Ephraimite Forum-73
Date: 3 August /08 2 Av 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.15
2. Remains of a 3000-year-old city found in Gilan, Iran
3. Archaeology: [Explorator] explorator 11.16

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.15
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.15 August 3, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting bulla from one of Zedekiah's ministers:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24115029-12335,00.html
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5367.3662.0.0
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331162371&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.web-view.net/Show/0X452A2CB6A9FED72A5694C27ADAF4BD0A3B586A0622CA3D31FD1655846E94A209.htm
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080801135757861C908041&click_id=588&set_id=1
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1008048
(bizarre headline, though)

In case you thought the Temple Mount saga was dying down:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71117
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331137734&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Recent work on the Zion Gate:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331116860&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

More (different?) coverage on that 'solar boat':

http://www.france24.com/en/20080719-japanese-camera-reveals-pharaohs-solar-boat-egypt-archaeology

More Codex Sinaiticus coverage:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080731/news/808020305&tc=yahoo

More 'Messiah inscription' coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/5staf3
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Evidence of embalming in Roman-era Greece:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=531250

Nice article on the Scythians:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/25-frozen-siberian-mummies-reveal-a-lost-civilization

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A pile of petroglyphs from the UK:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-5261.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7534510.stm
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.14216

related:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jul/31/1?picture=336120468
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/

A German 'Stonehenge':

http://tinyurl.com/58csen (El Pais)

An early cremation burial from Ireland:

http://news.smashits.com/277930/Cremated-bones-dating-from-3-500-BC-to-2-000-BC-unearthed-in-Ireland.htm

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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible colonial-era shipwreck off Puerto Rico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_sc/puerto_rico_underwater_find;_ylt=Avm_2lde_REuQgHhRzfj1EL737YB

A civil war document thought to be a photocopy has turned out to
be genuine:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_on_re_us/civil_war_surrender

Interesting slave memorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/arts/design/28benc.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of Olmec cultivation/consumption of cacao:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates-2008_30.html


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, which came first: the chicken or Columbus?:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/30/2318696.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729133618.htm

Plenty of coverage of the 'world's oldest joke':

http://www.thestar.co.za/?fArticleId=4536142
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_university_of_wolverhamptons_list_of_wor.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/01/dl0103.xml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080731/r_t_rtrs_uk_other/tuk-life-britain-joke-dc-fa6b408_2.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/lf_nm_life/britain_joke_dc

This is borderline Elmer material ... remember the guy with the
China-reached-North-America-before-Columbus theory? He's now
suggesting Leonardo got his ideas from a Chinese encyclopedia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/sc_nm/britain_book_leonardo_dc_3
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l2428044-britain-book-leonardo/

The cultural significance of the doughnut:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080721152000.htm

Ipswich lace:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01anti.html

The last (maybe) Cagot:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-last-untouchable-in-europe-878705.html

Review of Iain Gately, *Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol*:

http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/48320/

Review of Paul Fisher, *House of Wits*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/books/30book.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Libya:

http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/news/travel/story.html?id=4233c4d5-b6e3-4239-8de6-8b930d2eb91c

Kas (Turkey):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111426

Genesis Land:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331158752&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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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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Theft of a pile of religious texts from a synagogue in Safed:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1007083

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NUMISMATICA
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American Gold:

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1984/1/1984_1_42.shtml

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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Hadrian:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110840

related:

http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32833&amid=30256927

The Israel Museum has been given an interesting photo collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01voge.html

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2. Remains of a 3000-year-old city found in Gilan, Iran
Note the URL below contains somewhat old information about a find in northern Iran.
The article itself does not say much.
We however found it of interest since we believe the region concerned to have been that
of the Gaeli-Cadussi whom we identify as belong to the Exiled Ten Tribes.
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/feb/1065.html

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3. Archaeology: [Explorator] explorator 11.16
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.16 August 10, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remains of a Byzantine olive oil press in northern Israel:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/08/08/Byzantine_olive_press_found_in_Israel/UPI-72561218220633/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0808/S00097.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=

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1215331213268&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127106

Canaanite soldier burial in Sidon:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24141145-23109,00.html

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An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

I think we've had this Jericho-bones-and-TB story before:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218104249114&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

More coverage of Gedaliah's seal:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archaeology.brings.biblical.history.to.life/21144.htm
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71386
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127048

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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French archaeologists have found remains of a large city in
Afghanistan which may have been 'founded' by Alexander:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/252026.php
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/112318/Archaeologists-uncover-ancient-city-in-Afghanistan
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5933277.html

Brief mention of a Dacian necropolis find:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/

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features/setimes/roundup/2008/08/04/roundup-st-03

An overview of the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110758

Brief item on some finds at Cannae:

http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/GdM_dallapuglia_NOTIZIA_PROV_01.
asp?IDNotizia=208386&IDCategoria=292

The usual cheating-at-the-ancient-Olympics piece:

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL655603720080808

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Rethinking the Picts:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/

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the-truth-about-the-picts-886098.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Carbon dating of a 'european' skull from New Zealand predates
Cook's arrival (?):

http://tinyurl.com/5nq3s5 (Telegraph)

More (somewhat late) coverage of those early oil paintings from
Afghanistan:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080802-behind-afghanistans-dynamited-buddhas-archaeology-art

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Overviewish sort of thing on shipwrecks in the Great Lakes:

http://tinyurl.com/6x6my3

The oil boom threatens some Anasazi sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02artifacts.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Last year we were learning the secrets of Maya blue ... now it's
Maya green:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article4473373.ece
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I don't follow this one at all ... ancient craft traditions are
helping develop computer networks or something like that:

http://www.physorg.com/news137258418.html
http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_87272_en.html
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19831/53/

Pondering August:

http://www.slate.com/id/2196776/

... and gout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Nicholson-t.html

... and the survival of Hebrew:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/world/middleeast/08hebrew.html

... and for that Phoenician-boat-circumnavigation-of-Africa thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7550162.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7550871.stm (video)

On the importance of whaling, once upon a time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/nyregion/03towns.html


In the wake of the 'pardon' of the Knights Templar, some group is
trying to claim its assets:

http://tinyurl.com/5uxtxq (Telegraph)

Haven't heard from/about the Flat Earth types for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm

British historians are apparently the best:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
arts_and_entertainment/books/article4386358.ece

Review of Simon Critchley, *The Book of Dead Philosophers*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/09/philosophy.history
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sicily:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/story.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10525447

Vermont:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/us/08vermont.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

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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Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=262024

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7544819.stm


Lure of the East:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/arts/MELIK2.php

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