Ephraimite Forum-46
Date: 13/March/08 6th Adar-2 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.46
2. Linguistics: Distant Native languages bridge Bering Sea
3. Archaeology: Tel Dan Excavations

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.46
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>

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explorator 10.46 March 9, 2008
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AFRICA
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The Axum Obelisk will be re-erected later this year:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/
english/news/2008-03-06_106189731.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Assorted recent finds from Egypt:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=13748_0_1_0_M

Can't remember if we mentioned this Parhian fortress find
yet:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/
February2008/27-02.htm

Police halted construction work on Temple Mount this week:

http://tinyurl.com/2ntb9d (JPost)

... not sure if this is related to the foregoing or not:

http://tinyurl.com/2sxw2n (JPost)

The impact of digs on the people in the City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/397lb4 (JPost)

More coverage of those seals which were recently found in
the City of David:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?
action=fullnews&id=29860


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the Bacchae and neuroscience:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/
arts/2008/03/01/bobacc101.xml

The press is playing up the Odysseus angle in their coverage of
this tomb discovery on Lefkada:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010243575
http://tinyurl.com/2llvyb
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/
ap_on_re_eu/greece_tomb_3
http://ap.google.com/article/
ALeqM5hKpApRGxT8qBnYKipgBF9jET7xdwD8V7EU480
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335569,00.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/06/tomb-greek-island.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080306-AP-greece-tomb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Greece-Tomb.html
http://www.macon.com/world//story/286313.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23486148&afid=1


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Was Stonehenge a site for ritual combat?:

http://tinyurl.com/3559p8 (Gazette and Herald)

More coverage of what's beneath Silbury Hill:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/
the-mystery-of-silbury-hill

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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Evidence of trade between Israel and China during Crusader times:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080304100410.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/
2008-03/uoh-eoc030408.php
http://tinyurl.com/yue7jg

An ongoing regional settlement pattern survey in China:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303113353.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Siberian linguistic link to native languages in North America:

http://www.adn.com/front/story/334139.html

Human impact in the Bahamas:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/
2008/03/04/sciblue104.xml
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Vague/brief item about some recent finds in Mexico:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/
06/content_7728787.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Latest twist in the interpretation of the 'hobbits'' remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7276943.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/sc_nm/dwarfs_indonesia_dc_1
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/
2008/03/05/2181122.htm

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CRIME BEAT
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We don't often hear of antiquities busts in Israel, but here's a report on one:

http://tinyurl.com/2sa2wd (IAA)

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/exhibits/diversity/

Ancient Americas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/arts/design/05amer.html
(slide show)

Looted Art (Nazi):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/03/2178154.htm

Magna Carta:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/03/magna.carta.display/index.html


An earthquake damaged items in an Israel museum:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=959940
http://tinyurl.com/388aes

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Zenobia:
http://www.france24.com/en/20080225-culture-zenobia-
lebanon-queen-palmyra-romans-rahbani

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2. Linguistics: Distant Native languages bridge Bering Sea
http://www.adn.com/front/story/334139.html
Siberian culture's words have echo in North America

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3. Archaeology: Tel Dan Excavations
Excerpts:

Tel Dan is one of the most important sites for the archaeological and historical recovery of ancient Israel. The city of Dan represented the northern border of the biblical kingdom of Israel. It was here, 2900 years ago, that King Hazael of Damascus punctuated his invasion of Israelite territory with the erection of the famous House of David inscription, the oldest document to mention the historical King David. It is here that visitors can explore King Jeroboam's temple, which the Hebrew Bible indicates he established to house the golden calf and challenge the temple in Jerusalem for religious supremacy. It was here that Bronze Age inhabitants constructed the world's oldest known gated archway more than 1500 years before the Romans supposedly invented the arch.

The Hebrew Bible attributes the city's name to the eponymous Israelite tribe of Dan, but the site was clearly significant for millennia before the ancestral traditions of Israel's prehistory. There is evidence of settlement dating to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities of the sixth to fourth millennia BCE. Massive Early Bronze Age stone fortifications ring a site that would boast even more impressive mudbrick structures during the Middle Bronze Age. The Egyptian execretion texts and cuneiform tablets from the Mesopotamian city of Mari both attest to Dan?s significance in the early second millennium BCE. Throughout the Iron Age, Israelites, Aramaeans, and Assyrians vied for control of a city whose cultic significance stretched well into the Greco-Roman period. A Greek dedicatory inscription reading "for the god who is in Dan" indicates not only the memory of the city's religious history, but also confirms beyond doubt the identification of Tell al-Qadi (as the site is known in Arabic) with the biblical city of Dan.

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