The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Just a couple of quickie items for one of our rare
from ArchaeoBlog on 30 April 2005Just a couple of quickie items for one of our rare weekend appearances. But it's raining so there's little to do except sit around and do stuff on the computer ...
- GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM UPDATE: Construction h
from PaleoJudaica.com on 30 April 2005GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM UPDATE:Construction halted on Highway 6By JPOST.COM STAFFConstruction work on Road 6 in the north will be stopped for the duration of next week after the Orthodox community protested the route of a section they claim will damage an ancient gravesite ...
- Are we loving our heritage to death
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005Fake statues in Florence. A rope around Stonehenge. Is this the only way we'll get to see the world's great sights in the future? Oliver Bennett investigates There seems to be an awful lot of interest in the world's cultural monuments ...
- Christies withdraws ancient Iranian artifact from sale
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005LONDON -- Christie's auction house said on Wednesday that it had withdrawn from sale a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from ancient Persepolis to allow a British court to evaluate an Iranian demand to recover the artifact ...
- Sponsors may be invited to pay for Acropolis works
from Archaeology in Europe on 30 April 2005Government says project will take another 16 years, 70 million eurosDismayed by spiraling costs and a seemingly open-ended completion schedule for conservation works on Greece's most iconic archaeological site, the government is thinking of seeking private sponsorship to expedite the Acropolis project ...
- Paying for the Parthenon
from rogueclassicism on 30 April 2005From Kathimerini: Dismayed by spiraling costs and a seemingly open-ended completion schedule for conservation works on Greece's most iconic archaeological site, the government is thinking of seeking private sponsorship to expedite the Acropolis project ...
- 160000 grant funds new African curriculum
from geography News feed on 30 April 2005Oregon Daily Emerald, OR -... Dennis Galvan, associate professor of international studies and political science, said ...
- Archaeologists unearth rare Pharaonic seals Egypt
from ArchaeoBlog on 29 April 2005Archaeologists unearth rare Pharaonic sealsEgyptian archaeologists have discovered a number of rare Pharaonic seals of soldiers sent out on desert missions in search of red paint to decorate the pyramids, Egypt's culture minister said Thursday ...
- Roman fort at Brougham
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 April 2005Everyone who lived at the Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, was buried in a cemetery close by. Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs ...
- Small box to end digital divide
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 29 April 2005A cheap, small box to replace bulky, grey desktop computers, could help close global digital divides.
- Google Print Revolution
from NT Gateway Weblog on 29 April 2005From time to time, I have blogged on the growth of Google Print (e.g. Print Google Search on 23 September 2004) ...
- Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 April 2005"Waffen und Rüstung im Wandel der Zeit" (von der Bronzezeit bis Spätantike) lautet das Thema der Tagung zu der der Lehrstuhl für klassische Archäologie der Trnava-Universität (Slowakei) im November einlädt ...
- Just a few items today. We havent gotten tha late
from ArchaeoBlog on 28 April 2005Just a few items today. We haven't gotten tha latest installment of the EEF news, so that will probably be posted tomorrow ...
- Mycenaean port of Athens found
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Archaeologists in the capital’s southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens’s first port before the city’s naval and shipping center was moved to Piraeus, a report said yesterday ...
- Shippam site set to give up its secrets
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Archaeologists are poised for the biggest and most exciting Roman excavation ever carried out in Chichester city centre – after demolition plans for the former Shippams factory site were approved by district councillors yesterday ...
- In the desert, a flood of purple and gold
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 April 2005A Monitor photographer surveys the desert in bloom.
- Mixed roots: Science looks at family trees
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 April 2005Welcome to the 'ancestry industry,' where DNA tests produce family history hints, and profits.
- FRANCIS DEBLAUWES 2003-IRAQ WAR & ARCHAEOLOGY SIT
from PaleoJudaica.com on 28 April 2005FRANCIS DEBLAUWE'S 2003-IRAQ WAR & ARCHAEOLOGY SITE has a new home in Austria. The new URL is:http://iwa.univie.ac.atBe sure to update your bookmark.
- Former Stone uncovers new book
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005A 68-year-old man signed books about archaeology in a Norwich bookshop today. But there were no jokes about old fossils in rock – because the author in question was Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman ...
- New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 April 2005Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated ...
- Roman Bath House
from rogueclassicism on 28 April 2005From EADT: THE rich Roman heritage of Britain's oldest recorded town has been enhanced by the discovery of a “beautifully preserved” room from a bathhouse ...
- Thoughts on Google Print
from rogueclassicism on 27 April 2005The lists and blogosphere appear to be abuzz with news of Google Print ... this is the project hailed as making Google into a sort of Alexandrian Library for the 21st century ...
- Google Print
from The Stoa on 27 April 2005Google's effort to digitize scholarly libraries is starting to bear fruit. Try "Melian Dialogue," for instance, or "Erechtheum." More here.
- New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins (Peoples Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated ...
- 276 282 A.D. Probus
from Stoa Image Gallery on 27 April 2005 - Basketmaker Culture
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Basketmaker culture is the name archaeologists have given to a southwestern United States cultural group, ancestral to the Anasazi....
- Battlefield Archaeology
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005Battlefield archaeology is the archaeological investigations of the sites of military battles....
- Beaker Folk
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Beaker folk is the name given to a cultural group widespread throughout western Europe, from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age (4000-2000 BC) ...
- Denisova Cave Siberia
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The archaeological site of Denisova Cave is located on the Anui River, in the Altai region of Siberia and cut into the face of a steep limestone cliff ...
- Harris Matrix
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005The Harris Matrix is a tool developed by British archaeologist Edward Cecil Harris in 1973 to assist in the examination and interpretation of the stratigraphy of archaeological sites ...
- Stonehenge (United Kingdom
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005Stonehenge is a megalithic rock monument of 150 enormous stones set in a purposeful circular pattern, located on the Salisbury Plain of southern England, the main portion of it built about 2000 BC ...
- Stratigraphy
from About Archaeology on 27 April 2005In archaeology, the study of stratigraphy involves looking at the geological and archaeological layers that make up an archaeological deposit to better understand the processes that created the site ...
- Couple more items for today. . . . Oxyrhynchus pa
from ArchaeoBlog on 27 April 2005Couple more items for today. . . . Oxyrhynchus papyri update II We've just learned that way back in 2001, Virginia Postrel posted a link to a story in Reason Express on this very development: see "NEXT RENAISSANCE" here ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS WATCH: National Geographic has an art
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS WATCH: National Geographic has an article (via Bible and Interpretation News) on the use of the imaging techniques reported by the Independent : Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World James Owenfor National Geographic NewsApril 25, 2005 Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Attila the Hun
from About Ancient/Classical History on 27 April 2005Attila was the king of the Scythian hordes known as the Huns from A.D. 433 to 453. For devastating much of Europe, Attila the Hun is also known by the Romans as the Scourge of God ...
- Tourism And Archaeology
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2005/04/27/editorial/editorial2 Zahi Hawass talking about the impacts of tourism on archaeology.
- 5th Dynasty Relief Returned to Egypt
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10article_id=14606"A Brussels museum will hand over to Egypt a limestone relief that had been smuggled out of the country more than 30 years ago, an Egyptian antiquities official said Monday ...
- First . .the news from Mehr" Archaeologists tryi
from ArchaeoBlog on 27 April 2005First. . .the news from Mehr" Archaeologists trying to unravel mystery of camouflaged Median monumentA team of Iranian archaeologists is trying to solve the riddle of why a newly discovered Median monument had been deliberately concealed with material such as stones, bricks, and mud, the director of the team working at the site announced on Tuesday ...
- Gardener unearths Bronze Age tools, weapons CNNcom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000 years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday ...
- Las Animas celebrates Archaeology and Historic Preservation month May 7 (Lamar Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 April 2005Las Animas will be celebrating Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month (AHPM), sponsored by the Colorado Historical Society ...
- The Number of the Beast: 616 and Oxyrhynchus
from NT Gateway Weblog on 27 April 2005On Ralph the Sacred River, Ed Cook draws attention to the National Geographic article on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri also discussed in Paleojudaica (and I really share their annoyance at Revelations) ...
- York County stroll
from geography News feed on 27 April 2005Portsmouth Herald News, NH -... Along the route, theyA ll learn about local history, geography, architecture and ...
- Journal of Maps: No Ordnance Survey Data
from The Map Room on 27 April 2005Another unfortunate result of the Ordnance Survey's copyright on its mapping data: the Journal of Maps announced last week that, because of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive licencing, "we are currently unable to accept any maps based upon OS data ...
- More on Open Geodata and the Ordnance Survey
from The Map Room on 27 April 2005Mapping Hacks has a report on the Forum on Open Geodata that took place earlier this month (see previous entry), where the argument was put forth that the Ordnance Survey should open up its data for the economic spinoff benefits ...
- A ROLLING STONE GATHERS TREASURE: BILL WYMAN AT THE HANCOCK
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005As a former member of the Rolling Stones Bill Wyman may seem to be an unlikely archaeologist, but his latest book ‘Bill Wyman’s Treasure Islands’ explores his love of metal detecting and uncovering lost treasures ...
- British Gardener Unearths Major Bronze Age Hoard
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000 years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday ...
- Remains of Roman bathhouse unearthed
from Archaeology in Europe on 27 April 2005THE rich Roman heritage of Britain's oldest recorded town has been enhanced by the discovery of a “beautifully preserved” room from a bathhouse ...
- Prehistoric Tomb Discovered
from Egyptology News on 27 April 2005http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7575547/ Prehistoric Egyptian tomb discoveredScientists believe site goes back to 3600 B ...
- MORE ON THE GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM: Haredim s
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 April 2005MORE ON THE GRAVE CONFLICT IN JERUSALEM:Haredim scuffle with J'lem police in grave protestBy ETGAR LEFKOVITS (Jerusalem Post)Several hundred haredi demonstrators blocked a central Jerusalem thoroughfare Tuesday evening in the city's Mea Shearim neighborhood and then clashed with police in protest over what they believe is the desecration of ancient graves during the construction of a national highway, police said ...
- Probably the Last Word on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 26 April 2005Just the incipit of this one, from the New York Sun (which was posted to the Classics list yesterday ...
