BHR-77
Brit-Am Historical Reports
25 September 2011 26 Elul 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.22
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.23
3. U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.22
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Concerns for the site of Mari:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2011/article/ancient-mesopotamian-city-in-need-of-rescue
Overviewish/latest fromish thing from Gezer:
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=36120
Google is just starting to get Israel in Street View:
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000681839&fid=1725
Feature on the ancient turquoise mines of the South Sinai:
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/494222
Latest on the lead codices:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/PDFs/Update%20_Codices4.pdf
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/ver358012.shtml
Mel Gibson is yakking about Judah Maccabee and semi-related
things:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/mel-gibson-on-judah-maccabee-christopher-hitchens-and-circumcision/244828/
Review of Weston Fields, *The Dead Sea Scrolls*:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29722
Review of Jodi Magness, *Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit*:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33304
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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Very interesting Thracian chariot-woman-burial from Elhovo (Bulgaria):
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=132006
Excavations at Erimi (Cyprus) have concluded for the season:
http://your-story.org/cyprus-department-of-antiquities-completes-erimi-excavations-266945/
Some coverage of that Marathon reenactment:
http://www.theadvocate.com.au/news/world/world/general/history-buffs-sweat-it-out/2289635.aspx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXARXuUc4gFuTJbWh-RY5zRXX50Q?docId=CNG.ee29706d29744c955731a90381f66cc5.171
Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/129945988.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Iron Age hillfort at Ham Hill suggests a possible 'suburbia' around it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/iron-age-hill-fort-excavation
Medieval 'Zombie' burial from Ireland (isn't this a 'vampire' burial?):
http://news.discovery.com/history/zombie-skeletons-ireland-grave-110916.html
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=0&catid=20107552&videofeed=36
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44549702/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2038565/Skeletons-buried-stones-mouths-stop-returning-zombies-discovered-Ireland.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Using tree rings as evidence of forest fires in the Appalachians:
http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2011/09/07/tree-rings-reveal-forest-fires-from-hundreds-of-years-ago/
A site in Montana reveals some dark days in Crow history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/us/11tribe.html
Someone is looking at runestones again:
http://itemonline.com/local/x478402746/Professor-investigates-ancient-carvings
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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History's most overlooked 'mysteries':
http://www.livescience.com/11361-history-overlooked-mysteries.html
Latest facial reconstruction is on Simon of Sudbury:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14896640
Can't remember if we had this mother/father tongue story before:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110915225843.htm
Five other surprise attacks that changed history:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140156564/5-other-surprise-attacks-that-changed-history
ULeeds has come up with an improved method for detecting sites from the air:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-beneath-soil-uncover.html
The Smithsonian's Conservation Institute have figured out how to date silk:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-team-technique-dating-silk.html
On dating stone tools:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/science/13qna.html
Scathing review of a number of books about Columbus and his ilk:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576558540795723736.html
Review of Nigel Cliff, *Holy War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/holy-war-by-nigel-cliff-book-review.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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In the footsteps of the Tenth Legion (Israel):
http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=238089
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.23
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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Video feature on the Umm el-Jimal project (Jordan):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MyreMP5B0&feature=uploademail
LandMinds visits and discusses Tel Socho:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-210911d.mp3
That professor at the University of Western Australia who spotted a pile of
sites in Saudi Arabia via Google Earth has spotted a couple thousand more
in the region:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-unearth-20110923-1kol7.html
http://www.kiamaindependent.com.au/news/national/national/general/google-unearth-aussie-discovers-new-treasures-from-the-past-from-his-office/2302154.aspx
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-unearth-aussie-discovers-new-treasures-from-the-past--from-his-office-20110923-1kol7.html
Interesting item from the Cairo Geniza:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=238087
I think we mentioned this 'lost fleet' of Egypt being discovered back in
June:
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jun/02-egypts-lost-fleet-its-been-found
More on those 'Nazca Lines' in the Middle East:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2037850/Thousands-strange-Nazca-Lines-discovered-Middle-East.html
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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Not quite sure where to put this one ... a clumsy, unemployed Bulgarian has
found a Bronze Age hoard:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Sep-24/149548-jobless-bulgarian-stumbles-across-ancient-treasure-worth-$2-million.ashx
Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:
http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-18/news/30172178_1_punic-wars-tyre-rome
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Ancient Swedish fisher folk used to put human heads on stakes for 'display'
purposes:
http://www.thelocal.se/36226/20110919/
cf:
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/09/ancient_swedish_fishers_put_hu.php
An Iron Age burial from Leicestershire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-15033961 (video)
Feature on various map-depictions of Scotland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15008220
A Jewish-Indian Haggadah turns up in a garage sale in Salford:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13907225
The Bodleian has digitized its copy of a work by Maimonides:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14973052
http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
More on that 'zombie' burial from Ireland:
http://news.discovery.com/history/zooms/zombie-skeletons-ireland-grave-110916.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Talking about he role of religion in the collapse of civilizations:
http://universe.byu.edu/index.php/2011/09/19/religions-role-in-the-collapse-of-civilizations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=religions-role-in-the-collapse-of-civilizations
Review of Laurence Bergreen, *Columbus: The Four Voyages*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/books/review/columbus-the-four-voyages-by-laurence-bergreen-book-review.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:
http://www.thestar.com/travel/africamideast/article/1058708--the-ghost-city-of-petra
Turkey's ancient sites:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/8773959/Turkeys-best-ancient-sites.html
Kabul:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/City+where+history+hangs+thick/5404508/story.html
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CRIME BEAT
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The site of Apamea is being vandalized/plundered:
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/20/370499.htm
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Kingdom of Alexander the Great:
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/09/19/the-kingdom-of-alexander-the-great-travels-to-the-louvre-via-stavros-niarchos-foundation/
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HUMOUR
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Geek Legends:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1582.html
3. U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
Plan was aimed at preventing Israel from expanding westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank.
By Amir Oren
http://www.haaretz.com/news/u-s-had-emergency-plan-for-attacking-israel-in-1967-1.218857
Extracts:
For some time, the United States had had an emergency plan to attack Israel, a plan updated just prior to the 1967 war, aimed at preventing Israel from expanding westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank.
In May 1967, one of the U.S. commands was charged with the task of removing the plan from the safe, refreshing it and preparing for an order to go into action.
This unknown aspect of the war was revealed in what was originally a top-secret study conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington.
In February 1968, an institute expert, L. Weinstein, wrote an article called "Critical Incident No. 14," about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East crisis of May-June 1967.Only 30 copies of his study were printed for distribution. Years later the material was declassified and can now be read by everyone, although details that are liable to give away sources' identities and operational ideas have remained censored.
The general who oversaw the planning in 1967 was Theodore John ("Ted") Conway, then 56 and a four-star general, the head of Strike Command.
The basis for the directive was Washington's policy of support for the existence, independence and territorial integrity of all the states of the region. This translated into adherence to the Israeli-Arab armistice lines of 1949. The policy was not to allow Egypt, or any combination of Arab states, to destroy Israel, but also not to allow Israel to expand westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank.
The American pressure in this regard brought the IDF back from El Arish in Operation Horev in 1949 and from Sinai in 1956. A version of it would appear in Henry Kissinger's directives after the IDF encircled Egypt's Third Army at the end of the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, barred the distribution of the planning concept to subordinate levels. A preliminary paper was prepared by June 5, the day the war erupted, and became outdated even before it could be used.
On June 6, when the success of the Israel Air Force was known, and as the divisions under IDF Generals Israel Tal, Ariel Sharon and Avraham Yoffe advanced into Sinai, the Joint Chiefs sent McNamara top-secret memorandum No. 315-67, recommending that the United States not intervene militarily, that it continue to work through the United Nations and bilateral diplomatic channels, including consultation with the Soviets, to stop the war, and that logistical support for all sides be suspended.
The American sigh of relief at the demise of the worst-case scenario - the danger that Israel would be destroyed - was replaced by the fear that the Arab defeat had been so crushing that the Soviets would intervene on their behalf, or at least would reap a diplomatic profit.
Because the United States did not know what Israel was aiming at, despite declarations by Eshkol and by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan that Israel had no territorial ambitions, the administration "now felt that it was necessary to limit [the Israeli] success to reasonable bounds."
Two retired IDF major generals, Israel Tal and Shlomo Gazit, who was then head of research in Military Intelligence, said recently, upon hearing the secret plan of the U.S. military, that Israel had no knowledge of this.
The IDF fought the Egyptians, the Jordanians and the Syrians without imagining that it might find itself confronting the Americans as well, in their desert camouflage fatigues.
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