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26 November 2010 19 Kislev 5771
Contents:
1. Story of Ancient Power Revealed in Royal Garden.
[Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem.]
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.30
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.31
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1. Story of Ancient Power Revealed in Royal Garden
http://www.livescience.com/history/ancient-palace-garden-royal-power-101103.html
History: Ramat Rachel (near Jerusalem)
Story of Ancient Power Revealed in Royal Garden
By Andrea Leontiou
Extracts:
A newly discovered 7th century B.C. palace garden near Jerusalem could reveal details about how royals liked to let loose in ancient times.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Germany's Heidelberg University uncovered the royal garden at the site of Ramat Rachel, a kibbutz (communal farm) in Israel, and are leading the first full-scale excavation of this type of archaeological site in Israel.
The garden was a massive and lush green space royals would use to relax. Such pleasure spots were once the ultimate symbol of power, according to the researchers.
One of the main features of the Ramat Rachel gardens is its intricate irrigation system, the likes of which have never been seen before outside of Mesopotamia (home of the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon). The irrigation system includes open channels and closed tunnels for water to travel though, as well as stone-carved gutters and the framework for elaborate waterfalls.
When the garden was built, being able to control water, especially in the desert, was a great show of political strength.
Based on their analysis, the researchers think Ramat Rachel was built by the Judeans, but commissioned by foreign powers. The archaeologists hope to study the site more to unravel its story, and shed new light on the complicated political maneuverings between the various empires that ruled in Israel. The site was in use from the 7th to the 4th centuries B.C., a period that saw many wars and exchanges of power, with the garden evolving under each civilization.
According to the researchers, the first phase of the garden can be dated back to the 7th century B.C., when Judah became a vassal kingdom of the Assyrian empire.
"It is our assumption, due to a combination of our finds at the dig correlated with historical texts, that the garden and the main parts of the citadel were constructed during this period, and probably following some kind of 'order' of the empire, or at least to facilitate the needs to raise taxes to it," Lipschits told LiveScience in an e-mail.
"The abundance of stamped jar handles, a form of administrative-economic system, from the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian periods (7th-4th centuries B.C.), indicate the site was in use throughout the changing of powers, and the lack of destruction layers suggest the transition went smoothly in Ramat Rahel, and that it continued with its original purpose,"an administrative center of produce distribution," he said.
The researchers are using a combination of excavation methods to study the garden site. For example, botanical and agricultural analysis will reveal which plants and animals lived in the garden, while geological inspection should show where the soil originated. The scientists are also studying the plaster inside water trenches to try to find hidden pollen remains.
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.30
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic finds from Tal al-Abar (Syria):
http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/11/10/318470.htm
Storage facilities dating to the 2nd millennium B.C./B.C.E from Swaida:
http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/11/13/318603.htm
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201011118016/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeologists-3-stores-dating-back-to-second-millennium-bc-unearthed-in-syria.html
What Aren Maeir is up to:
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20101113/LIFE07/11130314/Digging-the-Bible
The Rachel's Tomb controversy continues:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=194529
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=194533
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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The search for Boudicca's last battlefield:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba114/feat3.shtml
Tom Holland on the 'good' side of the Roman Empire:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/08/ancient-world-rome
That Roman 'Swiss Army Knife' is making the rounds again:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/2000-year-old-roman-multi-tool/
cf:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?_function_=xslt&_limit_=10&priref=70534
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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On the DNA front, early Neolithic Farmers in Germany had Near Eastern links:
http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/206894/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-dna-reveals-european-farmers.html
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news42161.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109172344.htm
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/dna-cracks-the-mystery-about-the-origins-of-european-farming-20101110-17now.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/8293521/dna-study-finds-invaders-first-farmed-europe/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11729813
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-11/uoa-dro110810.php
cf:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000536
Skeletal evidence in Spain is suggesting the possibility that typhus and
trench fever was imported from the New World:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109095714.htm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Claim that Aboriginal folk observed and recorded a "supernova imposter"
event:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-aboriginal-astronomers-supernova-impostor-event.html
The Guardian's Guide to the Ancient World for India:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/12/ancient-world-india
More on ground stone tools from Australia:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101106082604.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On social inequality amongst Pueblo peoples:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-social-inequality-pueblo-indians.html
Pondering Lincoln's victory:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/lincoln-wins-now-what
Interesting application of an 1869 Florida law:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/us/09foreclosure.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the urbanization-immune-system connection:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101108-cities-immune-system-tuberculosis-tb-evolution-dna-genetics-science/
Learning from the 1510 flu pandemic:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101112141130.htm
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Book of the Dead:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/06/egyptian-book-of-dead-tom-holland