- Apollonia Threatened
from rogueclassicism on 26 April 2005From the Times: ALBANIA’S forthcoming elections are proving perilous for the great Classical city of Apollonia, which lies near the country’s Adriatic coastline not far from the city of Fier ...
- Jawbone hints at earliest Britons
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 26 April 2005A piece of jawbone that has lain in a museum for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe.
- Ancient tomb network discovered under carpark (ABC News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Archaeologists preparing for the return of Ethiopia's ancient Axum obelisk have discovered an even more ancient network of royal tombs under a carpark ...
- Bust of Tutankhamum Created from Scans
from Egyptology News on 26 April 2005http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109EDATE="On Sunday, May 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the National Geographic Channel premieres "King Tut's Final Secrets," a high-tech forensic investigationunveiling new findings related to his death and the first-ever reconstructionof his face and head using revolutionary 3-D CT scan imaging -- revealing whathe looked like on the day he died ...
- More on the Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
from Egyptology News on 26 April 2005http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England ...
- Intergraph Boosts Open Spatial Enterprises with GeoMedia Version 6.0 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 26 April 2005Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions today announced version 6.0 of its suite of GeoMedia desktop and Web products for maintaining, integrating, analyzing and presenting geospatial data to enable an open spatial enterprise ...
- Ancient gold unearthed in Iran (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Archaeologists digging in the ruins of an ancient palace in southern Iran have unearthed three kilos (6 ...
- Ruling goes against archeology museum backers Sun Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 26 April 2005A judge on Monday threw out objections from several members of the Broward County Archaeology Society who oppose the dissolution of the Graves Museum.
- Bronze Age artefact found in garden
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005One of the biggest hauls of Bronze Age artefacts ever found in Norfolk has been uncovered in a garden - but it very nearly ended up in a skip ...
- Treasure hunters go for gold
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project's (SHARP) annual six-week summer dig regularly unearths vital clues about the village over the centuries ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Roman relics spark village dig
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 April 2005Archaeologists are to excavate what they think could be the site of a Roman lead mine dating back at least 1,600 years ...
- Ancient tombs found under parking lot in Ethiopia (Mail and Guardian
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005Experts have discovered a major network of underground funerary chambers and arches near the original site of the ancient Axum obelisk in Ethiopia, Unesco said on Monday ...
- Barrow
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005A barrow is the archaeological term for a specific type of burial mound belonging to the Neolithic period structures in western Europe....
- Bashidang China
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Bashidang is an early walled settlement belonging to the Pengtoushan culture, dated between 5540 and 5100 BC near Wufu village in the Yangtse River basin, Hunan province in China ...
- Bat Cave US
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Bat Cave is an archaeological site consisting of a complex of rockshelters in New Mexico, in the American southwest, with early evidence for maize agriculture ...
- Beer Sheva Israel
from About Archaeology on 26 April 2005Be'er Sheva is a modern town in the Negev Desert of Israel, and also the name of a Chalcolithic settlement dated to the 4th millennium BC....
- Ancient tombs found near obelisk
from BBC News | World | UK Edition on 26 April 2005Archaeologists find a vast network of royal tombs in Ethiopia, near the site where the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk is to be re-erected.
- Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler (Reuters via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 26 April 2005American archaeologists working in southern Egypt have found what they think is the tomb of a prehistoric ruler from the middle of the 4th millennium BC, the government's antiquities service said on Wednesday ...
- Roman Lead Mine
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005The BBC reports on some clumsy archaeologists: Archaeologists are to excavate what they think could be the site of a Roman lead mine dating back more than 1,000 years ...
- World Geography Tutor
from geography News feed on 25 April 2005ConsoleWire.com -Unfortunately, years of schooling have left many of us with only a hazy knowledge of the nations of the world ...
- Ancient tomb network found in Ethiopia (Sydney Morning Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Experts have discovered a major network of underground funerary chambers and arches near the original site of an ancient obelisk in Ethiopia, UNESCO said ...
- Ancient Egyptian art reappears online (News 14 Charlotte
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005The Senusret collection of ancient Egyptian art was gathered from private collections and shown briefly in the 1970s ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World (National Geographic
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Digital imaging is shedding new light on ancient papyrus manuscripts, allowing researchers to piece together "lost" plays, poetry, Christian gospels, and even steamy novels ...
- The Papyri ... Again
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005National Geographic has come up with what is probably the most balanced coverage of this one, so I'll reproduce it here: Classical Greek and Roman literature is being read for the first time in 2,000 years thanks to new technology ...
- Experts put date to UK rock art
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 25 April 2005Experts date the UK's oldest rock art, at Creswell Crags in the English midlands, to more than 12,800 years ago.
- Roman relics spark Ceredigion dig (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Archaeologists are to excavate what may be the site of a Roman mine in mid Wales dating back more than 1,000 years.
- Italians urged to reprieve Apollonia
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005ALBANIA’S forthcoming elections are proving perilous for the great Classical city of Apollonia, which lies near the country’s Adriatic coastline not far from the city of Fier ...
- Neolithic burial site unearthed in Slovak Republic
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005An ancient burial ground has been discovered at a building site near Levice city centre (Slovak Republic), where a new shopping centre will be built ...
- Round barrow unearthed in Leeds
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 April 2005Last summer East Leeds History and Archaeology Society (ELHAS), worked on an archaeological dig in the grounds of Austhorpe Hall, near Crossgates (Leeds, England) ...
- History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Archaeologist Joanne Farchakh tells how Iraq's past was looted and crushed in the chaos of war.
- Ancient byway threat to fairway (The Journal
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Golfers at an internationally renowned club in the North could be driven off-course if an age-old byway - as wide as a motorway - is found to cut through the fairways ...
- Joy in Ethiopia as last piece of ancient obelisk returns from Rome (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 25 April 2005Ethiopia's long and frustrating wait for the return of the ancient Axum obelisk came to end as the third and final piece of the ancient massive monument arrived from Rome nearly 70 years after it was stolen by Italian fascist troops ...
- Monday April 25, 9:36 AM By Indo-Asian News Service (Yahoo! India News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 April 2005Changchun (China), April 25 (IANS) Remarkably well-preserved mummies have been discovered at an ancient burial site in China, Xinhua reports ...
- That B.C./A.D. Thing
from rogueclassicism on 25 April 2005From the Hindustan Times: In a world encouraged to embrace differences, BC and AD are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong end of the religious sensitivity metre ...
- Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World
from National Geographic News on 25 April 2005Digital imaging is shedding new light on ancient papyrus manuscripts, allowing researchers to piece together "lost" plays, poetry, Christian gospels, and even steamy novels ...
- Prehistoric Pompeii
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005I mentioned this one in yesterday's Explorator, but I think I forgot ever to post it here ... it's an AFP piece from the Local which relates the discovery of a prehistoric level of occupation at Pompeii: Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption ...
- Behistun Inscription
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005The Behistun inscription is a "rosetta stone" for Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian language....
- Beixin Culture
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005A precursor to Dawenkou Culture, the Beixin Culture has recently re-dated between 4300-4100 BC...
- Henge or Stone Circle
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005A henge is the term given to a large prehistoric earthwork, usually but not always circular, whether of stones, wood, or earth....
- Stone Age
from About Archaeology on 24 April 2005The Stone Age is the name first given by Danish museum director Christian Jurgensen Thomsen to the earliest period of artifacts in his museum (the others were Bronze and Iron Ages) ...
- E Texta
from sauvage noble on 24 April 2005Some Classical works are available in e-book form on Letturelibere.net under collate some of the more interesting and less well represented materials floating around out (t)here and add linguistic commentary ...
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005The Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, a World Heritage site, are the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in Europe ...
- STONE MINES MAY BE CAUSING PARKS DIPS
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005An Investigation is under way to work out why mysterious dips have been appearing in the ground in front of a Bath landmark ...
- Stone Age Cutups
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 April 2005Deathly rituals emerge at Neandertal siteAfter excavating a cache of Neandertal fossils about 100 years ago at Krapina Cave in what's now Croatia, researchers concluded that incisions on the ancient individuals' bones showed that they had been butchered and presumably eaten by their comrades ...
- Frank DeLoache column: Jordans ancient city of Petra features magnificent ruins (Salisbury Post
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 April 2005PETRA, Jordan — Every year when Christmas arrives and you hear the story of the wise men coming to Bethlehem, do you wonder where they came from? Yousef Hilo would tell you they were Nabataeans who rode their camels from the ancient city of Petra ...
- Yingpan Man
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005This a.m.'s Explorator links to an article in the Khaleej Times about DNA testing having been done on some of China's Tarim Basin mummies ...
- Classical Dictionary
from rogueclassicism on 24 April 2005I'm sure most of you are aware of this already, but I came across it for the first time t'other day ...
- Ancient mystery provides modern tale of persistence (Nashua Telegraph
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 April 2005In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas ...
- Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered At Pharaonic Port Of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 23 April 2005In December, an archaeology team led by Kathryn Bard of Boston University and Rudolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" discovered two man-made caves at Wadi Gawasis along the Red Sea coast ...
- Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered At Pharaonic Port Of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 23 April 2005In December, an archaeology team led by Kathryn Bard of Boston University and Rudolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" discovered two man-made caves at Wadi Gawasis along the Red Sea coast ...
- Reflections on the TEI
from The Stoa on 23 April 2005Peter Robinson: Several digital scholarly editions have indeed used these [TEI] guidelines profitably, so it must be said that in terms of their immediate aim—to provide encodings which would support such editions—the guidelines were and are successful ...
- Kentucky human remains update Archaeologist find
from ArchaeoBlog on 23 April 2005Kentucky human remains update Archaeologist find possible American Indian remainsBone fragments unearthed at a planned development site turned up what archaeologists believe are the five-thousand-year-old remains of two American Indians ...
- 7 Corpses Discovered in Ancient Tomb (Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 April 2005CAIRO — Archeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint ...
- Greek City from Sicily
from rogueclassicism on 23 April 2005From the Italian press comes news of the discovery of a 'buried Greek city' near Monte Vecchio/San Fratello (Messina, Sicily) ...
