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Ephraimite Forum no.95
26 January 2009, 1 Shevet 5769
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.39
2. Jewish Partisans and Food for Thought
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.40


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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.39
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.39 January 18, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A roundup of recent finds in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/930/he2.htm

Some interesting Elamite tablets from near Tehran:

http://www.newspostonline.com/sci-tech/archeologists-unearth-prehistoric-clay-tablets-in-tehran-2009011124101

Ancient water wells from Parsa:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=186803

Seeking to save items from the Old City of Safed:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1487&module_id=#as

Interesting piece on facial reconstruction of 'average' folks from
Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/9dzd8b

The "biblical diet" wasn't that healthy:

http://www.physorg.com/news151078460.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Semi touristy sort of thing about Boudicca:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1112246/Walking-Boudicca-We-follow-historic-journey--Essex-underpass-McDonalds.html

Quite a bit of coverage of evidence of 'chemical warfare' at
Dura Europos:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm
http://www.examiner.com/x-1242-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m1d15-Ancient-Chemical-Warfare
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090116_chemical.htm
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=did-the-persians-use-chemical-warfa-2009-01-16
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Archaeological-Evidences-of-Ancient-Chemical-Warfare-Discovered-101996.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4240365/Ancient-Persians-who-gassed-Romans-were-the-first-to-use-chemical-weapons.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/uol-uol011409.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/chemical-warfare-ndash-ancient-persianstyle-1366720.html
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART64442.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39814/title/Ancient_chemical_warfare_comes_to_light
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/scientists_bring_2000/
http://www.physorg.com/news150994645.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Another ancient human brain ... this time, from a Copper Age site
in Armenia:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39826/title/Armenian_cave_yields_ancient_human_brain
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-74188.html


On the importance of 1759 to the British Empire:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5519484.ece


More on second rate Viking swords:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1564526.ece

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 700 b.p. Maori dwelling:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4818869a11.html

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NORTH AMERICA
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An American 'Stonehenge'?:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-71863.html

Border fence construction has revealed remains of a
1000 or so b.p. village on the US/Mexico border:

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2009/01/09/news/doc4966f5869ba07167469550.prt

In anticipation of next week's events, there are a number of
'presidential' items ... first, one about George Washington:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/presidents/george-washington-the-father-of-the-nation-1391109.html

Various pieces on inaugural addresses:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_lepore
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99349493

On Lincoln's inauguration:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99450262

... and a speech by Lincoln is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/design/16anti.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Using DNA to identify the origins of Medieval manuscripts:

http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2009/01/wmsstinsondna.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112093328.htm
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-old-is-that-book-dna

A nice feature on medicine in the ancient world:

http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/medicine-in-the-ancient-world.asp

A method for establishing temporal relationships between archaeological
complexes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116091521.htm

Some interesting letters from Mary Queen of Scots:

http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/How-Mary-Queen-of-Scots.4886651.jp


On the possible 'contract killing' of Tycho Brahe:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,601729,00.html

On early farmers breeding animals of different colours for their
own amusement:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4249106/Early-farmers-bred-different-coloured-animals-for-their-own-amusement.html

The oldest baseball card?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/sports/baseball/16vecsey.html

Opeddish thing on saving our astronomical heritage:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126915.700-comment-why-we-must-save-our-astronomical-heritage.html

... and a related piece on ancient observatories:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16422-gallery-amazing-observatories-of-the-ancient-world.html

Recreating Galileo's telescope:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108082902.htm

Cambridge marks its 800th anniversary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7834827.stm

More on DNA links between Peru and Japan:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-72786.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Palmyra:

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/1/10/lifetravel/2913111&sec=lifetravel
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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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A metal detectorist has found a major Iron Age hoard near Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7835228.stm
http://tinyurl.com/8wyfgx (Mail)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/17/Treasure_of_gold_coins_found_in_Britain/UPI-42101232239621/

2. Jewish Partisans and Food for Thought
 From: thaxted@netvision.net.il

5th letter down "Bielskis were heroes I"

http://www.thejewishpress.com/pageroute.do/37881

Bielskis Were Heroes (I)
 
Re "Demonizing The Bielski Heroes" (op-ed, Jan. 16):
 
          The real events depicted in the film "Defiance" shows what a handful of armed Jews could have achieved. After 2,000 years of a crushing Exile, the paradigm of "death with honor" was a concept that the Jew had almost forgotten.
 
