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Brit-Am Historical Reports
28 November 2011 2 Kislev 5772
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.29.
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.30.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.31.
4. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.32.
5. Professor Joseph Naveh: Epigraphic Reminiscences.
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.29
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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The fall of Gaddafi in Egypt is causing excitement over potential
research now being possible in regards to the Garamantes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/05/gaddafi-sahara-lost-civilisation-garamantes
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A new theory for the stone circles known as Rujm al-Hiri:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51583
http://www2.tbo.com/news/nation-world/2011/nov/06/menewso23-grisly-theory-for-holy-land-mystery-ar-300825/
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/2011/11/ap-enterprise-grisly-theory-holy-land-mystery-1
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Lifestyle/2011/Nov-05/153204-pseudoscience-swirls-about-prehistoric-golan-site.ashx
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/11/03/ap_enterprise_grisly_theory_for_holy_land_mystery/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAcqW4QL532VHXBh6d0p6PgYCn0g?docId=3a82d460d57c4e598c18e3de8bce3c8a
A Second Temple Miqveh from near Beit Shemesh (didn't we have this
a couple weeks ago?):
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=244067
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51465
Landminds interview with Chaim Cohen about Biblical Hebrew and other
matters:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-011111a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-011111b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-011111c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-011111d.mp3
Latest from Tel Burna:
http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/more-test-pits-and-work-with-ibex-next-week/
Tel Jezreel now has an online presence:
http://www.jezreel-expedition.com/?mid=51768
A couple of videos from the Tel Shikmona dig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE7UwJFH5xw&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qx-t7QxWhw&feature=related
The Biography folks had a feature on Howard Carter:
http://www.biography.com/people/howard-carter-20683395
The Amarna Letters are now online:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2011/article/ancient-amarna-letters-of-egypt-now-online
The Knesset is still refusing to declassify their Temple Mount Report:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149312
An illegal Muslim burial on Temple Mount is also adding fuel to the fire:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149422
A plan to preserve the Dead Sea:
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=243909
Interview with Mark Glickman about the Cairo Genizah:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/joe-nalven/2011/oct/30/mark-glickman-the-cairo-genizah/
Review of Alice Hoffman, *The Dovekeepers*:
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/05/141905655/a-tale-of-forgiveness-from-the-tragedy-of-masada
http://blog.theomnivore.co.uk/2011/10/31/sex-and-the-polis/
More on the dig at Acre/Akko:
http://www.macon.com/2011/10/29/1763443/crusader-town-being-rediscovered.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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Did the Romans leave London because of the weather?:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/05/did-the-romans-leave-london-because-of-the-miserable-british-weather/
Interesting ancient Roman DNA project in the works:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/11/ancient-roman-dna-project/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Apparently Viking 'sunstones' aren't just a tale:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-viking-sunstone-myth.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/magic-viking-sunstone-just-natural-crystal-004406011.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8862471/Magical-Viking-stone-may-be-real.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15523520
Not sure of the date of his one ... a Viking settlement found in Temple Bar
(Ireland):
http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeologists-find-new-viking-site-in-temple-bar-131090-May2011/#slide-slideshow6
Not sure if we've had this Viking boat burial find from Ardnamurchan yet:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15333852
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of this new evidence of a 'megadrought' in the 2nd
century
(although the 'Roman' connection is never made):
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uoa-usf110411.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-scientists-evidence-roman-period-megadrought.html
A Civil War photo collection is going on display:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/civil-war-diarists-photo-collection-to-go-on-view-in-south-carolina/
More on how far into the 'U.S.' deSoto went:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111101-conquistador-america-de-soto-science-spanish-glass/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Now humans and climate both take the blame for megafauna extinction:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-humans-climate-contributed-extinctions-large.html
http://green.yahoo.com/news/livescience/20111104/sc_livescience/mammothmysterywhatkilledoffthewoollybeast.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-unravelling-ice-age-megafauna-extinctions.html
... but whoever wrote this article on it was clearly confused:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112414031/study-finds-culprits-to-ice-age-mammal-extinctions/index.html
A major study of the history of malaria:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102125650.htm
Interesting study of evolution and colonization:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-evolution-human-colonizations.html
How the potato changed the world:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Potato-Changed-the-World.html
Review of Andy Borowitz, *The 50 Funniest American Writers*:
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/29/141693188/twain-hughes-among-funniest-american-writers
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Staffordshire Hoard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15534528
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-15496704
Concerns for Aboriginal art:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/05iht-rartabor05.html
Oddities in collecting folk art:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/shenanigans-of-folk-art-collecting-art-nouveau-nudes.html
Assorted Arts items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/the-met-buys-a-hans-schaufelein-work.html
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HUMOUR
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Soup to Nutz explains BC and AD:
http://www.gocomics.com/soup-to-nutz/2011/11/01
http://www.gocomics.com/soup-to-nutz/2011/11/02
I think some of us knew there'd be something like this about Stonehenge
eventually:
http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip/2011/10/16/
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.30
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals were the first inhabitants of the Greek islands:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/11/10/neanderthal-men-first-inhabitants-of-greek-islands/
