BHR-3
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29 May 2009 26 Iyar 5769 Contents:
1. Not Happy with BHR?
2. Archaeology: The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.04
3. The Name Shaul (Saul) found on Ancient Israelite Seal
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1. Not Happy with BHR?
From: Kathylou
re BHR-2
#4. Irish were on both sides of slavery issue
http://www.britam.org/BHR/BHR2.html#Irish
Take me off your mailing list! I'm sick of the lies! The Scots and the English came in around the Appalachians and killed my people the Cherokees, and brought the Negro slaves with them......and further more, there has never been any slavery on my Dads side of the Irish. My Great-Great Grandfather was a Carpenter and a Land Baron in Ireland and never ever owned slaves. Nor would he ever want too. It's the filthy Scots and British that perpetrated this act not the Irish. Finished with this crap!
~Shalom~kathylou~
2. Archaeology: The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.04
From: David Meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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Neanderthals were sophisticated and fearless, as far as hunting
goes:
http://www.physorg.com/news161536699.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm
... and possibly tasty main courses themselves, as far as modern humans go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropological-sciences-journal
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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132 sites in Egypt which haven't been excavated yet have been
identified:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001147.htm
Latest claims of having found the site of Sodom:
http://www.koat.com/news/19433106/detail.html
Some of Jerusalem's ancient walls have been (re)discovered:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/09/03/topnews/jerusalem-dig-uncovers-ancient-city-walls.html&template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html
Latest salvo in the Temple Mount saga:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97958
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Another Thracian tomb from Bulgaria:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179374
... and on use of Latin in diplomas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinion/15Francese.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Nice feature on a pile of Bronze Age finds from north of Amsterdam:
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090513-Enkhuizen
They've finally given the go-ahead to the Stonehenge visitors'
centre:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8047968.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/13/stonehenge-visitors-new-centre
... which seems to have occasioned another 'king of Stonehenge' feature:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180243/The-king-Stonehenge-Were-artefacts-ancient-chiefs-burial-site-Britains-Crown-Jewels.html
Civil War silver from a Somerset Garden:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8052505.stm
Remembering the Swiss Guard's bravery in 1527:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,623474,00.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Remembering the 1789 smallpox outbreak in Sydney:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2557307.htm
Huge swords from Mayong may be evidence of human sacrifice:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090514/jsp/northeast/story_10958581.jsp
That Indus script story is still making the rounds:
http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/scientists_claim_to_have_found_language_of_ancient_indus_civilisation/?source=rss
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NORTH AMERICA
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Studying Navajo smoke signals:
http://www.physorg.com/news161676295.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3
Civil War relics from Franklin:
http://www.wztv.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_5747.shtml
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting suggestion that Blackbeard and crew weren't English:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.blackbeard17may17,0,2327308.story
UK metal detectorists are getting some respect:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30679342/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002212.html?hpid=topnews
An early forensic toxicology case:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12file-arsenic.html
The Vatican is featuring the letter of Henry VIII requesting the
annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/vatican-reveals-letter-that-split-england-from-roman-church/?hp
Feature on torture in the ancient world (which is really more about
execution):
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625172,00.html
The history of the corset (with a medical spin):
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/moments-in-medicine-podcast--clothing-as-medicine-1685514.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sicily:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/5319068/Sicily-life-after-death-on-Italys-ragged-edge.html
Roman France:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romweb.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Silver coins from a burial in Sweden:
http://www.thelocal.se/19394/20090512/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Imperium Conflict Myth:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4254590,00.html
3. The Name Shaul (Saul) found on Ancient Israelite Seal
First Temple period bone seal with engraved name found in Jerusalem excavations
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/First-Temple-period-bone-seal-found-19-May-2009.htm?DisplayMode=print
19 May 2009
A bone seal, engraved with the name Shaul, from the time of the First Temple, was found in the IAA excavations in the walls around Jerusalem National Park, in the City of David.
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First Temple period bone seal found in Jerusalem Photo: Vladimir Naykhin, IAA |
(Communicated by the Israel Antiquities Authority Spokesperson)
Extracts:
Today (Tuesday, 19 May 2009) the Knesset presidium, headed by Speaker Reuben Rivlin, visited the City of David in Jerusalem. A Hebrew seal that dates to the time of the First Temple was displayed for the first time during the visit. The seal was found in an excavation that is being conducted in the Walls Around Jerusalem National Park, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority, under the direction of Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and Eli Shukron of the IAA, and underwritten by the "Ir David Foundation".
The seal, which is made of bone, was found broken and is missing a piece from its upper right side. Two parallel lines divide the surface of the seal into two registers in which Hebrew letters are engraved.
A period followed by a floral image or a tiny fruit appear at the end of the bottom name.
The name of the seal's owner was completely preserved and it is written in the shortened form of the name (Shaul). The name is known from both the Bible (Genesis 36:37; 1 Samuel 9:2; 1 Chronicles 4:24 and 6:9) and from other Hebrew seals.
According to Professor Reich,
"This seal joins another Hebrew seal that was previously found and three Hebrew bullae (pieces of clay stamped with seal impressions) that were discovered nearby. These five items have great chronological importance regarding the study of the development of the use of seals. While the numerous bullae that were discovered in the adjacent rock-hewn pool were found together with pottery sherds from the end of the ninth and beginning of the eighth centuries BCE, they do not bear any Semitic letters. On the other hand, the five Hebrew epigraphic artifacts were recovered from the soil that was excavated outside the pool, which contained pottery sherds that date to the last part of the eighth century.It appears that the "office" which administered the correspondence and received the goods that were all sealed with bullae continued to exist and operate within a regular format even after a residential dwelling was constructed inside the same "rock-hewn pool" and the soil and the refuse that contained the many aforementioned bullae were trapped beneath its floor. This "office" continued to generate refuse that included bullae, which were opened and broken, as well as seals that were no longer used and were discarded into the heap of rubbish that continued to accumulate in the vicinity.
It seems that the development in the design of the seals occurred in Judah during the course of the eighth century BCE. At the same time as they engraved figures on the seal, at some point they also started to engrave them with the names of the seals' owners. This was apparently when they started to identify the owner of the seal by his name rather than by some sort of graphic representation."
See also:
http://jwest.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/christopher-rollston-on-the-saul-seal-a-guest-post/
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