Ephraimite Forum-61
Date: 20/May/08 15th Iyar 5768
Contents:
1. Prince Of Wales Opens The Earl's New Garden At Arundel Castle, West Sussex
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.4
3. Eminent historian debunks Scottish history as largely fabrication

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1. Prince Of Wales Opens The Earl's New Garden At Arundel Castle, West Sussex
by Veronica Cowan
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
brightonandhove/news/index.html
Brit-Am remark:
This is a short, nice, little piece with some good photos.
It reveals Prince Charles as witty, good humored, and possessing a sense of history.
Our previous post about the Prince:
Jerusalem News-767
#1. HaModia: Prince Charles Opens Cracow's Jewish Center that he initiated and partly paid for
http://britam.org/jerusalem/jerusalem767.html#HaModia
shows Charles to be sensitive to others and generous.
He may even be considered to be passably photogenic.
It is strange that none of these qualities have been remarked upon in the past by the mainstream media.
In fact just the opposite impression has been created.

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2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.4
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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More coverage of the claim of having found the Queen of Sheba's
palace in Ethiopia as wells as Ark of the Covenant claims:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/europe/article3919430.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355264,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Pyramid math:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/890/heritage.htm

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of a find of what is claimed (on what evidence?)
to be a bust of Julius Caesar fished out of the Rhone near Arles:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,23696568-26040,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/
05/14/2244618.htm?section=entertainment
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/
discoveries/2008-05-14-caesar-bust-found_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/
europe/article3932198.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1954876/
Divers-find-bust-of-Julius-Caesar-in-Rhone-River.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2279991,00.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/05/15/
bald-bust-of-caesar-river-find-89520-20418076/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7402480.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/europe/
16briefs-CAESARWASAMB_BRF.html?ref=world
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080516-AP-caesar.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24604623/
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=21046970853
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/
05/14/caesar.bust.ap/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/
ap_on_sc/france_caesar_bust
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/
2008/05/14/bust-caesar.html

... and plans are afoot to promote Aizanoi as the site of the world's
first stock exchange:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=61464

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Rumours of Bronze Age burials near Dromore:

http://www.dromoreleader.co.uk/dromore-news/
BRONZE-AGE-GRAVE-FIND-.4075138.jp

They've done a facial reconstruction of King Svend:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/107251.html (no photo, alas)

Drought in Spain is allowing remains of a medieval village to
be seen again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7398012.stm

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Gurkhas are getting some press attention:

http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/
APTV/National/a/i/Nepal-GurkhaHistory
http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/
APTV/National/a/i/Nepal-Warriorsfromthe


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Using satellite technology to find sites in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2008/05/080513112348.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=60108
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/
14/satellite_may_help_explore_ancient_mexico/6024/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/
2008-05/riot-aus051308.php

Inca surgeons were good at handling head trauma:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=59537
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2008/05/080512-inca-skulls.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Several Druze villages in Israel are a sort of "genetic snapshot"
of the region:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/
05/080508182219.htm

This week's looks at crystal skulls:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080511/
entertainment/mexico_crystal_skulls_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/
ap_en_mo/mexico_crystal_skulls_4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24547679/
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700225288,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/11/
america/LA-FEA-A-E-MOV-Mexico-Crystal-Skulls.php

... and specifically, the one in the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/5nbpog (THN)

... along with a piece that Indiana Jones wasn't exactly doing
archaeology properly:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/
ap_en_mo/film_indy_and_archaeology_1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/
a/2008/05/13/entertainment/e042145D15.DTL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24595365/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/5774986.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/
jones-indiana-indy-2044622-maurer-archaeology

Did el Nino help Magellan?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/
ap_on_sc/magellan_el_nino
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2008/05/080515171026.htm

How the Sahara dried out (maybe):

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=from-bountiful-to-barren-sahara-desert

Latest on the Odyssey Marine v Spain saga:

http://news.theage.com.au/world/
spain-claims-millions-in-sunken-treasure-20080514-2e80.html

Nice reviewish thing on political put-downs in history:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90337494

Review of a couple of works on technology and the development of
the West:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/
books/2008/05/12/080512crbo_books_lepore