Quite a bit of coverage of the 'accuracy' of depictions of spotted
horses in various caves:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111107162225.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-ancient-dna-insights-cave-horses.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51634
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15619885
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/spotted-horses-in-cave-art-werent-just-a-figment-dna-shows.html
http://news.yahoo.com/cave-art-accurately-depicted-horses-different-colors-190206913.html
http://news.yahoo.com/cave-painters-were-realists-dna-study-finds-200120657.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700195692/Cave-painters-were-realists-study-of-ancient-DNA-finds.html
http://detnews.com/article/20111110/NATION/111100428/1020/rss09
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335913/description/Prehistoric_horses_came_in_leopard_print
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-ancient-horse-20111108,0,6320267.story
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111107162225.htm
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/caveman-art-spotted-horses-likely-real-not-fantasy-135014537.html
I think we had this homo floresiensis v birds story quite a while ago:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/06/ancient-bird-remains-illuminate-lost-world-of-indonesias-hobbits/
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AFRICA
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Oldest petroglyphs in Egypt:
http://newhaven.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=73533&nc=1
The fall of Gaddafi opens up Libya for studying the Garamantes, apparently:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/05/gaddafi-sahara-lost-civilisation-garamantes
https://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142125279/satellite-images-reveal-lost-city-in-libyan-desert
http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2011/11/castles-in-the-desert-satellites-reveal-lost-cities-of-libya/
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/drt/si?p=CAA&ut=AFAKxlQAAAAATrlQtrlYxPCyj_0S537zKxEA5mKacM7U
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-castles-satellites-reveal-lost.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Complaints about the politicization of archaeology in Israel:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-criticize-new-bill-for-politicizing-israel-antiquities-authority-1.394671
... but, of course, that's been going on for a while:
http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?q=node/88740
... and here's a timely case in point:
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=244452
A feature on Eilat Mazar:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/november/archaeology-rebel.html
A semi-touristy thing/video on Herod's tomb:
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=244814
A Landminds interview with Tim Harrison about ASOR and the upcoming meeting:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-081111a.mp3
Another feature on the Cairo Genizah:
http://www.forward.com/articles/145977/
Latest recreations of ancient beer:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/03/drink-like-an-egyptian/
Egypt closed the Great Pyramid on Friday to prevent it being
used for 'spiritual ceremonies':
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/egypt-pyramid-11-11-11_n_1087823.html
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=245234
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-closes-great-pyramid-rumors-rituals-104026490.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/egypt-closes-pyramid-avoid-11-11-11-rituals-174436435.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060458/Egypt-closes-Great-Pyramid-rumours-Jews-stage-rituals-Magic-Friday.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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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we mentioned this 'lost Norman town' near Kilkenny a few months ago:
http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/startling_discovery_of_lost_norman_town_1_3229885
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Rock circles in Virginia may be the oldest above-ground paleoindian site in
North America:
http://nativetimes.com/life/culture/6360-rock-circles-linked-to-ancient-indian-site
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Six deaths supposedly caused by the 'curse of Tutankhamen' were actually
murders, we are told:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059084/Six-deaths-attributed-Curse-Tutankhamun-murders-committed-notorious-satanist-book-claims.html
A project to rebuild the Babbage Analytical Engine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/computer-experts-building-1830s-babbage-analytical-engine.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jerash:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/destinations/travel-asia/watch-gladiators-in-action-then-ride-your-own-chariot-in-jordan/article2231008/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Les Gaulois:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8884189/Myth-of-Gauls-debunked-at-Paris-exhibition.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/gauls-the-victims-of-bad-press-20111112-1ncvj.html
Staffordshire Hoard:
http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/in-washington-golden-reminders-of-englands-dark-age/
Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/contemporary-christian-travel/2011/nov/7/ancient-israel-artifacts-debut-nyc/
Feature on the opening of the Museum of the Great War:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/arts/design/museum-of-the-great-war-opens-in-meaux-france.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/world/europe/in-france-sacrifices-of-world-war-i-resonate-anew.html
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The nutty claim of the week: Alexander the Great's tomb AND the Ark of the
Covenant have been found on Thasos:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n263980
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/an-unbelievable-ark-of-th_n_1085987.html
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.31
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists are digging at the Museum of Tolerance site again:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-resume-work-at-contentious-worksite-of-jerusalem-museum-1.395417
High tech mapping of graves in the Mount of Olives necropolis:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51829
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20111118/NEWS01/111180315/1002/rss
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/17/israelis-mapping-every-grave-in-3000-year-old-mount-olives-necropolis/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glp00A-tA8R9avK0eEjLkG4pARtA?docId=aa9a2edff34346f78f16df3d532fcf05
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20111117/israelis-mapping-ancient-cemetery-111117/
OpEd on Temple Mount:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=246012
Feature/insert on the Safed site:
http://www.livnot.com/documents/JPost-Nov112011.pdf
Another feature on Eilat Mazar:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/november/archaeology-rebel.html
Feature on Tyre (not quite touristy):
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/old-city-tyre-tale-two-quarters
Overviewish thing on the dig season at Kutahya:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=excavation-season-breaks-new-record-2011-11-17
A project to mark Abraham's route:
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/in-the-footsteps-and-spirit-of-abraham-1.395851