- Italy returns second piece of ancient Axum obelisk to Ethiopia (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 April 2005ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The second of three giant parts of Ethiopia's 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk looted by Benito Mussolini's troops was welcomed home Friday ...
- Mini 3D Bulgaria Set on European Tour
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 22 April 2005A set of ten 3D models of various sites, historic events and traditions of Bulgaria gets ready to se...
- Papyri Update II
from rogueclassicism on 22 April 2005If you visited rogueclassicism this a.m., you'll want to scroll down to see Dr. Obbink's letter which is making the rounds and which he has kindly given permission to be posted here ...
- Sorry for the delay in posting anything since Wedn
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 April 2005Sorry for the delay in posting anything since Wednesday. We were otherwise disposed yesterday morning and then Blogger was down in the afternoon ...
- Recent issue of Archaeology Magazine
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html The main contents are listed at this link - see below for links to specific features ...
- Red Sea Sea Vessel - Update
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/bu-esv042105.php More about Kathryn Bard's Mersa Gawasis (Red Sea) sea vessel find ...
- The Infinite Library
from The Stoa on 22 April 2005A long and involved article on digitizing the world's libraries here.
- Sterkfontein (South Africa
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The ancient early man site of Sterkfontein is a cave in a dolomite hill of the Blaaubank River Valley, about 10 kilometers northwest of Krugersdorp, South Africa ...
- THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION is in the news, in an emerg
from PaleoJudaica.com on 22 April 2005THE SCHØYEN COLLECTION is in the news, in an emerging controversy involving Aramaic incantation bowls: Museum inquiry into 'smuggling' of ancient bowls By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent (London Times) ONE of the world’s leading buyers of antiquities is at the heart of an inquiry to establish whether part of his multimillion-pound collection was illegally exported from the Middle East ...
- Newsround Service Launched
from GEsource News on 22 April 2005Want to search 1000s of current geography news and job items from across the Net? Now you can, courtesy of the brand new Newsround service from GEsource ...
- Ancient history layered in concrete (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005Military dictators who run Myanmar country are adding their own structures, constructed from poured concrete, to an area the UN has attempted to protect ...
- 7 Corpses Found in Ancient Egyptian Tomb AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 22 April 2005AP - Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint ...
- More Google Maps Hacks
from The Map Room on 22 April 2005When third parties started riffing on Google Maps -- whether through hacks or by posting screenshots of its satellite images -- I wondered what Google thought about it ...
- Archaeology of Latvia
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005A comprehensive, academic bibliography in English, German, Russian and Latvian on environmental archaeology, ancient materials and technology, physical anthropology and dendrochronology in Latvia ...
- Basilique de St-Denis France
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The Basilique de St-Denis is the most recent structure of several churches built on the top of a Gallo-Roman cemetery where St ...
- Bibliographies in Archaeology by Topic
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Several excellent bibliographies are available on the Internet, some of which were created especially for Archaeology@About.com....
- Flotation Method
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Archaeological flotation involves using water to process soil or feature fill to recover tiny artifacts....
- Fourknocks Ireland
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Fourknocks is a Mesolithic settlement in Brugh na Bóinne or Boyne Valley or Ireland...
- Indians of North America oops
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005I deeply apologize, the link for this great new online course was broken in today's newsletter. Thanks to reader Greg J for pointing this out ...
- Lakota Winter Counts
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005This wonderful on-line exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution is an introduction to the historical records of the Lakota (or Teton) Sioux, who maintained a record of past events in pictures and text on buffalo hide called 'winter counts' ...
- Latino Resources
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005From Indiana University at Bloomington, a wide range information, most of it original, on archaeological, historical and modern-day Central American cultures ...
- Ostraca
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The term ostraca (singular ostracon) is from a Greek word 'ostrakon' meaning 'shell.'...
- Statistics
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Statistics are used in archaeology to help us see patterns in the data we might not otherwise identify....
- Stentinello culture
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005Stentinello culture is the name given to a Neolithic site and related sites in the Calabria region of Italy, Sicily and Malta, dated to the 5th and 4th millennia BC ...
- Step Pyramid of Djoser
from About Archaeology on 22 April 2005The Step Pyramid of Djoser was one of the earliest of the pyramids built in Egypt, during the Old Kingdom's 3rd Dynasty about 2800 BC....
- the World as a Blog
from Brain Off on 22 April 2005the World as a Blog Two years ago World as a Blog was let out onto the net. Geography has since infiltrated a big part of my life and thoughts ...
- Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 April 2005Hard evidence that the engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old is published today, making them Britain's oldest rock art ...
- Hunt on for vanished Saxon bowl
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 April 2005Archaeologists hunting an Anglo-Saxon bowl missing for nearly 140 years are calling on the public to check their attics for the silver treasure ...
- Hierakonpolis Necropolis - Update
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/20/international/i181449D63.DTL Nothing new, but probably the best summary of the finds, to date ...
- Portrait painting through the ages
from Egyptology News on 22 April 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/1.asp "This season the Alexandrina Bibliotheca, one of the major cultural edifices in Egypt, held an exhibition entitled " Faces from Egypt", following which it released a book under the same title written by Mustafa Al Razaz and Ahmed Abdul Ghani ...
- Do you have ancient relics in the attic? (Independent Online
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005British antiquarians have launched an Internet search to find an ancient pre-Norman relic last seen in 1868.
- Lifestyles of Ancient Aristocrats from Western Civilizations Come Alive at Jewelry Exhibit in Geneva, April 20 - June 3 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 22 April 2005Phoenix Ancient Art, one of the world's leading dealers in rare and exquisite antiquities from Western civilizations, today announced that its latest exhibit, "6000 Years of Jewels: Fine Metalwork and Jewelry from Antiquity" was unveiled at its Geneva gallery on April 20, 2005, and will remain on view until June 3 ...
- Oxyrhynchus
from The Coding Humanist on 21 April 2005Some anonymous commenter left a link to Slashdot. As any of you who read the biblioblogs probably know, some news has been announced recently about researchers having the ability to read some of the papyri at Oxyrhynchus that they could not read before ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: David Meadows collects all th
from PaleoJudaica.com on 21 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: David Meadows collects all the latest news over at Rogue Classicism. Curiouser and curiouser ...
- Windows Mobile GPS Thingies
from The Map Room on 21 April 2005A couple of links about GPS-equipped PDAs -- those gadgets I covet but cannot possibly ever afford. Brighthand's got a review of the Garmin iQue M5, which runs Windows Mobile instead of Palm OS like Garmin's other PDAs (see previous ...
- Buying Maps from the Survey of India
from The Map Room on 21 April 2005When you're used to the idea that the map you're looking for is frequently only a click away, it's disconcerting to read about Shobhit Mahajan's attempts to buy maps from the Survey of India, where it seems that "the idea ...
- Science: Egypts Largest Necropolis Uncovered
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 21 April 2005Archaeologist in Egypt say that they have uncovered the country's largest funerary complex, in the K...
- Papyri Update ... the Rest of the Story
from rogueclassicism on 21 April 2005There's an email message from Dr. Dirk Obbink making the rounds of assorted lists. He wouldn't give me permission to post it here directly (I guess my reputation precedes me), but it is available in the Classics list archives for those who want to track it down (scroll down a little) ...
- Digital Medievalist
from The Stoa on 21 April 2005In the inaugural issue of DM (The Digital Medievalist), a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies at http://www ...
- Showcasing Giza
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/739/eg10.htm "As one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, one of the most unique monuments on the globe -- and one that must be protected -- the Giza Pyramids are listed on UNESCO's World Heritage list ...
- Egyptian sea vessel artifacts discovered at pharaonic port of Mersa Gawasis along Red Sea coast EurekAlert
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 21 April 2005(Boston) -- When Kathryn Bard reached through the small hole that opened in a hillside along Egypt's Red Sea coast, her hand touched nearly 4,000 years of history ...
- Concrete overlay for an ancient landscape (International Herald Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 21 April 2005Military dictators who run this country are following in the footsteps of ancient kings, celebrating their faith and power by building tall and lavish monuments ...
- Hierakonpolis tombs - Update
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4467253.stm A little more on yesterday's announcement of ...
- App Crit. glossary
from CAMPVS MAWRTIVS on 21 April 2005Reader dave just recommended this quick and dirty glossary of abbreviations and signs used in classical texts ...
- Ancient necropolis found in Egypt
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 April 2005Archaeologists say they have found the largest funerary complex yet dating from the earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years ago ...
- Infra Red Brings Ancient Papyri to Light
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 April 2005Oxyrhynchus, situated on a tributary of the Nile 100 miles south of Cairo, was a prosperous regional capital and the third city of Egypt, with 35,000 people ...
- Glyphdoctors - new website
from Egyptology News on 21 April 2005http://www.glyphdoctors.com/ This is a new website (went live on 1th April 2005) dedicated exclusively to the Ancient Egyptian Language ...
- Ancient necropolis found in Egypt
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 20 April 2005Archaeologists say they have discovered the largest funerary complex yet from pre-Pharaonic Egypt.
- Breaking news Pre-dynastic graveyard has experts
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Breaking news Pre-dynastic graveyard has experts buzzing A joint American-Egyptian archaeological team has excavated what is believed to be the largest ever discovered pre-dynastic funerary complex near the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu, antiquities officials said on Wednesday ...
- Sorry about no blogging yesterday; we were indispo
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Sorry about no blogging yesterday; we were indisposed at the museum and talking to various and sundry faculty members ...
- Excavation of Predynastic Burial Complex Near Edfu
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1art_id=qw1114007940732B221"A joint American-Egyptian archaeological team has excavated what is believed to be the largest ever discovered pre-dynastic funerary complex near the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu, antiquities officials said on Wednesday ...
- A number of news items . .
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ A number of news itesm have appeared on the Egyptian Gazette today ...
- Culture fair celebrates Egypts past
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200425t.htm A fair dedicated to Egypt's heritage, focusing on "Giza Treasures through Ages" has been organized by the Supreme Council of Antiquities at the Egyptian Museum, to coincide with International Heritage Day ...
