:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/theater/r...heater.html?ref=arts
Cyrano de Bergerac:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/theater/patri...ano.html?ref=theater
Not sure if we mentioned this feature on ‘The Rite of Spring’:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/music/ra...subtle.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Brian Dobson:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9558984/Brian-Dobson.html
John Brinkley:
www2.timesdispatch.com/lifestyles/2012/s...rofessor-ar-2216012/
www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesdispatch/...inkley&pid=159958004
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
David J. Critchley, Tom Hickcox, Bob Heuman, Joanne Conman,
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for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
... a bit of a slow week ...
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A major Neanderthal site in Spain:
elpais.com/elpais/2012/09/23/inenglish/1348403145_969956.html
(in English)
And now we’re back to humans and neanderthals interbreeding:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-research-finds.html
Europeans didn’t get their pale skin from Neanderthals, however
(apparently):
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-eur...om-neanderthals.html
Pondering whether Neanderthals were human:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/are-neanderthals-human.html
An academic minute on the Australopithecine diet:
wamc.org/post/dr-darryl-de-ruiter-texas-...stralopithecine-diet
Marking the centenary of Piltdown Man:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19685013
More on Neanderthals and feathers:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...nderthal-brainpower/
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...ocked-dark-feathers/
More on early humans hunting meat earlier than previously thought:
phys.org/news/2012-09-anthropologist-dat...ns-meat-million.html
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AFRICA
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More on Madagascar’s ‘founding mothers’:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/20-madagas...fugees-distant-lands
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Luxury Neolithic (and other era) objects from Tzipori:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=285944
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.timesofisrael.com/beads-etched-ostri...-in-northern-israel/
www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-tzipori...age.premium-1.466430
www.globaltimes.cn/content/734902.shtml
A very interesting demotic papyrus has been ‘deciphered’ and gives
clues about fiction in ancient Egypt:
www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/25/cult-...ncient-egypt-priest/
A Babylonian temple and other artifacts from a site in Southern Iraq:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/25/240117.html
Evidence of another synagogue in Lycia:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists...=30857&NewsCatID=375
A major project to map all of Israel’s sites west of the Jordan is coming
to an end:
www.haaretz.com/news/national/mapping-is...ime.premium-1.467472
An Academic Minute on that synagogue find at Huqoq:
www.wamc.org/post/dr-jodi-magness-univer...-synagogue-unearthed
Not sure why this radiocarbon dating project seems to have a ‘Biblical
timeline’ focus:
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept12/DendroNSF.html
A pile of articles about Qumran:
asorblog.org/?p=3258&utm_source=rss&utm_...nth-comes-to-a-close
Interesting posts at the Temple Mount Sifting Project blog:
templemount.wordpress.com/
The damage to Aleppo’s cultural features has become shocking:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east...857f6a7bd_story.html
www.france24.com/en/20120925-syrias-arch...itage-falls-prey-war
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2...tory_25-9-2012_pg4_7
Apparently there is no evidence implicating Hosni Mubarek in the transfer of
antiquities as gifts (or whatever):
www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_c...w&id=568121&Itemid=1
Interesting story of a High Holy Day prayer book:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5819
… and Talmuds in the attic:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5890
Pondering prostitutes in early Jewish and Christian literature:
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holi...ets.premium-1.466746
Israel plans to restore the Jordan river:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-...d-river-6280293.html
More coverage of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/manus...ican/article4573996/
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/p...5a255a9258_blog.html
www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-re...dUSBRE88R0NT20120928
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Vatican-news...sus-Wife-3899082.php
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57988
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120927..._check=1&sf6308488=1
More on Egypt reopening some tombs to tourists:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afric...fter-renovation.html
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/mor...serapeum-of-saqqara/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Hellenistic coin hoard from Bulgaria:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-09-29&article=40141
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=143614
Latest finds from Tai Cochion/Anglesey:
www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/11632...ind-on-anglesey.aspx
Possible Roman/prehistoric site from Tezze di Arzigano
Analysis of a Roman die in a Gloucester Museum suggests it is
made of elephant ivory:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19698105
They’re going to restore Telmessos’ ancient theatre:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-theate...sCatID=375&nID=30671
In Our Time was looking at the Druids:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqq94
One of those ‘why Stoicism matters’ pieces:
www.forbes.com/sites/kareanderson/2012/0...icism-matters-today/
Latest CSA newsletter:
csanet.org/newsletter/#fall12
Turkey is trying to repatriate the bits of the Mausoleum from the BM:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bodrum-seeks-r...=30854&NewsCatID=375
More on that mosaic find at Antiochia ad Cragum:
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/article_d80e...4a-0019bb30f31a.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/work-...key.html?ref=science
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of a 35 000 years b.p. ivory workshop from Zeitz:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926092620.htm
A 4200 years b.p. fortification system at La Bastida (Spain):
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927091542.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-archaeologists-une...fication-unique.html
Very interesting fabric from a 2800 years b.p. burial in Denmark:
news.discovery.com/history/grave-fabric-denmark-120928.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120928093717.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-nettles-reveal-bronze-age.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc-asn092712.php
A 5000 years b.p. oak trunk from a bog/farmer’s field:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-19722595
Pen nibs dating from the time of Bulgaria’s Simeon I:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n288661
A medieval well from Bury St Edmunds:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19704177
Possible find of the church where John Balliol abdicated:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19731574
In the wake of all that Richard III stuff, there are calls to excavate
the remains (or find them) of Henry I:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-19725972
A feature/video on the destruction of Cyprus’ cultral heritage:
www.orthodoxie.com/actualites/europe/la-...e-occupee-de-chypre/
An academic minute on courtly love in Tudor times:
wamc.org/post/dr-elaine-treharne-tudor-courtly-love
Marking the completion of a ‘Heather and Hillforts’ project in Wales:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-19761483
On Britain’s forests:
www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/h...ritain-forests-myth/
Trying to secure funding for the site of the Battle of Worcester (1651):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19743140
That Wenlock jug that was stolen a while back has been returned
to the museum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19742452
More Richard III:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/23/r...d-iii-leicster-bones
More on that beeswax filling:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/a-bee...ars.html?ref=science
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Tibetan statue is made of meteoric iron:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/s...eorite-a-858414.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tibetan...discovered_by_nazis/
uk.news.yahoo.com/iron-man-carved-meteorite-230821139.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926104255.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-buddhist-statue-na...teorite-reveals.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58022
Artifacts from Alamparai are now on view:
www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-cultur...t/article3939437.ece
Latest on the Buddhist site in Afghanistan that is threatened by a copper
mine:
edition.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afgha...index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Studying Song Dynasty ceramics:
phys.org/news/2012-09-professor-protocol...wares-technique.html
More on those Phillipine tombs:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions...nd-philippine-jungle
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Construction work in San Francisco has revealed the foundations of the old
city hall:
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-City-H...ke-found-3891123.php
abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/l...-kgo-article-8824934
Archaeologists have found the battlefield of the Rogue River Wars:
news.sou.edu/blog/2012/09/sou-archaeolog...ian-war-battlefield/
Budget cuts threaten access to Georgia’s state archives:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/budget-cut...eorgia-archives.html
Slideshow of child labour photos from the early 1900s:
www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10013924.html
History of New York in fifty objects:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/nyregion/to-t....html?ref=samroberts
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Brief item on finds from a shipwreck off Argentina:
www.theprovince.com/life/Argentine+offic...y/7309816/story.html
Coverage of a conference about the Mayan long count calendar:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58025
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeonews podcast 214:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-214
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Latest American Journal of Archaeology (TOC):
www.ajaonline.org/toc/1164
A younger Mona Lisa?:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57957
news.discovery.com/history/a-younger-mona-lisa-120927.html
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre88p1bd-us-art-monalisa/
www.arthistorynews.com/articles/1671_Mona_Lisa__the_prequel
Some ‘fake’ Turners have been authenticated:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/th...nticated/?ref=design
They’ve called off the search for Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/se...o-halted/?ref=design
Historical examples of “indirect aggression”:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925102502.htm
Discussing repatriation, the black market, and related antiquities issues:
today.duke.edu/2012/09/whoowns
On the concept of ‘underdog’:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/underdogged/
On fighting over depictions of the divine in American history:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/fight...over-gods-image.html
A flea market found Renoir may have been stolen:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/fl...een-stolen/?ref=arts
Feature on sites found with Google Earth:
mashable.com/2012/09/29/google-earth-amazing-discoveries/
Feature on sites which have been destroyed:
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13085...-destroyed-worldwide
On rising Arctic temperatures:
phys.org/news/2012-09-high-arctic-tops-year-high.html
Coverage of a conference on medieval sermons:
phys.org/news/2012-09-discussing-medieval-sermon.html
A number of articles on underwater archaeology:
www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/09/tech-week-introduction/
On the importance of Magna Carta:
www.historytoday.com/ralph-v-turner/meaning-magna-carta-1215
Studying the lifespans of Korean eunuchs:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eunuchs-outlive-men.html
More languages threatened with extinction:
phys.org/news/2012-09-european-languages...ital-extinction.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/...4a8db9b7e_story.html
Excerpt from Patrick Fermor’s travelogue in Southern Greece:
www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/sep/28/pa...greece?newsfeed=true
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Boston’s MoFA has a new coin gallery:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57944
www.artandcointv.com/blog/2012/09/museum...ajor-u-s-art-museum/
Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n40.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n41.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bronze:
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-revi...magazine-review.html
Pompeii:
www.vancouversun.com/travel/British+Muse...h/7289610/story.html
Quinnipiac University is opening an Irish Famine museum:
news.bostonherald.com/news/national/nort...home&position=recent
A nice gift for the Princeton University Art Museum:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/a-...rinceton-art-museum/
?
