BHR-22
Brit-Am Historical Reports
17 November 30 Cheshvan 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.29
2. Ten Tribes Amongst Amerindians?
The Israelite hypothesis by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews
3. The Problem of Glozel in Central France, Phoenician Writings, etc
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.29
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.29 November 9, 2009
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AFRICA
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The greening of the Sahara is credited with triggering human
migrations out of Africa:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111115843.htm
http://www.nioz.nl/nioz_nl/51b09886749314dfda74484736d5bf18.php#b09112009uk
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18127-stone-age-humans-crossed-sahara-in-the-rain.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Minoan-style wall painting from the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=1484
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134292
http://www.physorg.com/news176986342.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoh-rom110909.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1782674/minoanstyle_painting_found_during_excavations_of_canaanite_palace/index.html?source=r_science
A Spanish team has found a 'forgotten' city on the Euphrates:
http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME12.XAM19105.html
The latest claim that Cambyses' lost army has been found got
far too much press coverage this week:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-army-remains-sahara.html
http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeology-ancient-lost-army-found.html(video)
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-lost-army-images.html(photos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-Compelling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573406,00.html
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-Compelling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html
http://news.msn.co.nz/article/969711/archaeologists-discover-lost-desert-army
http://www.ptinews.com/news/370375_The-remains-of-the-lost-mighty-Persian-Army--found-
http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/scitech/Legendary_Lost_Persian_Army_Found_in_Sahara_15561325
cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/11/13/cambyses-lost-army-found-dont-eat-that-elmer/
Another feature on excavations near Temple Mount:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3802112,00.html
Three Byzantine tombs from Wadi al-Zahab:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911123593/Culture/archaeologists-three-byzantine-tombs-discovered-in-wadi-al-zahab-in-syria.html
Interview with Beverly Goodman about that tsunami-in-the-Mediterranean
business:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134332
Nice feature on the DSS:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/From+Dead+McGill/2223365/story.html
Not sure where I should put this feature on Shlomo Moussaieff:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027274481&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Latest coverage of the Raphael Golb affair:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about.html
This week's Temple Mount coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/middleeast/15mount.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Feature on evidence for Mithraism in Malta:
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=96911
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Vague item on some 'solar chariot' elements being found in Russia:
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9196/
Some very large rondel enclosures have been found in the Czech
Republic:
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-archaeologists-uncover-europe-s-largest-rondel-enclosures/406757
A Norwegian man found a 3000 years b.p. sword by the side of the
road:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/13/Man-finds-3000-year-old-sword/UPI-71701258146902/
Rethinking the origins of the Lewis Chessmen:
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1477935/?UserKey=
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8352127.stm
Evidence of brain surgery in Ireland a thousand years ago:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/1110/1224258483111.html
Metal detectorists have found some Medieval gold and
silver in Wales:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/07/metal-detector-fans-find-two-priceless-artefacts-91466-25111154/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting piece on the 'ambivalence' towards efforts to find
the tomb of Genghis Khan:
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav110909.shtml
Some Han Dynasty ruins from Inner Mongolia:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6810447.html
An Australian farmer has handed over a skull he claims belonged
to Ned Kelly:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/farmer-ned-kelly-skull-claim
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remains of a fort on the Trail of Tears:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091109/NEWS01/911090319/Fort+uncovered+on+Trail+of+Tears
Humans are being blamed for killing off gomphotheres:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/11/09/20091109iceagebeast.html
Feature on stone mounds in various locales:
http://www.southeasternarchaeology.com/seac2009.html
Pondering murder in various periods in the US:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/11/09/091109crat_atlarge_lepore
Feature on Karl Jacoby:
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2350/32/
cf: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Aravaipa/
On the enduring influence of the Dutch in NY:
http://blog.syracuse.com/neighbors/2009/11/influence_of_dutch_settlers_still_felt_throughout_state.html
More on that Irishman buried in New York story:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/clues-emerge-in-life-of-irishman-buried-under-park/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Maybe rats were behind the deforestation of Easter Island:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-11-13-easter-island_N.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting feature on a female Torah scribe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/arts/design/08sfculture.html
For all you Yale fans out there ... a feature on the first female
students at Yale:
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/oldyale024.html
... the first submarine:
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/lastlook120.html
... and not solely of Yale interest is an item on a bit of Hebrew
micrography:
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/arts_obles056.html
Digging into the history of eating habits:
http://www.videtteonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30958:archaeologist-digs-into-history-of-eating-habits-&catid=60:newsstate&Itemid=53
