Ephraimite Forum-59
Date: 13/May/08 8th Iyar 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.3
2. BBC: The Birth of Israel on You-Tube
3. Photos: The unknown story of Yemen's Jews

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.3
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.3 May 11, 2008
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AFRICA
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85,000 b.p. "finery" from Morocco:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=91831

Possible discovery of the remains of the Queen of Sheba's palace
at Axum (I'm confused ... wasn't Saba in Yemen?):

http://tinyurl.com/5scvee

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Recent (?) finds in Aswan (we may have covered these already):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=14353_0_1_0_M

Latest finds at Yazdegerd Fortress include some Parthian period
residences:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/May2008/08-05-discovery.htm

High tech equipment is heading to the dig at Persepolis:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54295&sectionid=351020105

I suspect we'll be hearing more about the Talpiot Tomb:

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=107684

An article on the first "Iranian" satraps:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_25026.shtml


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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... while a Viking trading site is emerging in Ireland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7385237.stm

... and the Viking cod trade is back in the news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/05/archaeology.heritage

More coverage of the recent dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/
05/05/scientists_chip_away_at_mystery_of_stonehenge/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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On comets and North American extinctions:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080506-comet-extinct.html

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Assorted news from the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0650456920080506
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/05/05/daily23.html

... but this seems to be the important stuff:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article
/0,8599,1738445,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/
ALeqM5hyEiC0HHpp2oUF24ZFrVqgxck2OQ
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Spain-lays-claim-to-250m.4070282.jp

Waltzing Matilda was not a socialist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/7384056.stm

On the desertification of the Sahara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/
05/080508-green-sahara.html

Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth is the latest 'This I Believe'
subject at
NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90311455

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/music/09macb.html

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ON THE WEB
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Old Bailey:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Background (if you missed it last week):

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11294471

Yale Daily News historical archive:

http://images.library.yale.edu:2007/cdm4/browse.php

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2. BBC: The Birth of Israel on You-Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEFPxRDhT_U
6-Part series.
Series is reportedly slightly anti-Israel and pro-Arab but interesting none the less.
Also  even more sympathetic to the Arabs but still interesting is:
Clash of Worlds : Britain and Palestine Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7CzVp3BOY&feature=related
For Only correct solution to problem see our entry:
Movement of Arab Populations (MAP)
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesMAP.html

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3. Photos: The unknown story of Yemen's Jews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3541413,00.html

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