The Louvre’s Abu Dhabi project seems to be finally getting under way:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/middlee...louvre.html?ref=arts
The Chesil Iron Age Mirror is to be sold:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19728077
More on the Louvre’s Islamic Art wing:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/arts/22iht-melikian22.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Juliette:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/arts/26iht-loomis26.html?ref=arts
A 1913 article about the debut of ‘Rites of Spring’:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/a...-1913.html?ref=dance
…. in a similar vein:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/art-shock.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Brian Dobson:
www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/archa...-20120927-26n1o.html
Maurice Keen:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/books/maurice...valry.html?ref=books
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PODCASTS
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A major Neanderthal site in Spain:
elpais.com/elpais/2012/09/23/inenglish/1348403145_969956.html
(in English)
And now we’re back to humans and neanderthals interbreeding:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-research-finds.html
Europeans didn’t get their pale skin from Neanderthals, however
(apparently):
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-eur...om-neanderthals.html
Pondering whether Neanderthals were human:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/are-neanderthals-human.html
An academic minute on the Australopithecine diet:
wamc.org/post/dr-darryl-de-ruiter-texas-...stralopithecine-diet
Marking the centenary of Piltdown Man:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19685013
More on Neanderthals and feathers:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...nderthal-brainpower/
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observation...ocked-dark-feathers/
More on early humans hunting meat earlier than previously thought:
phys.org/news/2012-09-anthropologist-dat...ns-meat-million.html
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AFRICA
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More on Madagascar’s ‘founding mothers’:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/20-madagas...fugees-distant-lands
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Luxury Neolithic (and other era) objects from Tzipori:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=285944
www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
www.timesofisrael.com/beads-etched-ostri...-in-northern-israel/
www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-tzipori...age.premium-1.466430
www.globaltimes.cn/content/734902.shtml
A very interesting demotic papyrus has been ‘deciphered’ and gives
clues about fiction in ancient Egypt:
www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/25/cult-...ncient-egypt-priest/
A Babylonian temple and other artifacts from a site in Southern Iraq:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/25/240117.html
Evidence of another synagogue in Lycia:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists...=30857&NewsCatID=375
A major project to map all of Israel’s sites west of the Jordan is coming
to an end:
www.haaretz.com/news/national/mapping-is...ime.premium-1.467472
An Academic Minute on that synagogue find at Huqoq:
www.wamc.org/post/dr-jodi-magness-univer...-synagogue-unearthed
Not sure why this radiocarbon dating project seems to have a ‘Biblical
timeline’ focus:
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept12/DendroNSF.html
A pile of articles about Qumran:
asorblog.org/?p=3258&utm_source=rss&utm_...nth-comes-to-a-close
Interesting posts at the Temple Mount Sifting Project blog:
templemount.wordpress.com/
The damage to Aleppo’s cultural features has become shocking:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east...857f6a7bd_story.html
www.france24.com/en/20120925-syrias-arch...itage-falls-prey-war
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2...tory_25-9-2012_pg4_7
Apparently there is no evidence implicating Hosni Mubarek in the transfer of
antiquities as gifts (or whatever):
www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_c...w&id=568121&Itemid=1
Interesting story of a High Holy Day prayer book:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5819
… and Talmuds in the attic:
www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5890
Pondering prostitutes in early Jewish and Christian literature:
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holi...ets.premium-1.466746
Israel plans to restore the Jordan river:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-...d-river-6280293.html
More coverage of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/manus...ican/article4573996/
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/p...5a255a9258_blog.html
www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-re...dUSBRE88R0NT20120928
www.sfgate.com/news/article/Vatican-news...sus-Wife-3899082.php
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57988
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120927..._check=1&sf6308488=1
More on Egypt reopening some tombs to tourists:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afric...fter-renovation.html
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/mor...serapeum-of-saqqara/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Hellenistic coin hoard from Bulgaria:
paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-09-29&article=40141
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=143614
Latest finds from Tai Cochion/Anglesey:
www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/11632...ind-on-anglesey.aspx
Possible Roman/prehistoric site from Tezze di Arzigano
Analysis of a Roman die in a Gloucester Museum suggests it is
made of elephant ivory:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19698105
They’re going to restore Telmessos’ ancient theatre:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-theate...sCatID=375&nID=30671
In Our Time was looking at the Druids:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqq94
One of those ‘why Stoicism matters’ pieces:
www.forbes.com/sites/kareanderson/2012/0...icism-matters-today/
Latest CSA newsletter:
csanet.org/newsletter/#fall12
Turkey is trying to repatriate the bits of the Mausoleum from the BM:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bodrum-seeks-r...=30854&NewsCatID=375
More on that mosaic find at Antiochia ad Cragum:
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/article_d80e...4a-0019bb30f31a.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/work-...key.html?ref=science
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of a 35 000 years b.p. ivory workshop from Zeitz:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926092620.htm
A 4200 years b.p. fortification system at La Bastida (Spain):
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927091542.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-archaeologists-une...fication-unique.html
Very interesting fabric from a 2800 years b.p. burial in Denmark:
news.discovery.com/history/grave-fabric-denmark-120928.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120928093717.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-ancient-nettles-reveal-bronze-age.html
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uoc-asn092712.php
A 5000 years b.p. oak trunk from a bog/farmer’s field:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-19722595
Pen nibs dating from the time of Bulgaria’s Simeon I:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n288661
A medieval well from Bury St Edmunds:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19704177
Possible find of the church where John Balliol abdicated:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19731574
In the wake of all that Richard III stuff, there are calls to excavate
the remains (or find them) of Henry I:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-19725972
A feature/video on the destruction of Cyprus’ cultral heritage:
www.orthodoxie.com/actualites/europe/la-...e-occupee-de-chypre/
An academic minute on courtly love in Tudor times:
wamc.org/post/dr-elaine-treharne-tudor-courtly-love
Marking the completion of a ‘Heather and Hillforts’ project in Wales:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-19761483
On Britain’s forests:
www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/h...ritain-forests-myth/
Trying to secure funding for the site of the Battle of Worcester (1651):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19743140
That Wenlock jug that was stolen a while back has been returned
to the museum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19742452
More Richard III:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/23/r...d-iii-leicster-bones
More on that beeswax filling:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/a-bee...ars.html?ref=science
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Tibetan statue is made of meteoric iron:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/s...eorite-a-858414.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tibetan...discovered_by_nazis/
uk.news.yahoo.com/iron-man-carved-meteorite-230821139.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926104255.htm
phys.org/news/2012-09-buddhist-statue-na...teorite-reveals.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58022
Artifacts from Alamparai are now on view:
www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-cultur...t/article3939437.ece
Latest on the Buddhist site in Afghanistan that is threatened by a copper
mine:
edition.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afgha...index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Studying Song Dynasty ceramics:
phys.org/news/2012-09-professor-protocol...wares-technique.html
More on those Phillipine tombs:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions...nd-philippine-jungle
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Construction work in San Francisco has revealed the foundations of the old
city hall:
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-City-H...ke-found-3891123.php
abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/l...-kgo-article-8824934
Archaeologists have found the battlefield of the Rogue River Wars:
news.sou.edu/blog/2012/09/sou-archaeolog...ian-war-battlefield/
Budget cuts threaten access to Georgia’s state archives:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/budget-cut...eorgia-archives.html
Slideshow of child labour photos from the early 1900s:
www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10013924.html
History of New York in fifty objects:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/nyregion/to-t....html?ref=samroberts
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Brief item on finds from a shipwreck off Argentina:
www.theprovince.com/life/Argentine+offic...y/7309816/story.html
Coverage of a conference about the Mayan long count calendar:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58025
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeonews podcast 214:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-214
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Latest American Journal of Archaeology (TOC):
www.ajaonline.org/toc/1164
A younger Mona Lisa?:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57957
news.discovery.com/history/a-younger-mona-lisa-120927.html
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre88p1bd-us-art-monalisa/
www.arthistorynews.com/articles/1671_Mona_Lisa__the_prequel
Some ‘fake’ Turners have been authenticated:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/th...nticated/?ref=design
They’ve called off the search for Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/se...o-halted/?ref=design
Historical examples of “indirect aggression”:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925102502.htm
Discussing repatriation, the black market, and related antiquities issues:
today.duke.edu/2012/09/whoowns
On the concept of ‘underdog’:
campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/underdogged/
On fighting over depictions of the divine in American history:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/fight...over-gods-image.html
A flea market found Renoir may have been stolen:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/fl...een-stolen/?ref=arts
Feature on sites found with Google Earth:
mashable.com/2012/09/29/google-earth-amazing-discoveries/
Feature on sites which have been destroyed:
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13085...-destroyed-worldwide
On rising Arctic temperatures:
phys.org/news/2012-09-high-arctic-tops-year-high.html
Coverage of a conference on medieval sermons:
phys.org/news/2012-09-discussing-medieval-sermon.html
A number of articles on underwater archaeology:
www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/09/tech-week-introduction/
On the importance of Magna Carta:
www.historytoday.com/ralph-v-turner/meaning-magna-carta-1215
Studying the lifespans of Korean eunuchs:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eunuchs-outlive-men.html
More languages threatened with extinction:
phys.org/news/2012-09-european-languages...ital-extinction.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/...4a8db9b7e_story.html
Excerpt from Patrick Fermor’s travelogue in Southern Greece:
www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/sep/28/pa...greece?newsfeed=true
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Boston’s MoFA has a new coin gallery:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57944
www.artandcointv.com/blog/2012/09/museum...ajor-u-s-art-museum/
Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n40.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n41.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bronze:
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-revi...magazine-review.html
Pompeii:
www.vancouversun.com/travel/British+Muse...h/7289610/story.html
Quinnipiac University is opening an Irish Famine museum:
news.bostonherald.com/news/national/nort...home&position=recent
A nice gift for the Princeton University Art Museum:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/a-...rinceton-art-museum/
?