- More on the Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
from Egyptology News on 20 April 2005http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Infra-Red-Brings-Ancient-Papyri-to-Lightcategory=discNot much more following on from the Independent article, but some more comments re this important find ...
- Political intrigue in China Genetic testing revea
from ArchaeoBlog on 20 April 2005Political intrigue in China Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang’s famous mummiesAfter years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived ...
- Secrets of Ancient Papyrus Fragments Revealed
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 20 April 2005NPR's Noah Adams speaks with Dirk Obbink, professor of classics at Oxford University in England, about recent technological breakthroughs that allow researchers to read more of the university's collection of ancient papyrus texts ...
- Still More on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 20 April 2005This 'new papyrus' thing is just getting strange and I don't understand why things have been spun they way they have been ...
- Marathon
from About Ancient/Classical History on 20 April 2005David Meadows' Rogue Classicism blog is the place to go for updates on the newly discovered ancient texts from the Oxyrhynchus papyri and news about the Latin-speaking pontiff ...
- Christies withdraws ancient Iranian artefact from sale (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 20 April 2005Christie's auction house said it had withdrawn from sale a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from ancient Persepolis to allow a British court to evaluate an Iranian demand to recover the artefect ...
- TECHNOLOGY WATCH: According to the Independent, n
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005TECHNOLOGY WATCH: According to the Independent, new imagining techniques are allowing the recovery of a vast amount of new information from the Oxyrhynchus papyri ...
- OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: On the Ars Technica forum an
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005OXYRHYNCHUS UPDATE: On the Ars Technica forum an anonymous papyrology student at the University of Chicago is expressing serious skepticism about Sunday's Independent article on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ...
- TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: For some reason this Arutz Sh
from PaleoJudaica.com on 20 April 2005TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: For some reason this Arutz Sheva article from 14 April did not show up on Google ...
- Dig brings Common’s history to the surface
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 April 2005AN investigation of a village common has unearthed the remains of an ancient past which had been previously unknown ...
- Nouveau blogue: lAntiquité tardive et paléochrétienne
from Hypotyposeis on 19 April 2005J'ai trouvé un blogue francophone, qui s'agit de "l'histoire, archéologie, art, iconographie de l'Antiquité tardive et paléochrétienne": l'Antiquité tardive et paléochrétienne ...
- Archaeologists and Related Scientists: Biographies
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Archaeologists come from all walks of life and make all kinds of career choices. These are mini-biographies of some of the archaeologists throughout history who have contributed significantly to the profession ...
- Ballana Culture
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The Ballana (or X-Culture) is the name given to a pre-Christian, post-meroitic culture of Egypt and Nubia, dominant in Lower Egypt and Nubia between about A ...
- Balma de lAbeurador France
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Balma de l'Abeurador is a rockshelter that contains a Mesolithic period site, located fifty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea in France....
- Ban Chiang Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Ban Chiang is a Bronze Age village and cemetery site in Udon Thani province of Thailand....
- Ban Na Di Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Ban Na Di is a Copper Age settlement and cemetery in Thailand (1313-903 BC), including sixty burials....
- Banpo China
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Banpo is a Neolithic village and cemetery on the Wei River in Shaanxi Province, China, belonging to the early Yangshao culture, dated 5000-4000 BC ...
- Banyan Valley Cave Thailand
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Banyan Valley Cave is located in Pang Ma Pha province of upland Thailand, with occupations dated beginning in the Hoabinhian period of the late stone age, up into the metal ages (3,500-900 BC) ...
- Hochschild on True Science: Archaeology Quotation
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005Political scientist Jennifer Hochschild muses on what makes a science, even a social science, a real gain in knowledge and insight....
- Lachish Israel
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005The archaeological site of Lachish (also called Tel el-Duweir) is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Jerusalem....
- Masterpiece or Forgery
from About Archaeology on 19 April 2005According to this story in the NYT (free log in needed), scholar Lynn Catterson argues that the sculpture called Laocoon, unearthed in 1506 was actually sculpted by Michelangelo: Arts > Art & Design > An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's ...
- Ancient pottery goes on display at museum (The Oklahoman
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Apr 19, 2005: NORMAN - Pottery from ancient Greece and Rome go on display today at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
- Two open source object-relational projects afoot in Eclipse InfoWorld
from Yahoo! News: Technology News on 19 April 2005InfoWorld - A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle ...
- Mine campaigner wins award
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 19 April 2005A 34-year-old woman wins an environment prize for fighting plans to open a giant goldmine in Romania.
- Ethiopians Welcome Back Ancient Obelisk (ABC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Ethiopians Welcome Return of Ancient Obelisk Italian Troops Stole 70 Years Ago
- ANCIENT SITES TORN UP BY OFF-ROAD VANDALS
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005Picturesque Westcountry sites dating back 2,000 years are being "deliberately damaged" by illegal off-road drivers, conservationists have claimed ...
- lbanian Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005Working on a hunch and intuition, a team from the University of Cincinnati has discovered a monumental temple in Albania that may be one of the earliest ever found in the region ...
- Archaeologists unearth Celtic burial site
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005A CELTIC burial ground has been discovered at a building site near Levice city centre, where a new shopping centre will be built ...
- Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang’s famous mummies
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 April 2005URUMQI, China - After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived ...
- Google launchs UK maps and info service (Macworld UK
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 19 April 2005Google today announced two new services for UK users - Google Local UK and Google Maps UK. Google Local UK aims to provide "comprehensive local information including business listings and related Web sites," the company said ...
- New Xinjiang museum to highlight ancient mummies (Hindustan Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005The Xinjiang ancient mummies found along the legendary Silk Road are to go on permanent display at a new museum scheduled to open this year to mark China's annexation of the restive Uighur Muslim region ...
- THE WIKIPEDIA "ARAMAIC LANGUAGE" ARTICLE is today
from PaleoJudaica.com on 19 April 2005THE WIKIPEDIA "ARAMAIC LANGUAGE" ARTICLE is today's featured article on the Wikipedia main page. That's all to the good, but the current version of the article includes this unfortunate sentence: Biblical Aramaic was originally written in Achaemenid Aramaic, but heavily influenced by later forms of Aramaic and Hebrew due to the work of the Masoretes in the first century CE ...
- Ancient literary texts resurrected Kathimerini
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 19 April 2005Classical scholars itching to read through a vast collection of what were hitherto illegible scraps of ancient manuscripts now have the means to do so, thanks to cutting-edge photographic technology used last week by scientists in England ...
- OpenTextorg adds Blog / RSS feed
from NT Gateway Weblog on 19 April 2005OpenText.org now has an RSS feed from their site for the latest updates. If you go to their main page (previous link), the RSS feed URL is hidden, but I sniffed it out at: Welcome to OpenText ...
- Anthropologist to speak at library newsobservercom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005PITTSBORO -- Anthropologist Vin Steponaitis will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at the Pittsboro Memorial Library, 158 West St ...
- Project hopes to map out 10,000 years of ancestry (Detroit News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Pay $99.95 and scientists will evaluate your DNA to provide you with a glimpse of your genetic history.
- Remains identified as Native American (The Democrat
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Human remains that were found at Arkabutla Lake two weeks ago have been deemed to be pre-historic Native American, according to Tate County Deputy Coroner Ernie Lentz ...
- Project to open internet to blind
from BBC News | Technology | UK Edition on 19 April 2005A three-year project to improve blind access to the internet is due to get under way at Queen's University.
- Silver coins dating back to Abbasid dynasty found (Gulf News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 19 April 2005Muscat: A middle-aged Omani woman stumbled on a 'silver pot' in Yankul wilayat but sensing the historical value of her find, she handed it over to the state ...
- More on the Papyri
from rogueclassicism on 18 April 2005The conclusion of a piece at Salon on the 'discoveries', potential and otherwise (hey GL! they mangled your name! ...
- Peruvian plan to save Inca city
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 18 April 2005Peru hands a $130m plan to the UN's cultural arm, Unesco, to preserve the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
- Infra red light on ancient scripts CNET
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005Blog: Want to time travel to ancient civilations? Lost manuscripts from Sophocles, Euripides and Hesiod might create the illusion....
- Ethiopia Welcomes Back Ancient Obelisk
from Sofia News Agency (novinite.com) on 18 April 2005The first section of a 1,700-year-old stone obelisk grabbed by Italy nearly 70 years ago has arrived...
- New images in the Gallery
from The Stoa on 18 April 2005Brent Seales had me tag along with him to Oxford and London last week (so we could discuss this process with various people), and we took a few pictures, which I've now posted for anyone's arbitrary use in icon ...
- Harcourt Assessment develops online test for Oklahoma students BizJournals
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 18 April 2005Harcourt Assessment Inc. formed a new partnership agreement with the state of Oklahoma to develop and implement an online testing program for seventh grade geography ...
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri Decoded - Important Breakthrough
from Egyptology News on 18 April 2005http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 "For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation ...
- Bill Manley and an Unidentified Coffin
from Egyptology News on 18 April 2005http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=399002005 Bill Manley, hieroglyph expert has been trying to find the identify of the skeletal remains of a woman and child found by Sir Flinders Petrie at Qurneh nearly 100 years ago ...
- Amazing News
from About Ancient/Classical History on 18 April 2005Forum poster CCamfield called attention to the fact that modern technology has been used to make major breakthroughs in decoding the Oxyrhynchus Papyri ...
- Iran bids to thwart auction of ancient relief (AFP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005Iran has filed a complaint in a London court against British auctioneers Christie's to stop the sale of a 2,500-year-old relief fragment from the ancient Persepolis site, officials said ...
- Oh mummy - what an interesting exhibit
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005VISITORS can sample life in ancient Egypt at a new museum exhibition.A decorated mummy case is just one of many exhibits now on show at the Royal Pump Room Museum, in Harrogate ...
- Decoded at last: the classical holy grail that may rewrite the history of the world
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005Scientists begin to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps bearing long-lost words by the literary giants of Greece and RomeFor more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation ...
- Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists
from Archaeology in Europe on 18 April 2005Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption ...