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8117119/Ancient-Egyptian-Book-of-the-Dead-at-British-Museum-review.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/210342/Book-Of-The-Dead-Mummies-Unravelled
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-09/mummy-guidebook-to-hereafter-fascinates-at-british-museum-martin-gayford.html
Before Pythagoras:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42499
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.31
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:48:22 -0500
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on David and Solomon:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/david-and-solomon/draper-text
A new method to 'sort' DSS fragments:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/353531,sea-scrolls-feature.html
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/features/article_1598963.php
A sentence in the Raphael Golb case:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/u-s-lawyer-gets-jail-in-dead-sea-scrolls-case-1.325426
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gL88oB3kUUGltGmffjx3s-uqN4JQ?docId=bfb7c00fbb6549d5bf9345889c0a49e6
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_16645387
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/dispute-over-dead-sea-scrolls-leads-to-a-jail-sentence/
http://robertcargill.com/2010/11/18/golb-gets-6-months-in-jail-5-years-probation/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7301399.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/11/18/dead-sea-scrolls.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Suggestion that Stonehenge's bluestones were moved with the aid of ball
bearings:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/stonehenge-mystery-could-rest-on-ball-bearings-2137673.html
... while the 'visitor centre' saga may actually be coming to an end:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-stonehenge-millions-major-makeover.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11792484
A pre-Roman (maybe) 'hut circle' near Kirkintilloch:
http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/Ancient-ruin-could-date-back.6628282.jp
Vikings may have brought a Native American to Iceland some 1000 years b.p.:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/16/first-americans-europe-research
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101117/sc_afp/sciencebiologygeneticshistoryusiceland_20101117170943
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/icelanders-descended-from-native-americans/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/primer/contacto/genetico/europeos/americanos/produjo/siglos/Colon/elpepusoc/20101116elpepusoc_7/Tes
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-vikings-brought-amerindian-iceland-years.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/Vikings+brought+Amerindian+Iceland+years+Study/3842864/story.html
Some Sutton Hoo 'snapshots' are on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-11803037
Interesting item on the 1832 epidemic in Paris:
http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20101118-1832-epidemic-helped-shape-todays-paris
Metal detecting starts at a young age in the UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-essex-11776113
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/11/17/my-little-treasure-115875-22721312/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/18/world/main7068579.shtml
http://www.batangastoday.com/16th-century-old-gold-pendant-treasure-found-by-4-year-old-boy-james-hyatt/6084/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330198/Boy-4-unearths-1m-treasure-trove-FIRST-metal-detecting-expedition.html
... while another detectorist has found something which has some sort of
'code' on it supposedly:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8636849.Mystery_treasure_could_be_in_forgotten_medieval_code/
Rethinking medieval torture:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,725629,00.html
Review of R Griffiths-Jones and D Park, *The Temple Church in London*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/8144164/The-tomb-of-Jesus-in-central-London.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Review of Edmund Morris, *Colonel Roosevelt*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18book.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/excerpt-colonel-roosevelt.html
Review of H.W. Brands, *American Colossus*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/books/19book.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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How geography explains history:
http://www.historytoday.com/ian-morris/latitudes-not-attitudes-how-geography-explains-history
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TOURISTY THINGS
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"Drowned Lands of Nubia"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-ml-travel-trip-egypt-lake-nasser,0,2205695.story
Cambridge:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/travel/21cambridge-hours.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A pair of ancient statues stolen in Italy in the 1980s were spotted by an
art squad
guy on vacation in New York:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131440998
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-11800697
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8147966/Zeus-statue-returned-to-Italian-museum-after-30-years.html
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13535742
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/20/3071940.htm
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20101119-304207/Italian-policeman-in-New-York-finds-stolen-statue
http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/article_6fdde834-f8d7-5514-abe3-dc951444c703.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1ZfU8DYdoLjsmlQh4AE9ndUX0hw?docId=6cfed47e4fe84286951ff66071537042
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stolen-antiquities-are-returned-2139137.html
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/italian-policeman-spots-stolen-art-on-us-holiday-20101120-181v1.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/19/policeman-holiday-art-treasure-gallery-window
A bust in Costa del Sol:
http://www.euroweeklynews.com/2010111984359/news/costa-del-sol/4-held-for-pillaging-ancient-relics.html
... not sure if this is the same bust or not (it seems to be):
http://www.expatica.com/es/news/spanish-news/spanish-police-recover-relics-from-roman-necropolis_111012.html
Seems those vandalized petroglyphs in Arizona weren't able to be totally
restored:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/18/Petroglyph-graffiti-cleanup-leaves-mark/UPI-28821290128276/
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/11/18/20101118northern-arizona-petroglyphs-graffiti-damage.html
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Donald Ariel:
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2722/32/
Latest eSylum newsletter:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n46.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Link:
http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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