The 'real' Venetians are the next target of a big DNA study:
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3985905134
More coverage of the West Semitic Research Project:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/08/BARJ1AE3SF.DTL
Theory that we're 'hardwired' to produce rock art and the like:
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=74413
The German Lawrence of Arabia:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisks-world-the-german-lawrence-of-arabia-had-much-to-live-up-to-ndash-and-failed-1816593.html
Some Levi-Strauss retrospectives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/weekinreview/08rohter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08le-clezio.html
Some myths attached to 2012:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-world-myths.html
Review of David Nokes, *Samuel Johnson*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Bloom-t.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Wall Street:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08stop.html?_r=1
Thomas Edison Nation Historical Park:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artsnj.html
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NUMISMATICA
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A video from the IAA (in Hebrew) on the discovery of those gold
coins from Ramle (nice images even if you don't understand
Hebrew):
http://www.antiquities.org.il/ramla_movie_heb.asp
More on Israel displaying coins from the Bar Kochba revolt (which
don't appear to be the recently-found coins, as I mentioned last
week ... the press coverage is somewhat confusing):
http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-jewish-revolt-1.1581011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gjWE3DYz2cYWi0gm2VQLqQM3Nu3g
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-11-jewish-temple-coins-exhibition_N.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g94CMEEX6ZfpBkriA3y1z0qpBDXwD9BTH3CO0
http://feeds.malaysianews.net/?rid=29600445&cat=2411cd3571b4f088
http://www.3news.co.nz/Israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-Jewish-revolt/tabid/417/articleID/129413/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=129413
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=1211316&srvc=rss
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Rembrandt's People:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artct.html
It appears (?)they've worked out all that Cyrus Cylinder business:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=at6uoOdJCgqk
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110996§ionid=351020105
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ON THE WEB
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Bad Archaeology:
http://www.badarchaeology.net/data/ooparts/london.php
2. Ten Tribes Amongst Amerindians?
The Israelite hypothesis
http://www.badarchaeology.net/forgotten/lost.php
by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews
Extracts:
...Bartolomo de Las Casas (1474-1566)...believed that the Native Americans should be converted to Christianity, as he was convinced that they originated in Ancient Israel and felt that the Bible contained the proof that they were members of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
A report by the seventeenth-century Portuguese traveller, Antonio Montezinos (also known as Aharon Levi de Montezinos), published in 1644, reawakened interest in the subject. He claimed that there was a Jewish tribe living beyond the mountain passes of the Andes and that he had heard them recite the She?ma Yisroel (the expression of the Jewish faith) and saw them observe Jewish rituals. Alas, Montezinos was a fantasist whose stories were accepted uncritically.
Having decided that some of the Native Americans practised Hebrew rites and were therefore ancient Canaanites or the lost tribes of Israel, this meant that they were in dire need of conversion. Thomas Thorowgood's Jewes in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race, first published in 1650, was one of the first to argue for the need to convert these lost tribes. The second edition of 1660 quotes the authority of John Eliot (1604-1690), the "Apostle to the Indians", who went on to publish a translation of the bible into the Massachusetts dialect of Algonquin in 1663. Groups like the Corporation for Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England were founded by English settlers who believed that the Native Americans were lost Jews.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657), a respected Dutch Jewish scholar, was heavily influenced by the account of Antonio Montezinos and wrote his best-selling book, The Hope of Israel, which he dedicated to the English Parliament. Meeting Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658; Lord Protector of England 1653-1658), he petitioned for the recall of the Jews (who had been expelled from England in 1290) and expressed his belief that the dispersion of Jews to all corners of the Earth was the beginning of the redemption. Certain Christian traditions claimed that when the Ten Tribes of Israel were found and restored to the Holy Land, the return of Christ to reign supreme was not far off, a belief that is still had by some, especially American, fundamentalist churches....Some abolitionists... claimed that the Messianic Age would be ushered in when the slaves were freed and when the native Americans, as descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes, were converted to Christianity.
3. The Problem of Glozel in Central France, Phoenician Writings, etc
Background:
In our researches we came across a book describing the archaeological findings at Glozel in Central France.
These findings are variously dated anywhere from 2000 BCE to the Middle Ages. Most accounts put them at after 700 BCE.
They could therefore be connected to the Lost Ten tribes who were exiled in ca. 720 BCE according to conventional dating.
The findings included Phoenician-like inscriptions and a script similar to that found in Sinai in the ancient area of Israel.
The findings depicted seemed too well preserved.
There seemed something wrong about the whole thing so we left it alone.
Later inquiry shows that indeed these findings are considered forgeries.
Nevertheless some doubt remains about the whole matter as the following articles show:
## One of the Glozel Tablets depicted Phoenician-like characters. ##
The Writing
http://www.s8int.com/sophis4.html
THE GLOZEL TABLETS
Source And Additional Info
By R. Cedric Leonard
http://www.gerbeaud.com/glozel/gbecriture.htm
Writing on the tablets was similar to Phoenician, and the pottery was incised with pictures of reindeer and panthers, both of which had been extinct in that area of Europe for 10,000-12,000 years.
Glozel
http://www.badarchaeology.net/controversial/glozel.php
http://www.badarchaeology.net/controversial/glozel_2.php
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