- A GRAVE CONTROVERSY: Highway engineer receives thr
from PaleoJudaica.com on 18 April 2005A GRAVE CONTROVERSY:Highway engineer receives threat note warning road damages gravesBy Roni Singer, Haaretz CorrespondentThe chief engineer of the Trans-Israel Highway received a threatening letter on Sunday, apparently part of a stand-off over extending the road into an area some ultra-Orthodox Jews say contains ancient graves ...
- An Ancient Masterpiece or a Masters Forgery? (New York Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 18 April 2005An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's Forgery? A scholar has suggested that "Laocoön," a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery - possibly by Michelangelo himself ...
- Making Archaeology A Fascinating Academic Discipline? Bernama
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 18 April 2005KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) -- Unearthing secret of the past through scientific discipline known as archaeology is not a cup of tea for many in the country or even elsewhere in the world ...
- Laocoon Fake
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005I can't remember whether I mentioned this one before (the story first crossed my screen a couple weeks ago) ...
- Papyri Followup
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005With all the excitement about the announcement of finding some lost bits of Sophocles etc. (here's another report from the Scotsman ...
- Oxyrhynchus Update
from CAMPVS MAWRTIVS on 17 April 2005A friend pointed me toward this expanded article on the latest developments. Here's an excerpt: The original papyrus documents, discovered in an ancient rubbish dump in central Egypt, are often meaningless to the naked eye - decayed, worm-eaten and blackened by the passage of time ...
- Bubastis
from Egyptology News on 17 April 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/738/he1.htm A fascinating description (and moral tale) of the modern fate of the extremely important site of Bubastis in the Delta: "The ancient city of Bubastis provides an example of how an important ancient Egyptian Delta city was slowly and systematically destroyed in modern times until little remained amidst Zagazig's urban expansion apart from miscellaneous architectural elements, broken stelae and statues" ...
- Facts and figures on Cyprus (El Nuevo Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 17 April 2005GEOGRAPHY: The guitar-shaped east Mediterranean island, which covers 3,572 square miles, is divided into Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot sectors ...
- A rare weekend appearance for the ArchaeoBlog staf
from ArchaeoBlog on 17 April 2005A rare weekend appearance for the ArchaeoBlog staff with a few items of interest. Mohr from Mehr Ancient sites and monuments discovered near PasargadaeA team of archaeologists working at the Mashhad-e Morghab plain near Pasargadae in Fars Province recently discovered historical sites and monuments dating back to ancient times ...
- Update to GMaps Annotation User Script
from Brain Off on 17 April 2005Update to GMaps Annotation User Script I've updated the user script described here and here. First, update and get the latest Greasemonkey plugin ...
- Ancient ruins dot French landscape (South Bend Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 17 April 2005AVIGNON, France -- "When I go to sleep at night, I dream of ruins!" The complaint, a few days into our visit to southern France, was meant as a joke -- I think -- but my traveling companion had a point ...
- Bagor India
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005The archaeological site of Bagor is a Late Mesolithic (pre-Harappa) archaeological site in the Bhilwara District of the Rajasthan region of western India ...
- Lost Treasures of Iraq
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005In the days and weeks following the conquest of Baghdad by the United States, the Iraqi Museum was looted of many of the treasures belonging to the heritage of the peoples of Iraq ...
- Online Course: Indians of North America
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005Pennsylvania State University is offering an online course this year, covering Native American groups north of Mexico, during the period just prior to, during, and immediately after contact with non-Indian explorers and settlers ...
- Pennsylvania State University - Archaeology Graduate School
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005Penn State's master's program is designed to train students in general Anthropology. The doctoral program is structured to train students in archaeology, with subspecializations in cultural ecology, analytical approaches, technological methods, and spatial anthropology; they also award PhDs in biological ...
- Pyramids of Giza Egypt
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005The Pyramids of Giza consist of three Old Kingdom burial structures and the Sphinx, all built during the 4th dynasty of ancient Egypt....
- Star Carr (United Kingdom
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005The early mesolithic archaeological site of Star Carr is probably one of the best known sites in England....
- The Roman Gask Ridge Project
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005The Gask Ridge project is being conducted by the University of Liverpool and the Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust, to investigate the Roman fortifications including Hadrian's Wall, in Scotland ...
- The Statistics Lesson: Archaeology and Statistics
from About Archaeology on 17 April 2005Archaeology has a continuing romance with statistics. Are we a science, or merely social science looking for some credibility? Fellow graduate students Luke and Katie helped this student of archaeology figure out the real problem ...
- Archaeological Study Tour to Belgium
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 April 2005The Archaeology of Belgium28 May to 3 June 2005Guide: David Beard MAClick Here for further details
- Archaeologists dig deep for evidence of the very old days
from Archaeology in Europe on 17 April 2005BOOMING Leeds is very much a 21st century city – but underneath the office blocks and apartments lies a rich historical past ...
- Similar curriculum can have separate and valuable meaning (Santa Cruz Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 17 April 2005Q My daughter’s sixth-grade math class is studying graphs, charts and maps. The only problem is she’d just studied them in social studies class last month ...
- Students are Docents in the Ancient Coin Museum (PR Web via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 17 April 2005(PRWEB) April 18, 2005 -- Last year, Zee Ann Poerio organized an Ancient Coin Museum to promote coins and classics ...
- Byzantine Empire
from About Ancient/Classical History on 17 April 2005When Gibbon picked A.D. 476 as the date for the fall of Rome, he was in line with a tradition that treated the Roman Empire as if it were two distinct political bodies, but at the time of the so-called ...
- Classics Blogwatch
from About Ancient/Classical History on 17 April 2005David Meadows' site looks very different now that he has changed software for his Rogue Classicism blog ...
- More on Ancient Coins
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005From a PRWeb Press Release: Last year, Zee Ann Poerio organized an Ancient Coin Museum to promote coins and classics ...
- New Texts
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005The Independent is reporting the following, which is causing much excitement, of course, but for the most part seems to repeat announcements made a couple of years ago ...
- Mosaics from Caesarea
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005From Ha'aretz (photo accompanies the original article): A 500-square-meter mosaic depicting an intricate design of flamingos, peacocks, ducks and other animals that adorned the floor of a fifth-century C ...
- Etruscan Tomb
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005Hopefully we'll hear more about this one ... Basilicata is reporting (in Italian) on the discovery of a rather large (15m frontage) Etruscan tomb dating from the second half of the third century A ...
- Albanian Temple
from rogueclassicism on 17 April 2005From a University of Cincinnati press release (I was scooped by Blogographos on this one!): It took a hunch, hard work and a heck of a lot of diplomacy ...
- ANOTHER ANCIENT MOSAIC has been uncovered in Israe
from PaleoJudaica.com on 17 April 2005ANOTHER ANCIENT MOSAIC has been uncovered in Israel: Impressive' villa mosaic unearthed near Caesarea (Ha'aretz)By Amiram Barkat A 500-square-meter mosaic depicting an intricate design of flamingos, peacocks, ducks and other animals that adorned the floor of a fifth-century C ...
- Ancient mystery provides modern tale of persistence (Detroit News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 17 April 2005In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas ...
- Project hopes to map out 10,000 years of ancestry (Detroit News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 17 April 2005Pay $99.95 and scientists will evaluate your DNA to provide you with a glimpse of your genetic history.
- Google Blog On Google Maps Phenomenon (Addict 3D
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 16 April 2005The Google blog posts about the various communities and excellent sites that have popped up around Google Maps, Google's first viral success story in quite a while ...
- Oxyrhynchus invisibile inkus? ... follow the linkus
from CAMPVS MAWRTIVS on 16 April 2005Eureka! Extraordinary discovery unlocks secrets of the ancients By David Keys and Nicholas Pyke 17 April 2005 Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using technology which experts believe will unlock the secrets of the ancient world ...
- PALEOJUDAICA is ranked #4 by Blogshares in the Anc
from PaleoJudaica.com on 16 April 2005PALEOJUDAICA is ranked #4 by Blogshares in the Ancient History Industry and its shares are currently worth $1,992 ...
- Blogshares and Blog Heaven
from NT Gateway Weblog on 16 April 2005In Paleojudaica, Jim Davila points out Blogshares and in particular their Ancient History listing: Blogshares: Ancient History in which Paleojudaica comes a deserved 4th, with shares worth $1,992 ...
- British Museum, London Londinium
from Stoa Image Gallery on 16 April 2005 - Japan N. Korea experts to research ancient tombs in N. Korea (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 16 April 2005_ Japanese experts and North Korean officials have agreed to carry out joint research into ancient tombs on the outskirts of Pyongyang, a goodwill ambassador for the U ...
- Proof of Roman rabbit dinner found
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 April 2005Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what they believe is one of Britain's first rabbits, brought in for food by the Romans 2,000 years ago ...
- Stone Age Erotica Found
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 April 2005German archaeologists have found what they believe is Europe's earliest known clay figure of a male, along with a female figure that they think once was attached to the male in a sexual position ...
- Skeleton find could tell us more about the Roman way of death
from Archaeology in Europe on 16 April 2005ANOTHER headless skeleton discovered in York is among a series of gruesome archaeological finds which could hold the key to unlocking secrets behind Roman burial rituals ...
- Ancient Coins
from rogueclassicism on 16 April 2005From the Tribune-Review: Zee Ann Poerio has a hobby that makes cents. Poerio, a third-grade teacher at St ...
- Remote Sensing Technique Uses Agricultural Aircraft
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 15 April 2005The need for higher resolution images in remote sensing projects has led to a new technique using agricultural airplanes in the Mississippi Delta.
- The Biggest Family Tree Ever
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 15 April 2005The University of Arizona will perform the DNA analysis for the public participation component of the Genographic Project, the world's most ambitious project tracing the genetic and migratory history of the human race ...
- Blog alert A couple of people (okay, maybe even t
from ArchaeoBlog on 15 April 2005Blog alert A couple of people (okay, maybe even the same person more than once) has alerted us via email to John Hawks' blog ...
- Salome Danced Here
from NT Gateway Weblog on 15 April 2005A week ago on Paleojudaica, Jim Davila noted this interesting piece from Ha'aretz (though I think Jim's link needs correcting): Tiberias unearths very rare marble floor The article explains that "the floor is apparently a remnant of a pavement in the palace of Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, who ruled the Galilee from 4 BCE to 38 CE" ...
- TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Jerusalem Post has an art
from PaleoJudaica.com on 15 April 2005TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Jerusalem Post has an article on the salvage operation, headed by archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, which is stifting the rubble from the depredations of the WAQF on the Temple Mount ...
- Remains of Roman rabbit uncovered
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 April 2005The remains of a 2,000-year-old rabbit - found at an early Roman settlement at Lynford, Norfolk - may be the earliest example of rabbit remains in Britain ...
- For Sale: Cypriot Copper Mine Fit for King Herod
from Archaeology in Europe on 15 April 2005NICOSIA (Reuters) - A copper mine in Cyprus where the metal has been mined since Biblical times faces closure unless the Church of Cyprus can find a buyer, officials said on Wednesday ...
- Shipwreck Interactive Map
from The Map Room on 14 April 2005Shipwreck Central, the home page of the documentary series The Sea Hunters, has a really neat interactive shipwreck map that's both zoomable and searchable ...
- This web site covers hominids (paleoanthropolgy an
from ArchaeologyOnline on 14 April 2005This web site covers hominids (paleoanthropolgy and physical anthropology), ancient Egypt, and a lot of excellent information on where to find archaeology online ...
- The Hall of Maat is a site with archaeology and o
from ArchaeologyOnline on 14 April 2005The Hall of Ma'at is a site with archaeology and other forums, papers, and opinion pieces about archaeology and pseudoscience. The Hall of Maat
- Altes Museum
from Stoa Image Gallery on 14 April 2005 - Review of Biblical Literature latest
from NT Gateway Weblog on 14 April 2005Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Frilingos, Christopher A. Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation Reviewed by Jan Van Henten McCane, Byron R ...
- THE BYZANTINE-ERA SYNAGOGUE IN JERICHO has recentl
from PaleoJudaica.com on 14 April 2005THE BYZANTINE-ERA SYNAGOGUE IN JERICHO has recently been visited by Jews, according to Arutz Sheva: Jews Return to Ancient Jericho Synagogue 22:28 Apr 13, '05 / 4 Nisan 5765 For the first time in four and a half years, a group of Jews was allowed to visit and pray in the ancient Shalom al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho Tuesday ...
- mapping Internet 2.0, Paris
from Brain Off on 14 April 2005mapping Internet 2.0, Paris If you're attending the conference on the 25th, check out and contribute to the collaborative taggable map of Paris ...
- Vaults That Let You Store (and Show) Your Photos, and Keep Shooting
from NYT > Technology on 13 April 2005Digital photos often need a larger, safer and more permanent home. For those on the go, mobile digital photo viewers can provide a solution.
- Dissertations on line
from NT Gateway Weblog on 13 April 2005On Kaimoi, Ken Olson draws attention to his University of Maryland MA dissertation, now available on-line:How Luke Was WrittenKen OlsonThe dissertation will be of particular interest to those studying the Synoptic Problem, especially if you have not yet bought your copy of Questioning Q where a revised version of the above appears under the title "Unpicking on the Farrer Theory" ...
- International cooperation = Good Iranians Take Pa
from ArchaeoBlog on 13 April 2005International cooperation = Good Iranians Take Part in Second Chicago University Eurasian Archaeology ConferenceUniversity of Chicago is holding its second Eurasian Archaeology Conference on April 15th and 16th 2005 ...
- Global Gene Project to Trace Humanitys Migrations
from National Geographic News on 13 April 2005National Geographic has launched the Genographic Project, which will use DNA to trace how human populations dispersed from Africa to the rest of the world ...
- DNA project to trace human steps
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 12 April 2005A major project spanning five continents aims to map the history of human migration through DNA.
- Kom Ombo - Sobek Temple and a New Museum
from Egyptology News on 12 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o100425v.htm "Culture Minister Farouk Hosni unveils next month the Sobek temple in Kom Ombo, which bas been restored at a cost of LE 15 million ...
- Early toolmakers cast off rock-banger image They
from ArchaeoBlog on 12 April 2005Early toolmakers cast off rock-banger image They may look crude, but even some of the earliest stone tools were produced with skill and technical sophistication ...
- Iranians Take Part in Second Chicago University Eurasian Archaeology Conference (Payvand Iran News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 12 April 2005University of Chicago is holding its second Eurasian Archaeology Conference on April 15th and 16th 2005 ...
- New enemy menaces Hadrian’s Wall
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 April 2005HADRIAN’S WALL has survived barbarian invaders, smugglers and the 2,000-year march of history. Now its very survival has come under threat — from an army of walkers ...
- Lost ring leads to treasure hoard
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 April 2005A QUEST for a missing wedding ring has helped uncover a collection of ancient treasures dating back up to 4,000 years ...
- Celtic tiger threatens mystical Tara, where kings were once crowned
from Archaeology in Europe on 12 April 2005Celtic tiger threatens mystical Tara, where kings were once crownedA battle is raging between old Ireland, steeped in history, and the modern nation over plans for a motorway where high kings once were crowned ...
- National Geographic Bee: State Winners Announced
from National Geographic News on 12 April 2005Fifty-five U.S. students have been named as state-level winners of the National Geographic Bee. Next stop: the national finals in Washington, D.C.
- Kennewick Bill update Kennewick Man scientists pr
from ArchaeoBlog on 11 April 2005Kennewick Bill update Kennewick Man scientists protest bill (Reg req'd, use BugMeNot.com) Scientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting legislation they say could block their efforts ...
- Heres a few items. Well have some more later. C
from ArchaeoBlog on 11 April 2005Here's a few items. We'll have some more later.Coming to theaters soon: Pleistocene Park Woolly Mammoth Resurrection, "Jurassic Park" PlannedA team of Japanese genetic scientists aims to bring woolly mammoths back to life and create a Jurassic Park-style refuge for resurrected species ...
- Tiberias dig unearths very rare marble floor
from Roman Archaeology on 11 April 2005Haaretz - Israel News: "A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias ...
- Ethiopia kept waiting for obelisk
from BBC News | World | UK Edition on 11 April 2005The long-awaited return to Ethiopia of the third century Axum obelisk from Italy is again delayed - this time "indefinitely".
- Roman Legend Legitimized
from Roman Archaeology on 11 April 2005CBS News : "Traces of a royal palace discovered in the Roman Forum have been dated to roughly the period of the eternal city's legendary foundation ...
- The Archaeology of Islands
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 April 2005Sat 23rd April 2005 10.00-5.00pm43 Gordon Square, London, WC1Speakers:Paul Rainbird - From the west to Easter Island: achievements in inhabitingthe island world of the Pacific ...
- Baden Culture
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Baden culture is the name archaeologists have given to a culture of the central European Copper Age, related to the Bell Beaker culture and dated between about 3500-3000 BC ...
- BC (or BC
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The term B.C. is used by nearly everyone in the United States to mean dates in the Julian Calendar before the birth of Christ, or at least before the date once thought to be that of Christ's birth (the year ...
- BCE (or BCE
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005BCE stands for "Before the Common Era" and it is basically equivalent to "BC", except that it doesn't have the Christian religious connotations of BC ...
- Besant Sonota Complex
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Sonota Complex (also called Besant-Sonota) is the name archaeologists have given to Woodland bison hunters in the American Great Plains in Canada and the United States ...
- BP (or BP
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005Archaeologists use the term 'BP' to mean 'years before humans began to screw up the atmosphere by testing nuclear devices'....
- Etowah USA
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Etowah mounds site is located on the Etowah River in northern Georgia in the southeastern United States....
- Mean Ceramic Date
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005A mean ceramic date is a method of determining the age of a historical artifact assemblage using the average dates of the pottery sherds collected from the site ...
- Soninké Society
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Soninké were (and are) traders of west Africa with an oral history tradition dating back nearly 1000 years....
- Sonoran Agricultural Complex
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Sonoran Agricultural Complex is the general name given to the suite of crops grown in the American southwest and documented in sites such as Bat Cave beginning about 4,000-3,500 BP ...
- Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
from About Archaeology on 11 April 2005The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (also known as the Southern Cult) is the name given to a broad, regional similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies and mythology of the Mississippian period between about AD 1000 and 1600 ...
- New method for dating ancient earthquakes through cave evidence developed by Israeli researchers EurekAlert
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 11 April 2005Photo in the stalactite cave near Beit Shemesh, Israel, shows a collapsed ceiling, evidence of an ancient destructive earthquake ...
- Ancient fish trap to be exhibited at Juneau museum (Fairbanks Daily News Miner
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 11 April 2005JUNEAU--An ancient Tlingit fish trap is moving to the Juneau-Douglas City Museum as a permanent exhibit ...
- Ancient musical instruments unearthed in E. China (Peoples Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 11 April 2005After nearly two years'excavation, archeologists have found a huge underground storeroom for musical instruments at a tomb of state of Yue in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province ...
- Heritage not pillage
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 April 2005“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” said Robert Frost. Along the length of Hadrian’s wall that something is an army of walkers, marching beside the mighty fortification the 2nd-century Roman emperor built to mark the limits of his empire and keep the Picts at bay ...
- Celtic tiger threatens mystical Tara, where kings were once crowned
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 April 2005A battle is raging between old Ireland, steeped in history, and the modern nation over plans for a motorway where high kings once were crowned ...
- Clues to climates future may lay in past
from Archaeology in Europe on 11 April 2005Climate change could have drastic consequences.Just ask the ancient Egyptians.Harvey Weiss, professor of archaeology at Yale University, says climate change was a fact of life for earlier civilizations ...
- Ancient African Kingdom May Anchor Cross-Border Conservation Area
from National Geographic News on 11 April 2005An Iron Age archaeological site will likely form the centerpiece of a cross-border conservation area under negotiation by three southern African countries ...
- Walking Hadrians Wall
from rogueclassicism on 10 April 2005The Times has a somewhat disturbing 'be careful what you wish for' article about the effects of Heritage status being granted to Hadrian's Wall: HADRIAN’S WALL has survived barbarian invaders, smugglers and the 2,000-year march of history ...
- Roman Emperors
from About Ancient/Classical History on 10 April 2005First there was Augustus, followed by the Julio-Claudian Emperors, then the year of the four emperors, then the Flavian Dynasty, then the five good emperors ...
