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8 June 2009 16 Sevan 5769 Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.06
2. Oghme Comics: Cuchuliain etc
3. New Evidence: More than 6 Million Jews Murdered in Holocaust!

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.06
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explorator 12.06 May 31, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've heard of plans to restore the tomb of Cyrus before:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3365050216
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/tomb-of-cyrus-the-great-to-be-restored_100198264.html
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-and-culture/italians-help-iranians-restore-tomb-cyrus-great

The five most recent volumes of the Oriental Institute's Annual Reports
are now available online:

http://oihistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/annual-reports.html

More on that Shaul seal:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1557&module_id=#as

... and the Menachem handle:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1560&module_id=#as

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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An architectural firm has estimated (kind of low, in my opinion)
how much it would cost to build Hadrian's Wall today:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/firm_s_estimate_to_build_hadrian_s_wall_1_559887?referrerPath=news

Why study Latin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/may/24/latin-in-schools

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Searching for the ship which was bringing financial aid to Bonnie
Prince Charlie:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6366304.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8067584.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5387583/Shipwreck-found-by-divers-was-vessel-sent-to-help-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html


Remains of a road found by a metal detectorist in Swansea a few
months ago have been dated to 2000 b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/8064054.stm>

A study suggests that medieval types took to the sea because fresh water
fish were in short supply:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8058351.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090524170641.htm

Who's buried at Sutton Hoo?:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=Features&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED28%20May%202009%2014%3A12%3A12%3A890

Feature on Stonehenge:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2748/sacred-stones

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Massive attention given to the discovery of evidence of leprosy
in India 4000 years b.p.:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/527/1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/science/27leprosy.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsleprosy27-nws,0,151906.story?track=rss
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202805.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2522694,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_sc/us_sci_earliest_leper_2
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009265196_apussciearliestleper.html?syndication=rss
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-05-27-leprosy_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2009/05/26/Ancient-skeletal-evidence-for-leprosy-in-India.aspx

On the origins of a smallpox epidemic in Australia in 1789:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/05/29/2584819.htm?site=science&topic=latest

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a Viking presence in Nunavut?:

http://www.canada.com/Technology/Vikings+Nunavut/1632232/story.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Vikings+visited+Canadian+Arctic+research+suggests/1635865/story.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this Hohokam irrigation system find yet:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-canals23-2009may23,0,7796639.story

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The role of fungus in human history (sort of):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26angi.html

How people in the past dealt with climate change:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527103528.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227096.600-rising-sea-levels-survival-tips-from-5000-bc.html

Review of a couple of tomes about historical epidemics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26books.html

Review of John Reader, *Potato*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/books/review/Dicum-t.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1243346490333&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Libya:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1c387c52-4bed-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html

Cappadocia:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-offbeattraveler12-pg,0,5064851.photogallery

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CRIME BEAT
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On the role of Switzerland in the antiquities smuggling world:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-29-2009/0005034746&EDATE=

2. Oghme [Ireland-Ulster] Comics: Cuchuliain etc
http://www.oghme.com/
 Oghme Comics is a web-site with a lot of sub-sites.
On the negative site it seems confused, difficult to navigate coherently, is amoral, some of the pictures and remarks may be considered  too explicitly sexual and offensive from a Biblical point of view.
On the positive site the art work is often very good, some of it excellent.
It imparts information and perceptions of Ulster  Mythology that is well worth viewing.
Contributors seem to be from Ulster, Ireland, and Britanny in France.

Emain Macha
Emain Macha




3. New Evidence: More than 6 Million Jews Murdered in Holocaust!
I World News I JUNE 4, 2009 HAMODIA
French Priest: Six Million Is an Underestimate
by Yehudah Marks
Extracts:
After a five-year investigation Father Patrick Desbois receivn shocking insight into the hor of the Holocaust and proof that historians have to raise their estimate of how many Jews were killed during the darkest time of Jewish history. Working with a ballistics expert, the 53-year-old French priest has identified and investigated 800 of the estimated 2,000 mass gravesites of Jews who were rounded up and shot across the Ukraine, more than two-thirds of them previously unknown.

