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Brit-Am Historical Reports
11 June 2010 29 Sivan 5770
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1. Dreyfus in France: Wife's letters reveal the love that saved Dreyfus
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.06
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.07
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1. Dreyfus in France: Wife's letters reveal the love that saved Dreyfus
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/wifes-letters-reveal-the-love-that-saved-dreyfus-2209706.html?from=dailynews
By DALYA ALBERGE
Extracts:
FRESH light has been thrown on the Dreyfus Affair, the cause celebre that divided France and shook the world in the late 19th Century, by the discovery of thousands of unpublished letters.
Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse. But according to her letters, she was a passionate woman whose undying love for her husband rescued him from the brink of suicide.
Family solidarity, particularly the extent of support from Dreyfus's brother Mathieu, is also revealed in letters that he wrote.
An Oxford historian, Ruth Harris, has gained access to many thousands of unpublished letters which delve further into Dreyfus and the miscarriage of justice that sparked political turmoil.
Alfred Dreyfus was a patriotic French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent, who was convicted of spying on the basis of forged evidence.
In 1894, a cleaner at the German embassy in Paris who was working for French intelligence found a torn-up letter in the military attache's waste-paper bin. The document contained military secrets supplied by an unidentified French army officer.
After a court martial, Dreyfus was deported in 1895 to Devil's Island, off the coast of French Guyana, to serve a life sentence in solitary.
Shackled to a bed at night and existing on scraps of food, he lost the power of speech. The fight to clear him took 12 years -- even though the real spy's identity was unmasked by a senior officer.
Lucie Dreyfus's correspondence "changes the whole history of the affair", Ms Harris said. "The letters show that she was immensely passionate, almost operatic, in her love for her husband."
The novelist Emile Zola took up Dreyfus's cause, writing what is arguably history's most famous open letter, J'accuse. It charged high-ranking army officers of conspiring against an innocent man.
Dreyfus was finally exonerated in 1906 but the army refused to count his time on Devil's Island towards his seniority and promotion.
Devastated by this, he resigned his commission. Nevertheless, he fought courageously in the First World War and died in 1935.
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.06
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on neanderthal-sapiens interbreeding:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/05/26/127133816/neanderthals-in-the-midst
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A fire in the Golan Heights scorched an archaeological site:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelgolanarchaeologyfire_20100527184738
Finds from various periods at Tal al-Ashaari (Syria):
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-05/30/c_13324028.htm
Feature on the Jordan Valley as a cradle of civilizations:
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=26973
Radio interview with Gideon Avni of the IAA:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2240
The politics of the City of David dig:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/26/jerusalem-city-of-david-palestinians-archaeology
Feature on Maimonides:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=176754
Some interesting Vatican revisionism in regards to Mt Sinai and
the Exodus:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176844
More on that pagan altar from Barzilai:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38263
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100528-pagan-altar-israel-science/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Heavy rain uncovered an Iberian site:
http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/iberian_necropolis_dated_100_bc_in_heavy_rain_in_arjona_uncovers_the_furthe/2005100558am
Something seems lost in translation in this account of a 'stone crown'
find from Dura Europos:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201005256004/Related-news-from-Syria/syrian-spanish-archaeologists-find-greek-stone-crown.html
Nice feature on Imperial villas outside of Rome:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Home-Away-From-Rome.html
Some guy has now located the events in the Odyssey in eastern
Canada (no, not me):
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/814265--homer-s-canadian-odyssey
The top ten 'passions' of ancient Rome:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/top-ten-passions-of-ancient-rome-1875051.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Nice feature on the ongoing dig at Howburn Farm (Scotland) and it
Meso/Neolithic remains:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/secrets-of-ancient-scottish-hunters-revealed-by-camp-1.1031197
Looking at runes in a different way:
http://www.physorg.com/news194201383.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100527101057.htm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 2000 years b.p. 'icebox' from Shaanxi:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/26/content_9895920.htm
On 'sticky rice mortar':
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/acs-rta052610.php
http://www.physorg.com/news194411869.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating a Pueblo site in Utah prior to dam construction:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15153724?source=rss
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127074433
Interesting burials at Duffy's Cut:
Recording some petroglyphs located near a recently-discovered
Cohonina site:
http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=388&ArticleID=12570
New York synagogues helped during the potato famine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/nyregion/23about.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Processing rubber in ancient Mesoamerica was apparently more
sophisticated than previously thought:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/mayaball-0524
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1869502/ancient_civilizations_mastered_rubber_long_before_goodyear/index.html?source=r_science
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I'm sure we'll hear more about this over time ... Mark Twain's
memoirs have been unsealed:
http://news.discovery.com/history/mark-twain-memoirs-unsealed-after-100-years.html
What makes Rembrandts so appealing:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100528092019.htm
Latest ancient beer recreation:
http://www.ediblegeography.com/archaeo-alcohology/
Very interesting: the Booth Poverty Map:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/arts/24iht-design24.html
Religious dissenters' records now online:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7764708/Online-record-of-religious-dissenters-published-for-first-time.html
On the domestication of maize:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html
More revisionism in Beethoven's death:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/arts/music/29skull.html
Review of a couple of books about past 'diet crazes':
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/health/25zuger.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Portugal:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/travel/30Douro.html
Syria:
http://www.starbulletin.com/travel/20100530_ancient_syria_captivates.html
AIA guide to New York City:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/garden/27books.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Race to the End of the Earth:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/arts/design/29race.html
Pictures by Women:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/arts/design/28women.html
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.07
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@GMAIL.COM>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we mentioned these finds from various periods found in Daraa
(Syria):
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201005306066/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeologists-unearthed-cemeteries-indicate-human-life-in-early-times-south-of-syria.html
http://www.hindustantimes.com/1800-BC-artefacts-found-in-Syria/Article1-550807.aspx
This week's archaeology-associated riots were at a construction site in
Nazareth:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3899698,00.html
Some Oriental Institute lectures are now online:
http://oihistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/audiovideo-recordings-of-oriental.html
Radio interview with Amnon Ben-Tor about Tel Hazor:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2263
On the DNA front, they're looking at the 'Diaspora Genome':
http://www.physorg.com/news194790879.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/aeco-sfg052710.php
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
http://www.cell.com/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297%2810%2900246-6
Latest on that African 'Ark of the Covenant' claim:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/scholar-s-ark-of-the-covenant-claims-spark-african-storm-1.293038
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/scholar-s-ark-of-the-covenant-claims-spark-african-storm-1.293038
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Not sure if we mentioned this feature on runes yet:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100527101057.htm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting 40000 years b.p. petroglyphs from Australia depicting
assorted megafauna:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/31/2913350.htm
The Australian state of Victoria has launched a shipwreck database:
http://www.thegovmonitor.com/civil_society_and_democratic_renewal/victoria-launches-shipwrecks-website-with-over-2000-images-32544.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on rubber in Mesoamerica:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/rubber-balls-used-in-mesoamerican-game-3500-years-ago-1988439.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The author of the Horrible Histories series has a rather low
opinion of historians:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7140660.ece
Latest ancient beer recreation (in Canada!):
http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/818079--9-000-year-old-beer-recreated
Feature on how volcanoes have affected humans at various points
in history:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8711942.stm
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CRIME BEAT
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Some idiots painted the Uffington White Horse purple:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxford/10238108.stm
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