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Brit-Am Historical Reports
24 March 2010 9 Nissan 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version Explorator 12.47
2. Mysteries of monotheistic pharaoh unveiled with DNA tests
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version Explorator 12.48
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.47
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explorator 12.47 March 14, 2010
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AFRICA
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More on that 'lost tribe' in Zimbabwe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The DNA focus seems to be shifting from Tut to Akhenaten:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp'int_sec=2&int_new=36792
http://sify.com/news/mummy-of-egypt-s-monotheist-pharaoh-to-return-home-news-offbeat-kdlxuicebdi.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011317468_apmlegypthereticpharaoh.html'syndication=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_heretic_pharaoh_5
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory'id=10074330
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100311/D9ECLFKO0.html
Looks like politics vel simm. has intruded into the grand opening
of the restored synagogue in Egypt:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9EEDLT80
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3862449,00.html
Article on the how the alphabet came from hieroglyphs:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp'PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=02&ArticleID=6
More on the identification of Neta'im:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308095459.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news187274588.html
More on Mazar's wall find:
http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2010/02/eilat-mazars-1980s-excavations-and.html
http://www.ritmeyer.com/2010/02/22/first-temple-period-wall-found-in-jerusalem
http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2010/03/dating-of-mazars-wall.html
Review of Weston Fields, *The Dead Sea Scrolls*:
http://www.brill.nl/downloads/Murphy-O%27Connor-review.doc
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of press this week for a plan to illuminate the whole
length of Hadrian's Wall:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jxbpvNFMec_UEaYB7kWrM-1bdNFQ
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gW4pRms8a0TSTpEzshXz3piz4IMw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8556000/8556137.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8565759.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/best_of_britain/article7038143.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8558012.stm
... and here's what it looked like:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8565759.stm'ls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8566649.stm (photos)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/14/2845246.htm'section=justin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257842/Hadrians-Wall-lights-mark-1600th-anniversary-end-Roman-rule.html
Tony Perrotet ponders Cleopatra's looks:
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03081001.aspx
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remember all those headless skeletons in a mass grave at Dorset'
Turns out they're definitely Scandinavian in origin:
http://archaeology.org/blog/'p=908
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8565524.stm (video)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563719.stm (photos)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563377.stm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/03/12/Skeletons-IDd-as-beheaded-Viking-raiders/UPI-20781268441370/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/11/decapitated-bodies-found-in-dorset-burial-pit-were-executed-vikings-115875-22104588/
http://www.physorg.com/news187605092.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/12/dorset-decapitated-bodies-vikings
Evidence for a famine in Greenland 1000 years b.p.:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/norse-vikings-iceland-greenland.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57056/title/Ancient_Norse_colonies_hit_bad_climate_times
Pondering the Jacobite march from Culloden to Nairn:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8559535.stm
Nice overviewish-opeddish thing on the Staffordshire Hoard:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article7058091.ece
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8565935.stm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 40 000 years b.p. aboriginal meeting ground:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/australia-aborigines-tribe.html
http://www.physorg.com/news187445314.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1834945/archaeologists_discover_ancient_aboriginal_meeting_ground/index.html'source=r_science
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/10/2841317.htm
A number of very vague reports this week about Muziris and the
'Rome connection' this week:
http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/14/stories/2010031464022200.htm
http://sify.com/news/researcher-reveals-kerala-s-possible-mediterranean-link-news-international-kdknOeiijhi.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Nazca Civilization was a victim of deforestation, apparently:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028358_deforestation_human_civilization.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering the perennial question: who wrote Shakespeare':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/14/who-wrote-shakespeare-james-shapiro
Soil samples and human history:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8557448.stm
Gossip about Mel Gibson's Viking movie:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/03/mel-gibson-says-vikings-movie-with-leonardo-dicaprio-may-be-his-last.html
More on the origin of small dogs:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100223191924.htm
Review of assorted tomes about maps:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Heller-t.html
2. Mysteries: of monotheistic pharaoh unveiled with DNA tests
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp'edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=112860
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Paul Schemm, Associated Press
Extracts:
CAIRO: The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries ' the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era over 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history's first attempt at monotheism.
During his 17-year rule, Akhenaten sought to overturn more than a millennium of Egyptian religion and art to establish the worship of a single sun god. In the end, his bold experiment failed and he was eventually succeeded by his son, the young Tutankhamun, who rolled back his reforms and restored the old religion.
No one ever knew what became of the heretic pharaoh, whose tomb in the capital he built at Amarna was unfinished and whose name was stricken from the official list of kings.
Two years of DNA testing and CAT scans on 16 royal mummies conducted by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, however, gave the firmest evidence to date that an unidentified mummy ' known as KV55, after the number of the tomb where it was found in 1907 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings ' is Akhenaten's.
