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Brit-Am Historical Reports
22 August 2011 22 Av 5771
Contents:
1. Another Lion Statue Discovered at Tell Tayinat in Turkey: Philistines to the North of Syria!
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.17
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.18
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1. Another Lion Statue Discovered at Tell Tayinat in Turkey: Philistines to the North of Syria!
http://www.bib-arch.org/news/dailynews.asp
August 01, 2011
Archaeologists excavating at the Iron Age site of Tell Tayinat in southern Turkey have unearthed a 4-foot-tall statue of a roaring lion. The newly excavated lion is one of several to have been discovered at the site over the years. (At right is a pair of lions excavated at Tayinat nearly 80 years ago.) The lion dates to the eighth century B.C.E., when Tayinat was the capital of a small independent kingdom, possibly called Palastin. According to reports, the lion may have come from one of Tayinat?s main temples.*
* For more on the temples at Tayinat, see Victor Hurowitz, 'Solomon's Temple in Context,' BAR, March/April 2011.
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.17
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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More on that palace from the Sudan:
http://news.yahoo.com/remains-ancient-palace-discovered-121203796.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The Tayinat Archaeological Project folks have unearthed the remains of a
monumental lion gate:
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/social-sciences-business-law/u-of-t-archeologists-uncover-3000-year-old-lion.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809104309.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uot-au3080911.php
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/08/09/archaeologists.uncover.3000.year.old.lion.adorning.citadel.gate.complex.turkey
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-lion-adorning.html
Keep up with the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavations (a lot happened this week):
http://gath.wordpress.com/
The Jericho Mafjar Project has a website:
http://www.jerichomafjarproject.org/
A cartouche of Apries from the Tal Defna area:
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/484815
Jomon period (?) artifacts from Damascus:
http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=92604
Interesting items (Roman sword, image of a menorah), possibly dating to the
Jewish Revolt, from an ancient drainage tunnel in Jerusalem:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146499
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-present-ancient-artifacts-found-in-jerusalem-tunnel-1.377614
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Artifacts_destruction_Temple_8-Aug-2011.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49696
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeSSRFveM4
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvWgyWvlYHXUl4Z73GqE32BGNpHw?docId=417d2e3365f042fa837a593dd201bc1e
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYBkIhHMSqoq9SQxhZBU6boXc-GA?docId=CNG.32c732cf1e90321ab700d5c1ff2bb1cd.391
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-12/Archaeologists-link-ancient-sword-to-fall-of-Herods-temple.ashx
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-era-sword-110810.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8689595/Jerusalem-tunnel-contains-2000-year-old-sword-pots-and-coins.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/August/Archaeologists-Discover-Roman-Era-Sword/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/09/Roman-sword-menorah-engraving-found/UPI-29151312889225/?dailybrief
http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalem-tunnel-glimpse-ancient-war-111649346.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4106700,00.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/In-a-Jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-ancient-war-1764386.php
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=17&id=293564 (images)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/in-an-ancient-jerusalem-drainage-tunnel-remains-from-a-2000-year-old-war/2011/08/08/gIQAXqU71I_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/08/israel.artifacts/
Tyre is fighting to keep its World Heritage Status:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Aug-11/Tyre-tries-to-defend-World-Heritage-status.ashx
The Bible Project is being given different spins (in headlines, at least):
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/12/bible-detectives-jerusalem-scholars-trace-bibles-evolution/
http://www.newser.com/article/d9p2f4s80/in-jerusalem-5-decades-of-detective-work-trace-evolution-discover-changes-in-old-testament.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itVOexAUQyzm63cPPJabqJgexpHw?docId=6af926e599c0480daf772f95786ad395
Another illegal construction site about to get under way in Jerusalem?:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146639
We are told that Jewish archaeologists are 'contesting' Jewish ties to Jerusalem:
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7iPBlfG0HELPl1bLBC3jEHfEfncxWsut8Wiq59wubt82e5pc512RN%2bKKN383fDtiO1eOJ75vLXXiNrOxQRkcY4B3aPKLUEYBtns%2b7%2frwEPyY%3d
cf: http://www.forward.com/articles/137273/
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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Five Thracian tombs from northeastern Bulgaria:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131075
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a 2600 years b.p. wall from Saxony-Anhalt:
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110808-36825.html
A bog body from a County Laois bog in Ireland:
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/earth-science/archaeology/2000-yr-old-bog-body-discovered-in-ireland/31582.html
Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a burial cist on the Isle of Skye:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14509160
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This thing about Marco Polo not making it to Asia seems like old news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024221/Marco-Polo-reached-China-picked-tales-Orient-Italians-claim.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193741.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/marco-polos-exploration-may-have-pulled-up-short-20110810-1imqg.html
More libraries are joining Proquest's Early European Books digitization
program:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8712947.htm
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:
http://www.thespec.com/living/travel/article/577924--ancient-caesarea-may-have-been-home-to-pontius-pilate
Cyprus:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/features/rediscovering-cyprus-ancient-heritage/20110808
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.18
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 14.18
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AFRICA
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The Garamantian civilization was apparently practicing some form
of trepanation:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333452/title/Ancient_Saharan_head_cases
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Did a carcinogenic balm kill Hatshepsut?:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-deadly-medication-scientists-dark-secret.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uob-dm081911.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ancient-egypt-queen-killed-by-poison-in-flask-2340826.html
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=453717&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
http://www.history.com/news/2011/08/19/did-skin-cream-kill-egypts-queen-hatshepsut/
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-germany-egypt-queen,0,6569081.story?track=rss
An overview of archaeological activities in Israel last month:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep358015.shtml
They've restored the 'crown' of the Damascus Gate:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49914
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1870&module_id=#as
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=234086
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/how-to-renovate-an-ancient-gate-and-keep-your-friends-1.378976
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-old-city-renovation-shows-gateway-to-the-past-1.378976
Semi-touristy thing on water sources for Caesarea:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/rendering-water-unto-caesarea-1.379536
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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A statue of Hercules from the Jezreel Valley:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49868
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4109238,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8703872/Rare-statue-of-Hercules-discovered-in-Northern-Israel.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/15/scitech/main20092569.shtml
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/rare-statue-of-hercules-found-in-northern-israel-1.378789
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44148368/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/15571-headless-hercules-statue-israel.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-15/ancient-marble-statue-of-naked-hercules-found-in-jezreel-valley.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/hercules-statue-from-roma_n_928875.html
Something on bronze age finds from Cyprus, which I can't get to appear this
a.m.:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/bovine-statue-tops-bronze-age-finds/20110818
I *think* this Carian house find fro Turkey goes in this section:
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=77091
... and I'm never quite certain where Sardinia fits in culturally in the 4th
millennium
B.C. ... here's a wall full of menhirs:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2011/statue-menhirs-found-in-a-sardinian-wall
On the misuse of the 'Sword of Damocles':
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139799434/sword-of-damocles-reference-sometimes-misused
On the myth of Platonic love:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-sex-greek-exposing-myth-platonic.html
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7333
I'm not sure, but I think we've had something on using Roman glass to help
figure out what to do with radioactive waste before:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/12/1800-year-old-shipwreck-holds-key-to-radioactive-waste/
Roman fashion was more varied and innovative than previously thought:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,781214,00.html
Some commentary on Putin's diving adventures last week:
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2011/08/18/politics-and-archaeology-russian-style/
... and you knew someone would tie the Enoch Powell thing to the recent
riots:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100101077/rivers-of-blood-what-enoch-powell-got-wrong-and-what-he-got-right/
Skopje stuff continues:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/14/alexander-great-macedonia-warrior-horse
Review of Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:
http://calitreview.com/19419
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=52573
Odyssean inspiration:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/off-the-shelf-the-wanderings-of-odysseus/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A followup to that bog body find in County Laois:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/3000-year-old-bog-body-is-likely-sacrificed-Irish-king-127898048.html
A 'unique' 1500 years b.p. (maybe) stone house from Gunwalloe on the
Lizard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14512930
It seems rats are off the hook (again) in regards to the Black Death:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/17/black-death-rats-off-hook
Stonehenge is really popular, tourist-wise:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14554689
Feature on the fate of some 15th century 'crypto-jews' in Spain:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=234415
Studying Victorian naval medicine:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-victorian-naval-medicine.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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I think we've had variations on this peruvian-desert-was-once-a-breadbasket story
before:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/peruvian-desert-once-a-breadbasket-110816.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Some British Museum based manga:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/professor-munakata-british-museum
On the utility of ratios of stable isotopes and isoscapes:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8926sci1.html
... and whence came our alphabets:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14544388
Reviewish thing of Julia Lovell, *The Opium War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/arts/19iht-opium19.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Crete:
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/from-real-to-imagined-20110817-1ixp0.html
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