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Bestiaria Latina Blog | Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 7
Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 7
Penelope’s Weavings and Unpickings | Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum
Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum
Zenobia | Empress of the East: “I AM HIYA!”
“I AM HIYA!”
H-Net Review | Holt, Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan
Frank Lee Holt. Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient
Afghanistan. Hellenistic Culture and Society Series. Berkeley
University of California Press, 2012. xxi + 343 pp. $39.95 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-520-27342-9.Reviewed by Nathan Albright
Published on H-War (April, 2013)
Commissioned by Margaret SankeyA Numismatic History of the Bactrian Realm
At first glance, a work entitled _Lost World of the Golden King: In
Search of Ancient Afghanistan_ appears to promise a narrative history
of the obscure realm of the Bactrian Greeks who once ruled over that
troubled part of the globe for about one hundred years between their
successful rebellion against the Seleucid rulers in about 260 BC and
their fall to Sakas and other nomadic tribes a little more than one
hundred years later. This misconception grows when one realizes that
this book is part of the large Hellenistic Culture and Society
series. Nonetheless, any reader who expects to find narrative
history, or even an appreciation of narrative history, will be sorely
disappointed by this work, which in fact provides almost no narrative
history of the Bactrian realm in over two hundred pages of writing
(with over one hundred additional pages of supporting endnotes and
bibliography).Instead, most of Frank Lee Holt’s book focuses on the subject of
numismatics, particularly the study of coins and what the coins of
the Bactrian period (260-150 BC) can tell us about the lives of
people in that period and afterward. To that end, after an
introduction that deals with the echoes and memories of the Bactrian
realm within scattered historical and literary references, the book
examines various types of numismatics and explains how they were
practiced by (mostly) European and American coin collectors and
explorers over the last 350 years. First, Holt addresses checklist
numismatics; coins are checked against known king lists to make sure
that everyone has been accounted for. Then, he covers framework
numismatics, in which coins are used to uncover the bare facts of
history necessary to frame a historical narrative. Finally, he turns
to novelty numismatics, which focuses on unusual and distinctive
coins that are often appreciated for artistic reasons without any
concern or interest in their historical and cultural context.At this point, Holt stops his discussion about coins and coin
collectors to examine the lengthy and mostly fruitless search for any
of the thousand Greek cities in what is now Afghanistan and
neighboring countries over which the Bactrian kings ruled. Eventually
one city (Al Khanoum) was found and excavated for over one decade
before political problems in Afghanistan arose. The site was nearly
completely destroyed by native looters who were unappreciative of the
reminders of Greek culture in their nation and who reused the ruins
that had been dug up for their own homes and village buildings. Next,
Holt discusses the scattered epigraphy that demonstrates a highly
complicated picture of multilingual people, some of whom were at
great pains in those backwoods parts of Hellenistic civilization to
show off their erudition in memorials, as well as the more mundane
records of tax collections and accounts of Scythian mercenaries.The book returns to its general focus on coins, arguing that the lack
of scientific archeology in much of Afghanistan has led to the need
for revisionist numismatics, which attempts to uncover as much as
possible about the provenance of the coins that have ended up in
private collections across the world based on when they were brought
to auction or when rumors about them began to spread. Two chapters on
cognitive numismatics follow, in which Holt draws strong conclusions
from the evidence of errors on coins, showing that the stresses of
civil disorder or environmental disaster have led to increasing
errors on coins at key moments. By assessing the location of coin
hoards and the amount of coins left behind, he seeks to demonstrate
the frustrated hopes and dreams of people of Bactria as their
civilization fell and their lands and coins were appropriated by
various successor peoples who imitated what they appreciated in
Hellenistic culture with their own cognitive maps.The conclusion points to both the hopes and aims of this work and the
frustration that many readers are likely to find with it. Holt
briefly recounts the narratives as they have been constructed by
leading historians of Bactrian history, including William Woodthorpe
Tarn, Awadh Kishore Narain, and Homayun Sidky, showing that these
subjective narratives conflict because the basic facts that should
undergird a narrative history are simply not present when it comes to
Bactrian history. Instead of a typical narrative history, Holt
advocates for a look at subaltarn groups in light of his own
ideological bias. He creates a picture of ecological collapse and
immense civil disorder from the fragmentary facts that can be found
on coins, making his criticism of narrative historians for engaging
in the same sort of subjective analysis more than a little
hypocritical.Despite the flaws of this work, including its focus on the narrative
history of Bactrian numismatics and its clear bias for subhistorical
figures whose motives and activities can only be subjectively read
from the limited evidence and against elite figures who created much
of the available evidence from the ancient realm of Bactria, this
work remains of some value. Mainly, Holt looks closely at the raw
materials with which historians work when attempting to explain the
past, such as archeological sites, coins, other cultural artifacts,
and primary documents. Compared to other areas of ancient history,
like the study of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, or Hittites, or
even the somewhat more obscure people of Ugarit and Mari (all of whom
left large amounts of written evidence), the Greeks of Bactria left
meager written evidence. Nonetheless, historians and other
researchers must work with the evidence at hand, and have an ethical
responsibility to admit where evidence ends and where fancy and
subjectivity begin. Holt does well in showing that the previous
writers of Bactrian history have fallen short of the highest
standards of intellectual honesty and tentativeness in their claims,
although he fails to live up to his own lofty standards by making the
same errors in the desire to find some sort of truth from the slim
evidence that has survived the Hellenistic age in remote and troubled
Bactria.Citation: Nathan Albright. Review of Holt, Frank Lee, _Lost World of
the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan_. H-War, H-Net
Reviews. April, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37716This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.