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bactrian Hoard:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
chi-afghan-gold_wedmay14,0,6629551.story

Colonial Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/
16/arts/design/16anti.html

Tribal and Textile Arts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/
16/arts/design/16trib.html

The Horse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/
arts/design/16hors.html

Daumier:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/
nyregion/nyregionspecial2/18artsnj.html

The Israel Museum is putting the Great Isaiah scroll on display:

http://tinyurl.com/5dofey (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982883.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080514/
tpl-uk-israel-museum-scrolls-43a8d4f.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2008/05/080513-AP-israel-anci.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/
ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_scroll

Some of Iran's 'salt men' have found a home:
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/
May2008/14-05-ancient.htm

A Bible Museum is coming to Dallas:

http://www.cornerstone.edu/news/inside_cu/?news_ID=3870

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3. Eminent historian debunks Scottish history as largely fabrication
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
news/uk/scotland/article3954008.ece
A boo by the late Hugh Trevor-Roperand due to be published five years after his death argues that Scottish history is based on myths and falsehoods

Stuart MacDonald

SCOTLAND'S history is weaved from a "fraudulent" fabric of "myths and falsehoods", according to an explosive new study by one of the world's most eminent historians.

The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, is the last book, and one of the most controversial, written by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Now, five years after his death, the book is to be published at one of the most pivotal periods in Scottish political history.

It will provide an inflammatory contribution to the constitutional debate as it debunks many claims upon which the argument for independence is founded.

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The fantasy of Scotland's history

In the book, Trevor-Roper claims that Scotland's literary and political traditions, which claim to date back to the Roman invasion of Scotland in the first century AD, are in fact based on myth and were largely invented in the 18th century.

Even the kilt, the ultimate sartorial symbol of Scottishness, was invented by an Englishman in the 1700s. The Declaration of Arbroath, presented to the then Pope in 1320 to confirm Scotland's status as an independent state with an ancient constitution, is dismissed as being loaded with inaccuracies. It contains information on "imaginary" kings of ancient Scotland, created by historians, to provide false evidence that the Scots arrived north of the border from Ireland in the third century AD, before the Picts.

Scots are also accused of fabricating their own literary tradition, culminating in the publication of The Works of Ossian. These were claimed to have been translated from ancient sources in Gaelic about the lives of Celtic heroes, but have long been suspected of being a figment of the imagination of James Macpherson, the 18th-century Scottish poet who claimed to have translated them.

Trevor-Roper also declares that when the Scots were looking for a writer and poet to rival Shakespeare, following the Act of Union in 1707, they found nothing, leading to ancient writings being forged and passed off as Scottish literature.

?It was natural that Scots, seeking compensation for the end of their independent history and politics, should turn to discover and appreciate their native literature. Unfortunately when they looked for it, they could not find it. There was none.

?In Scotland, it seems to me, myth has played a far more important part in history than it has in England.

?Indeed, I believe the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered to replace it.?

The myth of the Highland dress was perpetuated by historians to provide a symbol by which Scots could be universally identified, as well as to support the country's textile industry.

Trevor-Roper says the traditional dress of the Highlanders was a long Irish shirt and a cloak or plaid, which only the higher classes had woven in stripes and colours creating tartan.

The kilt did not, Trevor-Roper claims, come into being until the mid-18th century, when it was created by Thomas Rawlinson, who was an English quaker from Lancashire.

Rawlinson decided to shorten belted plaids after workmen in the Highlands, where he was staying, said they were uncomfortable.

But Michael Fry, the Scottish historian, said: "I don't think Trevor-Roper is a very reliable guide to Scottish history. Lots of things emerge in history and just because we can't pin down their origins it doesn't follow from that \ everything about it is phoney. There is a distinguished school of medieval Scottish literature, and poetry in something that is recognisably Scots was being written in the 14th century.

"Tartan was worn in Scotland in the Middle Ages . . . and it just so happened that there was an evolution where this pattern, which was common in many parts of Europe, became distinctive in Scotland. His claims about the kilt prove absolutely nothing at all about the history of the dress."
See also:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1982040/
Kilts-invented-by-English-in-Lord-Dacre's-book.html
 

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