The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- The Map Room Turns Two
from The Map Room on 30 March 2005Today marks The Map Room's second anniversary. There have been more than 460 entries since my first; during that time I've learned just how much there is out there about which I know nothing, from psychogeography to triangulation to geocaching ...
- Monitor Web Sites Without Visiting
from NYT > Technology on 30 March 2005What does it mean when a Web site says it has an R.S.S. feed available?
- Egyptian boats update httpabcnewsgocomTechn
from ArchaeoBlog on 30 March 2005Egyptian boats update http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=626910Archaeologists have found the remains of boats used by ancient Egyptians for trading trips, the culture minister said in comments published on Wednesday ...
- Herods Villa to Become Museum
from Roman Archaeology on 30 March 2005Ekathimrini" Herod's villa that Thodoros Spyropopoulos began excavating in the early 1990s covers 20,000 square meters ...
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire considered for multinational heritage site
from Roman Archaeology on 30 March 2005"THE FRONTIERS of the Roman empire could be resurrected under plans to join Hadrian?s Wall with the chain of forts and walls across Europe in one World Heritage Site ...
- Online Anything and Everything Can Be a Museum Piece
from NYT > Technology on 29 March 2005The age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us.
- David Perry’s Unicode survey
from The Stoa on 28 March 2005I have put on my website a draft of a document that surveys the current "state of the art" in font and application software ...
- News from Egypt I Ancient trade-route stopover po
from ArchaeoBlog on 28 March 2005News from Egypt I Ancient trade-route stopover point discoveredA team of Egyptian excavators have recently uncovered the remains of stables, barracks and storehouses at Tel Al Sabha, 88 kilometres southeast of Al Arish ...
- Tête à tête with the French explorers
from Egyptology News on 27 March 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/735/eg9.htm "Today at sunset Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Secretary-General Zahi Hawass, French Cultural Attaché Denis Louche and senior French and Egyptian officials and archaeologists are schudled to attend the opening of the special exhibition "Champollion, Legrain ...
- Open Access Repositories
from NT Gateway Weblog on 25 March 2005I have enjoyed the discussion in the various biblioblogs on Open Access and the need for a stable repository for articles ...
- Being Easily Accessible, Being On-Line,and Being Useful
from Hypotyposeis on 25 March 2005Mark Goodacre, "Bibliotheca Sacra and Lesson in Stature" (Mar. 24, 2005), answers my question above that BibSac became more restricted internet-wise way back in 2001 ...
- Ancient trade-route stopover point discovered
from Egyptology News on 24 March 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/1.asp "A team of Egyptian excavators have recently uncovered the remains of stables, barracks and storehouses at Tel Al Sabha, 88 kilometres southeast of Al Arish ...
- More re remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships
from Egyptology News on 24 March 2005http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7190 "The first remains of ancient Egyptian seagoing ships ever to be recovered have been found in two caves on Egypt's Red Sea coast, according to a team at Boston University in the US" ...
- Pharaonic fortress found inside turquoise mines in Sinai
from Egyptology News on 24 March 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o210325n.htm A typically brief State Information Service piece, and it may be a repetition of a discovery already known: "An Egyptian-Canadian mission unearthed a Fort from the Old Kingdom in Fairuz area in South Sinai ...
- Happy birthday Paleojudaica
from NT Gateway Weblog on 24 March 2005I'd like to join the others who are wishing Jim Davila a welcome Happy Birthday to Paleojudaica, now two years old ...
- Join Michigan Tech’s 2005 Field School in Historic
from ArchaeologyOnline on 23 March 2005Join Michigan Tech’s 2005 Field School in Historical and Industrial Archaeology. From May 9 through June 23, explore the remains of the West Point Foundry, one of America's earliest iron foundries ...
- Carthage & Bardo Museum, Tunisia
from Stoa Image Gallery on 23 March 2005 - Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
from The Stoa on 23 March 2005Great news! This is to announce the publication of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, revised second edition ...
- Electronic Textual Editing
from The Stoa on 23 March 2005The complete text of the forthcoming MLA volume, Electronic Textual Editing, funded by the Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Text Encoding Initiative and the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, is now freely available at http://www ...
- Greek and Roman Provincial Levant
from Stoa Image Gallery on 21 March 2005 - Greek and Roman Provincial Europe
from Stoa Image Gallery on 21 March 2005 - Greek and Roman Provincial Egypt & Africa
from Stoa Image Gallery on 21 March 2005 - Monticello and the University of Virginia is havin
from ArchaeologyOnline on 19 March 2005Monticello and the University of Virginia is having their field school June through July, 2005. 6 credits are offered ...