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Latest from our friends at YLE:
Dies veteranorum celebrabatur
Dies festus militum veteranorum in Finnia die vicesimo septimo mensis Aprilis (27.4.) quotannis celebratur. Illo enim die anno millesimo nongentesimo quadragesimo quinto (1945), cum copiae Germanorum ex Lapponia recessissent, pax post longinquum bellum restituta est. In festo veteranorum hornotino orationem habuit praesidens Sauli Niinistö.
Monuit fortitudinem veteranorum non tantum ex rebus fortiter gestis constitisse sed fuisse longinquam et cotidianam, cum per menses, immo annos, scirent quemvis diem ultimum esse posse, vitam iuvenem finiri, antequam bene coepisset. – Milites veterani adhuc superstites sunt in Finnia duodequadraginta milia (38.000). Aetas eorum media est nonaginta annorum.
Alia: Regina abdicavit, vivat rex! … Novum regimen Italiae constitutum … De fraude fiscali coercenda
Theatre Reviews from Didaskalia
From issue 10:
- Seneca’s Thyestes (Michael Goyette)
- Seneca’s Thyestes (Timothy Hanford)
… the same issue also includes:
- Remembering Kate Bosher 1974–2013 (John Given)
Akropolis World News
Latest headline in Classical Greek:
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First the weekly version:
… and then the news for the month of April:
Lecture | Jeremy McInerny on Thermopylae
The intro:
Dr. Jeremy McInerny, Professor of Classical Studies, examines the tactics and strategy of the Battle of Thermopylae (in present-day Greece) in 480 BCE. Why was the battle fought at this location and was it, as it is often portrayed, a turning point in the confrontation of East and West? This lecture puts the Battle of Thermopylae into the context of the Persian Wars, and examines the battle’s significance for the Greeks as well as for Europeans in later periods, in art and poetry.
Relocating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Very interesting item, somewhat on the periphery of our purview, in the Independent:
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, weren’t in Babylon at all – but were instead located 300 miles to the north in Babylon’s greatest rival Nineveh, according to a leading Oxford-based historian.
After more than 20 years of research, Dr. Stephanie Dalley, of Oxford University’s Oriental Institute, has finally pieced together enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the famed gardens were built in Nineveh by the great Assyrian ruler Sennacherib – and not, as historians have always thought, by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
Dr. Dalley first publicly proposed her idea that Nineveh, not Babylon, was the site of the gardens back in 1992, when her claim was reported in The Independent – but it’s taken a further two decades to find enough evidence to prove it.
Detective work by Dr. Dalley – due to be published as a book by Oxford University Press later this month – has yielded four key pieces of evidence.
First, after studying later historical descriptions of the Hanging Gardens, she realized that a bas-relief from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh actually portrayed trees growing on a roofed colonnade exactly as described in classical accounts of the gardens.
That crucial original bas-relief appears to have been lost in the mid 19 century. When it was discovered by the British archaeologist, Austin Henry Layard, in the 1840s, it seems to have already been in such poor condition that its surface was, in all probability, rapidly crumbling away. Alternatively, it may have been amongst a group of Layard’s UK- bound Nineveh carvings which were lost when the boat carrying them sank in the River Tigris. Luckily, however, an artist employed by Layard had already drawn the bass-relief – and that drawing, recently recognised by Dr. Dalley as portraying the garden, had been reproduced in Layard’s book about Nineveh published in London in 1853.