The Louvre’s Abu Dhabi project seems to be finally getting under way:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/middlee...louvre.html?ref=arts
The Chesil Iron Age Mirror is to be sold:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19728077
More on the Louvre’s Islamic Art wing:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/arts/22iht-melikian22.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Juliette:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/arts/26iht-loomis26.html?ref=arts
A 1913 article about the debut of ‘Rites of Spring’:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/a...-1913.html?ref=dance
…. in a similar vein:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/art-shock.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Brian Dobson:
www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/archa...-20120927-26n1o.html
Maurice Keen:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/books/maurice...valry.html?ref=books
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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We’re back to Neanderthals and humans interbreeding as recently as 37 000
years ago (!):
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...7-000-years-ago.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-dating-encounters-...ans-neandertals.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49294677/ns/technol...and_science-science/
news.yahoo.com/humans-broke-off-neandert...rasia-210718879.html
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www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=286213
www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/article3951590.ece
Assorted early representatives of the genus homo were living side-by-side
around
Lake Turkana, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-10-kenyan-fossils-early-human-evolution.html
Earliest evidence of meat-eating humans:
phys.org/news/2012-10-scientists-oldest-...ce-regular-meat.html
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AFRICA
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Feature on Sudan’s pyramids (kind of touristy):
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/travel/pyr....html?pagewanted=all
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Assyrian site near Arbil (Iraq):
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241427.html
An overview of archaeological finds in Israel during August:
www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep368001.shtml
Testing on those prosthetic toes found with a couple of mummies suggests
that they were, indeed, prosthetics:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/uom-ett100212.php
news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt...sthetics-121002.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-egyptian-toe-theyre-world-oldest.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002101534.htm
www.livescience.com/23642-prosthetic-toes-egypt.html
Was ed-Dur ruled by a woman?:
www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritag...dur-ruled-by-a-woman
Continuing coverage of the damage being done to antiquities in Syria:
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journ...syria-museums-looted
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/54...heritage-to-be-.aspx
www.chron.com/news/article/Syria-siege-o...-experts-3909534.php
www.ctpost.com/news/article/Syria-siege-...-experts-3909534.php
… and theft of antiquities continues to be a problem in Iraq:
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/10/.../UPI-69751349266590/
Funding seems to be an issue with restoration of a Saqqarah pyramid:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/saqqara-py...-over-financial-woes
Pondering the purported tombs of the Kings of Judah:
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblic...el-shankss-question/
Feature/reviewish on the Aleppo Codex:
www.haaretz.com/culture/books/the-traged...dex.premium-1.468399
Feature on Turkey’s repatriation efforts:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/arts/design/t...t-alarm-museums.html
Interview with Elizabeth Payne:
yaleherald.com/voices/sitting-down-with-elizabeth-payne/
Challenging the irrigation-leads-to-civilization thing:
phys.org/news/2012-10-lessons-iraq-urban-marshes-city.html
Virtual visits of Egypt and Uruk:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/03iht-educledeweb01.html
This one keeps popping up … concerns that a barrier being built in Battir
(with plenty of political overtones) will damage a Roman aqueduct:
www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/isr...cient_roman_aqueduct
Hype for a conference about Gobekli Tepe:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/academics-gath...=31587&NewsCatID=375
Analyzing Mamluk lamps:
phys.org/news/2012-10-chemistry-mamluk-lamps.html
More on the reopening of the Serapeum:
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1116/he1.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Update on the excavations of the Mazotos shipwreck:
www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/mazotos-wreck...hipbuilding/20121006
Update on the excavations of that Minoan ‘villa’ (not sure what to call it)
at Zominthos:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations...g-found_7576073.html
The dig blog of the folks working at the Paphos theatre:
www.paphostheatre.com/paphos-theatre-education-blog.html
On Aelian’s purple snake:
www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/10/dread-...le-snake-poison.html
Feature on the tunnels at Baiae:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/10...he-tunnels-at-baiae/
Plenty of hype for an announcement that archaeologists are going
to revisit the site of the Antikythera shipwreck:
www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Archaeologis...Antikythera-20121004
phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeologists-ancient-greek-site.html
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...6063916ca7ce43a2.191
www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/oct...eck-ancient-computer
www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/archa...-20121005-27389.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/05/antikyt...hanism_hunt_resumes/
A Medea quiz:
www.guardian.co.uk/stage/quiz/2012/oct/0...a-quiz?newsfeed=true
A fresco in Pompeii supposedly shows Solomon, Aristotle, and Plato in
judgement:
www.wnd.com/2012/10/solomon-socrates-and...peii/?cat_orig=faith
but cf:
phdiva.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wisdom-to-know-its-not-solomon.html
Feature on Kathleen Martinez and her search for the tomb of Cleopatra
(nothing new here,
really):
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/artic...d=2872&language_id=1
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Burial from Austria of a female Bronze Age metal worker:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...an-metal-worker.html
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58107
Railway construction reveals a possible Bronze Age transportation route
through London:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19834203
A medieval (and later) burial ground on a leisure centre construction site
in
Elephant and Castle:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19833671
Looking for remains of a bishop’s palace at/near Ancrum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-19784596
Feature on the Crystal Palace:
phys.org/news/2012-10-crystal-palace-col...versial-virtual.html
Proposed conservation work for Lochindorb Castle:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19812520
More calls for a state funeral for Richard III:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19799936
More on La Bastida:
www.livescience.com/23652-ancient-fortress-found-in-spain.html
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the DNA front, the first domesticated rice came from China:
phys.org/news/2012-10-mother-cultivated-rice-china-pearl.html
A 5000 years bp calendar (maybe) from Vietnam:
english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainm...endar-unearthed.html
They keep pulling antiquities from the Huong River:
english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainm...-of-antiquities.html
On the problem of smuggled Buddhist artifacts in Pakistan:
phys.org/news/2012-10-pakistan-struggles...buddhist-relics.html
www.wtop.com/220/3065255/Pakistan-strugg...gled-Buddhist-relics
Cambodia is seeking the return of a Khmer era statue:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/design/c...atue.html?ref=design
More on the return of stolen artifacts to Kabul:
bfbs.com/news/regions/afghanistan/media/...275/20306?page=4%2C1
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A pile of First Nations’ artifacts from near Vernon (B.C.):
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/...ernon-artifacts.html
A button may help identify a shipwreck found off St Augustine:
jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03...ing-gun-its-identity
Not really within our purview without evidence of human involvement, but
a mastodon tooth turned up in the San Antonio River:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/mastod...tonio_n_1940331.html
Interesting Antietam photo exhibit:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58145#.UHF5Ga50YWk
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/antiet...hibit_n_1941960.html
seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/201934...hantietamphotos.html
Honouring Juan Rodriguez:
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/ho...ry-early-new-yorker/
Celebrating Ohio’s first archaeology curator:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...aeology-curator.html
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/10/oc...ns-on-career-in.html
Review of John Fabian Witt, *Lincoln’s Code*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/...-witt.html?ref=books
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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15 Huastic burials dating to 850 years b.p. from the Tancama Archaeological
Zone:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57311
The tomb of the Maya queen Ka’bel has been discovered in Guatemala:
news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24167.aspx
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58147
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_GUATE...=2012-10-04-21-41-21
news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-likely-que...emala-014847541.html
www.mstarz.com/articles/5455/20121005/ma...y-k-abel-secrets.htm
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/mayan-...queen_n_1939900.html
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...utm_campaign=Content
50 skulls from the Templo Mayor:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58131
phys.org/news/2012-10-mexico-skulls-sacred-aztec-temple.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/mexico...tml#slide=more255195
The restoration of the Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza is pretty much
complete:
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/250-...a-fue-marcador-solar
… and we’re getting coverage that it was some sort of ‘celestial marker’:
phys.org/news/2012-10-mexico-mayan-ball-court-celestial.html
news.yahoo.com/mexico-mayan-ball-court-c...arker-155035359.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58148#.UHB5ca50YWk
www.firstpost.com/fwire/mayan-ballgame-h...function-481652.html
A talk on archaeobotany in Chile:
theithacan.org/25578
An Academic Minute on Tikal’s water infrastructure:
wamc.org/post/dr-vernon-scarborough-univ...nd-natural-resources
On Amazonian tribal warfare and modern violence:
phys.org/news/2012-10-amazonian-tribal-w...modern-violence.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
archaeologychannel.us/index.php?option=c...log&id=81&Itemid=532
The Romans and Han Dynasty folks are being implicated in some climate change
periods:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121003132322.htm
www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-huma...1004,0,2962982.story
www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/us-cl...dUSBRE89212020121003
phys.org/news/2012-10-methane-emissions-roman.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/04/romans_started_climate_change/
… kind of sort of related:
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/svalbar...es_medieval_summers/
On the effects of population change:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-ye...c-population-changes
A frozen mammoth apparently killed by humans found in Siberia:
phys.org/news/2012-10-well-preserved-mam...carcass-siberia.html
The claims about the burial of ‘Mona Lisa’ continue:
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...os-muse-8196544.html
On the links between Kabbala and Mormonism:
www.haaretz.com/news/features/how-kabbal...ith.premium-1.468042
Discussing the ‘speed’ with which some languages seem to be spoken:
www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_...er_than_others_.html
Top seven moments in science history:
www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-robinson/s...-book_b_1930089.html
Opeddish on the pain of reading:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunda...pain-of-reading.html
What Robinson Crusoe’s life was probably like:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562787
Feature on the New England vampire panic:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeolo...Panic-169791986.html
The Prado is authenticating a Ribero painting of Jerome:
cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/09/30/ac...49021605_087330.html
Feature on Dylan Pennigroth’s work:
www.macfound.org/fellows/872/
Interesting overview of the fight against cholera:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/miles...era.html?ref=science
Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/...aplan.html?ref=books
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:
www.newsday.co.zw/2012/10/05/to-the-city...e-dead-petra-jordan/
Apamea:
www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/oct/05/al...ed-war?newsfeed=true
Samaria:
!