- The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is
from ArchaeologyOnline on 19 March 2005The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is being held in Connecticut, and the project director is Dr ...
- The PAST foundation is holding a field school at B
from ArchaeologyOnline on 19 March 2005The PAST foundation is holding a field school at Biscayne National Park in Florida. It is an underwater field school and will teach underwater archaeology skills ...
- GPS
from Brain Off on 18 March 2005GPS One of my family gave me an old GPS a while ago. And since then it's sat in a drawer. It just didn't have that much appeal without the ability to connect to something else (ie no computer cable) and by extension everything else ...
- Egypt Recovers 7 Antiquities
from Egyptology News on 17 March 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o170325p.htm "Egypt has reclaimed seven rare pieces of antiquities from Britain that were stolen a couple of years ago ...
- New archaeological sites discovered in Suez
from Egyptology News on 17 March 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ A not terribly coherent article, which says that excavations and discoveries last year in the Gulf of Suez brings the number of ancient sites (dating to ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Nabati periods) to 29 sites, in four different areas ...
- Archaeologist discovers ancient ships in Egypt
from Egyptology News on 17 March 2005http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2005/03-18/archaeologist.html "Kathryn Bard had “the best Christmas ever” this past December when she discovered the well-preserved timbers and riggings of pharaonic seafaring ships inside two man-made caves on Egypt’s Red Sea coast ...
- A news network for diving news, marine conservatio
from ArchaeologyOnline on 17 March 2005A news network for diving news, marine conservation, recalls on diving equipment, and finds. It also covers shipwrecks, and their conservation and protection ...
- This institution raises public awareness about Por
from ArchaeologyOnline on 17 March 2005This institution raises public awareness about Portuguese maritime history. Centre for Portuguese Nautical Studies
- Shipwreck Central is an excellent site about explo
from ArchaeologyOnline on 17 March 2005Shipwreck Central is an excellent site about exploring shipwrecks and their preservation. It is also home to the Sea Hunters with Clive Cussler (author of many novels, and finder of the Hunley) and James Delgado (archaeologist and author) ...
- A blog on underwater archaeology news, Joao and Pe
from ArchaeologyOnline on 17 March 2005A blog on underwater archaeology news, Joao and Pedro write in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Do fundo do mar... Sea bottom
- Cornish Heritage Website Launched
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 March 2005The County Council's Environment and Heritage Service has launched a new website detailing Cornwall's natural environment, historic environment, countryside and archives ...
- New Website for Cornish Heritage
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 March 2005The County Council's Environment and Heritage Service has launched a new website detailing Cornwall's natural environment, historic environment, countryside and archives ...
- Archeologist Believes He Has Found St. Pauls Tomb
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 March 2005Vatican archeologist believes he has rediscovered the tomb of St. Paul, buried deep beneath the main altar of the Rome basilica dedicated to the apostle ...
- Roman hoard unearthed
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 March 2005A metal detector has discovered a hoard of Roman treasure in West Norfolk. Stephen Brown was on farmland when he stumbled across 25 second century bronze coins and a gold ring dating from the fourth century ...
- Neanderthals Sang at High Pitch
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 March 2005Neanderthals possessed strong, yet high-pitched, voices that the stocky hominins used for both singing and speaking, according to recent British news reports ...
- Egypt dusts off stowed treasures
from Egyptology News on 16 March 2005http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticlecid=1031781600836s=1037645509161"A collection of Roman-era gold treasures has spent centuries hidden from view, either concealed by thieves in a clay jar, buried under the desert or languishing in a dusty corner of Cairo's rambling Egyptian Museum ...
- Theban Mapping Project Survey
from Egyptology News on 16 March 2005http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/survey.html Since 1978 the Theban Mapping Project has been working to compile a complete datbase of sites in Thebes ...
- e pub accounting
from The Stoa on 9 March 2005Thanks to Chuck Jones for an alert concerning a paper by Denise Nitterhouse, "Digital Production Strategies for Scholarly Publishers ...
- The Department of Anthropology at the University o
from ArchaeologyOnline on 9 March 2005The Department of Anthropology at the University of North Dakota invites students to attend its Archaeological Field School in June and July, 2005 ...
- 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 7 March 2005Dear Colleague(s) The British Epigraphy Society and Oxford University are pleas
- Neandertals Hyenas Fought for Caves, Food, Study Says
from National Geographic News on 5 March 2005The discovery of a 41,000-year-old leg bone in a cave in France has opened new questions about how Neandertal humans lived and moved through Europe.
