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Ephraimite Forum no.102
20 April 2009, 26 Nisan 5769
Contents:
1. Archaeology:  Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.51
2. Bo Ronn: Seven Pyramids in Mauritius
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator  11.52


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1. Archaeology:  Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.51
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Third century A.D./C.E. finds from Humat Thiab (Yemen):

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1245&p=local&a=3

Are these foot-shaped structures the first things built by the
Israelites in Canaan?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406102600.htm
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1076836
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1077036
 http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=218
 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550817/
 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223308/posts
 http://www.physorg.com/news158234124.html
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoh-adi040609.php

Speculation that a depiction of the 'Mistress of the Lionesses'
was a Canaanite king/ruler:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9319
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132604.htm
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/afot-wa040609.php
 http://www.physorg.com/news158237703.html
 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-17343.html
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-canaan-female-king.html

Speculation that a fragment of an inscription found in the Old
City dig refers to Hezekiah:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1238562926124
 http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1551&module_id=#as
 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30099

An inspection/restoration of the Western Wall is under way:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076534.html
 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562913109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562915996&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/06/top_stories/bullet_points/doc49d9d1c0858ac259767828.txt

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Clash of the Titans update:

http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5380B520090409

Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article6066272.ece

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of Scotland's oldest human settlement:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scotland39s-most-ancient-home-found.5161087.jp
 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/flints-12000-bc-found-scotland/story.aspx?guid=%7B607750D7-3D77-4455-A6EF-1324062EE135%7D&dist=msr_2
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6069957.ece

Power structures in Bronze Age Scandinavia:

http://www.physorg.com/news158489844.html
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407144947.htm
 http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/174727/
 http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=56823&CultureCode=en


Dog sacrifices in medieval Hungary?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-dogs-buried-hungary.html?source=rss

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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of 17th century global trade in Georgia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/amon-due040909.php

A history (of sorts) of U.S. debt:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/13/090413fa_fact_lepore

Hype for a television program about Tecumseh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/television/12jens.html

More on early agriculture in Illinois:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/complexagro.html
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090408-first-farm.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the origins of 'grog':

http://www.teatronaturale.com/article/345.html

Surprised this didn't get more coverage: Schindler's list has been
found in a library:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20090406142221194C927660

Feature on Galileo and his impact/implications:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/5115916/How-Galileo-brought-the-stars-down-to-Earth.html


Restoring a Tudor tapestry:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6069988.ece

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Athens:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17225&Itemid=59

Sightseeing strategies:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/5126287/Holiday-advice-sightseeing-without-the-scrum.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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I find this one strange: Palestinian authorities are trying to
prevent a DSS exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum on the basis
that the scrolls were illegally removed from Palestine (!):

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/616059
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130823(IsraelNN.com
 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/09/scrolls-rom.html
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jdnIWj-W6xSz8HLSbzJIUpOL9HVg

More on Germany's efforts to restore Nazi loot to its owners:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10arts-GERMANYTOCON_BRF.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/theater/reviews/09beow.html

2. Bo Ronn: Seven Pyramides in Mauritius

Good Day, Yair Davidiy

Seven pyramids in Mauritius!

This is confirmed by the Egyptologist Antoine Gigal in the French magazine l'Egypte on the 29 March 2009.


Below is a short, free translation from French of some of the main points extracted from an article that appeared in the Mauritian newspaper Week-End on the 12 April 2009.  http://www.lemauricien.com/weekend/index.html

Similar pyramids are to be found on the Spanish island of Tenerife and on the Italian island of Sicily. This makes one think that the Phoenicians visited Mauritius long before the navigating Arabs or Malays, which are believed to have visited this part of the world in the 10th century A.D. Herodotus describes a Phoenician expedition that sailed from the Red Sea 610 -595 B.C. to explore the South Seas and round Africa with a return voyage via Gibraltar.

The Portuguese are declared to be the first visitors in 1507, but already in 1502 Mauritius was marked on a world map drawn by the Italian, Alberto Cantino.

According to Antoine Gigal the base of the pyramids in Mauritius are rectangular and do not pass 12 metres in height. There are between 6 and 12 terraces.

My observations.

I have seen these pyramids and often wondered why the cane planters have bothered to organize the rocks in such a laborious, perfect and beautiful manner. It is common practise in Mauritius to clear the cane fields from large rocks by heaping them together in complete disorder. The article in the Week-End opened my eyes.

If the ancient Phoenicians / Israelites were in this far off South Indian Ocean Island there is no wonder if their modern descendants settle in Mauritius.

Shalom

Seafaring Goth, perhaps Asher / Bo Ingvar Ronn / Mauritius

3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator  11.52
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence for subgroups of Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075150.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The dig at Tell Tayinat seems to be getting increasing coverage
because of a recent 'Dark Age' temple find which is being tied
to a passage in Isaiah:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162649.htm
 http://www.canada.com/Canadian+archeologists+find+ancient+temple+Turkey/1503725/story.html
 http://www.physorg.com/news159025472.html
 http://it.moldova.org/news/ancient-temple-is-discovered-in-turkey-197032-eng.html

Evidence that ancient Jews used skulls in their ceremonies (maybe):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078227.html
 http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=9

Overviewish thing on the Bethsaida excavations:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562932973&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Brief item on a Hamrit era site in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news180808.htm

... this longer item may be the same site (much more detailed if it is):

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/archaeologists-discover-ancient-works-of-art-in-yemen_100178976.html

Interesting diary of a traveller to Egypt in the 1800s:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-15_115329521.html

Review of Natalie Mesika, *Adama Shehora*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077977.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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A pre-Roman midden from Iona:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/A--load-of-old.5174776.jp

A 1000 b.p. 'treasure trove' of coins and jewellery found by
a metal detectorist in Funen:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1664151.ece

Did a jousting accident lead to a negative character change in Henry VIII?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-turned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More on Genghis Khan's palace:

http://www.centralasianews.net/story/487265
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remembering the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination:

http://documents.nytimes.com/lincoln-assassination-new-york-memorial-diary#p=1

Preservation v recreation in Texas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/sports/othersports/14boulder.html

Excavating a Confederate gun platform on the Cape Fear River:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090409/ARTICLES/904099961/1004?Title=Brunswick-Town-excavation-unearths-window-on-past

Mystery caskets fond in rural Ohio:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/04/11/bodies.ART_ART_04-11-09_B1_5VDH8H8.html?sid=101

More on that evidence of global trade in 17th century Georgia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409134802.htm
 http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/spanish.beads/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Review of Richard Beeman, *Plain, Honest Men*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Isaacson-t.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Inbreeding wasn't a good thing for the Habsburgs:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6094527.ece
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075148.htm

Nice feature on Yeats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/theater/18yeats.html

Remembering the Barbary pirates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12gettleman.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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The Queen was handing out Maundy coins last week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7991228.stm

1888 Rugby Medal:

http://www.1888rugbymedal.co.uk/

Rebel States Currency:

http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The latest Nazi loot returns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13arts-ARTRETURNEDT_BRF.html

More on the Palestinian protest of the DSS exhibition at the ROM:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/design/14arts-PALESTINIANS_BRF.html



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