Ararat:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/travel/in-...hadow-of-ararat.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A major theft from a mining museum in Mariposa:
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/10/r...t-mining-museum.html
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n41.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n42.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renaissance to Goya:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/arts/06iht-melikian06.html
First Printed Maps:
www.vicnews.com/news/172757581.html
Art and the Olympic Ideal:
legionofhonor.famsf.org/pressroom/pressr...rt-and-olympic-ideal
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:
sacurrent.com/arts/visualart/39-aphrodit...es-at-sama-1.1381591
Last Days of Pompeii:
blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2012/10/01/...-at-the-getty-villa/
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...1001,0,3370915.story
Shakespeare: Staging the World:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/29iht-melikian29.html?ref=arts
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/b...museum.html?ref=arts
Piero della Francesco in America:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/arts/design/p...sale.html?ref=design
Currier and Ives:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/nyregion/curr...rica.html?ref=design
Picasso Black and White:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/p...museum.html?ref=arts
The Boston MFA has a new gems and jewellery of the Ancient Mediterranean
gallery:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58036
The Bosnia National Museum has closed down:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19841477
Pondering the Machine Art exhibition of 1934:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/arts/01iht-design01.html?ref=arts
That proposed sale of an Egyptian artifact by a Northampton Museum is
genuinely causing controversy:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19827769
A major antiquities collection is coming to Bonham’s:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58072
… and some items from the George Embiricos estate are coming to Sotheby’s:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/c...r-sale.html?ref=arts
The Penn Museum offers touch tours of Egyptian artifacts:
www.penn.museum/blog/museum/insights-int...e-visually-impaired/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Baroque Opera at the Ambronay Festival:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/arts/03iht-loomis03.html?ref=arts
Wuthering Heights:
movies.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/movies/wut...elario.html?ref=arts
Desire Caught by the Tail:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/pi...ggenheim/?ref=design
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Eric Hobsbawm:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19786929
phys.org/news/2012-10-historian-eric-hobsbawm-dies-aged.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/arts/eric-hob...-at-95.html?ref=arts
Eugene Genovese:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/us/eugene-d-g...at-82.html?ref=books
Maurice Friedman:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/books/maurice...pher-dies-at-90.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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We’re back to Neanderthals and humans interbreeding as recently as 37 000
years ago (!):
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...7-000-years-ago.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-dating-encounters-...ans-neandertals.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49294677/ns/technol...and_science-science/
news.yahoo.com/humans-broke-off-neandert...rasia-210718879.html
www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/articl...0047921349366850361A
www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=286213
www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/article3951590.ece
Assorted early representatives of the genus homo were living side-by-side
around
Lake Turkana, apparently:
phys.org/news/2012-10-kenyan-fossils-early-human-evolution.html
Earliest evidence of meat-eating humans:
phys.org/news/2012-10-scientists-oldest-...ce-regular-meat.html
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AFRICA
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Feature on Sudan’s pyramids (kind of touristy):
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/travel/pyr....html?pagewanted=all
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Assyrian site near Arbil (Iraq):
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/02/241427.html
An overview of archaeological finds in Israel during August:
www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep368001.shtml
Testing on those prosthetic toes found with a couple of mummies suggests
that they were, indeed, prosthetics:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/uom-ett100212.php
news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt...sthetics-121002.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-egyptian-toe-theyre-world-oldest.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002101534.htm
www.livescience.com/23642-prosthetic-toes-egypt.html
Was ed-Dur ruled by a woman?:
www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/heritag...dur-ruled-by-a-woman
Continuing coverage of the damage being done to antiquities in Syria:
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journ...syria-museums-looted
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/54...heritage-to-be-.aspx
www.chron.com/news/article/Syria-siege-o...-experts-3909534.php
www.ctpost.com/news/article/Syria-siege-...-experts-3909534.php
… and theft of antiquities continues to be a problem in Iraq:
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/10/.../UPI-69751349266590/
Funding seems to be an issue with restoration of a Saqqarah pyramid:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/saqqara-py...-over-financial-woes
Pondering the purported tombs of the Kings of Judah:
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblic...el-shankss-question/
Feature/reviewish on the Aleppo Codex:
www.haaretz.com/culture/books/the-traged...dex.premium-1.468399
Feature on Turkey’s repatriation efforts:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/arts/design/t...t-alarm-museums.html
Interview with Elizabeth Payne:
yaleherald.com/voices/sitting-down-with-elizabeth-payne/
Challenging the irrigation-leads-to-civilization thing:
phys.org/news/2012-10-lessons-iraq-urban-marshes-city.html
Virtual visits of Egypt and Uruk:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/03iht-educledeweb01.html
This one keeps popping up … concerns that a barrier being built in Battir
(with plenty of political overtones) will damage a Roman aqueduct:
www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/isr...cient_roman_aqueduct
Hype for a conference about Gobekli Tepe:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/academics-gath...=31587&NewsCatID=375
Analyzing Mamluk lamps:
phys.org/news/2012-10-chemistry-mamluk-lamps.html
More on the reopening of the Serapeum:
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1116/he1.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Update on the excavations of the Mazotos shipwreck:
www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/mazotos-wreck...hipbuilding/20121006
Update on the excavations of that Minoan ‘villa’ (not sure what to call it)
at Zominthos:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations...g-found_7576073.html
The dig blog of the folks working at the Paphos theatre:
www.paphostheatre.com/paphos-theatre-education-blog.html
On Aelian’s purple snake:
www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/10/dread-...le-snake-poison.html
Feature on the tunnels at Baiae:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/10...he-tunnels-at-baiae/
Plenty of hype for an announcement that archaeologists are going
to revisit the site of the Antikythera shipwreck:
www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Archaeologis...Antikythera-20121004
phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeologists-ancient-greek-site.html
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...6063916ca7ce43a2.191
www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/oct...eck-ancient-computer
www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/archa...-20121005-27389.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/05/antikyt...hanism_hunt_resumes/
A Medea quiz:
www.guardian.co.uk/stage/quiz/2012/oct/0...a-quiz?newsfeed=true
A fresco in Pompeii supposedly shows Solomon, Aristotle, and Plato in
judgement:
www.wnd.com/2012/10/solomon-socrates-and...peii/?cat_orig=faith
but cf:
phdiva.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wisdom-to-know-its-not-solomon.html
Feature on Kathleen Martinez and her search for the tomb of Cleopatra
(nothing new here,
really):
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/artic...d=2872&language_id=1
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Burial from Austria of a female Bronze Age metal worker:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...an-metal-worker.html
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58107
Railway construction reveals a possible Bronze Age transportation route
through London:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19834203
A medieval (and later) burial ground on a leisure centre construction site
in
Elephant and Castle:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19833671
Looking for remains of a bishop’s palace at/near Ancrum:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-19784596
Feature on the Crystal Palace:
phys.org/news/2012-10-crystal-palace-col...versial-virtual.html
Proposed conservation work for Lochindorb Castle:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19812520
More calls for a state funeral for Richard III:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19799936
More on La Bastida:
www.livescience.com/23652-ancient-fortress-found-in-spain.html
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the DNA front, the first domesticated rice came from China:
phys.org/news/2012-10-mother-cultivated-rice-china-pearl.html
A 5000 years bp calendar (maybe) from Vietnam:
english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainm...endar-unearthed.html
They keep pulling antiquities from the Huong River:
english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainm...-of-antiquities.html
On the problem of smuggled Buddhist artifacts in Pakistan:
phys.org/news/2012-10-pakistan-struggles...buddhist-relics.html
www.wtop.com/220/3065255/Pakistan-strugg...gled-Buddhist-relics
Cambodia is seeking the return of a Khmer era statue:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/design/c...atue.html?ref=design
More on the return of stolen artifacts to Kabul:
bfbs.com/news/regions/afghanistan/media/...275/20306?page=4%2C1
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A pile of First Nations’ artifacts from near Vernon (B.C.):
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/...ernon-artifacts.html
A button may help identify a shipwreck found off St Augustine:
jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03...ing-gun-its-identity
Not really within our purview without evidence of human involvement, but
a mastodon tooth turned up in the San Antonio River:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/mastod...tonio_n_1940331.html
Interesting Antietam photo exhibit:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58145#.UHF5Ga50YWk
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/antiet...hibit_n_1941960.html
seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/201934...hantietamphotos.html
Honouring Juan Rodriguez:
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/ho...ry-early-new-yorker/
Celebrating Ohio’s first archaeology curator:
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...aeology-curator.html
ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/10/oc...ns-on-career-in.html
Review of John Fabian Witt, *Lincoln’s Code*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/...-witt.html?ref=books
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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15 Huastic burials dating to 850 years b.p. from the Tancama Archaeological
Zone:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57311
The tomb of the Maya queen Ka’bel has been discovered in Guatemala:
news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/24167.aspx
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58147
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_GUATE...=2012-10-04-21-41-21
news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-likely-que...emala-014847541.html
www.mstarz.com/articles/5455/20121005/ma...y-k-abel-secrets.htm
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/mayan-...queen_n_1939900.html
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...utm_campaign=Content
50 skulls from the Templo Mayor:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58131
phys.org/news/2012-10-mexico-skulls-sacred-aztec-temple.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/mexico...tml#slide=more255195
The restoration of the Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza is pretty much
complete:
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/250-...a-fue-marcador-solar
… and we’re getting coverage that it was some sort of ‘celestial marker’:
phys.org/news/2012-10-mexico-mayan-ball-court-celestial.html
news.yahoo.com/mexico-mayan-ball-court-c...arker-155035359.html
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58148#.UHB5ca50YWk
www.firstpost.com/fwire/mayan-ballgame-h...function-481652.html
A talk on archaeobotany in Chile:
theithacan.org/25578
An Academic Minute on Tikal’s water infrastructure:
wamc.org/post/dr-vernon-scarborough-univ...nd-natural-resources
On Amazonian tribal warfare and modern violence:
phys.org/news/2012-10-amazonian-tribal-w...modern-violence.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
archaeologychannel.us/index.php?option=c...log&id=81&Itemid=532
The Romans and Han Dynasty folks are being implicated in some climate change
periods:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121003132322.htm
www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-huma...1004,0,2962982.story
www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/us-cl...dUSBRE89212020121003
phys.org/news/2012-10-methane-emissions-roman.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/04/romans_started_climate_change/
… kind of sort of related:
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/svalbar...es_medieval_summers/
On the effects of population change:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-ye...c-population-changes
A frozen mammoth apparently killed by humans found in Siberia:
phys.org/news/2012-10-well-preserved-mam...carcass-siberia.html
The claims about the burial of ‘Mona Lisa’ continue:
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...os-muse-8196544.html
On the links between Kabbala and Mormonism:
www.haaretz.com/news/features/how-kabbal...ith.premium-1.468042
Discussing the ‘speed’ with which some languages seem to be spoken:
www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_...er_than_others_.html
Top seven moments in science history:
www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-robinson/s...-book_b_1930089.html
Opeddish on the pain of reading:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunda...pain-of-reading.html
What Robinson Crusoe’s life was probably like:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562787
Feature on the New England vampire panic:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeolo...Panic-169791986.html
The Prado is authenticating a Ribero painting of Jerome:
cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/09/30/ac...49021605_087330.html
Feature on Dylan Pennigroth’s work:
www.macfound.org/fellows/872/
Interesting overview of the fight against cholera:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/miles...era.html?ref=science
Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/...aplan.html?ref=books
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:
www.newsday.co.zw/2012/10/05/to-the-city...e-dead-petra-jordan/
Apamea:
www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/oct/05/al...ed-war?newsfeed=true
Samaria:
!