"Every village was a crime scene," Desbois says, "and each case was different because the heads of the killing squads had to take in all the different factors: the geography, the transport available, the proximity of partisans, before organizing the most efficient massacre."
As his work in the Nazi killing fields continues, the Roman Catholic priest says the figure the number of Jewish dead I have to be revised to far above the accepted number of six million, because those killed by the Einsatzgruppen units assign to carry out executions were undercounted compared with those killed in the death camps.

As Hitler's armies pressed into Russia, the Einsatzgrupen rounded up the Jews, forced them to dig pits, strip and lie in the mud until they were shot. Desbois says that hundreds and thousands of Jews were killed even before the Nazis' 1942 "final solution" at the Wannsee Conference, and these coldblooded mass murders continued until 1945.

Although the open-air shootings by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe are common knowledge and were highlighted at the Nuremberg trials, the number of Jews killed in these murders was never clear.

As a result, estimates of the number of Jewish Holocaust victims fluctuates between 5.1 million and 5.9 million. The commonly-quoted figure of six million Jews is derive from a statement by Eichman who said that was the figure he gave to Heinrich Himmler towards the end of the war. However, historians differ over the number: Raul Hilberg's 1961 book, one of the first significant studies after the Holocaust, estimated that 5.1 million Jews were killed, while Martin Gilbert, in his Atlas of the Holocaust, said it was - 5.75 million. Lucy Dawidowicz puts the number at 5.9 million. All historians work on the belief that around 1.5 million Jew were murdered by the Nazis, their allies and collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other former Soviet republics. But after Desbois completes his grim research of documenting the mass graves, the number is expected to rise.

A Race Against Time
Desbois' curiosity was stirred after he heard that his grandfather had been a prisoner of war in a German camp in Ukraine.
Desbois went to what was left of the Rawa Ruska camp, a small memorial stone, and discovered that 10,000 Jews had been murdered in the area. The deputy mayor organized meetings with the local old people and the stories, untold for more than 60 years, tumbled out.
"Now it is a race against time, Desbois says." witnesses who I am talking to were children at the time and are now very old indeed. So far have talked to 950.'
One of his interviewees was Petrivna, a Ukrainian woman in the village of Ternivka, who took part in the murder of its 2,000 Jews.
The Jews, she said, were gathered in the center of the village and taken to a large pit on the fringes of the community.
They were told to lie down, 20 at a time, and shot in the back the head.
 "It's not easy to walk bodies," Petrivna said.
"Very calmly I asked her: `You had to walk on the bodies of the people who were shot?'
She replied: `Yes, I had to pack them down after every volley of shots. We were three Ukrainian girls, who, in our bare feet, had to pack them down, the bodies of the Jews, and throw a fine layer sand on top of them so that other Jews could lie down..'"

...one woman described how her mother would "finish off" wounded Jews with a shovel blow to the head before burying them...
In the lisnitchi forest, outside Lvov, Desbois revealed that 90,000 were shot and murdered in six months.

Three weeks ago, five independent witnesses revealed to Desbois the gruesome and untold story of a spontaneous pogrom by local villagers against hundreds of Jews in a Ukrainian town south of Ternopil in 1941. The witnesses recounted the tale, recalling how they rushed to a German army camp, borrowed weapons and gunned down 500 Jews inside the town's Christian cemetery. One of them described decapitating bodies in front of the church.
The Ternopil story is not unusual because of its extreme cruelty but because it's rare for perpetrators to openly admit playing a voluntary role. Most stories are from people claiming the Germans forced them to take part in executions.
The oral testimonies are transferred to an archive in Paris, where they are translated.

The Undocumented Holocaust
To Desbois, there were two Holocausts: a western one and an eastern one. The Holocaust in Poland and Germany was more organized, where Jews were killed in death camps, while the Soviet Union Holocaust was chaotic, decentralized and undocumented, with most of the korbanos [i.e. sacrifices] being mowed down and dumped into open mass graves in woodlands.

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