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12 November 25 Cheshvan 5770
Contents:
1. Ancient Mediterranean Gold Necklaces found in Scotland
forwarded by Clifford Smyth
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.29
3. Cambysses Army Found forwarded by Cam Rea.
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1. Ancient Mediterranean Gold Necklaces found in Scotland
forwarded by Clifford Smyth
Not bad for starters
Treasure hunter unearths ?1m hoard on first outing --
confirmation of contact with the British Isles and Scotland in particular, from BC times.
After taking a few paces in a Scottish field near Stirling, a safari park warden struck gold. It was David Booth's first outing with a metal detector.
Four neclaces, known as 'torcs,' buried just six to eight inches beneath the surface came out of the ground. Three of the torcs dating as far back as 300 BC are in almost perfect condition and one shows signs of Mediterranean craftsmanship never before seen in Britain. Archaeologists say the pieces change our understanding of the country's ancient inhabitants.
Dr Fraser Hunter of the National Museum of Scotland said the craftmanship of the looped torc showed it was made by a smith who learned his trade in the Mediterranean, but combined this knowledge with local style.
(Reports Nov 5 2009 in The Daily Telegraph page 14 and the Daily Mail page 9)
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.29
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.29 November 8, 2009
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EARLY HUMANS
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A Chinese challenge to the out-of-Africa theory:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18093-chinese-challenge-to-out-of-africa-theory.html
The many mysteries of Neanderthals (apparently part of a series):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091107/sc_livescience/themanymysteriesofneanderthals
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Report on an Assyrian palace find from Ziyaret Tepe:
http://www.thesuburbanite.com/news/x884487122/Local-archaelogist-leads-expedition-to-3-000-year-old-find
Some Roman-era burials from the West Bank:
http://trak.in/news/roman-era-cemeteries-found-in-west-bank/19455/
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=235964
Some press attention for the discovery of a marble hoard during
the excavations at Akka/Acre:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799078268&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134199
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1611&module_id=#as
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/press/iaa_marble_hoard.zip (photos)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377292/posts
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3799757,00.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/11/04/Ancient-marble-found-in-Acre/UPI-54401257340022/
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=53378&catid=863
Nice feature on USC's West Semitic Research Project:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs2-2009nov02,0,7468773.story
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13699106?source=rss
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/usc_in_the_news/inthenews.php?id=741
A couple weeks ago we had a story on geology influencing David's
choice for the site of Jerusalem:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150041556&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
... now there's a good followup letter in the JPost (scroll
down to 'So what else is new?'):
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799072048&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Audio story on the latest goings-on at Temple Mount:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1565
... and another in a similar vein:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134222
... and an interesting OpEd piece on same:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/01/israel-jerusalem-history-jews
Hype for an the upcoming 7th International Congress on Phoenician
and Punic Studies:
http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/?p=27959
... and of peripheral interest, perhaps, is the formation of
a League of Phoenician, Canaanite, Punic Cities:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=107549
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Mary Beard talks about her blog book:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252633.html
Donald Kagan thinks military brass should read their Thucydides
(presumably again):
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBo9GR1NL1Fo
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0PbSXcLWnXc (video)
More on the Romanization of the Batavians:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026105742.htm
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 'prehistoric monumental landscape' is emerging on the grounds
of Oxford:
http://www.physorg.com/news176577298.html
A major torc find from Scotland:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/03/iron-age-gold-treasure-found-scotland
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/novice-metal-detector-man-discovers-stunning-treasure-hoard-1.930477
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8339798.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6901879.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8342501.stm
http://www.buteman.co.uk/latest-scottish-news/Iron-Age-treasure-found-in.5789488.jp
Cromwell's 'legacy' at Canterbury Cathedral is continuing to
cause damage:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6485858/Cromwells-legacy-damages-tomb-of-Black-Prince.html
Some 'followup' to the Staffordshire hoard story:
http://www.burnleyexpress.net/clitheroenews/ExCRGS-pupil-helps-uncover-huge.5802386.jp
More photos from that Bronze Age burial in Germany:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/photogalleries/archaeology-skeleton-pictures/
More on Scandinavian DNA:
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2809%2901694-7
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NORTH AMERICA
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A mysterious Irish grave in New York:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/riddle-of-200yearold-irish-grave-in-new-york-1813777.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting study of the history of leprosy:
http://www.physorg.com/news176387763.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102111847.htm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Scientists_retrace_history_of_ancient_scourge.html?siteSect=105&sid=11445890&rss=true&ty=st
Paper on the 'neurobiological origins of primitive religion':
http://www.safarmer.com/neural.origins.of.religion.pdf
Apparently there's money in writing about mass extinctions:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/new-yorker-writers-book-on-mass-extinctions-sells-to-holt/?ref=books
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tunisia:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1226004/Strictly-Tunisia-John-Sergeant-stomps-land-raw-heat-Roman-ruins-fine-wine.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Story about the link between some UK scholars and some 'stolen'
antiquities from Babylon:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/british-link-stolen-treasures
A number of Viking artifacts were plundered from an excavation
site on Gotland:
http://www.thelocal.se/23030/20091102/
Some followups to the Avdate National Park thing:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799093268&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3800067,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3791817,00.html
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/04/1008953/bedouin-indicted-for-vandalizing-ancient-negev-site
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NUMISMATICA
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Those Bar Kokhba Revolt coins are now on display:
http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=8258
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1257455195072&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134250
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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They're going to build a museum at Jericho:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=231919
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/theater/reviews/04lovechild.html
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OBITUARIES
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Claude Levi-Strauss:
http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/11/03/l-ethnologue-claude-levi-strauss-est-mort_1262337_3382.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-claude-levi-strauss4-2009nov04,0,890035.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-dies
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY43vBHLDM6I
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/books/05strauss.html
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/the-influence-of-claude-levi-strauss
3. Cambysses Army Found
Forwarded by Cam Rea.
From: Cam Rea <tragicpoet77@yahoo.com>
Thought this would be of interest to share with you and the Brit-Am community. Cambyses II lost army found?
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-army-remains-sahara.html
Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.
By Rossella Lorenzi
Extracts:
Hundreds of bleached bones and skulls found in the desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert may be the remains of the long lost Cambyses' army, according to Italian researchers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.
After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to an "oasis," which historians believe was El-Kharga. After they left, they were never seen again.
"A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear," wrote Herodotus.
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