Further research by Dr. Dalley then suggested that, after Assyria had sacked and conquered Babylon in 689 BC, the Assyrian capital Nineveh may well have been regarded as the ‘New Babylon’ – thus creating the later belief that the Hanging Gardens were in fact in Babylon itself. Her research revealed that at least one other town in Mesopotamia – a city called Borsippa – was being described as “another Babylon” as early as the 13 century BC, thus implying that in antiquity the name could be used to describe places other than the real Babylon. A breakthrough occurred when she noticed from earlier research that after Sennacherib had sacked and conquered Babylon, he had actually renamed all the gates of Nineveh after the names traditionally used for Babylon’s city gates. Babylon had always named its gates after its gods. After the Assyrians sacked Babylon, the Assyrian monarch simply renamed Nineveh’s city gates after those same gods. In terms of nomenclature, it was clear that Nineveh was in effect becoming a ‘New Babylon’.
Dr. Dalley then looked at the comparative topography of Babylon and Nineveh and realized that the totally flat countryside around the real Babylon would have made it impossible to deliver sufficient water to maintain the sort of raised gardens described in the classical sources. As her research proceeded it therefore became quite clear that the ‘Hanging Gardens’ as described could not have been built in Babylon.
Finally her research began to suggest that the original classical descriptions of the Hanging Gardens had been written by historians who had actually visited the Nineveh area.
Researching the post-Assyrian history of Nineveh, she realized that Alexander the Great had actually camped near the city in 331BC – just before he defeated the Persians at the famous battle of Gaugamela. It’s known that Alexander’s army actually camped by the side of one of the great aqueducts that carried water to what Dr. Dalley now believes was the site of the Hanging Gardens.
Alexander had on his staff several Greek historians including Callisthenes, Cleitarchos and Onesicritos, whose works have long been lost to posterity – but significantly those particular historians’ works were sometimes used as sources by the very authors who several centuries later described the gardens in works that have survived to this day.
“It’s taken many years to find the evidence to demonstrate that the gardens and associated system of aqueducts and canals were built by Sennacherib at Nineveh and not by Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. For the first time it can be shown that the Hanging Garden really did exist” said Dr. Dalley.
The Hanging Gardens were built as a roughly semi-circular theatre-shaped multi-tiered artificial hill some 25 metres high. At its base was a large pool fed by small streams of water flowing down its sides. Trees and flowers were planted in small artificial fields constructed on top of roofed colonnades. The entire garden was around 120 metres across and it’s estimated that it was irrigated with at least 35,000 litres of water brought by a canal and aqueduct system from up to 50 miles away. Within the garden itself water was raised mechanically by large water-raising bronze screw-pumps.
The newly revealed builder of the Hanging Gardens, Sennacherib of Assyria – and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who was traditionally associated with them – were both aggressive military leaders. Sennacherib’s campaign against Jerusalem was immortalized some 2500 years later in a poem by Lord Byron describing how “the Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold,” his cohorts “gleaming in purple and gold.”
Both were also notorious for destroying iconic religious buildings. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and according to one much later tradition was temporarily turned into a beast for his sins against God. Sennacherib of Assyria destroyed the great temples of Babylon, an act which was said to have shocked the Mesopotamian world. Indeed tradition holds that when he was later murdered by two of his sons, it was divine retribution for his destruction of those temples.
Bizarrely it may be that the Hanging Gardens were the first of the seven ‘wonders’ of the world to be so described – for Sennacherib himself referred to his palace gardens, built in around 700BC or shortly after, as “a wonder for all the peoples”. It’s only now however that the new research has finally revealed that his palace gardens were indeed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Some historians have thought that the Hanging Gardens may even have been purely legendary. The new research finally demonstrates that they really did exist.
Classical Words of the Day
Latinitweets:
pronoun: meus , mea, meum => my bit.ly/YF6RyC #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab—
(@LatinVocab) May 06, 2013
tangere: to touch: verb. Example sentence:Tantalus sitiens flumina a labris fugientia tangere cupiebat.Transla… bit.ly/15mvxkI—
Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 06, 2013
pĭlōsus, a, um
— hairy, shaggy (syn.: villosus, setosus)
—Hence, as subst.: pĭlōsus, i, m., a shaggy person or creature, esp. a satyr—
Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) May 04, 2013
μῑαιφον-ία, ἡ
—bloodthirstiness
—murder—
Henry George Liddell (@LiddellandScott) May 04, 2013
Latin Pres. Partic. denotes action as in progress at the time indic. by the verb tense the Perf. as completed & the Fut. as yet to be AG 489—
Greek+Latin Grammar (@AncientGrammar) May 04, 2013
This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas maias
- c. 69 A.D. — martyrdom of Evodius of Antioch
Bestiaria Latina Blog | Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 5
Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 5
CAAS-CW | Conventiculum Buffaloniense
Conventiculum Buffaloniense
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The Edithorial | May the Force of Greek Storytelling be With You!