- World of Warcraft Map Viewer
from The Map Room on 10 April 2005Those interested in computer game maps (see previous entry) should take note of WoWmapview, a map viewer for World of Warcraft: "It uses the data files included with the game to display the 3D game world, which you can explore ...
- Sri Lanka: Work on ancient history of Batticaloa released TamilNet
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 10 April 2005"We should write the people's history of the northeast. It is important to discover and publish old palm leaf manuscripts such as 'Mattakkalappu Poorva Sariththiram' (Ancient History of Batticaloa) to bring out the history of the communities that live in this region ...
- Grand Egyptian Museum
from Egyptology News on 10 April 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/737/eg6.htm April seems to be the month for museums in Egypt. The latest announcement concerns a fund-raising campaign for the Grand Egyptian Museum ...
- Saving social studies
from geography News feed on 10 April 2005AZ Central.com, AZ -Social studies was once the foundation of public education in America, but educators say topics such as history, civics and geography are increasingly ...
- RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY: Research team r
from PaleoJudaica.com on 9 April 2005RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY: Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology (PhysOrg ...
- Mosaic from Tiberias
from rogueclassicism on 9 April 2005From Ha'aretz: A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias ...
- The Silk Road
from rogueclassicism on 9 April 2005An item from Xinhua triggered the "say what" alarm in my noggin: More than 170 Roman cultural relics arrived in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Wednesday night for an exhibition later this month, Ma Zhenzhi, deputy curator of the provincial museum, said Thursday ...
- Engineers Help To Save And Reconstruct The Past
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 April 2005Each time an ancient vase disintegrates, a ceramic tile crumbles or a painting cracks and fades, another link with our past is lost and we understand just a little less about where we came from and, ultimately, who we are ...
- Greek police seize antiquities, arrest a Greek man
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 April 2005ATHENS, Greece Police in Greece say they have seized several illegally excavated ancient works of art ...
- Iron age torc comes home
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 April 2005An iron-age torc found in a Norfolk field will return to the county after a £49,000 grant from lottery chiefs ...
- Fury at plan for burial ground in shadow of the Devils Hoofmarks
from Archaeology in Europe on 9 April 2005CONTROVERSIAL proposals to site a burial ground next to one of the most imposing neolithic stone circles in Scotland have caused a storm of protest ...
- Nile Conference looks at history of River
from Egyptology News on 8 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z10.htm "Under the title of 'The Nile and Water Resources in Egypt through the Ages, the fifth Fayyoum conference took place this week at Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology, Fayyoum Branch" ...
- KU ScholarWorks
from The Stoa on 8 April 2005Steven Harnad reports on the BOAI list that The University of Kansas has become the first US University to adopt a university-wide open-access self-archiving policy ...
- New Online Reference
from CAMPVS MAWRTIVS on 8 April 2005Tim Spalding of www.isidore-of-seville.com e-mailed me just the other day to suggest that we add his new site to the Cheat Sheet ...
- Its construction season, lets start finding stuf
from ArchaeoBlog on 8 April 2005It's construction season, let's start finding stuff Artifacts delay highway projectDiscovery of a campsite used by ancient hunters has delayed work on a stretch of the Heartland Expressway for at least a year ...
- SALOME DANCED HERE -- MAYBE: Tiberias dig unearths
from PaleoJudaica.com on 8 April 2005SALOME DANCED HERE -- MAYBE: Tiberias dig unearths very rare marble floor By Eli Ashkenazi (Ha'aretz) A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias ...
- Fury at plan for burial ground in shadow of the Devils Hoofmarks
from Archaeology in Europe on 8 April 2005CONTROVERSIAL proposals to site a burial ground next to one of the most imposing neolithic stone circles in Scotland have caused a storm of protest ...
- New Museums in Sinai and Faiyum
from Egyptology News on 8 April 2005New Museum for North Sinai http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z8.htm "Al-Arish National Museum for North Sinai history will be opened by the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, next month ...
- Nile Floods and Civilization
from Egyptology News on 8 April 2005http://www.geotimes.org/current/#features "The highs and lows of the Nile River have shaped the course of Egyptian civilization for more than 8,000 year" ...
- African Skull Points to Common Ancestry for All Hominids
from NPR Topics: Health & Science on 8 April 2005The discovery of a bizarre skull three years ago in Chad is leading scientists to believe the skull may have belonged to the common ancestor of all hominids ...
- SALOME DANCED HERE -- MAYBE: Tiberias dig unearths
from PaleoJudaica.com on 8 April 2005SALOME DANCED HERE -- MAYBE: Tiberias dig unearths very rare marble floor By Eli Ashkenazi (Ha'aretz) A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias ...
- Roman Concrete
from rogueclassicism on 8 April 2005This one comes from Phys.org, but seems to stem from a press release I can't find: CU-Boulder history Professor Robert Hohlfelder, an internationally known underwater archaeologist, said scholars have long been in awe of the engineering feats of the early Romans ...
- Wikis Redux
from rogueclassicism on 8 April 2005Yesterday we mentioned that Tim Spalding had set up a Wiki Classical Dictionary (the WCD), and it occurs to me that a lot of people might not what the heck a wiki is ...
- Digging Vindolanda
from rogueclassicism on 8 April 2005The Evening Chronicle has a huge article on the ongoing/upcoming dig season at Vindolanda ... here's the incipit: Pressed down in the clay, almost completely covered by the dirt, lies an object ...
- Roman Gask
from rogueclassicism on 8 April 2005During my travails, it was announced on the Britarch list that the website of the Roman Gask Project had changed ...
- Question: Getting Involved in Collaborative Mapping
from The Map Room on 7 April 2005Robin Hall writes, "Saw the piece on the back of Online in The Guardian today and am interested in starting a project here in Letchworth ...
- The Big and the Little
from The Map Room on 7 April 2005Yesterday's Guardian had a piece exploring the dichotomy between ground-level, do-it-yourself, open-source mapping projects done by people walking about with GPS units, and the massive geodata owned by government agencies ...
- Babylon Iraq
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The archaeological site of Babylon was the capital of a small city state of Mesopotamia, named Babylonia, located in what is now Iraq, near the modern town of Hilla ...
- Badarian Culture
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Badarian culture is the name archaeologists have given to the Neolithic period in Egypt and the Sudan between 4400-4000 BC...
- Chwezi Dynasty
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Chwezi Dynasty (also called Bachwezi or Kitara Dynasty) is the possibly mythical, certainly legendary, kingdom of Uganda, who are said to have ruled between 1300 and 1500 AD ...
- Skhul Cave Israel
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005Skhul Cave is a rockshelter located on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel, with evidence for occupations dating between about 80,000 and 100,000 years ago ...
- Slavery
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005a focus on past rulers and other elite persons to the study of less-fortunate people, including the relationship between slaves and their masters....
- Slavic Cultures
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Slavic culture is the collective name given to several nomadic tribes of Poland and Moldavia between the 6th and 11th centuries AD...
- Sobiejuchy Poland
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005Sobiejuchy is a small urnfield cemetery and lakeside village site in central Poland, occupied between about 750-500 BC...
- Social Evolutionism
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The several theories known broadly as Social Evolutionism were born out of ideas created during the 18th century Enlightenment, and reworked in the mid-19th century ...
- Son Vi Culture
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Son Vi culture is the name given to the Upper Paleolithic lithic tradition of highland Vietnam....
- Song Dynasty
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Song Dynasty in China was established in 960 AD, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty and fifty years of chaos....
- Songhai Empire
from About Archaeology on 7 April 2005The Songhai Empire was established in western subsaharan Africa by Sonni 'Ali Ber in AD 1464....
- Research team recreates ancient underwater concrete technology PhysOrg
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 April 2005A University of Colorado at Boulder professor and his colleagues have taken a page from the writings of an ancient Roman architect and built an underwater concrete pier in the manner of those set in the Mediterranean Sea 2,000 years ago ...
- Web site alert Francis Deblauwe sends along this l
from ArchaeoBlog on 7 April 2005Web site alert Francis Deblauwe sends along this link to his Iraq War and Archaeology web site: Archaeology, antiquities smuggling, nationalism, colonialism, politics and related issues have always been closely intertwined in the Land Between the Two Rivers ...
- Early hominid cared for elderly
from Archaeology in Europe on 7 April 2005Ancient hominids from the Caucasus may have fed and cared for their elderly, a new fossil find has indicated ...
- DIgging up the past (Herts Advertiser
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 7 April 2005A DEFINITIVE guide to the archaeology and historical development of St Albans is to be published this month ...
- Early hominid cared for elderly
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 7 April 2005Ancient hominids from the Caucasus may have fed and cared for their elderly, a new fossil find has indicated.
- Ancient African Skies SPACEcom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 7 April 2005We had heard of an ancient astronomy site in this region made up of basalt pillars that were magnetic, so needed to be remeasured using something other than compasses ...
- Reemergence of discredited Ilisu Dam project
from Archaeology in Europe on 7 April 2005Plans for large dams in southeast Turkey including the discredited Ilisu dam project may yet go ahead in spite of adverse impacts on cultural and environmental rights, according to a new report by the National University of Ireland, Galway and the Kurdish Human Rights Project[1] ...
- Experts: Fossil Apparently Human Ancestor AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 6 April 2005AP - Is a fossil creature that grabbed headlines three years ago really the earliest known ancestor of modern humans? Or does it belong elsewhere on the evolutionary tree? The answer has been hotly debated, but now two studies argue that it does indeed belong on the human branch ...
- A Paleopuzzle: Chomping With No Chompers
from NYT > Science on 6 April 2005The toothless skull of an early human ancestor may attest to evolution's oldest known example of compassion for the elderly.
- Archaeology Society Digs Up County’s Past (The Times Union
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 April 2005Beneath Kosciusko County lies the past. Ice Age mastodons. Early man. Indian artifacts. And old-time settlers ...
- Update to NAGPRA issue, S. 536: Weve corresponde
from ArchaeoBlog on 6 April 2005Update to NAGPRA issue, S. 536:We've corresponded with the author of the article, who provided a link or two, plus some digging of our own ...