Ararat:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/travel/in-...hadow-of-ararat.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A major theft from a mining museum in Mariposa:
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/10/r...t-mining-museum.html
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n41.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n42.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renaissance to Goya:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/arts/06iht-melikian06.html
First Printed Maps:
www.vicnews.com/news/172757581.html
Art and the Olympic Ideal:
legionofhonor.famsf.org/pressroom/pressr...rt-and-olympic-ideal
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:
sacurrent.com/arts/visualart/39-aphrodit...es-at-sama-1.1381591
Last Days of Pompeii:
blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2012/10/01/...-at-the-getty-villa/
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...1001,0,3370915.story
Shakespeare: Staging the World:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/29iht-melikian29.html?ref=arts
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/b...museum.html?ref=arts
Piero della Francesco in America:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/arts/design/p...sale.html?ref=design
Currier and Ives:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/nyregion/curr...rica.html?ref=design
Picasso Black and White:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/p...museum.html?ref=arts
The Boston MFA has a new gems and jewellery of the Ancient Mediterranean
gallery:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58036
The Bosnia National Museum has closed down:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19841477
Pondering the Machine Art exhibition of 1934:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/arts/01iht-design01.html?ref=arts
That proposed sale of an Egyptian artifact by a Northampton Museum is
genuinely causing controversy:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19827769
A major antiquities collection is coming to Bonham’s:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58072
… and some items from the George Embiricos estate are coming to Sotheby’s:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/arts/design/c...r-sale.html?ref=arts
The Penn Museum offers touch tours of Egyptian artifacts:
www.penn.museum/blog/museum/insights-int...e-visually-impaired/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Baroque Opera at the Ambronay Festival:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/arts/03iht-loomis03.html?ref=arts
Wuthering Heights:
movies.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/movies/wut...elario.html?ref=arts
Desire Caught by the Tail:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/pi...ggenheim/?ref=design
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Eric Hobsbawm:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19786929
phys.org/news/2012-10-historian-eric-hobsbawm-dies-aged.html
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/arts/eric-hob...-at-95.html?ref=arts
Eugene Genovese:
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/us/eugene-d-g...at-82.html?ref=books
Maurice Friedman:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/books/maurice...pher-dies-at-90.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Feature on exploring a cave associated with homo floresiensis:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/21-getting...historic-hobbit-cave
Interesting analysis of some prehistoric antelope bones from Olduvai:
news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/b...back-ribs.html?rss=1
National Geographic talks about the similarities between Neanderthals and
modern
humans:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...sex-breeding-humans/
More on the interbreeding thing:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...erthal-hook-ups-end/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8543457
spittoon.23andme.com/ancestry/more-on-23andmes-neanderthal-lab/
Peripheral interest, perhaps … hypish thing for a NOVA program on
Neanderthals:
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mouthful of cavities and abcesses:
news.discovery.com/history/mummy-cavities-121010.html
news.yahoo.com/mummy-mouthful-cavities-d...vered-111722294.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ntal-decay-seen.html
The pyramid of Khafre and some more tombs were opened to the public ths
week:
allafrica.com/stories/201210130096.html
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/12/243316.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/egypt-...ml?utm_hp_ref=travel
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216352...stions-security.html
No threats to the Egyptian Museum in recent clashes, we are told:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/55...s-safe-Minister.aspx
Finds from various prehistoric periods at Ein Zippori:
www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4286088,00.html
Feature on the Gath dig:
www.jerusalemonline.com/tourism/archeolo...h%E2%80%99s-hometown
Press release on the dig at Tel Esur:
newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6037
Interesting article on a possible Samson-Helios link (sorry, the article
might be behind a paywall):
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holi...lee.premium-1.468506
Damage to an altar in a 9th century Egyptian church:
www.aina.org/news/20121008001210.htm
A smuggling attempt foiled at the Cairo airport:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/airport-au...pt-smuggle-artifacts
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/55...o-smuggle-th-ce.aspx
Feature on the first person to sneak into the Cave of the Patriarchs:
www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=286936
Nice analysis of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing:
chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-lessons-of-jesus-wife/31234
More coverage of the damage being done to Syria’s antiquities:
www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524311/war-put...tage-sites-in-danger
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...4ea6ab092beab9813024
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrias-w...11b7680a9_print.html
www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/...oys_antiquities.html
More on that Assyrian site in northern Iraq:
www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201210...-iraq-unearthed.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery (maybe) of the site where Julius Caesar
was
assassinated:
www.france24.com/en/20121010-scientists-...lius-caesars-slaying
news.discovery.com/history/julius-ceasar-stabbing-121012.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49380552/ns/technology_and_science-science
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216396...sar--s-bus-stop.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/julius...ompey_n_1955359.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121010102158.htm
phys.org/news/2012-10-spanish-exact-julius-caesar-stabbed.html
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/10/Caes.../UPI-22411349898421/
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/snrc-crf101012.php
www.sciencecodex.com/csic_researchers_fi...ar_was_stabbed-99870
Curiously less coverage of the possible (?) find of the tomb of Roxane:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/06/tomb...fe-son-of-alexander/
They’re digging in the Agora of Paphos:
www.cyprus-mail.com/paphos/archaeologist...ient-market/20121014
A couple of Roman ships found off the coast of Elaiussa Sebaste:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations...-Turkey_7595945.html
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/16619...hips-off-Turkey.html
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancien...d-off-turkish-coast/
Nice feature on the current goings-on at Zeugma:
www.archaeology.org/1211/features/zeugma...s_roman_mosaics.html
Hype for a Cambridge conference on Linear B:
www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the...inear-b-60-years-on/
Feature on the Caryatids:
www.delawareonline.com/article/20121009/...raise-Acropolis-roof
That marble sarcophagus that was languishing in a Dorset garden fetched
a nice price at auction:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19878090
Khaled Holmes is another athlete with a Classical past:
www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp...1012,0,2640933.story
Diphthong is apparently the best word ever:
www.greeknewsagenda.gr/2012/10/the-best-word-ever-is-greek.html
Some Greek-myth-inspired manga:
graphic-novels-manga.suvudu.com/2012/10/...ix-with-olympos.html
The APA is pondering a name change:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...nge_for_association/
Seven things you probably did know about Caligula, actually:
www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-thi...-know-about-caligula
Latin has acquired hipster status, apparently, down under/up over:
www.smh.com.au/national/education/hipste...-20121012-27i6u.html
More on revisiting the find site of the Antikythera Mechanism:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/04/arch...computer-wreck-site/
More on the Mazotos shipwreck:
famagusta-gazette.com/mazotos-shipwreck-...rovide-p16908-69.htm
www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/30487/revealing-the-past
Latest reviews from BMCR:
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Nazca-like geoglyphs from Russia?:
www.livescience.com/23910-russian-nazca-lines-discovered.html
www.livescience.com/23884-nazca-lines-russia-geoglyphs.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/russia...lines_n_1961475.html
A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:
www.nzweek.com/technology/bronze-age-nec...hed-in-serbia-12863/
A late Bronze Age hoard from Jersey:
jersey.isle-news.com/archives/late-bronz...red-in-jersey/13986/
Claims of the discovery of Europe’s oldest urban settlement in
Bulgaria:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/08/archaeology-eu...arna-professor-says/
A massive complex found near the Ring of Brodgar (not sure if we mentioned
this already):
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/06/o...ntre-ancient-britain
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...complex-in-scotland/
Using technology to understand Tudor weaponry:
www.hud.ac.uk/news/featuredstories/solvi...etsofthemaryrose.php
Pondering some recent theories about Stonehenge:
news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-tw...anations-121012.html
… and coverage of the results of a recent laser scan of the monument:
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...gallery-8202812.html
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8980lb-us-britain-stonehenge/
uk.news.yahoo.com/midwinter-sun-linked-s...henge-230914781.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/09/s...ital-laser-3d-survey
… and how it was ‘supposed’ to look:
news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-an...s-photos-121012.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/09/stonehenge_laser_scan/
The mystery of the mausoleum of Pentillie:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19889033
Finds from various periods at Blackbird Leys:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19884140
Feature on Isabel de la Vega:
www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=287481
St Paul’s is faring much better lately, it appears:
phys.org/news/2012-10-erosion-iconic-st-paul-benefit.html
Plans for some fixing up at Leckhampton Hill Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19872169
An Academic Minute on the Richard III thing:
wamc.org/post/dr-norman-housley-universi...eicester-richard-iii
Review of John Kelly, *The Graves are Walking*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/...kelly.html?ref=books
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Evidence that prehistoric man ate pandas:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/pre...-man-ate-panda-claim
www.canada.com/technology/Chinese+scient...s/7387729/story.html
A Buddhist site on Bhogapuram:
www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-prad...d/article3980627.ece
Feature on Sima Qian:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19835484
Feature on Kublai Khan:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19850234
Feature on the Duke of Zhou:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19821144
Using tradition to maintain fisheries in Indonesia:
phys.org/news/2012-10-fisheries-benefit-year-old-tradition.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Kennewick Man is back in the news:
seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019387577_bones10m.html
Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Camp Lawton’s
stockade walls:
www.gpb.org/news/2012/10/11/civil-war-pr...-camp-wall-uncovered
The search has resumed for the Griffon in Lake Michigan:
www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-...hipwreck-great-lakes
Some border patrol agents found a different type of pot while on
patrol in the Patagonia Mountains:
www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-agents-f...patagonia-mountains/
An Academic Minute on early Spanish missions in Florida and Georgia:
www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-...hipwreck-great-lakes
The New York Times notices that Canada has been giving the War of 1812 a lot
of attention:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/america...us-as-aggressor.html
More on that button from a shipwreck of St Augustine:
jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03...ing-gun-its-identity
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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1300 years b.p. tombs, including a possible governor, found at Copalita:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58240#.UHqqu2d0YWk
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-h...ispanico-en-copalita
More on that pile of skulls from the Templo Mayor:
news.discovery.com/history/skulls-aztec-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
More on Lady K’abel’s tomb:
www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/ve...archaeology/1629915/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20121007.mp3
Conservation work on a Holbein reveals the true identity of the sitter:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct...ity-holbein-portrait
Interesting interview about UColorado’s Media Archaeology Lab:
blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/1...w-with-lori-emerson/
The Metropolitan Museum has put a pile of its publications online:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58271#.UHqs82d0YWl
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/t...life.html?ref=design
… and Charles Jones has culled links to those which would likely be of
interest to
readers of Explorator:
ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2012/10/m...rt-publications.html
