Ephraimite Forum-76
Date: 25 August /08 24 Av 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of  Explorator 11.18
2. Arabs: Saudi Anti-Terror Cartoons
3. Britain and the "Drunkards of Ephraim" (Isaiah 28:2)?

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of  Explorator 11.18
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.18 August 24, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've already mentioned this seal find:

http://tinyurl.com/5tbe7k (JP)
http://tinyurl.com/5p28nf (JJ)
http://tinyurl.com/5rlkt8 (MFA)

Nice piece on wacky theories about the pyramids:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/middleeast.egypt

Latest installment of the Maghreb Gate and/or Temple Mount saga(s):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/24/content_9678888.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1014495

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Troy was even larger than previously thought:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME09.@AM16441.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A bronze age structure from Shetland was moved to prevent it from
being damaged by the sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7575772.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/
3500yearold--39sauna39-saved-from.4420432.jp

Evidence of a major bronze age fire on the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Isle-of-Man-unearths-a.4404225.jp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/21/archaeology

... and a bronze age burial from Wicken:

http://tinyurl.com/6ntc88

Nice piece on petroglyphs in England:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/
connected/2008/08/23/dweb123.xml

Vienna's underground synagogue:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
cid=1219218610072&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

Henry VIII's nicer side:

http://tinyurl.com/5mnl9u (Independent)

A metal detectorist has found a 1500 b.p. gold pendant

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=46628

... while another has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/5gza7m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2594984/
Treasure-hunter-finds-medieval-diamond-ring.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7574992.stm

A medieval seal from Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/65twy5

I hae me doots about the conclusions of this study suggesting
Oetzi's profession:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/
sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansancientjobdetermined
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080820194843.htm

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NORTH AMERICA
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A couple of boys found an 'ancient canoe' in South Carolina:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/17231852/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news

Why (sort of) the Vikings left Canada:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?
id=2d85eff3-0a38-43ff-90e4-173a39e7d521

Latest finds from Jamestown:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/18/america/
NA-US-Jamestown-Discoveries.php

Remembering the 'battle of Brooklyn':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Battle-of-Brooklyn.html
More coverage of Canada's renewed search for Franklin's ships:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/18/franklin-ships.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Global_Warming/
Warming_may_unlock_160-yr-old_Arctic_secret/articleshow/3382070.cms
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-quest-solve-mystery-explorer
-s-missing-ships/article-278489-detail/article.html

Celebrating an old organ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24colnj.html

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On earthquakes and the rise of civilizations:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/822/3?rss=1

Gold plated medieval windows were air purifiers?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080822/
sc_livescience/goldplatedchurchwindowspurifyair

Haven't had a 'history of golf' piece in a while:

http://www.corsavoo.com/golf/0,2577,430958,00.html

I think we had this German-family-tree-extends-to-caveman story a
few months ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm
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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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CRIME BEAT
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Those books stolen from a Safed synagoge a few weeks ago were
mysteriously returned this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1013700

A Jerusalem tour guide was arrested for selling ancient coins to
tourists:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
cid=1218710408521&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

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NUMISMATICA
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Ancient Monsters on Ancient Coins:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/monster_coins.html


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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Hadrian:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/23/arts/melik23.php

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25658

Captain Cook's boomerang is going on sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2590025/Captain
-Cooks-boomerang-on-sale-for-60000.html

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2. Arabs: Saudi Anti-Terror Cartoons
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD203108
Interesting and of value.

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3. Britain and the "Drunkards of Ephraim" (Isaiah 28:2)?
From: David Syke
Hi Yair
There was a front page article today in the NY Times: 'Some Britons Too Unruly For Resorts IN Europe' that actually my jive with some of your writings on the British character 
Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/europe/24crete.html?scp=1&sq='Some%20Britons%20Too%20Unruly%20For%20Resorts%20IN%20Europe'%20&st=cse

See also:
Drunkards of Ephraim
http://www.britam.org/Proof/Attributes/roleDrunkards.html

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