- Paris to host Nubian Exhibition
from Egyptology News on 6 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o060425v.htm "An Egyptian Antiquity delegation will soon fly to Paris to participate in the "Nubia Campaign: Yesterday and Today" exhibition ...
- Wari bateshwar Archaeological Site (News From Bangladesh
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 6 April 2005A team of the Archaeology Department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) has been conducting the excavation since 2000 at the site of one of the oldest civilisations in the country ...
- Chad skull leans to human line
from BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition on 6 April 2005Experts are a step closer to answering whether an ancient skull from Africa belonged to a possible human ancestor.
- Funny how we post a couple days about a PORN story
from ArchaeoBlog on 6 April 2005Funny how we post a couple days about a PORN story and the hit rate goes up by about 50%. Now we know where the minds of archaeologists really are ...
- Survey of ancient monuments in Wales
from Archaeology in Europe on 6 April 2005Archaeologists in Wales are undertaking a major survey of thousands of prehistoric sites. The project, ...
- A NEW ESSAY on the Bible and Interpretation websit
from PaleoJudaica.com on 6 April 2005A NEW ESSAY on the Bible and Interpretation website:Assyriology and Biblical Studies:Time for Reassessment? Biblical scholars since the 1970s have often tended to be ahistorical or anti-historical in approach ...
- The man who really found Tutankhamen
from Egyptology News on 5 April 2005http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050331-125826-4477r "For the past 36 years journalist and author Desmond Zwar has shared a great secret: that it was not archaeologist Howard Carter who was responsible for the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, but a humble British corporal whose very presence on the site had to be kept confidential; who in the last days of the dig took a photograph that changed history" ...
- Columbia University resolution on open access
from The Stoa on 5 April 2005The Columbia University Senate unanimously passed the following resolution April 1: WHEREAS the Senate is empowered by University statutes §23 c and e to "work for the advancement of academic freedom ...
- Fragments of ancient empire
from Archaeology in Europe on 5 April 2005The archaeological season has begun at the Roman site of Vindolanda, bringing in volunteers from all over the world ...
- Troels
from Stoa Image Gallery on 5 April 2005Covers archaeological sites & museums in Greece, England, Turkey and France as well as museums in Denmark and Russia ...
- THE BYZANTINE-ERA SYNAGOGUE IN JERICHO is in the
from PaleoJudaica.com on 5 April 2005THE BYZANTINE-ERA SYNAGOGUE IN JERICHO is in the news:Jericho synagogue may open for PessahBy MARGOT DUDKEVITCH (Jerusalem Post)Paving the way for the return of Jewish worshipers to the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho, the IDF and Civil Administration officials toured the site on Monday morning ...
- Forum on Open Geodata
from The Map Room on 4 April 2005More on the attempt to produce GIS data for the UK independent of Crown copyright (see previous entry: there will be a Forum on Open Geodata on April 14 in London; see the link for speakers and details ...
- OpenOSX GrassPro
from The Map Room on 4 April 2005GRASS, the open-source GIS software, has been available for Mac OS X before; on Friday, OpenOSX announced GrassPro, which, in addition to GRASS 6 ...
- More news from the wires. . . SAA award II Meso
from ArchaeoBlog on 4 April 2005More news from the wires. . . SAA award II Mesoamerican book wins archaeology book awardAztec child raising, how to play the Maya ball game and the calorie counts for a forager's diet are a few of the special features found in "Ancient Mexico & Central America, Archaeology and Culture History," by Susan Toby Evans, winner of the Society of American Archaeology's 2005 Book Award ...
- Archaeology Studies Office Wins Award for Education RedNova
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 4 April 2005The Society of American Archaeology will present its 2005 Excellence In Public Education Award to the state Office of Archaeological Studies.
- Interactive World Map Relaunched
from GEsource News on 4 April 2005The interactive world map on the GEsource World Guide has been enhanced and relaunched with 612 clickable regions available (previously 91)
- Most visited sites March 2005
from GEsource News on 4 April 2005The list of the most visited GEsource sites during March 2005 is now available
- TRAVEL NOTES: Ancient artifacts to go on display in Grand Rapids (Detroit Free Press
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 4 April 2005GRAND RAPIDS -- The glory of the ancient Nabataean capital of Petra, Jordan, comes to Grand Rapids' Calvin College this week.
- Spring Issue - Egyptian Archaeology Magazine
from Egyptology News on 4 April 2005The EES website does not list the contents of the latest Spring issue of the magazine. However, the ...
- Zahi Hawass on Paris Exhibition
from Egyptology News on 4 April 2005http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/736/he2.htm Hawass's occasional column in Al Ahram Weekly is focused in this issue on the Paris exhibition "The Glory of the Pharaohs" which focuses mainly on the work of two important early French Egyptologists ...
- Saqqara gets new museum
from Egyptology News on 4 April 2005http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o030425j.htm The Culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, has announced the opening in May 2005 of the Amheteb Museum in Saqqara ...
- Antonine Wall (Great Britain
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The Antonine Wall marks the northern-most border of the Roman empire in Great Britain....
- Arlington Springs USA
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The Arlington Springs site is located on an island in the North Channel Islands off the coast of southern California in the western United States....
- Axumite Civilization
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The Axumite civilization is a Coptic pre-Christian state in Ethiopia, from about AD 100-800....
- Aymara Culture
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The Aymara are a modern cultural group of the Andes in Peru, and the descendants of the Tiwanaku Empire in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia and Peru (400-1500 AD) ...
- Aztalan USA
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005Aztalan is a large Mississippian site located near Lake Mills in the state of Wisconsin of the midwestern USA....
- Aztec Civilization
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The Aztec civilization is the collective name given to seven Chichimec tribes of northern Mexico...
- Digs 2005: Sopeña Cave Spain
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005June 15-August 15, 2005. La Asociación Cultural Cuaternario Cantábrico. This project involves the excavation of a cave site covering the Middle to early Upper Palaeolithic Transition, that is Neandertal and early modern human occupations ...
- Eastern Pequot Field School, Connecticut USA
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005July 5-August 5, 2005. University of Massachusetts at Boston. In collaboration with the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, the field school will undertake a third year of intensive survey of tribal lands to identify and document archaeological sites dating from several ...
- Invitation to Cultural Evolutionism
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005From Robert Graber at Truman State University, a terrific introduction to the concepts of cultural evolution, including excellent succinct descriptions of founding figures such as Marx and Morgan, recent theories, and ongoing processes ...
- Louis Siret
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005Belgian engineer Louis Siret first identified and excavated the Chalcolithic site of Los Millares, Spain....
- Olga Soffer [b. 1944
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005American archaeologist Olga Soffer came to archaeology from a diverse background, to say the least....
- Social Organization
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005Social organization of a group includes how people interact, and archaeologists look for clues to the social organizations in artifact patterns....
- Soil Resistivity
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005The geophysical prospection technique of investigating archaeological sites called soil resistivity was first used for archaeology by Richard Atkinson in the mid-1940s ...
- Spiro Mounds: A Ceremonial Center of the Southern Cult
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005Way out at the very far western edge of the late prehistoric cultural manifestation archaeologists call the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex lies the earthworks known as Spiro Mounds ...
- Yoshiko H. Sinoto
from About Archaeology on 3 April 2005American archaeologist Yoshiko H. Sinoto has conducted excavations and surveys throughout Polynesia...
- Decapolis
from About Ancient/Classical History on 3 April 2005The Decapolis was an ancient confederation of ten cities near Palestine, which included the Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin ...
- History for Children
from About Ancient/Classical History on 3 April 2005Writer's Weekly reminds parents and teachers that children actually enjoy history. If the adults think otherwise, it's probably because they remember their own experiences ...
- Lost in Geography
from About Geography on 3 April 2005The state of geographic education is summarized in this interesting article from the Washington Times....
- Project to uncover ancient village (Durango Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 3 April 2005To the casual observer the piles of rocks at Goodman Point are merely rubble, but a village is buried beneath those stones and in May the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center will begin to unearth it ...
- Ancient remains
from About Geology on 2 April 2005Last week there were headlines about real marrow recovered from dinosaur bones. But real remains--not just petrified fossils--are known from a wide range of the geologic record ...
- The Buddha in schist
from About Geology on 2 April 2005A day at the Asian Art Museum was well spent, not just for the richness of ancient cultures but for a survey of the varieties of stone used in sculpture ...
- Susan Heuck Allen on Troy
from rogueclassicism on 2 April 2005From the Daily Illini: The epic battle of Troy was regarded as a mere Homeric fantasy until the late nineteenth century, when Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have unearthed the city ...
- Homo hobbitus update Breaking the Hobbit Yet ano
from ArchaeoBlog on 1 April 2005Homo hobbitus update Breaking the HobbitYet another skirmish has erupted over the "hobbit," as researchers quarrel over who broke the bones of Homo floresiensis—a diminutive new species of human found on the Indonesian island of Flores last year ...
- Etruscan Texts Project
from The Stoa on 1 April 2005Rex Wallace, director of the Etruscan Texts Project based at the the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes with news that We now have 223 inscriptions online and another 150 inscriptions waiting in the wings ...
- First up for our April 1 edition, we have a fascin
from ArchaeoBlog on 1 April 2005First up for our April 1 edition, we have a fascinating report from Eugene Cruz-Uribe on recent events in Egypt (posted with permission):News From Egypt (an April 1 Report)The on-going saga of the reconstruction of Hibis temple in Kharga Oasis hasundergone a new twist this year ...
- Irish Road to Progress Jams at Ancient Hill (Reuters via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 1 April 2005Ancient peoples crowned more than 100 kings here. Ireland's patron saint Patrick is believed to have faced down his druid foes on its windswept slopes ...
- Urban Mapping (Was: Dynamap
from The Map Room on 1 April 2005John Resig points us to this article in Directions about Urban Mapping's neato Cracker Jack-box mapping technology -- which was covered here a year ago when it was called "Dynamap" ...
- Webmapper
from The Map Room on 1 April 2005Possibly the strangest way I've yet had a link submitted is via someone's comment in the reader survey: "Excellent reading ...
