explorator 14.48 March 18, 2012

explorator 14.48 March 18, 2012
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Doug Weller, 'Inarsj',
A. Landreau, George Somsel, Glenn Meyer, Diana Wright,
Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of a potential new ancestor (for now, referred
to as the Red Deer Cave people):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/14/red-deer-cave-people-species-human
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17370170
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/Possible-new-human-species-unearthed-\
in-China
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/New-human-species-discovered-How-Chin\
a-fossils-could-redefine-human
http://www.theage.com.au/national/scientists-stumped-by-prehistoric-human-whose-\
face-doesnt-fit-20120314-1v3m0.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/new-human-species-red-deer-cave_n_13452\
16.html
http://www.livescience.com/19039-human-species-china-cave.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-mystery-human-fossils-spotlight-china.html

... a gallery of human ancestors:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/14/anthropology-evolution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meet-the-other-ancestors-7570380.html

On climate change and human evolution:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-human-evolution-climate.html

Postulating an earlier form of writing included with petroglyphs? (not
sure where to put this one):

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/did-stone-age-cavemen-talk-to-each-other-i\
n-symbols/

More on Otzi's genetics:

http://www.physorg.com/news250761066.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Canadian team has found what might be a statue of Hatshepsut:

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/statue-chapels-animal-mummies-found\
-egypt-u-of-t
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uot-sca031212.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-statue-chapels-animal-mummies-egypt.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312140250.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/03/cross-dressing-pharo\
ah-found-i.html
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Canadian+archeologists+unearth+rare+wooden+\
statue+pharaoh/6296272/story.html
http://www.history.com/news/2012/03/13/egypt-dig-reveals-animal-mummies-and-poss\
ible-hatshepsut-statue/

On the return of archaeologists to Iraq:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-10/archaeol\
ogy-returns-to-iraq/53449318/1
Latest from Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46759542/ns/technology_and_science-science/

LandMinds interview with Norma Franklin about Jezreel:

http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12a.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12b.mp3

cf: http://www.jezreel-expedition.com/

In case you missed it, there was a verdict in the Oded Golan trial (n.b.,
the
judge did not rule the James Ossuary is authentic ... that doesn't come
through in all the press coverage):

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/16/antiquities-fraud-trial-ends-but-not-que\
stions-about-ossuarys-authenticity/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-17/james-os\
suary-jesus/53578490/1
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/14/2436962/israeli-antiquities-collector\
.html
http://chronicle.com/article/Jerusalem-Court-Acquits/131164/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/israeli-antiquities-collectors\
-acquitted-but-archaeological-mystery-remains.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Israeli-court-clears-2-of-faking-Jesus-era\
-box-3405158.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-court-acquits-2-men-accu\
sed-of-forging-bible-era-relics/2012/03/14/gIQAhCqQBS_story.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1145906--james-ossuary-trial-acquits-i\
sraeli-man-of-forgery-charges
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-israel-archaeology-idUSBRE82D0XO201\
20314
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_ANTIQUITIES_ACQUITTAL?SITE=AP&S\
ECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/verdict-not-guilty/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/03/14/ossuary-james-acquitted-golan.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/antiquities-collector-acquitted-of-for\
gery-charges-in-james-ossuary-case/article2368752/
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/14/200624.html

... some responses from Golan and Deutsch:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/oded-golan-speaks-out-on-forgery-trial-verdict/
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/robert-deutsch-to-sue-iaa/

The ROM has no plans to 'remount' the James Ossuary exhibit:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/toronto-museum-wouldnt-remount-james-o\
ssuary-display-vice-president-says/article2369672/

Nice overview of recent finds from Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/Greatest-archeological-finds-in-Israe\
l-15-Mar-2012.htm

An up-and-comer in the ANE field?:

http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=7359

Feature on the excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/woo368016.shtml



Not sure if I mentioned this Maimonides series last week ... here
are the first two parts:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=260088
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=262162

Latest from Temple Mount (varies):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/234867
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153721


A clarification/correction on that "previously-unknown" pharaoh find last
week (it's actually first documented evidence of an already-know
pharaoh):

http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Assorted finds from a dairy construction site in Arla:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/local-news/roman-remains-found-at-arla-1-36370\
70

Latest on that Temple of Demeter find at Taman:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/12/the-secrets-of-the-temple-of-demeter-foun\
d-in-ancient-greek-ruins-in-russia/

A Roman kiln site found during primary school expansion in North
Yorkshire:

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/roman-kiln-find-excites-s\
chool-1-4347393

Plans to give some Roman burial urns the CT scan treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17366284

Pompeii's Stabian baths have reopened:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112356/Pompeiis-Stabian-Baths-reopens-1\
m-renovation.html

Greek archaeologists are appealing to Europeans to help defend/fund its
cultural heritage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-12/greek-archaeologists-plead-for-help-to-\
protect-heritage-amid-austerity.html

Possible threat to Paphos antiquities from a proposed seaplane
landing site:

http://www.news.cyprus-property-buyers.com/2012/03/11/paphos-seaplane-project-co\
mes-under-fire/id=0010945

Archaeology mag has a feature on the Aqua Traiana:

http://www.archaeology.org/1203/features/rome_aqua_traiana_aqueduct_carestia.htm\
l

Classics Confidential talks with Helen King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMILds1Gg4&feature=uploademail

