BHR-13
Brit-Am Historical Reports
1 September 2009 12 Elul 5769
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1. Archaeology:
Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.18
2. Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert says
3. Archaeology:
Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.19
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.18
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.18 August 23, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on Hezekiah's Tunnel:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418659103&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Arguing over what Acre should be called:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00140.htm
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/features/The-battle-over-Acre-Who-was-there-first
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/081809Avnery.shtml
Egypt has restored a historic synagogue:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9A6P6UG1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/20/world/main5256157.shtml
http://www.kxmc.com/News/424235.asp
... and denies a connection with a UNESCO bid (?):
http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/egypt-denies-synagogue-attempt-was-to-bolster-unesco-bid-2009082233789.html
Online article: The Army of the Kings of Ur: The Textual Evidence:
http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2009/cdlj2009_005.html
More coverage of snubbing of Israeli archaeologists at the WAC:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1594&module_id=#as
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090819/full/news.2009.835.html?s=news_rss
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/200908181979/Not-invited-to-archaeological-conference-in-Ramallah-IAA-upset.html
... the WAC response(s):
http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/home/ramallah/373-statement-on-the-wac-inter-congress-in-ramallah
http://worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/home/ramallah/374-public-discussion-forum-for-ramallah-inter-congress
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 'Roman mansion' from the City of David (where that balance weight
was found a while back):
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418630047&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2009/08/17/168s509519.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/08/17/Ancient-Roman-edifice-found-in-Jerusalem/UPI-70861250526704/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108127.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132944
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/169623
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1738470/ancient_roman_edifice_found_in_jerusalem/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Third-century-CE-mansion-exposed-in-City-of-David-17-Aug-2009.htm
Evidence of a cult of Aphrodite at Susita:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1108761
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1108854.html (photo)
Very interesting suggestion that Hadrian's wall was originally
made of wood:
http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/news_at_a_glance/hadrian_s_wall_was_built_of_wood_1_598511?referrerPath=/1.257779
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-93403.html
cf:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=hadrian
\%27s+wall&id=ff3b06e9f32fc005f0537a9044b7c6ce
Reviews of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/19/how-rome-fell/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101112.html
More on that Jewish 'Temple' find in Andriake:
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39634/remains-of-ancient-temple-found-in-turkey
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A cave in Cyprus is adding to the debate on humans' role in the
extinction of assorted animals (especially the pygmy hippo):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090819/lf_nm_life/us_cyprus_hippos_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE57I1D820090819?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32475033/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/d331a5c7e7d2435c8a2cf5a9ef1d6532/19-08-2009-10-15/Cyprus_cave_prehistoric_diner
Scotland's 'earliest face':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8212074.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Face-to-face-with-the.5575575.jp
A Neolithic 'cathedral' from Orkney:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6795316.ece
Archaeologists have found eight Neolithic sites in Derry:
http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/5000-yearold-sites-found.5555635.jp
Not sure if we mentioned these petroglyphs found near Loch Tay before:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8205035.stm
A 4000 years b.p. timber circle from County Tyrone:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8202364.stm
Some 3000 years b.p. butter from a Kildare bog:
http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/3000yearold-butter-found-in-Kildare.5567520.jp
http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/08/3000-year-old-butter-found-in-kildare.html
Schoolkiddies on a dig at Monsal Head found some Iron Age human remains:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Pupils-uncover-Iron-Age-remains.5560458.jp
How the Augustinian canons who lived in the Firth of Forth knew
what time it was:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8214948.stm
They're excavating at Scone Palace and Moot Hill:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8205471.stm
A movement is afoot to preserve sites in Scotland:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8213822.stm
A roundup of finds made by Scottish metal detectorists (etc.):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8201090.stm
A big metal detectorist fest/expensive holiday in Norfolk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6059210/The-American-detectors-who-pay-more-than-2000-to-search-a-muddy-Norfolk-field.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207688/Army-metal-detector-enthusiasts-invades-fields-East-Anglia.html
A Highlands castled is recreated virtually:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8159755.stm
Some followups to items from last week ... first, some photos from that
Viking trading post dig in Laerdal:
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.6725566
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.6725607
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting story about Madison's days in the White House, through
the eyes of a slave:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16jennings.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Human lifespans have been pretty much the same for 2000 years:
http://www.livescience.com/health/090821-human-lifespans.html
Tracing the origin of the apple:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-save-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html
Brief item on 'Golden Age' Arab chemists:
http://www.physorg.com/news169703985.html
More on using lasers to create accurate 3d models of major
monuments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/23/mount-rushmore-conservation-historic-scotland
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104257§ionid=3510212
More on digital approaches to reading Hebrew and Arabic documents:
http://www.aabgu.org/media-center/news-releases/bgu-analyzes-ancient-documents.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):
http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/
Dhiban (Jordan):
http://dhiban.wordpress.com/
Gabii Project:
http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/
Tel Kabri:
http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Gamla (up-to-date url this time):
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132790
Old Jerusalem:
http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2009/0821/Columns/009.html
Turkey:
http://www.courant.com/features/travel/hc-tc-trav-trips-0818-0823.artaug23,0,7908085.story
Noble Houses of Germany:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/travel/16journeys.html
Masada:
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39645/not-quite-the-journey-i-expected-on-my-first-trek-up-masada/
Venice:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23explorer.html?em
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CRIME BEAT
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More busts by the antiquities police in Bethlehem:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=220768
2. Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert says
Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:09pm EDT
By John Acher
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE56G58320090717
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The 15th century Vinland Map, the first known map to show part of America before explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the continent, is almost certainly genuine, a Danish expert said Friday.
