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6 July 2009 14 Tammuz 5769 Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12:10
2. Israel opens mosaic museum in the West Bank
3. ArchaeologyBrit-Am Edition of Explorator 12.11
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12:10
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.09 June 21, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An ancient granary from Jordan which predates the development of
agriculture (!):
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/06/19/0812764106.full.pdf+html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ancient-granary-predates-agricultur-09-06-25
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ancient_grain_storage_1
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44896/title/Ancient_granaries_preceded_the__Agricultural_Revolution
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/6/23/ancient-granaries-preceded-the-agricultural-revolution.html?s_cid=rss:ancient-granaries-preceded-the-agricultural-revolution
An intact Canaanite tomb from Bethlehem:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/23/tomb-found-bethlehem.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-23-tomb-bethlehem_N.htm
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/140864
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/ml_palestinians_ancient_grave
http://www.3news.co.nz/Intact-ancient-tomb-uncovered-in-Bethlehem/tabid/209/articleID/109842/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=109842
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Oh-little-tomb-of-Bethlehem.5394202.jp
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=1180752&srvc=rss
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2009-06-23-ancient-tomb_N.htm?csp=34
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009371931_apmlpalestiniansancientgrave.html
Quite a bit of coverage for the discovery of a very large human-made
cave/quarry in the Jordan Valley:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094546.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1094652
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoh-ucd062209.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090624-giant-christian-cave.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-tc-nw-briefs-0624-06251jun25,0,7770051.story
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1708898/ancient_manmade_cave_found_in_israel/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553592/?sc=rssn
http://www.physorg.com/news164888922.html
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/world/30177-ancient-holy-land-quarry-uncovered-team-says
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/06/21/Ancient-man-made-cave-found-in-Israel/UPI-23621245630943/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/sc_nm/us_palestinians_israel_archaeology_2
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-60765.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103831.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55K1QE20090623?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=27096254001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101028.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/ts_nm/us_palestinians_israel_archaeology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101028.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/06/21/news/news-us-palestinians-israel-archaeology.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1245184889162
Review of Rachel Elior, *Memory and Oblivion*:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095884.html
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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... and a Thracian settlement:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=104963
http://www.newspostonline.com/science/archaeologists-uncover-intact-thracian-settlement-in-bulgaria-2009062761336
Feature on the Minoans:
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33491
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A possible Bronze Age roundhouse find has halted a sewage treatment
project in Cornwall:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/8116121.stm
Bronze Age finds during road construction in Ulster:
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Bronze-Age-burial-ground-uncovered.5405429.jp
A medieval village in Espoo (Finland):
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Archeologists+unearth+early+medieval+village+in+Espoo/1135247145462
The latest 15th-century find by a metal detectorist:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/25/Woman-finds-treasure-with-metal-detector/UPI-87501245952502/
Concerns for petroglyphs in Royston:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8119151.stm
Interesting photo of those 'pre-Stonehenge' structures mentioned
last week:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/49021910.html
... and just in case you want to know what went on at Stonehenge
on the Solstice:
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Pagans-partygoers-greet-solstice-at-Stonehenge/tabid/209/articleID/109465/Default.aspx?ArticleID=109465
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2515629.0.Pagans_and_tourists_gather_at_Stonehenge_to_mark_solstice.php
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/22/stonehenge-in-summer/
They've made a replica of Henry VIII's divorce petition:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/23/henry-viii-divorce-letter-vatican
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting models of camel-pulled vehicles dating back 5000 years
b.p. from Altyndepe (Turkmenistan):
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/26/wheeled-vehicle-camel.html
A Russian satellite has helped to locate the ancient castle of the
Volga Khans (honestly not sure if this story should be Europe or Asia):
http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-06-25&article=27913
http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=105018
Arguing about the fate of the Giant kangaroo (spun differently by
the two news organizations):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2606307.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8112885.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There was an early report this week that the location of the Ark
of the Covenant was going to be announced:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102200
... but it didn't pan out:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102274
Not sure we've mentioned this 'adjustment' to mtDNA use in the tracking
of human migrations:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604124023.htm
Next musical recreation: an ancient golden lyre (based on one damaged
in Baghdad):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8114446.stm
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=5395395
Interesting item on facedown burials around the world:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090623-facedown-burials.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-61289.html
More on eBay and fakes and all that:
http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/how-fakes-on-ebay-save-antiquities/
http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-ebay-1286
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Medals of Dishonour (slideshow):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8117000/8117408.stm
Medieval money:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/24/opinion/1194841161149/bloggingheads-medieval-money.html
Nice price for a 9th century British coin:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8119698.stm
A Roman coin find in the UK has been declared treasure:
http://www.fileymercury.co.uk/news/Roman-coins-found-in-field.5404579.jp
... and another Roman coin find:
http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Scarborough39s-Roman-coin-find.5407804.jp
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/dead-sea-scrolls-arrive-in-canada/article1195981/
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/06/25/9918551-sun.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/06/25/dead-sea-scrolls-rom-show.html
More on Israel's new mosaic museum on the West Bank:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Israel-opens-mosaic-museum-in-the-West-Bank/17495
2. Israel opens mosaic museum in the West Bank
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Israel-opens-mosaic-museum-in-the-West-Bank/17495
By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger
The $2.5m Museum of the Good Samaritan houses mosaics and antiquities at a Christian pilgrimage site
jerusalem. Hours after US president Barack Obama'?s historic Cairo speech on 4 June called on Israel to stop building in the West Bank, Israel inaugurated a mosaics museum at a West Bank site.