The testing, whose results were announced last month, established that KV55 was the father of King Tut and the son of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, a lineage that matches Akhenaten's, according to inscriptions.
KV55 had long been assumed to be too young to be Akhenaten, who was estimated to be in his 40s at the time of his death ' but the testing also established the mummy's correct age, matching the estimates for Akhenaten.
In one tantalizing discovery, the testing established that another unidentified mummy was Akhenaten's sister, that he fathered Tutankhamun with her and that she appears to have died from violence with blows to her face and head.
Still elusive is Nefertiti, the chief wife of Akhenaten, famed for her beauty. Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, has said one of his goals is to track down her mummy.
The discovery of Akhenaten's remains lay to rest longtime speculation over his physical appearance. Royal statues of the time show an effeminate figure with womanly hips, elongated skull and fleshy lips ' leading to speculation he suffered from any number of rare diseases that distorted his body.
But the mummy and DNA tests showed a normally shaped man without genetic conditions that might given him both masculine and feminine features.
'It ought to dampen down some of the more dramatic interpretations,' said Barry Kemp, who has been working on the Amarna excavations since 1977. 'But people do love a good story.'
3. Archaeology: : Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.48
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.48 March 21, 2010
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EARLY HUMANS
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On Cro Magnon brain size:
http://www.physorg.com/news187877156.html
... and a nice 'state of the question' piece on homo floresiensis:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Hobbits-/21913/'sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure we've had this 'oldest temple' (from Urfa) story yet:
http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg309786.html
Searching for a source of Egyptian blue pigment:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317121354.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news188051473.html
A controversial Ashkelon burial site is apparently pagan in origin:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1156309.html
An interview with Jodi Magness:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100319/FEATURES/3190333/1011/SCENE/Questions+&+Answers+|+Archaeologist+Jodi+Magness
An history of gefilte fish:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx'id=171114
More on Akhenaten DNA stuff:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp'edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=112860
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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What Classical scholarship apparently can do to you:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700017675/Classical-scholarship-drove-Hugh-Nibley-to-religion.html's_cid=rss-44
Ancient Greece, Clash of the Titans, and us:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/235077
On the return of sword and sandal flicks:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7059413.ece
Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article7067977.ece
Review of a couple of classical biographies:
http://www.statesman.com/life/books/biographies-revisit-cleopatra-and-mithradates-two-monarchs-who-407550.html
More on the illumination of Hadrian's Wall:
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-feature/history-hoons-ransack-europes-heritage-20100319-qm60.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8571921.stm
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/call-for-hadrian-s-wall-illumination-to-become-annual-event-1.684097'referrerPath=home
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/hadrians-wall-in-giant-light-show-1922195.html
http://www.illuminatinghadrianswall.com/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Saxon object defies technology!:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8572184.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8572740.stm
Something about Stonehenge:
http://www.physorg.com/news188147461.html
More on decapitated Vikings:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/12/dorset-decapitated-bodies-vikings
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100315-headless-vikings-england-execution-pit/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting items relating to the origins of the Tarim mummies
(in the desert north of Tibet):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16archeo.html
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/DNA-experts--reveal-China39s.6168665.jp
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-03-18-silkroadmummies18_ST_N.htm
Evidence of earlier use of infused tea in China:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/18/c_13215844.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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U.S. Grant wasn't such a bad guy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14wilentz.html
Mark Twain and baseball:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/sports/baseball/14twain.html
Review of Ira Berlin, *The Making of African America*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Boyle-t.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Didn't know Kipling stayed in Vermont for a while:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/travel/escapes/19kipling.html
That Phoenician boat remake has rounded the Cape of Good Hope:
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5062357.Phoenicia_team_navigate_Cape_of_Good_Hope/
The obligatory St Patrick coverage (varies in quality):
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/03/17/who-is-st-patrick-and-what-s-the-deal-with-his-day.aspx
http://www.ucdailynews.com/news/local/88205967.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/saint-patrick-and-the-sna_b_503252.html
Digging up the set of 'The Ten Commandments':
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/18/local/la-me-lostcity19-2010mar19
Review of Holger Hancock, *Empires of the Imagination*:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9928578-32de-11df-bf5f-00144feabdc0.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
Alexander the Great:
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain'maindoc=8538257&service=142
The Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins is getting some press attention:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19museum.html
... as is the new London Jewish Museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/design/17museum.html
The NY Times has a special section on science museums:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18SCIENCE.html
... which appears to be part of a larger section on museums in general:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/17iht-rartmuseums.html (intro)
A useful collaboration of a handful of New York museums in regards
to making their libraries more accessible:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18LIBRARY.html
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