May the Force of Greek Storytelling be With You!
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Dorothy King’s PhDiva | Confirmed: Antiquities Smuggling from Syria
Confirmed: Antiquities Smuggling from Syria
Mike Anderson’s Ancient History Blog | Dissecting Rome’s First Triumvirate – Part II
Dissecting Rome’s First Triumvirate – Part II
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues | Looting and Conflict in Syria – do you KNOW where those antiquities have come from?
Looting and Conflict in Syria – do you KNOW where those antiquities have come from?
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Jona Lendering, June Samaras, Magnus Fiskesjo, A Landreau,
Margaret L. Laird, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Richard Campbell,
Bob Heuman,Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
Happy Easter to our Orthodox readers …
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Lucy’s returning home after her five-year sojourn in the US:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305030071.html
http://www.thv11.com/news/article/263179/288/Lucy-fossil-returns-home-in-Ethiopia
The aquatic ape theory makes a comeback:
An OpEd on Neanderthals:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/global/Who-Are-You-Calling-a-Neanderthal.html
More coverage of floresiensis:
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article01041.html
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AFRICA
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Pondering the success of the Kerma Kingdom:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9930
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-riddle-ancient-nile-kingdom-longevity.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some Neolithic petroglyphs from Aydin (Turkey):
Ongoing concerns for the pyramids at Dashur (we may have mentioned this one):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/28/pyramid-tomb-dahshur-egypt-archaeology
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/27/egyptians-seize-pyramid-sites-for-use-as-cemeteries/
Protesting against looting in Egypt:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rally-looting-ancient-egyptian-necropolis-19068430
More on those Egyptian leather chariot bits:
http://alumnews.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2013/05/02/salima-ikram-uncovers-ancient-egyptian-leather/
http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/ancient-egypt-chariot-486726
The ‘Gabriel Stone’ is going on display:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62304
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0rE8MLCey-5CT3SNOeo-a5N4FDQ
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=311728
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/30/jerusalem-museum-unveils-ancient-hebrew-stone/
… and there might be a second ‘Gabriel Stone’:
William Jessup was talking about Tell es-Safi/Gath (includes a video):
http://gath.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/lecture-on-safi-at-william-jessup-university-online/
The Naked Archaeologist accuses Yuval Goren of “caterpillaging” and “Bulldozer
Archaeology”:
http://www.simchajtv.com/bulldozer-archaeology/
… and he doesn’t accept Goren’s explanation:
http://www.simchajtv.com/goren-defends-bulldozer-archaeology/
Big bucks for some Achaemenid glass at Bonham’s:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62352#.UYYxx0qnD8k
… while Egypt was suggesting there were some purloined antiquities there:
A 1300 years B.C./B.C.E burial chamber from Oman:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/millennia-old-burial-chamber-found-in-oman-1.1175535
A 19th century Jewish cemetery from Izmir:
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/05/01/3125546/
A 300 year b.p. purloined Syriac manuscript was recovered in Turkey’s Van
province:
The Turkish Prime Minister is complaining (again) that archaeology is getting in the way of construction:
More coverage of Heracleion:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/ancient-sunken-egyptian-city-reveals-1-200-old-201729650.html
http://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/ancient-underwater-city-revealed/story-fnhod58u-1226633499568
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7JQeLfFzhQ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/heracleion-photos-lost-egyptian-city_n_3178208.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10880304
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/10022628/Lost-city-of-Heracleion-gives-up-its-secrets.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 1700 years b.p. Roman cemetery from Leicester:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22404032
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-roman-cemetery-discovered-130503.htm
http://www.livescience.com/29294-ancient-roman-cemetery-discovered.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130503094130.htm
Moles have dug up some Roman artifacts at Epiacum Roman Fort:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22363936
Evidence is emerging for Caesar being in Germany:
A nice late Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22346772
Fears over tree planting near Castleshaw’s Roman Fort:
Thessaloniki’s ‘Pompeii’ has been saved from relocation (we may
have had this already):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62287#.UYY-s0qnD8k
What David Soren is up to:
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2013/05/ua-professor-forever-a-performer
Interview with Candida Moss about her lack-of-martyrdom tome:
Pondering the changing perceptions of the ancient world:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/04iht-melikian04.html?pagewanted=all
A Macedonian antiquities smuggling ring is broken up:
Funding for the Vindolanda Trust:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22410641
Bob Kaster has been inducted to the AAAS:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2013/04/30/33463/
Interesting feature on Athens’ National Archaeological Museum during WWII:
http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/3728
OpEd on why people should know Plutarch:
http://www.portlanddailysun.me/index.php/opinion/columns/9254-why-plutarch-matters
Reviving Roman Pantomime:
Latest CSA newsletter:
http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring13
Audio of the Ovationes and presidential address from the latest CAMWS meeting:
http://www.camws.org/News/index.php
