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explorator 5.15                                  August 15, 2002
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wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require
you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should
be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
Thanks to Bill Thayer, Ross Sargent, 'Salinas17', Michael Ruggieri,
Maurice O'Sullivan, Terry Gibson, 'mb2400', Bill Kennedy, Paul James
Cowie, Arthur Shippee, Joseph Nicholas, W. Richard Frahm,'alesmonetos',
and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
n.b. Last week I carelessly suggested the team which had claimed
to have found El Dorado was Polish; it is, in fact, an international
team led by a "Polish-Italian" journalist/explorer. Apologies for
John Noble Wilford attempts to clarify the Chadian skull thing:
In the what-can-DNA-tell-us-about-antiquity department, the latest
suggestion is that there is genetic evidence "middle easter farmers
A log boat which might date to 3000 B.C. has been found off the
The Cerne Abbas Giant was recently, er, 'defaced' (not permanently ...
potentially offensive content in this one):
Satellite technology has revealed a prehistoric site near
... and a prehistoric cemetery has been found near Cheshire:
They're still making significant finds in the 'workers village'near
Gulf News has a nice feature on the alignment of a Dilmun temple at
Plenty of coverage of a story on Bronze Age 'drug trade':
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be marking its centennial by
hauling up a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the basement:
Another piece on politics and archaeology in the Holy Land:
... while archaeologists seem to be quietly excavating a Byzantine
A first century cemetery has come to light near Palmyra:
A human-size statue of Baal Addir was recently revealed in a Sardinian
A Celtic Iron Age fort in Wales is "revealing its secrets":
A large number of Eastern Zhou Dynasty tombs have been found in
... as has an important tomb of an aristocrat:
Four Buddhas have been found hidden inside another Buddha rarely
Sanskrit is in danger of becoming extinct:
There's a battle brewing over the fate of the "Welsh Mary Rose":
There is evidence of pre-Columbian dentistry in Mexico:
Bones found near Lake Jackson (Texas) might be 11,000 years old:
A nice report on excavations near Fort Vancouver:
Home construction in Virginia has revealed the grave of a slave:
A new issue of Bible Review, with online articles on a collection
of New Testament manuscripts, the Exodus debate, and other things:
... and Archaeology Odyssey, with articles on the ten most endangered
archaeological sites, Moses Shapira (wow), et alia:
I came across the Into Archaeology website this week; it's worth a
look for a number of reasons, but in particular its articles section
has some good stuff (currently, an interview with Adrienne Mayor, a
on the Thera ships, and a piece on the work at Bird Cove):
The Oriental Institute has recently added a whole pile of publically-
accessible articles to its News and Notes section:
George Dennis, *Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria*:
Horace, *Odes and Carmen Saeculare* (Conington trans.):
Horace, *Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica* (Conington trans.):
There are claims that recent Al-Qaeda casualties were actually
... can't seem to connect today (hmmmmm...)
Tony Perrottet, *Route 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists*
Anton Powell, * Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek political and
Treasures from a Lost Civilization (Toronto):
Famed debunker James Randi has been running a series on Lucian's
debunking of  Alexander of Abonutichus which is worth a look.
It's in four parts (you'll have to skim through some other, readable,
stuff to get to the bits on Lucian ... it tends to be near the end):
In case you meet someone who asks, "What's all the hubbub about those
Elgin Marbles?", here's a nice article to hand them:
Classical precedents cited in a piece on gossip:
Latin content in a story of a man with way too much time on his hands:
Some guy is studying why ancient Greek buildings seem to do so well
A reader alerted me to LewRockwell.com, this week, which is a political
site which at least one item of interest ... a piece by Daniel
Plenty of ClassCon in a Newsweek piece "Why We Need Heaven":
... and a reason for studying Latin and Greek in an interview with
Not sure whether there's comparanda potential in this bit on the
Peter Jones in the Spectator (there's a Hannibal movie coming!):
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
Monitor (the coverage varies quite a bit in these):
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