- Roman oven discovered in Manchester
from Roman Archaeology on 4 March 2005Manchester Online: "A ROMAN oven and pieces of pottery have been uncovered beneath the site of a new shopping arcade ...
- Global digital divide narrowing
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 1 March 2005The "digital divide" between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast, says a World Bank report.
- Manuscripts treated as fossils
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 1 March 2005A palaeontologist develops a novel way to study historical manuscripts: he treats them as if they are fossils from an extinct species.
- Google Maps adds Safari, Opera support (MacCentral Online
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 1 March 2005In early February Web search engine company Google Inc. took the wraps of Google Maps, a still-in-beta service created as an alternative to MapQuest ...
- Henges - new pressure group launched
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 March 2005A NATIONAL campaign group fighting to protect the Thornborough Henges has launched an independent pressure group dedicated to preserving the ancient monuments and their surroundings ...
- Google maps step behind Yahoo (Nashua Telegraph
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 1 March 2005Leave it to Google to innovate. Its new online mapping service produces impressive U.S. maps that please the eye and are fun to navigate ...
- High tech laser to enhance MSU archaeology (The Clarion Ledger
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 1 March 2005STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University soon will acquire a high-tech laser instrument that will be used, among other things, to probe the mysteries of ancient civilizations ...
- Take Me Back to Constantinople
from rogueclassicism on 1 March 2005Turkish Daily News has a piece on the history of Istanbul ... here's the bit that pertains to us: Formerly known as Byzantion (Byzantium), the name's origin is still uncertain ...
- Roman Oven Found
from rogueclassicism on 1 March 2005From Manchester Online: A ROMAN oven and pieces of pottery have been uncovered beneath the site of a new shopping arcade ...
- Antonine Wall as Heritage Site
from rogueclassicism on 1 March 2005From the Herald: SCHOOL pupils are to help spearhead a campaign to have the Antonine wall declared as a world heritage site ...
- Professor pushes for global education (University of Washington Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 1 March 2005Matt Sparke will tell you he has a passion for global education. Sparke, an associate professor in geography and international studies, teaches Introduction to Globalization, a course that helps students understand and reflect on certain topics of today's global society ...
- 2500 year old coffins unearthed updated
from Egyptology News on 1 March 2005http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050226-074712-4473r A very short piece stating that an Australian mission has discovered 26th Dynasty coffins at Saqqara ...
- Egyptian embassy retrieves stolen antiquities
from Egyptology News on 1 March 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm "The Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday received seven pieces of antiquities that date back to the pre-dynasty era from Bonham after intensive contacts with the British authorities and the auction hall officials" ...
- Cleopatra - The Virtuous Scholar
from Egyptology News on 1 March 2005http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra Much talked about prior to its publiclation, a new book has been launched entitled "Egyptology: The Missing Millennium ...
- Investors can find ancient or modern art from Africa (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 March 2005The wealth of Africa resides not just in its gold mines, diamonds and oil. It exists inside its people, especially its visual artists who educate the rest of the globe about both the continent's ancient history and modern life ...
- Diggers find oven at Roman hotspot
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 March 2005A ROMAN oven and pieces of pottery have been uncovered beneath the site of a new shopping arcade.Developers are building a £120 million centre, the Grand Arcade, in Wigan but because of the town's rich Roman heritage they have asked a team of archaeologists to carry out a dig on the site ...
- Basalt gallery
from About Geology on 1 March 2005Basalt is such an important part of the Earth's crust that one photo can't do it justice, so now there are three: a close-up of a broken cobble, a fragment of flow crust, and a weird landscape where a river ...
- Earthcaches
from About Geology on 1 March 2005Earthcaches are a special kind of geocache, created to show people something of geologic interest instead of swapping tokens ...
- Greenhouse Holocene finally hits page one
from About Geology on 1 March 2005William Ruddiman is in the news for his provocative (though unsurprising) hypothesis that human greenhouse gases, CO2 and methane, have been keeping us out of a new ice age since 8000 years ago (see the paper behind the story) ...
- Iran struck again by quake
from About Geology on 1 March 2005Early Tuesday a magnitude 6.4 thrust event struck eastern Iran, about 250 kilometers from and 14 months after the Bam earthquake ...
- The Quaternary refuses to die
from About Geology on 1 March 2005When the latest edition of the world-standard geologic time scale came out, the Quaternary Period was nowhere to be found ...
- Ancient sky map or fake? German experts row over star disc
from Archaeology in Europe on 1 March 2005One of Germany's most acclaimed archaeological finds - a 3,600-year-old disc depicting the stars and the planets - is at the centre of a dispute following claims that it is a modern forgery ...