Controversy has swirled around the map since it came to light in the 1950s, many scholars suspecting it was a hoax meant to prove that Vikings were the first Europeans to land in North America -- a claim confirmed by a 1960 archaeological find.
Doubts about the map lingered even after the use of carbon dating as a way of establishing the age of an object.
"All the tests that we have done over the past five years -- on the materials and other aspects -- do not show any signs of forgery," Rene Larsen, rector of the School of Conservation under the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, told Reuters.
He presented his team's findings at an international cartographers' conference in the Danish capital Friday.
The map shows both Greenland and a western Atlantic island "Vinilanda Insula," the Vinland of the Icelandic sagas, now linked by scholars to Newfoundland where Norsemen under Leif Eriksson settled around AD 1000.
Larsen said his team carried out studies of the ink, writing, wormholes and parchment of the map, which is housed at Yale University in the United States.
He said wormholes, caused by wood beetles, were consistent with wormholes in the books with which the map was bound.
He said claims the ink was too recent because it contained a substance called anatase titanium dioxide could be rejected because medieval maps have been found with the same substance, which probably came from sand used to dry wet ink.
American scholars have carbon dated the map to about 1440, about 50 years before Columbus "discovered" the New World in 1492. Scholars believe it was produced for a 1440 church council at Basel, Switzerland.
The Vinland Map is not a "Viking map" and does not alter the historical understanding of who first sailed to North America. But if it is genuine, it shows that the New World was known not only to Norsemen but also to other Europeans at least half a century before Columbus's voyage.
It was bought from a Swiss dealer by an American after the British Museum turned it down in 1957.
It was subsequently bought for Yale University by a wealthy Yale alumnus, Paul Mellon, and published with fanfare in 1965.
The lack of a provenance has caused much of the controversy. Where the map came from and how it came into the hands of the Swiss dealer after World War Two remain a mystery.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.19
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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After a bit of controversy, excavation of a tomb purported to
belong to the 3rd century C.E. Rabbi Yehoshus ben Levi will
proceed:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145116577&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
cf. pre-court-decision coverage:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/169927
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-with-our-history.html
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2009/08/keep-lid-on.html
Must reading: Robert Cargill on "Pseudo-Science and Sensationalist
Archaeology: An Expos of Jimmy Barfield and the Copper Scroll
Project":
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/cargill2_08261.shtml
More on the restoration of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue in
Cairo:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3765207,00.html
More on that Roman 'mansion' in the City of David:
http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/08/27/news/world/doc4a8edc47a429d250844258.txt
More on the World Archaeological Congress brouhaha:
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/08/24/sports/doc4a8c39b83a0f4587683177.txt
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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... and a feature on Arminius:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,644913,00.html
Receiving less widespread attention, but also of importance is the find of
an intaglio depicting Alexander the Great during the Tel Dor
excavations:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/26/Israeli-dig-finds-ancient-gemstone/UPI-17211251283463/
http://www.jewishmonmouth.org/page.aspx?id=205143
http://www.cjp.org/page.html?ArticleID=205143
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133097
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A 'lost' letter of Henry VII detailing William Weston's voyage
to the New World in 1499 (!) is being published:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8224206.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news170605684.html
I think we've had this 'coastal exploitation' story before:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112124572&ft=1&f=1007
Another one from the Guardian series mentioned supra ... a
beginner's guide to archaeology:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-beginners-guide
... which can be compared with another 'beginner's guide':
http://u.tv/News/Beginners-guide-to-archaeology/fdb69717-e04a-4c62-b2bf-36ea316d8bd3
More on the suggestion that early civilizations altered global
climate:
http://www.gmagazine.com.au/news/1530/ancient-emissions-did-early-civilisations-alter-global-climate
... and suggestions that the Medieval Warm Period was as warm as
it is today:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090827131832.htm
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Hadrian's Wall:
http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/20090830_Where_Roman_legions_trod.html
Berlin:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f33f0f52-9361-11de-b146-00144feabdc0.html
Venice:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23explorer.html
'Navajoland':
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23native.html
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