Review of Aldo Schiavone’s *Spartacus*:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/pinning-down-spartacus/
More on the Qatar nude statue kerfuffle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/28/qatar-returns-statues-greece-nudity
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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200 years b.p. remains of a British soldier from a beach in the Netherlands:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22340193
Archaeologists are going to be poking around some Derbyshire gardens:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22407674
Rethinking the purpose of those Viking sun-compasses:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-errors-viking-sun-compass-hint.html
Carbon tests for a skeleton in the hopes it will confirm it belonged to someone
in the Battle of Lewes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22357869
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10386263.Ancient_Sussex_bones_may_be_warrior/
More digging is planned at that Richard III site:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-archaeologists-richard-iii-site.html
… while his reconstructed head is going on tour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22322756
Feature on cannibalism in Europe:
Some bronze axes from the Vale of Glamorgan have been declared treasure:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-22397280
Big bucks for a gold Iron Age bracelet at auction:
Plans to build a full-size replica of the Mayflower:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22358276
A major Viking exhibition (including a ship!) is coming to the British Museum:
Oldest evidence of atmospheric pollution in Europe:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430092325.htm
The lengthy process of preserving the Mary Rose continues:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22337881
Where Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote (maybe):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22311399
Vague item on plenty of finds from various periods made during dam construction in Portugal:
http://theportugalnews.com/news/dam-digs-archeological-finds-dating-millions-of-years/28260
Trying to keep the ‘later found’ bits associated with the Staffordshire Hoard with the
rest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-22359844
More on early use of fertilizer in Sweden:
Review of Grehan and Mace, *The Battle of Hastings 1066*:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2013/05/battle-hastings-uncomfortable-truth
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Research suggests agriculture in China is some 12 000 years older (!) than previously
thought:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html
A pile of burials dating to 5000 – 6000 years b.p. in Northern Vietnam:
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20130105-24317.html
The Indus Civilization might not have been so peaceful after all:
The Met is returning some sculptures to Cambodia:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62353#.UYZSbUqnD8k
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/design/the-met-to-return-statues-to-cambodia.html
Some bronze heads looted from a Beijing palace in 1860 are being returned:
http://weibo.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/28/la-france-rend-a-la-chine-deux-bronzes-pilles-en-1860/
More on deliberate migration to Australia:
http://www.nature.com/news/first-australians-may-have-been-migrants-rather-than-drifters-1.12865
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East Asian Archaeology:
http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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As might be expected, news of possible cannibalism at Jamestown dominated the
archaeological news this week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22362831
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scholars-cannibalism-jamestown-settlement.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/consuming-colonists.html
More Tequesta people remains from along the Miami River:
http://wlrn.org/post/more-evidence-tequesta-civilization-unearthed-near-miami-river
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/30/3373505/archaeological-dig-on-miami-river.html
Archaeologists have located the site of Carr’s Fort in Georgia:
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/2013/04/30/archaeologists-discover-revolutionary-war-fort/
Logging equipment damages a site in California:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-halted-archaeological-site.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/02/5388345/forestry-protections-increased.html
Concerns for shipwrecks off Nova Scotia:
Interesting research into Stonewall Jackson’s moonlit death:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-celestial-sleuths-moon-death-stonewall.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0502/How-astronomy-solved-a-Civil-War-mystery
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/stonewall-jackson-death-mystery-130502.htm
Some interesting letters from Bradford:
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/04/28/living/century-old-letters-written-in-bradford-feature-lots-of-names/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Studying petroglyphs in northern Argentina:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62162#.UYZbokqnD8k
A bunch of mysterious orbs beneath a pyramid at Teotihuacan (an offshoot
of last week’s coverage):
http://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-uncover-hundreds-of-mysterious-orbs-in-a-486026749
More on the origins of the Maya:
http://scienceblog.com/62643/archaeologists-unearth-new-information-on-origins-of-maya-civilization/
—–
Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the history of smoking:
http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-coleman/background-smoking-growth-social-habit
Pondering/dismissing the Toba supervolcano-near-human-extinction theory:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355515
Another feature on the Vatican Library’s digitization project:
Possibly the earliest European depiction of Native Americans turns up in a Vatican fresco:
http://news.yahoo.com/native-americans-hid-vatican-more-500-years-190637615.html
Assorted ancient sites from satellite photos:
On how humans have affected the earth:
On coffee and history:
Turkey and Gemany are arguing over antiquities:
http://www.dw.de/archaeology-strains-german-turkish-relations/a-16772755
Interesting online exhibit … Lowell Thomas and WWI in Palestine:
http://library.marist.edu/archives/LTtravelogues
Feature on Franck Goddio:
A manuscript which once belonged to Montaigne:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-manuscript-discovery-montaignes-library.html
More on recordings of Alexander Graham Bell:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-alexander-graham-bell-voice-scientists.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Fortress Tzuba:
Hadrianic Athens:
http://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/travel/41348-greece-hadrian-s-athens
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n17.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n18.html
The outcome of that fake dekadrachm dispute:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/23/56949.htm
——
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Last Days of Pompeii:
http://enjoy.ohio.com/art-review-the-last-days-of-pompeii-at-cleveland-museum-of-art-1.393181
Echoes of Egypt:
http://www.theday.com/article/20130505/ENT16/305059990/1044
Samurai:
Discovering Medicine in the Golden Age of Islam:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-debt-islam-medics-amazing.html
The lowest museum on earth is in the Jordan Valley:
http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/jordan-valley-boasts-the-lowest-museum-on-earth/
Feature on art collecting:
Feature on the AADLA Spring Show:
Assorted arts items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/arts/design/rooms-with-a-view-of-british-history.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lohengrin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/arts/02iht-loomis02.html
—-
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
… and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Kathryn Bosher:
Helen Jacquet-Gordon:
http://oihistory.blogspot.ca/2013/04/helen-jacquet-gordon-7-february-1918-26.html
Henry Hope Reed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/arts/design/henry-hope-reed-architecture-historian-dies-at-97.html?ref=design
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130428.mp3
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
================================================================
Frontiers of the European Iron Age (September 20-22):
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/iron_age/2013/index.html
PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):
http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
Ancient Digger:
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Past Horizons:
Stonepages:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
Happy Easter to our Orthodox readers …
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Lucy’s returning home after her five-year sojourn in the US:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305030071.html
http://www.thv11.com/news/article/263179/288/Lucy-fossil-returns-home-in-Ethiopia
The aquatic ape theory makes a comeback:
An OpEd on Neanderthals:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/global/Who-Are-You-Calling-a-Neanderthal.html
More coverage of floresiensis:
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article01041.html
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AFRICA
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Pondering the success of the Kerma Kingdom:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9930
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-riddle-ancient-nile-kingdom-longevity.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some Neolithic petroglyphs from Aydin (Turkey):
Ongoing concerns for the pyramids at Dashur (we may have mentioned this one):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/28/pyramid-tomb-dahshur-egypt-archaeology
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/27/egyptians-seize-pyramid-sites-for-use-as-cemeteries/
Protesting against looting in Egypt:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rally-looting-ancient-egyptian-necropolis-19068430
More on those Egyptian leather chariot bits:
http://alumnews.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2013/05/02/salima-ikram-uncovers-ancient-egyptian-leather/
http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/ancient-egypt-chariot-486726
The ‘Gabriel Stone’ is going on display:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62304
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0rE8MLCey-5CT3SNOeo-a5N4FDQ
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=311728
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/30/jerusalem-museum-unveils-ancient-hebrew-stone/
… and there might be a second ‘Gabriel Stone’:
William Jessup was talking about Tell es-Safi/Gath (includes a video):
http://gath.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/lecture-on-safi-at-william-jessup-university-online/
The Naked Archaeologist accuses Yuval Goren of “caterpillaging” and “Bulldozer
Archaeology”:
http://www.simchajtv.com/bulldozer-archaeology/
… and he doesn’t accept Goren’s explanation:
http://www.simchajtv.com/goren-defends-bulldozer-archaeology/
Big bucks for some Achaemenid glass at Bonham’s:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62352#.UYYxx0qnD8k
… while Egypt was suggesting there were some purloined antiquities there:
A 1300 years B.C./B.C.E burial chamber from Oman:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/millennia-old-burial-chamber-found-in-oman-1.1175535
A 19th century Jewish cemetery from Izmir:
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/05/01/3125546/
A 300 year b.p. purloined Syriac manuscript was recovered in Turkey’s Van
province:
The Turkish Prime Minister is complaining (again) that archaeology is getting in the way of construction:
More coverage of Heracleion:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/ancient-sunken-egyptian-city-reveals-1-200-old-201729650.html
http://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/ancient-underwater-city-revealed/story-fnhod58u-1226633499568
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/heracleion-photos-lost-egyptian-city_n_3178208.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10880304
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 1700 years b.p. Roman cemetery from Leicester:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22404032
