BHR-73
Brit-Am Historical Reports
31 July 2011 29 Tammuz 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeologists Discover High Priest's Bell?
2. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.11 (Adapted with Permission).
3. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.12 (Adapted with Permission).
4. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.13 (Adapted with Permission).
5. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.14 (Adapted with Permission).
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1. Archaeologists Discover High Priest's Bell?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145970
Archaeologists have discovered a rare gold bell during an excavation in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem.
by Elad Benari
Published: 21/07/11, 11:21 PM
Extracts:
Archaeologists have discovered a rare gold bell with a small loop at its end. The finding was made during an archaeological excavation in the City of David National Park (near the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem) by the Israel Antiquities Authority in cooperation with the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Ir David Foundation.
The directors of the excavation on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, archaeologists Eli Shukron and Professor Ronny Reich of Haifa University, said after the finding, ?The bell looked as if it was sewn on the garment worn by a man of high authority in Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period.
?The bell was exposed in the city?s main drainage channel of that period, between the layers of dirt that had been piled on the floor of the channel,? they continued. ?This drainage channel was built and hewn west to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and drained the rainfall in the different parts of the city, through the City of David and the Shiloah Pool to the Kidron valley.?
The excavation area, above the drain, is located in the main street of Jerusalem which rose from the Shiloah Pool in the City of David. In this street an interchange was built through which people entered the Temple Mount. The remains of this interchange are what is known today as Robinson?s Arch. Archaeologists believe that the eminent man walked the streets of Jerusalem in the area of Robinson?s Arch and lost the golden bell which fell off his outfit into the drain beneath the street.
Jewish sources say that the high priests who served in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem used to hang golden bells on the edges of their coats. The book of Exodus (Shemot), for example, contains a description of the coat of Aaron the high priest in which it is said that coat contains, ?bells of gold.?
While it is unknown if the bell belonged to one of the high priests, archaeologists have not ruled out the possibility.
2. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.11 (Adapted with Permission).
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Explorator 14.11 July 3, 2011
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Finds from various periods in Hasaka Province (Syria):
http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/06/29/355335.htm
The Mughrabi Gate thing is heating up big time (Jordan is now voicing
'concerns'):
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=32568
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90052906?Diplomats%20battle%20over%20Jer\
usalem%20ramp
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-furious-with-jordan-over-condem\
nation-of-jerusalem-s-old-city-renovation-1.369943
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227022
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4087612,00.html
Feature with videos etc. on a long-occupied site near Kibbutz Tzuba:
http://www.foundationstone.org/
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A similarly mysterious 3800 years b.p. mound/burial near Weimar is
apparently even more
mysterious now:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771569,00.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/The-Pharaoh-Of-Thuringia-Archaeologists-Puzzl\
e-Over-Opulent-Prehistoric-Burial-Find-30849.html
Evidence of human sacrifice in the North York Moors some 2000 years b.p.:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-13904504
More on Jewish bones from a medieval well in England:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=226928
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Using a computer to discern authors in the Bible:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-software-aims-to-shed-light-on-the-b\
ible-1.370343
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137500077
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/29/international/i09311\
6D52.DTL
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-bible-algorithm,\
0,1454957.story
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2070435/scientists_decode_deep_history_of_c\
oconuts/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.htm
More on Darwin's marginalia:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/darwin-marginalia/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Crete:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/8602498/Crete-Minoa\
n-treasures-hitthe-bullseye.html
3. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.12 (Adapted with Permission).
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The Philistines and the dig at Gath/Tel el-Safi are getting some press
attention:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48948
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43695120/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://detnews.com/article/20110709/LIFESTYLE04/107090344/-1/rss29
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Sophistication-of-Philistines-is-unearthed.6798530.jp
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/07/08/in_israel_diggers_unearth_the_bibles_bad_guys
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnyu8HXeC7UAfNiZgsD4tEBTA7XA?docId=28b4b3ad4baa46a2abe9a26092dfb4fb
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/In-Israel-diggers-unearth-the-Bible-s-bad-guys-1457568.php
A Kingdom of Israel-era house from Tel Shikmona:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-uncovering-kingdom-israel.html
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-israeli-house-surprises-archaeologists-122006989.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=227791
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145369
Semi-related feature on Khirbet Qeiyafa:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2011/07/06/ime.maktabi.city.of.david.cnn/
Phoenician artifacts from Sidon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Jul-07/Sidon-excavations-unearth-5000-year-old-antiquities.ashx
Using technology to discern the DSS provenance:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i28/8928scene1.html
Latest in the Temple Mount saga:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145492
More on Jordan's archaeological database:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Jordan-gets-a-%E2%80%9Cmega%E2%80%9D-archaeological-database/24318
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
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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Irish archaeologists may have found the remains of Ireland's "Helen of
Troy":
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Medieval-skeleton-remains
-may-reveal-Irelands-Helen-
of-Troy-125246039.html
http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/
news/local/reconstructed_face_of_medieval_
skeleton_may_reveal_ireland_s_helen_of_troy_1_2847951
Some redating and revelations that Vikings filed patterns into their
teeth (inter alia):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/04/teeth-viking-warriors-dorset-grave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-14019172
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-vikings-english-grave-teeth.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/04/teeth-viking-warriors-dorset-grave
The Scots 12th century pottery industry was much larger than
previously thought:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-14030616
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The earliest-ever commercial recording?:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/07/vintage.recording/
http://esciencenews.com/sources/cbsnews.science/2011/07/06/123.year.old.talking.doll.record.speaks.again
cf: http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6388&start=0
Feature on G.K. Chesterton:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7176025.ece
4. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.13 (Adapted with Permission).