Tracking HepB through the ages:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-p...urney-hepatitis.html
Some ‘lost diaries’ and the ‘young Mona Lisa’ thing:
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8970sp-us-art-monalisa-diaries/
A missing photo of Mahler may have been found:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/music/a-...photo.html?ref=music
DNA apparently has a half-life:
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22359-dna...ng-fossil-bones.html
Coverage of the first meeting of the Jane Austen Society:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/books/jane-au...ooklyn.html?src=dayp
Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/...robert-d-kaplan.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Old City Jerusalem:
www.haaretz.com/travel-in-israel/tourist...lem.premium-1.468371
Siena:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-...-in-siena-italy.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n42.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html
Big bucks expected for a silver decadrachm from Akragas:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58261#.UHqvpGd0YWk
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Roma Caput Mundi:
Jomon Japan:
japandailypress.com/5000-year-old-pots-e...itish-museum-1115355
www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121010f2.html
Bronze:
blogs.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/bronze-gets-sexy-royal-academy/
Durer to de Kooning:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/d...ibrary.html?ref=arts
Faking It:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/f...bition.html?ref=arts
Louis Tiffany and the Art of Devotion:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/l...-art.html?ref=design
Commentary on some recent ‘Islamic Art’ auctions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/arts/13iht-melikian13.html?ref=arts
Commentary on the role of the curator:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/11iht-ra...ting11.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Da Vinci’s Demons:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/re...cis-demons/?ref=arts
Cyrano de Bergerac:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/theater/r...-hodge.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Rufus Fears:
www.nationalreview.com/corner/329745/rufus-fears-rip-john-hood
www.oudaily.com/news/2012/oct/07/j-rufus...fessor-year-dies-67/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Rochelle Altman, Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley, June Samaras,
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Feature on exploring a cave associated with homo floresiensis:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/21-getting...historic-hobbit-cave
Interesting analysis of some prehistoric antelope bones from Olduvai:
news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/b...back-ribs.html?rss=1
National Geographic talks about the similarities between Neanderthals and
modern
humans:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...sex-breeding-humans/
More on the interbreeding thing:
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...erthal-hook-ups-end/
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8543457
spittoon.23andme.com/ancestry/more-on-23andmes-neanderthal-lab/
Peripheral interest, perhaps … hypish thing for a NOVA program on
Neanderthals:
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mouthful of cavities and abcesses:
news.discovery.com/history/mummy-cavities-121010.html
news.yahoo.com/mummy-mouthful-cavities-d...vered-111722294.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ntal-decay-seen.html
The pyramid of Khafre and some more tombs were opened to the public ths
week:
allafrica.com/stories/201210130096.html
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/12/243316.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/egypt-...ml?utm_hp_ref=travel
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216352...stions-security.html
No threats to the Egyptian Museum in recent clashes, we are told:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/55...s-safe-Minister.aspx
Finds from various prehistoric periods at Ein Zippori:
www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4286088,00.html
Feature on the Gath dig:
www.jerusalemonline.com/tourism/archeolo...h%E2%80%99s-hometown
Press release on the dig at Tel Esur:
newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6037
Interesting article on a possible Samson-Helios link (sorry, the article
might be behind a paywall):
www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holi...lee.premium-1.468506
Damage to an altar in a 9th century Egyptian church:
www.aina.org/news/20121008001210.htm
A smuggling attempt foiled at the Cairo airport:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/airport-au...pt-smuggle-artifacts
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/55...o-smuggle-th-ce.aspx
Feature on the first person to sneak into the Cave of the Patriarchs:
www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=286936
Nice analysis of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing:
chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-lessons-of-jesus-wife/31234
More coverage of the damage being done to Syria’s antiquities:
www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524311/war-put...tage-sites-in-danger
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...4ea6ab092beab9813024
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrias-w...11b7680a9_print.html
www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/...oys_antiquities.html
More on that Assyrian site in northern Iraq:
www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201210...-iraq-unearthed.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery (maybe) of the site where Julius Caesar
was
assassinated:
www.france24.com/en/20121010-scientists-...lius-caesars-slaying
news.discovery.com/history/julius-ceasar-stabbing-121012.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49380552/ns/technology_and_science-science
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216396...sar--s-bus-stop.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/julius...ompey_n_1955359.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121010102158.htm
phys.org/news/2012-10-spanish-exact-julius-caesar-stabbed.html
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/10/Caes.../UPI-22411349898421/
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/snrc-crf101012.php
www.sciencecodex.com/csic_researchers_fi...ar_was_stabbed-99870
Curiously less coverage of the possible (?) find of the tomb of Roxane:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/06/tomb...fe-son-of-alexander/
They’re digging in the Agora of Paphos:
www.cyprus-mail.com/paphos/archaeologist...ient-market/20121014
A couple of Roman ships found off the coast of Elaiussa Sebaste:
www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations...-Turkey_7595945.html
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/16619...hips-off-Turkey.html
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancien...d-off-turkish-coast/
Nice feature on the current goings-on at Zeugma:
www.archaeology.org/1211/features/zeugma...s_roman_mosaics.html
Hype for a Cambridge conference on Linear B:
www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the...inear-b-60-years-on/
Feature on the Caryatids:
www.delawareonline.com/article/20121009/...raise-Acropolis-roof
That marble sarcophagus that was languishing in a Dorset garden fetched
a nice price at auction:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19878090
Khaled Holmes is another athlete with a Classical past:
www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp...1012,0,2640933.story
Diphthong is apparently the best word ever:
www.greeknewsagenda.gr/2012/10/the-best-word-ever-is-greek.html
Some Greek-myth-inspired manga:
graphic-novels-manga.suvudu.com/2012/10/...ix-with-olympos.html
The APA is pondering a name change:
apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_b...nge_for_association/
Seven things you probably did know about Caligula, actually:
www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-thi...-know-about-caligula
Latin has acquired hipster status, apparently, down under/up over:
www.smh.com.au/national/education/hipste...-20121012-27i6u.html
More on revisiting the find site of the Antikythera Mechanism:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/04/arch...computer-wreck-site/
More on the Mazotos shipwreck:
famagusta-gazette.com/mazotos-shipwreck-...rovide-p16908-69.htm
www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/30487/revealing-the-past
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Nazca-like geoglyphs from Russia?:
www.livescience.com/23910-russian-nazca-lines-discovered.html
www.livescience.com/23884-nazca-lines-russia-geoglyphs.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/russia...lines_n_1961475.html
A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:
www.nzweek.com/technology/bronze-age-nec...hed-in-serbia-12863/
A late Bronze Age hoard from Jersey:
jersey.isle-news.com/archives/late-bronz...red-in-jersey/13986/
Claims of the discovery of Europe’s oldest urban settlement in
Bulgaria:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/08/archaeology-eu...arna-professor-says/
A massive complex found near the Ring of Brodgar (not sure if we mentioned
this already):
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/06/o...ntre-ancient-britain
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/...complex-in-scotland/
Using technology to understand Tudor weaponry:
www.hud.ac.uk/news/featuredstories/solvi...etsofthemaryrose.php
Pondering some recent theories about Stonehenge:
news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-tw...anations-121012.html
… and coverage of the results of a recent laser scan of the monument:
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...gallery-8202812.html
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8980lb-us-britain-stonehenge/
uk.news.yahoo.com/midwinter-sun-linked-s...henge-230914781.html
www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/09/s...ital-laser-3d-survey
… and how it was ‘supposed’ to look:
news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-an...s-photos-121012.html
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/09/stonehenge_laser_scan/
The mystery of the mausoleum of Pentillie:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19889033
Finds from various periods at Blackbird Leys:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19884140
Feature on Isabel de la Vega:
www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=287481
St Paul’s is faring much better lately, it appears:
phys.org/news/2012-10-erosion-iconic-st-paul-benefit.html
Plans for some fixing up at Leckhampton Hill Fort:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19872169
An Academic Minute on the Richard III thing:
wamc.org/post/dr-norman-housley-universi...eicester-richard-iii
Review of John Kelly, *The Graves are Walking*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/...kelly.html?ref=books
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence that prehistoric man ate pandas:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/pre...-man-ate-panda-claim
www.canada.com/technology/Chinese+scient...s/7387729/story.html
A Buddhist site on Bhogapuram:
www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-prad...d/article3980627.ece
Feature on Sima Qian:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19835484
Feature on Kublai Khan:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19850234
Feature on the Duke of Zhou:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19821144
Using tradition to maintain fisheries in Indonesia:
phys.org/news/2012-10-fisheries-benefit-year-old-tradition.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Kennewick Man is back in the news:
seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019387577_bones10m.html
Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Camp Lawton’s
stockade walls:
www.gpb.org/news/2012/10/11/civil-war-pr...-camp-wall-uncovered
The search has resumed for the Griffon in Lake Michigan:
www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-...hipwreck-great-lakes
Some border patrol agents found a different type of pot while on
patrol in the Patagonia Mountains:
www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-agents-f...patagonia-mountains/
An Academic Minute on early Spanish missions in Florida and Georgia:
www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-...hipwreck-great-lakes
The New York Times notices that Canada has been giving the War of 1812 a lot
of attention:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/america...us-as-aggressor.html
More on that button from a shipwreck of St Augustine:
jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03...ing-gun-its-identity
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
1300 years b.p. tombs, including a possible governor, found at Copalita:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58240#.UHqqu2d0YWk
www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-h...ispanico-en-copalita
More on that pile of skulls from the Templo Mayor:
news.discovery.com/history/skulls-aztec-....html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
More on Lady K’abel’s tomb:
www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/ve...archaeology/1629915/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20121007.mp3
Conservation work on a Holbein reveals the true identity of the sitter:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct...ity-holbein-portrait
Interesting interview about UColorado’s Media Archaeology Lab:
blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/1...w-with-lori-emerson/
The Metropolitan Museum has put a pile of its publications online:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58271#.UHqs82d0YWl
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/t...life.html?ref=design
… and Charles Jones has culled links to those which would likely be of
interest to
readers of Explorator:
ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2012/10/m...rt-publications.html
Tracking HepB through the ages:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-p...urney-hepatitis.html
Some ‘lost diaries’ and the ‘young Mona Lisa’ thing:
www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8970sp-us-art-monalisa-diaries/
A missing photo of Mahler may have been found:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/music/a-...photo.html?ref=music
DNA apparently has a half-life:
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22359-dna...ng-fossil-bones.html
Coverage of the first meeting of the Jane Austen Society:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/books/jane-au...ooklyn.html?src=dayp
Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/...robert-d-kaplan.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Old City Jerusalem:
www.haaretz.com/travel-in-israel/tourist...lem.premium-1.468371
Siena:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-...-in-siena-italy.html
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n42.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html
Big bucks expected for a silver decadrachm from Akragas:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58261#.UHqvpGd0YWk
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Roma Caput Mundi:
Jomon Japan:
japandailypress.com/5000-year-old-pots-e...itish-museum-1115355
www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121010f2.html
Bronze:
blogs.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/bronze-gets-sexy-royal-academy/
Durer to de Kooning:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/d...ibrary.html?ref=arts
Faking It:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/f...bition.html?ref=arts
Louis Tiffany and the Art of Devotion:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/l...-art.html?ref=design
Commentary on some recent ‘Islamic Art’ auctions:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/arts/13iht-melikian13.html?ref=arts
Commentary on the role of the curator:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/11iht-ra...ting11.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Da Vinci’s Demons:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/re...cis-demons/?ref=arts
Cyrano de Bergerac:
theater.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/theater/r...-hodge.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Rufus Fears:
www.nationalreview.com/corner/329745/rufus-fears-rip-john-hood
www.oudaily.com/news/2012/oct/07/j-rufus...fessor-year-dies-67/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A sort of roundup of the latest genomic type research into Neanderthals:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...sex-breeding-humans/
cf:
blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/...l-one-stop-shopping/
One of the mostly puzzlingly-written intros to a news piece I’ve read (and
it happens to do with Neanderthals):
phys.org/news/2012-10-eastern-eurasian-a...humans-featured.html
Interview with Jean-Jacques Hublin:
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article...ncestors-3946613.php
More on Neanderthals and humans coexisting in Israel:
zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/neandert...n-israel_803162.html
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AFRICA
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Latest destruction in Morocco involves some Neolithic petroglyphs:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...79c6c7aa83c20199.261
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Overviewish thing on the dig at Tel el Hammam:
www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/10/19...l-World.aspx#Article
Hype for a conference about recent finds in Jerusalem:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=288464
Nice feature on Petra:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-861876.html
abcnews.go.com/International/atlantis-sa...ra/story?id=17520115
Feature on the excavations at Hattusas:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-of-hat...=32392&NewsCatID=375
Tracing olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane back to the time of Jesus:
phys.org/news/2012-10-jerusalem-olive-trees-linked-christ.html
Egypt is trying to stop an auction of antiquities in the UK (not much
detail):
www.egyptindependent.com/news/ministry-c...egyptian-antiquities
Not sure if this is new or not … the creation of an Iraq-Italy cultural
centre
in Iraq:
al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbr...2/10/15/newsbrief-03
Latest damage in Syria:
world.time.com/2012/10/15/landmark-mosqu...-burned-in-fighting/
Latest on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing (nothing really new):
www.livescience.com/24139-gospel-of-jesu...henticity-tests.html
news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-papyrus-121020.html
Latest in the Temple Mount saga:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/252220
More on UChicago’s Demotic dictionary:
More on the opening of the Serapeum:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/tour-bulls-tombs
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Practice Latin, feed the world:
freerice.com/frapi/category_selected/1797185
Tomb raiders lead Italian officials to an apparent shrine of Juno:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18434...aeological-find.html
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some Roman burials … by a cat:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/cat...r-old-roman-catacomb
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/19/Anci.../UPI-38011350675303/
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cat-leads-...ruins-211428133.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/rome-t...rthed_n_1980901.html
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/feline-in...ns-article-1.1188325
Suggestion that Alexandria was aligned to mark Alexander the Great’s
birthday:
www.livescience.com/23994-ancient-city-alexandria-sun.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeoastronomers...align-alexander.html
news.discovery.com/history/egypt-alexand...stronomy-121016.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
world.greekreporter.com/2012/10/18/alxan...with-the-rising-sun/
Sundial from Chalkidiki:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/17/old-...found-in-chalkidiki/
Did Roman girls giggle?:
timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/1...e-romans-giggle.html
The subliminal messages of Roman mosaics in Spain:
phys.org/news/2012-10-romans-greek-myths...cs-civilization.html
www.sciencecodex.com/the_romans_used_gre..._civilization-100103
Thracian site found during highway construction near Dren:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144276
… and a Roman mosaic from downtown Sofia:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144160
… and a lamp from Dueltum:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-an...-deultum-roman-site/
A hoard of Roman solidi found near St Alban’s are going on display:
phys.org/news/2012-10-english-city-roman-gold-coins.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19986855
www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/9987939.Ro..._found_in_St_Albans/
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218640...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/first-ti...th-100-000-1-4379649
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/f...oman-era-gold-coins/
A possibly-previously-purloined head of Agrippina the younger was recovered:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/an...y-italian-officials/
www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Anci...t/7413531/story.html
www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-it...dUSBRE89H0JB20121018
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/f...oman-era-gold-coins/
… but it might not be Agrippina:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18440...-superintendent.html
The UW Madison folks are heading to Troy:
www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57535128/ar...lan-new-dig-at-troy/
phys.org/news/2012-10-uw-madison-archaeologists-mount-troy.html
www.livescience.com/24003-archaeologists...new-dig-at-troy.html
What Dwight Castro is up to:
www.wcn247.com/classics-professor-reveal...2930948#.UIPh22d0YWk
What Gregory Aldrete is up to:
news.uwgb.edu/log-news/faculty-staff/10/15/aldrete-new-book/
What Kristin Vines is up to:
www.chattanoogan.com/2012/10/19/236703/B...t-World-Fencing.aspx
Marking the 60th anniversary of the decipherment of Linear B:
www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the...inear-b-60-years-on/
Learning from Cato:
www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-goodman/cato-...esses_b_1986735.html
American tourists apparently are smuggling a lot out of FYROM:
macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22062/2/
More coverage of the purported discovery of the tomb of Roxane:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-to...e-great-reports-say/
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Tomb found near Sweden’s ‘stonehenge’:
www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
news.discovery.com/history/sweden-stonehenge-tomb-121017.html
A Bronze Age ‘sauna’ from Assynt:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19976653
Another interesting detail in that Richard III thing:
news.discovery.com/history/richard-iii-b...estroyed-121016.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-foot-grave.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015085028.htm
Last week we mentioned the Ness of Brogdar excavations … they have
a dig diary online:
www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/
Finds from various periods underwater near Portimao:
www.theportugalnews.com/news/archaeologi...ns-in-portimao/27026
www.maritime-executive.com/article/arche...-remains-in-portimao
A 17th century shipwreck from Cadiz is going to be moved:
www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/...-shipwreck-in-cadiz/
Germany is trying to protect Baltic shipwrecks:
www.spiegel.de/international/world/germa...wrecks-a-861830.html
Top ten archaeological finds from Ireland:
www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archa...HOTOS-174391661.html
Visit Stonehenge on Google Streetview:
maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?cbll=51.1...p=12,103.97,,0,-6.65
Review of Jane Gleeson-White, *Double Entry*:
www.tnr.com/book/review/double-entry-ven...g-jane-gleeson-white
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Building blocks for Angkor Wat were brought by canal:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628874....ped-in-by-canal.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/angkor...earth_n_1967927.html
Feature on Wang Anshi:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19962432
A collection of old Korean tomes has been discovered:
m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=...te=0100000000&mobile
More on pandaphagic prehistoric humans:
phys.org/news/2012-10-chinese-scientist-...oric-ate-pandas.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible evidence of a Viking outpost on Baffin Island:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...-science-sutherland/
A major First Nations site along the Babine River in British Columbia:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ancient...story-174896271.html
Still looking for remains of Fort Caroline:
jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-10-14/s...search-fort-caroline
They’ve settled the dispute about where Francis Drake landed in
California:
www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Feds-end-...e-landed-3967549.php
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Point-Rey...ing-site-3966058.php
Marking the end of the expedition associated with the Queen Anne’s Revenge:
www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/oct/19/divers-m...pedition-ar-2707952/
Interesting video of someone who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination:
news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-li...ee-video-121018.html
Feature on Brigham Young:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/...urner.html?ref=books
Review of Henry Wiencek, *Master of the Mountain*:
www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163025651/master-...liberty-then-slavery
More on Kennewick Man:
www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162795379/prehist...man-was-all-beefcake
cf:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427297 (2003)
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427095 (2003)
www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/science/an-8-...ted=all&src=pm(2004)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A dozen prehispanic burials from Nyarit:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/news-new/audi...s-from-archaeologica
Archaeonews Podcast:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-215
Videonews from The Archaeology Channel:
archaeologychannel.us/video-guide/video-news-from-tac-new
On the changing ‘voices’ of literature:
phys.org/news/2012-10-voices-older-liter...fferently-today.html
Feature on population changes over the past 100 000 years:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-ye...c-population-changes
… and a probably-related feature on pre-agricultural populations:
phys.org/news/2012-10-prehistoric-human-...ed-agricultural.html
Study of sediments from a Japanese lake is extending the range of
radiocarbon
dating:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/haog-asl101912.php
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/10...-radiocarbon-dating/
www.nature.com/news/core-sample-sends-ca...back-in-time-1.11622
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018141834.htm
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22396-mud...GLOBAL%7Conline-news
Latest study on human lifespans:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-big-rapid...-human-lifespan.html
A new technique for identifying bones which could be used for DNA analysis:
cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/10/Meth...ge-Fossil-Bones.html
Trying to recreate the sound of a Baroque organ:
phys.org/news/2012-10-recapturing-baroque.html
Latests saints:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunda...-state-of-grace.html
Charles Darwin had a bad day:
www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/18/16...no-good-very-bad-day
Review of a book about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Adventure:
www.tnr.com/book/review/one-whale-too-many-arthur-conan-doyle
’s-arctic-adventure
Last season for Time Team:
pastpreservers.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/ti...n-tools-in-2013.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome (according to Lindsey Davis):
www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-22175...ble-sights-Rome.html
Assorted Europe:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-...ts-with-history.html
Plovidiv:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-...r-east-of-italy.html
Spanish monasteries:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/mon...opping-in-spain.html
Siena:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-...taly.html?ref=travel
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Major art theft in the Netherlands:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/design/k...er-theft-of-art.html
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/16/worl...ds-art-heist.html?hp
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/16/art...t_SS.html?ref=design
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mus...efc680b8d_story.html
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html
… and the one that will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n44.html
n.b. there’s news of a gold coin hoard in the ‘Classics’ category ...