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-roman-cemetery-discovered-130503.htm
http://www.livescience.com/29294-ancient-roman-cemetery-discovered.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130503094130.htm
Moles have dug up some Roman artifacts at Epiacum Roman Fort:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22363936
Evidence is emerging for Caesar being in Germany:
A nice late Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22346772
Fears over tree planting near Castleshaw’s Roman Fort:
Thessaloniki’s ‘Pompeii’ has been saved from relocation (we may
have had this already):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62287#.UYY-s0qnD8k
What David Soren is up to:
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2013/05/ua-professor-forever-a-performer
Interview with Candida Moss about her lack-of-martyrdom tome:
Pondering the changing perceptions of the ancient world:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/04iht-melikian04.html?pagewanted=all
A Macedonian antiquities smuggling ring is broken up:
Funding for the Vindolanda Trust:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22410641
Bob Kaster has been inducted to the AAAS:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2013/04/30/33463/
Interesting feature on Athens’ National Archaeological Museum during WWII:
http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/3728
OpEd on why people should know Plutarch:
http://www.portlanddailysun.me/index.php/opinion/columns/9254-why-plutarch-matters
Reviving Roman Pantomime:
Latest CSA newsletter:
http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring13
Audio of the Ovationes and presidential address from the latest CAMWS meeting:
http://www.camws.org/News/index.php
Review of Aldo Schiavone’s *Spartacus*:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/pinning-down-spartacus/
More on the Qatar nude statue kerfuffle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/28/qatar-returns-statues-greece-nudity
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Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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200 years b.p. remains of a British soldier from a beach in the Netherlands:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22340193
Archaeologists are going to be poking around some Derbyshire gardens:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22407674
Rethinking the purpose of those Viking sun-compasses:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-errors-viking-sun-compass-hint.html
Carbon tests for a skeleton in the hopes it will confirm it belonged to someone
in the Battle of Lewes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-22357869
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10386263.Ancient_Sussex_bones_may_be_warrior/
More digging is planned at that Richard III site:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-archaeologists-richard-iii-site.html
… while his reconstructed head is going on tour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22322756
Feature on cannibalism in Europe:
Some bronze axes from the Vale of Glamorgan have been declared treasure:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-22397280
Big bucks for a gold Iron Age bracelet at auction:
Plans to build a full-size replica of the Mayflower:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22358276
A major Viking exhibition (including a ship!) is coming to the British Museum:
Oldest evidence of atmospheric pollution in Europe:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430092325.htm
The lengthy process of preserving the Mary Rose continues:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22337881
Where Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote (maybe):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-22311399
Vague item on plenty of finds from various periods made during dam construction in Portugal:
http://theportugalnews.com/news/dam-digs-archeological-finds-dating-millions-of-years/28260
Trying to keep the ‘later found’ bits associated with the Staffordshire Hoard with the
rest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-22359844
More on early use of fertilizer in Sweden:
Review of Grehan and Mace, *The Battle of Hastings 1066*:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2013/05/battle-hastings-uncomfortable-truth
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Research suggests agriculture in China is some 12 000 years older (!) than previously
thought:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-agriculture-china-years.html
A pile of burials dating to 5000 – 6000 years b.p. in Northern Vietnam:
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20130105-24317.html
The Indus Civilization might not have been so peaceful after all:
The Met is returning some sculptures to Cambodia:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62353#.UYZSbUqnD8k
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/design/the-met-to-return-statues-to-cambodia.html
Some bronze heads looted from a Beijing palace in 1860 are being returned:
http://weibo.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/28/la-france-rend-a-la-chine-deux-bronzes-pilles-en-1860/
More on deliberate migration to Australia:
http://www.nature.com/news/first-australians-may-have-been-migrants-rather-than-drifters-1.12865
—–
East Asian Archaeology:
http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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As might be expected, news of possible cannibalism at Jamestown dominated the
archaeological news this week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22362831
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scholars-cannibalism-jamestown-settlement.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/consuming-colonists.html
More Tequesta people remains from along the Miami River:
http://wlrn.org/post/more-evidence-tequesta-civilization-unearthed-near-miami-river
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/30/3373505/archaeological-dig-on-miami-river.html
Archaeologists have located the site of Carr’s Fort in Georgia:
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/2013/04/30/archaeologists-discover-revolutionary-war-fort/
Logging equipment damages a site in California:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-halted-archaeological-site.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/02/5388345/forestry-protections-increased.html