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Folks think there are Second Temple artifacts beneath an Ein Karem toilet:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/second-temple-artifacts-may-be-buried-\
under-ein-karem-toilet-1.373285
A Shabbat boundary stone with some Hebrew writing on it:
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=228941
Suggestion that Israeli archaeology is an 'old boy's club':
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/professor-b-z-kedar-is-israeli-arc\
haeology-an-old-boys-club-1.372752
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-right-wing-culture-mini\
ster-making-appointments-based-on-politics-1.372567
On problems with cement and Temple Mount:
http://www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/temple-mount-walls.asp
On some mystery kosher ungulates from Deuteronomy:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=5275
Nice feature on archaeology at Dura Europos:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2011/article/study-sheds-new-light-on-\
archaeology-of-the-dura-europos-expedition
... somewhat related, artifacts from Mount Scopus which were supposed to go
on display in 1948 finally are going on display:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/ruins-from-ancient-syrian-synagogu\
e-put-on-display-in-israel-after-63-year-delay-1.373628
Landmines interviews about assorted digs in the 2011 season:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711c.mp3(Elah
Fortress)
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads-3/files/LM-130711d.mp3(cont\
.)
Video report on the dig at Tel Akko:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIdtvZOrVI
Feature on synagogue excavations in Israel:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=37&Issue=4&ArticleID=7
Another technique to determine he DSS origins:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i28/8928scene1.html
More on finds from Gath:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/13/biblical-bad-guy-archaeologists-uncover-goli\
ath%E2%80%99s-hometown/
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=229291
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/11/in-israel-archaeologists-unearth-bible\
s-bad-guys/?cmpid=cmty_email_Gigya_Archaeologists_Excavate_Biblical_Giant_Goliat\
h%27s_Hometown
More on finds from Khirbet Qeiyafa:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/14/israel.cityofdavid.archeology/inde\
x.html
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_159.pdf
Simcha's got more stuff coming out ... you've been warned:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2011/12/c4756.html
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Using DNA to identify some Joseph Smith descendents:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700150651/DNA-solves-a-Joseph-Smith-mystery.h\
tml
Theory about some strangely-bent trees in Georgia:
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/199/article/52953/
More on the shores of Tripoli:
http://grasstopconcepts.com/e/8565/t.php?b=203&c=3&e=rogueclassicist@gmail.com&p\
=http://tinyurl.com/6zbo2gs
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A history of blood transfusions:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=blood-lust--the-early-history\
-of-tr-2011-07-12
An early attempt at relativity:
http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2011/07/by_the_1860s_the_classical.php
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Malta:
http://www.slate.com/id/2298756/entry/0/
Rhodes:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite8_24589_15/07/2011_398544
Bath:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110701-bath-from-above-an-elevated-guide-to-\
britains-most-beautif
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Not sure when this 'history of Ireland in 100 Objects' began:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0716/1224300799309.html
5. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.14 (Adapted with Permission).
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A tiny, Second Temple bell from near the Siloam pool:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=230527
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145970
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4098615,00.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jsZLC3DMeM7IHVK1W-RwZDB1TBgw?\
docId=CNG.9917d443fadc07586017a75a3b0a0fee.581
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Gold_bell_excavati\
ons_Jerusalem_24-Jul-2011.htm
They're digging again at Tell Belata (Nablus):
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/in-west-bank-city-of-nablus-archaeologists-\
uncover-biblical-ruin-1.374728
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/23/159004.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/22/international/i03532\
6D73.DTL
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/22/in-palestinian-city-diggers-uncover-bi\
blical-ruin/
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49288
Archaeologists are trying to keep politics out of the IAA:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeology-professors-call-on-livnat-\
to-keep-posting-scientific-1.374336
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-right-wing-culture-mini\
ster-making-appointments-based-on-politics-1.372567
.. while work has resumed to remove a number of 'fake gravestones' from the
Mamilla Cemetery:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=230291
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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On Alexander and the area that would become Turkey:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=alexander-and-the-land-that-became-turk\
ey-2011-07-20
Protesting the gold mine that threatens the Alburnus Maior site in Romania:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDRfLW1JreHFOG3oIJ1Ew-xuSeYA?\
docId=CNG.34434e71dd0d8f6f1db55d736e69a70c.5d1