          Before the war broke out, a group of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky foresaw the upcoming Holocaust. His followers were known as Revisionists and later founded the Irgun. They proposed practical solutions to fight Hitler. But one stands out: a Jewish Land Army on the European continent trained by what would later be known as the Allies. Jabotinsky had the backing of the Polish government, and could have recruited and armed over 300,000 Jewish men so that the Jews would have been able to protect themselves against the accursed Einsatzgruppen.
 
But the Jewish establishment ridiculed and opposed Jabotinsky, and a chance to save Europe's Jews went lost. He died in 1940, with most of European Jewry following him passively shortly thereafter.
 
Israelis used to ridicule the Jews of that generation for not fighting back, citing how in the last days of the war two unarmed German guards were able to march 5,000 Jews for 10 miles from one concentration camp to their deaths in another, with no resistance or attempt at escape. "I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing ... you will have no power to stand against your enemies" (Vayikra 26).
 
Yet Israelis themselves have been chastened by the inexplicable passivity, timidity and self-restraint of the mighty IDF in the face of a puny foe, even as so many Jews in Israel have been reduced to body parts by Arab homicide bombers and rockets.
 

Amnon Goldberg
Safed, Israel
 

Bielskis Were Heroes (II)
 
I am neither Jewish nor a Bielski, but I was deeply moved by the story of the Bielski brothers and the many Jewish partisans of their community. As in any war, the worst shades of humanity are often seen in the most noble of men and women. While the movie mostly focuses on the nobility among these people, we are also invited to see them in their more frail moments. However, it does nothing to tarnish the fact that more than 10,000 people are alive today because of these men.
 
          Thank God for the Bielski brothers and the Bielski cousins and the many, many men and women who also fought and survived. This story should have been told a long time ago.
 

Julie Tucker
(Via E-Mail


3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.40
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.40 January 25, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting castle inscription/petroglyph from Raima Homed:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10015606.html

A nice blog post about Masada:

http://asorblog.org/?p=71

... which was possibly a response to:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7830416.stm

Transcript of a radio program about the recent spate of fake artifacts
from the Holy Land:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/solomon_prog_summary.shtml

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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More on Persians 'gassing' Romans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7837826.stm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting video/film of London at the turn of the 20th century:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1348426473?bctid=1873835598

More on the Moors using powdered bones in the construction of the
Alhambra Palace:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_building_with_bones

Review of Adam Kirsch, *Benjamin Disraeli*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Julius-t.html

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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A site older than Mohenjodaro has been found at Sukkur (Pakistan):

http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/23/top9.htm


Possible 500 B.C. burial(s) from Indonesia:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/01/21/discovered-remains-may-be-ancestors-balinese.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about the Indus Civilization:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp

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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice feature on the Gault Site:

http://www.impactnews.com/georgetown-hutto-taylor/history/2972-the-gault-site

A study of word frequencies in inaugural addresses, 1789 to now:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Natural disasters and the decline of civilizations in Peru:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/uof-see011509.php
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210342.htm
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_sc/sci_ancient_calamity_1
 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-earlyquake20-2009jan21,0,853296.story

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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You know we have to have some Robbie Burns material:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/4093.html

On the DNA front, I think we mentioned the National Geographic's
Genographic project a while back ... here's a bit of an update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/geneology-geonographic-project

... we were also given a genetic "snapshot" of Iceland, 1000 years
b.p.:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073205.htm


Weehawken (near where that airplane landed on the Hudson) has
a history of rescues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/nyregion/18towns.html

A history of breastfeeding:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore

Some 'embarassing' British placenames:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html

The Vatican has published a catalog of its Hebrew manuscripts:

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/21/1002396/vatican-catalogues-its-hebrew-manuscripts

A possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Prospero:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5576502.ece

There's a new Sherlock Holmes flick in the works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/movies/25lyal.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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The Marion True/Robert Hecht trial has resumed in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/arts/design/24arts-TRIALRESUMES_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Major Iron Age coin hoard from Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7835228.stm
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120523/Largest-hoard-iron-age-gold-coins-unearthed-treasure-hunter-using-metal-detector.html

Sikh coinage:

http://worldsikhnews.com/7%20January%202009/Sikh%20Legacy

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Renaissance Journalism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/arts/design/24muse.html

Byzantium:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/arts/melik24.1-413375.php

Raphael to Renoir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/design/23raph.html

The top ten museums in Europe:

http://www.travelbite.co.uk/feature/uk/england/london/top-ten-museums-in-europe-$1262901.htm


The 'museumy' quality of the White House:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/opinion/21needleman.html


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