Remember that Noah's Ark thing a while back? There's a press release about
it (hmmm):
http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/sbwire-114562.htm
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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More on the Roman DNA project:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2011/roman-dna-project-gives-voice-to-the-silent-majority
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/11/roman-dna-project-funded/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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A Bronze Age hoard from Wiltshire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-15781460
Some Bronze Age items were also found in a peat mound in Dartmoor:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/16/bronze-age-relics-found-dartmoor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-15727960
Excavations at Rhynie suggest is was once a seat of Pictish 'royal'
power:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-10926.php
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/historic-sites/archaeologists_find_village_fit_for_pictish_kings_1_1968963
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some interesting US Thanksgiving-related items:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/travel/on-the-pilgrims-path-through-england-and-the-netherlands.html
http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/travel/thanksgiving-re-enacted-around-the-country.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Marking the anniversary of the King James Bible:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1117/King-James-Bible-anniversary-marked-by-Queen
Review of Niall Ferguson, *Civilization*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/books/niall-fergusons-empire-traces-wests-decline-review.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Plans for a Bible museum in Jerusalem:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/new-bible-museum-to-be-built-in-jerusalem-1.395418
4. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.32
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AFRICA
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Satellite photos of Saharan fortresses:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/17/satellite-photos-show-ancient-saharan-fortresses-of-a-lost-empire/
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Interesting item on a mixed marriage in ancient Egypt:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=246821
Some forgotten ancient Egyptian chariot trappings have been rediscovered:
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-egyptian-chariot-trappings-rediscovered-1.9388
Good evidence that Herod didn't complete the Western Wall in his
lifetime (various misleading spins put on this one in headlines):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51951
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/excavations-reveal-king-herod-didn-t-complete-construction-of-jerusalem-s-western-wall-1.397283
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/coins-may-prove-that-herod-didn-t-complete-kotel-1.397359
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=246679
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-coins-herod-built-temple-walls.html
http://news.yahoo.com/coins-show-herod-built-only-part-second-temple-195327325.html
http://news.yahoo.com/sheds-light-ancient-jerusalem-092556159.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065254/Coins-Jerusalems-Western-Wall-hints-sacred-site-older-Herod.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihnYWJss_AVDaxl_xm7Ep_a18w4Q?docId=CNG.91146763155a4a6e176c124b43f78c32.831
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-holy-compound,0,5116954.story
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/find-sheds-light-ancient-site-jerusalem-15013304
Overviewish thing on the dig at the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148010
The Essenes may have written the DSS:
http://www.livescience.com/17123-dead-sea-scrolls-writers-textiles.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2064679/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-written-mysterious-sect.html
Scholars aren't happy with proposed changes to the IAA:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/scholars-slam-bill-to-change-makeup-of-israel-antiquities-authority-1.397918
Next saga in the making: an illegal mosque is being built on the Mount of
Olives:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149963
In Our Time featured Judas Maccabeus:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cjm8
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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Review of *African Athena: New Agendas*:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-interactions-classical-african-middle-eastern.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge and its history is a bit more complex than previously thought:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52033
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/secret-history-of-stonehenge-revealed-6268237.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/secret-history-of-stonehenge-revealed-by-xrays-6268237.html
Interesting arrow-pierced burial from a Galway village quarry site:
http://www.galwaynews.ie/22865-discovery-skull-pierced-arrowhead-sparks-murder-mystery-1000-years-later
More on Viking crystal navigation:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/04/low-tech-vikings-may-have-used-mineral-with-funky-optics-to-reach-new-world/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Trying to find out how ancient India made steel:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111121/jsp/knowhow/story_14777295.jsp
A bone study suggests Harappa might not have been such a happy place:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111121/jsp/nation/story_14778606.jsp
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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence that the Salish produced textiles made from dog hair:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-scientists-mystery-tale-shaggy-dogs.html
Interesting item on the Battle Hymn of the Republic and John Brown's
Body:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/the-battle-hymn-of-john-brown/
More on megadroughts (without the Roman reference):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-tree-document-ancient-western-megadrought.html
Review of a couple of books on the Ku Klux Klan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/the-not-so-invisible-empire.html
Review of three books on the early years of the US:
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/21/141937959/presidents-and-pilgrims-3-boundary-pushing-books
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Review of a couple of books on Shakespeare:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/will-in-the-middle.html
Review of Nial Ferguson, *Civilization*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/civilization-the-west-and-the-rest-by-niall-ferguson-book-review.html
The New York Times has a list of 100 notable books of 2011:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html
More on the Black Death genome (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZYb2Jl22g
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Feature on French museums and Colonial history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/design/quai-branly-museum-in-paris-glorifies-the-other.html
5. Professor Joseph Naveh: Epigraphic Reminiscences
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=331
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