The opening was planned without consideration for or connection to the speech, said the museum's planner, archaeologist Dr Yitzhak Magen of Israel's Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria (West Bank).
The $2.5m Museum of the Good Samaritan, housing nearly 50 mosaics and a collection of antiquities, was opened at the Christian pilgrimage site where the Bible's 'Parable of the Good Samaritan' is believed to be set. The site also comprises the restored Good Samaritan Inn, a reconstructed Byzantine church, and Second Temple-era dwelling caves.
The museum?s preserved and restored mosaics and other relics from the fourth to the sixth centuries originate from Christian, Jewish and Samaritan historic sites, based on themes in the parable, Dr Magen said. He also said that excavations at the site show it to be the location where King Herod?s palace once stood.
Israel's Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) financed 90% of the museum, with 10% from Israel's tourism ministry.
In an area between Jerusalem and Jericho under Israeli military and civil control, the opening event was flanked by Israeli generals and politicians, in addition to religious leaders and archaeologists. Israel?s parliament speaker, Reuven Rivlin, spoke at the event about the threat to settlements, saying that Israel will not cease to underscore its historical and national roots in the area.
But Palestinians are calling the museum unlawful. Based on prohibitions in international law, UN resolutions, the Oslo Accords and the Road Map, an Israeli museum or any Israeli building in the West Bank is illegal, Marwan Toubassi, the Palestinian deputy minister of tourism and antiquities, told The Art Newspaper.
'As an occupying power, Israel is required [by international law and existing agreements] to preserve the status quo and to act for the benefit of the Palestinian civil population,' Mr Toubassi said.
Since the Pope's recent visit to the region, Israel has announced that it will open several historic Christian sites in the West Bank to the public, including the Christian pilgrimage site Qasr el Yahud, where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was baptised.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Edition of Explorator 12.11
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.11 July 5, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The IAA and IDF are working together to protect sites:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296530569&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167179
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167217
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=44167
More coverage of that intact Canaanite tomb from Bethlehem:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/23/tomb-found-bethlehem.html
Some nice photos from that cave/quarry from Jericho:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/underground-cave-israel-photos/index.html
... if you're curious what I think about claims about a Roman 'flag'
claimed to be inscribed therein:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/07/02/jericho-quarry-that-legionary-banner-not/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the DNA front, there is apparently no connection between the
Etruscans and modern day Tuscans:
http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/89111.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-03_103376095.html
Identifying the hands behind ancient inscriptions:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17405-computer-reveals-stone-tablet-handwriting-in-a-flash.html
Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Tracy-t.html
Review of Sarah Ruden's Aeneid translation:
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=31&a=405797
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Folks might be disappointed to learn that the medieval Scots fought
in urine-dyed shirts and not tartans:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/5675615/Scots-fought-in-bright-yellow-war-shirts-not-Braveheart-kilts.html
More (better) coverage of those Bronze Age/Neolithic remains at
Loughbrickland:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/co-down-dig-reveals-a-prehistoric-mystery-14361986.html
Controversy over Toledo's Jewish cemetery:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/europe/02toledo.html
Review of Norman Stone, *World War One*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Andelman-t.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Tracking the Anasazi:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30chaco.html
Another copy of the Declaration of Independence has turned up:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/02/declaration-of-independence-copy
Some Independence Day musings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03duval.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03freedman.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting collection of features about mistaken beliefs about
the ancient world:
http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/common-errors/
The Spanish flu's viral dynasty:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/healthfluuspandemic_20090630111426
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/10705/divulgacao-cientifica/gripe-secular.htm
How the other half (or tenth) lived:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Gross-t.html
Not ancient at all, but a very interesting bit of papercraft:
http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a-paper-craft-castle-on-the-ocean/
The link between Robert the Bruce and the Declaration of Independence:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/05/declaration-independence-arbroath-wordsmiths
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Dhiban (Jordan):
http://dhiban.wordpress.com/
Gabii Project:
http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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10 weirdest currencies:
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/10-weirdest-currencies-1278.php
Historical Medals:
http://www.historicalartmedals.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/deadseascrolls.php
Exploring Dutch Legacy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/arts/design/03antiques-fr.html
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