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58436
Aphrodite:
austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-10-1...tonio-museum-of-art/
Bronze:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/20iht-melikian20.html
Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&in...w=58376#.UIP3cGd0YWk
Manet:
phys.org/news/2012-10-facebook-manet-friends.html
Rise and Fall of Prohibition:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/a...nter.html?ref=design
Mantegna to Matisse:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/m...tion.html?ref=design
The Getty has purchased the Knoedler Gallery archive:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/g...hive.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Pierrot Lunaire:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/music/pi...arage.html?ref=music
Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/mo...t-carnegie-hall.html
American Classical Orchestra:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/arts/music/am...-hall.html?ref=music
Followup to that Mahler photograph thing from last week:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/ma...bergs.html?ref=music
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Moore Cross:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/frank-moor...eter-dies-at-91.html
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archae...s/the-end-of-an-era/
asorblog.org/?p=3450&utm_source=rss&utm_...ross-an-appreciation
Maria Rosa Menocal:
news.yale.edu/2012/10/15/memoriam-mar-rosa-menocal
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A sort of roundup of the latest genomic type research into Neanderthals:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...sex-breeding-humans/
cf:
blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/...l-one-stop-shopping/
One of the mostly puzzlingly-written intros to a news piece I’ve read (and
it happens to do with Neanderthals):
phys.org/news/2012-10-eastern-eurasian-a...humans-featured.html
Interview with Jean-Jacques Hublin:
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article...ncestors-3946613.php
More on Neanderthals and humans coexisting in Israel:
zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/neandert...n-israel_803162.html
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AFRICA
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Latest destruction in Morocco involves some Neolithic petroglyphs:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...79c6c7aa83c20199.261
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Overviewish thing on the dig at Tel el Hammam:
www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/10/19...l-World.aspx#Article
Hype for a conference about recent finds in Jerusalem:
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=288464
Nice feature on Petra:
www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-861876.html
abcnews.go.com/International/atlantis-sa...ra/story?id=17520115
Feature on the excavations at Hattusas:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-of-hat...=32392&NewsCatID=375
Tracing olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane back to the time of Jesus:
phys.org/news/2012-10-jerusalem-olive-trees-linked-christ.html
Egypt is trying to stop an auction of antiquities in the UK (not much
detail):
www.egyptindependent.com/news/ministry-c...egyptian-antiquities
Not sure if this is new or not … the creation of an Iraq-Italy cultural
centre
in Iraq:
al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbr...2/10/15/newsbrief-03
Latest damage in Syria:
world.time.com/2012/10/15/landmark-mosqu...-burned-in-fighting/
Latest on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing (nothing really new):
www.livescience.com/24139-gospel-of-jesu...henticity-tests.html
news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-papyrus-121020.html
Latest in the Temple Mount saga:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/252220
More on UChicago’s Demotic dictionary:
More on the opening of the Serapeum:
www.egyptindependent.com/news/tour-bulls-tombs
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Practice Latin, feed the world:
freerice.com/frapi/category_selected/1797185
Tomb raiders lead Italian officials to an apparent shrine of Juno:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18434...aeological-find.html
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some Roman burials … by a cat:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/cat...r-old-roman-catacomb
www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/19/Anci.../UPI-38011350675303/
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cat-leads-...ruins-211428133.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/rome-t...rthed_n_1980901.html
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/feline-in...ns-article-1.1188325
Suggestion that Alexandria was aligned to mark Alexander the Great’s
birthday:
www.livescience.com/23994-ancient-city-alexandria-sun.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeoastronomers...align-alexander.html
news.discovery.com/history/egypt-alexand...stronomy-121016.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
world.greekreporter.com/2012/10/18/alxan...with-the-rising-sun/
Sundial from Chalkidiki:
greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/17/old-...found-in-chalkidiki/
Did Roman girls giggle?:
timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/1...e-romans-giggle.html
The subliminal messages of Roman mosaics in Spain:
phys.org/news/2012-10-romans-greek-myths...cs-civilization.html
www.sciencecodex.com/the_romans_used_gre..._civilization-100103
Thracian site found during highway construction near Dren:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144276
… and a Roman mosaic from downtown Sofia:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144160
… and a lamp from Dueltum:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-an...-deultum-roman-site/
A hoard of Roman solidi found near St Alban’s are going on display:
phys.org/news/2012-10-english-city-roman-gold-coins.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19986855
www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/9987939.Ro..._found_in_St_Albans/
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218640...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml
www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/first-ti...th-100-000-1-4379649
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/f...oman-era-gold-coins/
A possibly-previously-purloined head of Agrippina the younger was recovered:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/an...y-italian-officials/
www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Anci...t/7413531/story.html
www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-it...dUSBRE89H0JB20121018
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/f...oman-era-gold-coins/
… but it might not be Agrippina:
www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18440...-superintendent.html
The UW Madison folks are heading to Troy:
www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57535128/ar...lan-new-dig-at-troy/
phys.org/news/2012-10-uw-madison-archaeologists-mount-troy.html
www.livescience.com/24003-archaeologists...new-dig-at-troy.html
What Dwight Castro is up to:
www.wcn247.com/classics-professor-reveal...2930948#.UIPh22d0YWk
What Gregory Aldrete is up to:
news.uwgb.edu/log-news/faculty-staff/10/15/aldrete-new-book/
What Kristin Vines is up to:
www.chattanoogan.com/2012/10/19/236703/B...t-World-Fencing.aspx
Marking the 60th anniversary of the decipherment of Linear B:
www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the...inear-b-60-years-on/
Learning from Cato:
www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-goodman/cato-...esses_b_1986735.html
American tourists apparently are smuggling a lot out of FYROM:
macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22062/2/
More coverage of the purported discovery of the tomb of Roxane:
sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-to...e-great-reports-say/
Latest reviews from BMCR:
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Tomb found near Sweden’s ‘stonehenge’:
www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
news.discovery.com/history/sweden-stonehenge-tomb-121017.html
A Bronze Age ‘sauna’ from Assynt:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19976653
Another interesting detail in that Richard III thing:
news.discovery.com/history/richard-iii-b...estroyed-121016.html
phys.org/news/2012-10-foot-grave.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015085028.htm
Last week we mentioned the Ness of Brogdar excavations … they have
a dig diary online:
www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/
Finds from various periods underwater near Portimao:
www.theportugalnews.com/news/archaeologi...ns-in-portimao/27026
www.maritime-executive.com/article/arche...-remains-in-portimao
A 17th century shipwreck from Cadiz is going to be moved:
www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/...-shipwreck-in-cadiz/
Germany is trying to protect Baltic shipwrecks:
www.spiegel.de/international/world/germa...wrecks-a-861830.html
Top ten archaeological finds from Ireland:
www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archa...HOTOS-174391661.html
Visit Stonehenge on Google Streetview:
maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?cbll=51.1...p=12,103.97,,0,-6.65
Review of Jane Gleeson-White, *Double Entry*:
www.tnr.com/book/review/double-entry-ven...g-jane-gleeson-white
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Building blocks for Angkor Wat were brought by canal:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628874....ped-in-by-canal.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/angkor...earth_n_1967927.html
Feature on Wang Anshi:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19962432
A collection of old Korean tomes has been discovered:
m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=...te=0100000000&mobile
More on pandaphagic prehistoric humans:
phys.org/news/2012-10-chinese-scientist-...oric-ate-pandas.html
East Asian Archaeology:
eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible evidence of a Viking outpost on Baffin Island:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10...-science-sutherland/
A major First Nations site along the Babine River in British Columbia:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ancient...story-174896271.html
Still looking for remains of Fort Caroline:
jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-10-14/s...search-fort-caroline
They’ve settled the dispute about where Francis Drake landed in
California:
www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Feds-end-...e-landed-3967549.php
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Point-Rey...ing-site-3966058.php
Marking the end of the expedition associated with the Queen Anne’s Revenge:
www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/oct/19/divers-m...pedition-ar-2707952/
Interesting video of someone who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination:
news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-li...ee-video-121018.html
Feature on Brigham Young:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/...urner.html?ref=books
Review of Henry Wiencek, *Master of the Mountain*:
www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163025651/master-...liberty-then-slavery
More on Kennewick Man:
www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162795379/prehist...man-was-all-beefcake
cf:
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427297 (2003)
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427095 (2003)
www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/science/an-8-...ted=all&src=pm(2004)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A dozen prehispanic burials from Nyarit:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Audio news from Archaeologica:
www.archaeologychannel.org/news-new/audi...s-from-archaeologica
Archaeonews Podcast:
www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-215
Videonews from The Archaeology Channel:
archaeologychannel.us/video-guide/video-news-from-tac-new
On the changing ‘voices’ of literature:
phys.org/news/2012-10-voices-older-liter...fferently-today.html
Feature on population changes over the past 100 000 years:
discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-ye...c-population-changes
… and a probably-related feature on pre-agricultural populations:
phys.org/news/2012-10-prehistoric-human-...ed-agricultural.html
Study of sediments from a Japanese lake is extending the range of
radiocarbon
dating:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/haog-asl101912.php
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/10...-radiocarbon-dating/
www.nature.com/news/core-sample-sends-ca...back-in-time-1.11622
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018141834.htm
www.newscientist.com/article/dn22396-mud...GLOBAL%7Conline-news
Latest study on human lifespans:
medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-big-rapid...-human-lifespan.html
A new technique for identifying bones which could be used for DNA analysis:
cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/10/Meth...ge-Fossil-Bones.html
Trying to recreate the sound of a Baroque organ:
phys.org/news/2012-10-recapturing-baroque.html
Latests saints:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunda...-state-of-grace.html
Charles Darwin had a bad day:
www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/18/16...no-good-very-bad-day
Review of a book about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Adventure:
www.tnr.com/book/review/one-whale-too-many-arthur-conan-doyle
’s-arctic-adventure
Last season for Time Team:
pastpreservers.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/ti...n-tools-in-2013.html
Ancient Digger:
www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome (according to Lindsey Davis):
www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-22175...ble-sights-Rome.html
Assorted Europe:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-...ts-with-history.html
Plovidiv:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-...r-east-of-italy.html
Spanish monasteries:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/mon...opping-in-spain.html
Siena:
travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-...taly.html?ref=travel
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Major art theft in the Netherlands:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/design/k...er-theft-of-art.html
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/16/worl...ds-art-heist.html?hp
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/16/art...t_SS.html?ref=design
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mus...efc680b8d_story.html
Looting Matters:
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html
… and the one that will appear later today:
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n44.html
n.b. there’s news of a gold coin hoard in the ‘Classics’ category ...
Ancient Coin Collecting:
ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus:
artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58436
Aphrodite:
austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-10-1...tonio-museum-of-art/
Bronze:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/20iht-melikian20.html
Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&in...w=58376#.UIP3cGd0YWk
Manet:
phys.org/news/2012-10-facebook-manet-friends.html
Rise and Fall of Prohibition:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/a...nter.html?ref=design
Mantegna to Matisse:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/m...tion.html?ref=design
The Getty has purchased the Knoedler Gallery archive:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/g...hive.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Pierrot Lunaire:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/music/pi...arage.html?ref=music
Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/mo...t-carnegie-hall.html
American Classical Orchestra:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/arts/music/am...-hall.html?ref=music
Followup to that Mahler photograph thing from last week:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/ma...bergs.html?ref=music
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Moore Cross:
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/frank-moor...eter-dies-at-91.html
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archae...s/the-end-of-an-era/
asorblog.org/?p=3450&utm_source=rss&utm_...ross-an-appreciation
Maria Rosa Menocal:
news.yale.edu/2012/10/15/memoriam-mar-rosa-menocal
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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