Concerns for shipwrecks off Nova Scotia:
Interesting research into Stonewall Jackson’s moonlit death:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-celestial-sleuths-moon-death-stonewall.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0502/How-astronomy-solved-a-Civil-War-mystery
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/stonewall-jackson-death-mystery-130502.htm
Some interesting letters from Bradford:
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Studying petroglyphs in northern Argentina:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62162#.UYZbokqnD8k
A bunch of mysterious orbs beneath a pyramid at Teotihuacan (an offshoot
of last week’s coverage):
http://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-uncover-hundreds-of-mysterious-orbs-in-a-486026749
More on the origins of the Maya:
http://scienceblog.com/62643/archaeologists-unearth-new-information-on-origins-of-maya-civilization/
—–
Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the history of smoking:
http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-coleman/background-smoking-growth-social-habit
Pondering/dismissing the Toba supervolcano-near-human-extinction theory:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355515
Another feature on the Vatican Library’s digitization project:
Possibly the earliest European depiction of Native Americans turns up in a Vatican fresco:
http://news.yahoo.com/native-americans-hid-vatican-more-500-years-190637615.html
Assorted ancient sites from satellite photos:
On how humans have affected the earth:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23460-humans-indelible-stamp-on-earth-clear-5000-years-ago.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news
On coffee and history:
Turkey and Gemany are arguing over antiquities:
http://www.dw.de/archaeology-strains-german-turkish-relations/a-16772755
Interesting online exhibit … Lowell Thomas and WWI in Palestine:
http://library.marist.edu/archives/LTtravelogues
Feature on Franck Goddio:
A manuscript which once belonged to Montaigne:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-manuscript-discovery-montaignes-library.html
More on recordings of Alexander Graham Bell:
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-alexander-graham-bell-voice-scientists.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Fortress Tzuba:
Hadrianic Athens:
http://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/travel/41348-greece-hadrian-s-athens
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest issue of the e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n17.html
… and the one which will appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n18.html
The outcome of that fake dekadrachm dispute:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/23/56949.htm
——
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Last Days of Pompeii:
http://enjoy.ohio.com/art-review-the-last-days-of-pompeii-at-cleveland-museum-of-art-1.393181
Echoes of Egypt:
http://www.theday.com/article/20130505/ENT16/305059990/1044
Samurai:
Discovering Medicine in the Golden Age of Islam:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-debt-islam-medics-amazing.html
The lowest museum on earth is in the Jordan Valley:
http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/jordan-valley-boasts-the-lowest-museum-on-earth/
Feature on art collecting:
Feature on the AADLA Spring Show:
Assorted arts items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/arts/design/rooms-with-a-view-of-british-history.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lohengrin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/arts/02iht-loomis02.html
—-
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
… and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Kathryn Bosher:
Helen Jacquet-Gordon:
http://oihistory.blogspot.ca/2013/04/helen-jacquet-gordon-7-february-1918-26.html
Henry Hope Reed:
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
================================================================
Frontiers of the European Iron Age (September 20-22):
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/iron_age/2013/index.html
PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):
http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
Ancient Digger:
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Past Horizons:
Stonepages:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
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EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest
news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.
Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of
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Catching Up With the Classicists
Over the past few weeks a number of Classicists have been mentioned in various news outlets for various reasons … I think I’ve mentioned most of them in my Explorator newsletter, but have been too swamped to mention them here efficiently, so here’s a compendium:
Robert Kaster was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
- FACULTY AWARD: Eight named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Princeton News)
Feature on David Soren and his Art History and the Cinema course:
- UA professor forever a performer (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Candida Moss is getting attention for her book about the ‘myth’ of Christian martyrdom:
Barry Strauss was talking Spartacus at the AAR:
Henry Bayerle was interviewed about teaching ancient languages:
Patricia Johnston was talking Aeneid:
Guy Hedreen got a Guggenheim:
… as did Kyle Harper:
Angelos Chaniotis was talking Greek graffiti:
Steven Tuck was talking gladiators:
Eric Robinson was talking Spartans:
Timothy McNiven was talking monsters:
Mary Beard received a nice post:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas maias
- 11 B.C. — dedication of the Theatre of Marcellus
- ca. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Florian in what would become Austria
- ca. 304 A.D. — martydom of Pelagia at Tarsus
- 1406 — death of Coluccio Salutati (humanist and proto-Classicist)
Bestiaria Latina Blog | Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 3
Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 3
Classically Inclined | Freud, the uncanny and monsters
Freud, the uncanny and monsters
- via Classically Inclined.
