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Ephraimite Forum no.100
30 March 2009, 5 Nisan 5769
Contents:
1. Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
Jews in Italy
Jordan Times: Demographic map of Palestine
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.48
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.49

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1. Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2006/08/at-icjg-jews-in-italy.html
Jews in Italy
 Extracts:
There has been evidence of Jewish life in Italy since the Roman Empire, when some 8,000 Jews were documented during the reign of Emperor Augustus, and tens of thousands lived there under Emperors Tiberius and Claudius. In the late first century, there were 10 synagogues in Rome, which grew to 15. Around the same time, there were at least 43 Jewish settlements on the mainland and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. In addition to Rome, the largest Jewish communities were in Genova, Milano, Bologna, Ravenna, Napoli, Pompei, Siracusa and Messina.

Later additions came from Germany after the plague, and from France. A major influx shifted from Sicily to the mainland. Many of these Sicilian Jews had been expelled from Spain in 1492, then were expelled from Sicily in 1493.

Old names, from Roman Empire times

Language origin of names range from Spanish/Portuguese (19%), Hebrew (19%), Italian (18%), Arabic (16%), Berber (5%), French (2%), others (German, Turkish) (1%), with family origins from Italy (36%), Central Europe (26%), Middle East/North Africa(19%), Hebrew (9%), Unknown (4%)and Converso (4%).

The most frequently named families were Levi/y, 101 families, 21 places; Coen/Cohen, 58 in 18 places; Sonnino, 42 in 5 places; di Segni, 38 in six places; di Veroli, 35 in six places; and di Porto, 34 in four places.

Given name lists indicating Italian translations replacing Hebrew: Izhak (Gaio), Eleazar (Lazzario), Rebekka (Rica), Ruben (Rubino), Mordekhai (Marco), Gershon (Grassino) and Baruch (Benedetto).


2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.48
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.48 March 22, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Drought in Iraq is revealing archaeological sites:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102184336&ft=1&f=1010

More coverage of Rachel Elior's theories about the non-existence of
the Essenes:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/03/17/20090317ODDdeadsea-scrolls0317-ON.html
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130486
 http://news.therecord.com/article/507022
 http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7110837&page=1
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5927336.ece
 http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_11932367
 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html

Plans are afoot to recreate Hatshepsut's perfume:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uob-wsd031309.php
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/egyptian-queen-perfume/index.html?source=rss
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315155106.htm

... while the latest ship recreation is sailing to the Land of Punt (!):

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-4407.html
 http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2009/March/16-Archaeologists-recreate-Egyptians-95113.asp

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Hype for a television show claims to identify Arsinoe and makes
claims about Cleopatra's race:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2495578.0.Cleopatra_was_part_African_new_research_claims.php
 http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Skeleton_May_Reveal_Cleopatras_Ancestry2256361
 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89001&sectionid=3510212

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of Druidic human sacrifice and cannibalism (actually a
some documentary hype):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html
 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-7531.html
 http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/77299.htm

Police in Scotland messed up a 4000 b.p. site because they thought
they were investigating a crime scene:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5927895.ece

A 1000 b.p. fish trap was located off the coast of Wales with the
help of Google Earth:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5000835/1000-year-old-fishing-trap-found-on-Google-Earth.html

Is a Shropshire landmark actually a calendar of sorts?:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/21/is-landmark-an-ancient-calendar/

Feature on Kilravock Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7885643.stm

Feature on Stonehenge theories:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0%2C8599%2C1886661%2C00.html

Plans are afoot to recreate the Jacobite march from Culloden to
Nairn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7937642.stm

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Claims that the Buddha was a Scythian:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-3900.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Not sure if we've mentioned this new method of dating petroglyphs
before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316093629.htm

Nice feature on technology on archaeology:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/under_the_elms/digging_change_2204.html

Interesting 'map of knowledge' project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html

If you've got some time to kill, see how many famous faces you can
identify in this one from the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/famous-faces-big_1367237a.jpg

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Libya/Tunisia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/5001623/Cruising-with-the-Romans-in-Africa.html

Athens:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/athens/5021793/Athens-basks-in-its-ancient-glory-family-holiday.html

Some incredible Danish homes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/denmark/5017084/Denmarks-architecture-Glorious-homes-of-the-great-Danes.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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CRIME BEAT
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Interesting article on the illicit antiquities networks (mostly in
Israel):

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/41640/title/Networks_of_plunder

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NUMISMATICA
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An Iron Age hoard from Suffolk:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6329

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renovations to the Israel Museum:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ajEguS7myb7g&refer=home

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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Alexander the Great's tomb is supposedly in a cave near Broome,
Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/19/2521146.htm?section=justin
 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25214936-5013016,00.html
 http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/rumor-says-alexander-the-great-could-be-buried-in-australia_100168994.html

3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.49
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 11.49

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explorator 11.49 March 29, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Excavating the largest Byzantine bathhouse ever discovered
in Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130621
 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727539145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073845.html
 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29855
 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/25/1003972/byzantine-bathhouse-uncovered
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882290/


This week's coverage of Rachel Elior's theories about the Essenes:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/27/23174/
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130486(IsraelNN.com

An overviewish thing of various sites in the UAE:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090329/NATIONAL/900160589/1183/enewsletter

Giants in Jericho?:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=5
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Greek fisherman netted an interesting bronze last week:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_ancient_statue_4
 http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/612131
 http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/971461

We're getting more coverage of that triangular temple from
Cyprus which we mentioned a few issues ago:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/europe/EU-Cyprus-Ancient-Temple.php
 http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=904716&lang=eng_news
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916796/
 http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageID=304_1
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090327/sc_nm/us_cyprus_antiquities_1

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Hype for a television program about the Druids focuses on
human sacrifice and claims of cannibalism:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html
 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-7531.html
 http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/77299.htm

... and we have a story of 'stone age' cannibalism from Germany:

http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1000&catID=17


Some 300 b.p. flood defences from a Northumberland village:

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Centuries-old-flood-defences-are.5102871.jp

Theory about a boulder overlooking Loch Ness:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-11701.html

Not sure if we mentioned this Viking revisionism:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-raping-and-pillaging-1643969.html

... but I think we did have this 2000 b.p.-skull-with-brain story:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2512136.htm


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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible mass grave of Irish-immigrant-cholera victims:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/irish_immigrants_grave

A history of American boarding houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Crain-t.html

Commemorating the 69th Infantry Regiment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/nyregion/26rooms.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An academic claims to have identified six unrecognized works by
Shakespeare:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5005557/Academic-discovers-six-works-by-William-Shakespeare.html

There's an 'Archaeology for Dummies' book:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510487,00.html

Nice feature (with slideshow) on petrolgyphs from around the world:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29844547/

A huge pile of genealogical info from London is going online:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/my-ancestor-was-a-grave-robber-and-other-skeletons-in-the-closet-1655361.html

Just when you'd thought you'd heard the last from Ward Churchill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/22trial.html

DaVinci seems to have anticipated Darwin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/23/davinci-darwin-apes

Interesting blog item suggesting the ancients were better at
data preservation than we are:

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3812496

Nice little slide show on the history of the telescope:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/mar/18/telescope-richard-dunn-history-invention

A feature on Galileo's telescopes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/america/galileo.php
 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/science/space/28galileo.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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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Ancient Gems:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29695

Babylon: Myth and Reality:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/babylon.aspx

Ancient Glass form the Holy Land:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1510&module_id=#as

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/arts/AP-Art-American-West.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Beowulf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/theater/29Zino.html

Age of Kings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/television/29hobe.html



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