Trailer for Andrew Irvine's production of Socrates on Trial (link to full
video
there as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn1xSa7z00&feature=uploademail

What Jeff Tatum is up to:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1203/S00061/inaugural-lecture-plutarch-and-grec\
o-roman-biculturalism.htm\
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/13151494/being-greek-under-rome-pluta\
rch-and-greco-roman-biculturalism/

Feature on the Ides of March:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120315-ides-of-march-beware-caes\
ar-what-when-shakespeare-quote/

A 'visualization' of character relationships in the Iliad:

http://www.vizworld.com/2012/03/character-relationships-iliad/

Harry Mount on the new editions of the OCD and OLD:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9149925/The-classical-world-just-refuse\
s-to-stay-dead.html

Review of a number of books dealing with (inter alia) the Homeric
Question:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article993731.ece

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://books.usatoday.com/book/madeline-miller-the-song-of-achilles/r646129

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A seventh century teen found buried in her bed (possibly
the first Christian burial in England according to
some reports):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54220
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeolo\
gists-discover-7th-century-teenager-buried-in-her-bed/2012/03/15/gIQAspAFES_stor\
y.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/uk-experts-find-7thcentur_n_1351636.htm\
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-skeleton-cambridge-evidence-christian-burial\
.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17378845
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/experts-find-7th-century-teen-bur\
ied-in-bed-1.1258071

... and an item focussing on the cross that was pinned to her
cloak:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-grave


A couple 13th century frescoes returned to their
home in Cyprus 30+ years after they had been removed
during the invasion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/byzantine-frescoes/long-lost-frescoes-arrive-home/201\
20317

Weather exposes a 19th century shipwreck near Norfolk:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/days-out/norfolk_s_submerged_treasures_\
exposed_by_weather_1_1235263

Feature on the Flag Fen dig:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-return-to\
-excavate-major-3-300-year-old-bronze-age-site-in-england

Neolithic pottery from Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17397694

Finds from various periods in various places near Sheffield:

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/prehistoric-and-roman-remains-are\
-discovered-1-4339119

Interesting feature on an Elizabethan Vizard:

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/03/elizabethan-vizard.html

I think we mentioned this Ipswich Museum bones story last
week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17342869

Feature on Princess Charlotee:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/mar/13/brighton-royal-pavilion-princess-c\
harlotte

Review of Jerry White, *London in the Eighteenth Century*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9133345/London-in-th\
e-Eighteenth-Century-by-Jerry-White-review.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On monsoons and shifts in Indian civilizations:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-links-monsoon-major-shifts-indian.html

Plenty of finds from various periods on Australia's Salisbury Island:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/13172311/island-a-precious-time-ca\
psule
East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Someone is claiming to know the site of the wreck of the San Agustin:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20167593/researcher-says-he-knows-si\
te-400-year-old

A house within a house find from Quogue:

http://westhampton-hamptonbays.patch.com/articles/historical-surprise-found-in-a\
ntiquity

A Confederate flagpole in a grave in Elizabethton:

http://www.starhq.com/2012/03/15/archaeologists-survey-discovers-confederate-fla\
gpole-in-grave/

Feature/exhibit on early women PhDs from Yale:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phd\
s.html

Getting Howard's collections in order:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/arts/a-plan-for-howard-universitys-moorland-sp\
ingarn-center.html

Review of James F. Brown, *Freedom's Gardener*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/books/review/myra-b-young-armsteads-freedoms-g\
ardener.html

Review of Julia Siler, *Lost Kingdom*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/lost-kingdom-a-history-of-hawaii.\
html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A mass grave in Chiapas turns out to be a 1300 years b.p. burial ground:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17335586
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/mexicos-mas\
s-grave-1300-year-old-cemetery

A 'mystery crown' among items on display marking the Diamond Jubilee:

http://icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news//tm_headline=mystery-crown-amon\
g-royal-treasures%26method=full%26objectid=30522571%26siteid=77296-name_page.htm\
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeology News from the Archaeology Channel (last week's):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews11mar12.mp3

Not sure where to classify this revisionism in regards to ancient nomads:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/from-their-graves-ancient-nomads-speak\
.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/03/13/science/20120313-NOMA.html

As might be expected, there were several features on St Patrick this
week:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/europe/saint-patrick-study/
http://news.discovery.com/history/who-was-st-patrick.html
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/history-purpose/2012/mar/17/\
who-was-saint-patrick/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116153/St-Patricks-Day-legend-just-bit-\
blarney-He-runaway-tax-collector-turned-slave-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0317/stpatrick.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/17/oukoe-uk-stpatrick-history-idUKBRE82G00\
G20120317

This is kind of strange ... a political party in Armenia is runningon a
platform that the BM should return a statue of Anahit:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/how-a-mythical-fertilit\
y-goddess-could-help-steer-armenias-national-election/254652/
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65135

They think they've found traces of Leonardo's 'Battle of Anghiari' (maybe):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54130
http://news.yahoo.com/art-sleuths-believe-long-lost-da-vinci-found-151434869.htm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/long-lost-da-vinci-masterpiece-possibly-found-032403876.ht\
ml
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-masterpiece-thought-\
found-behind-195958025.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-theory-lost-leonardo-da-vinci.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uoc--dst031312.php

Canada and Norway ended their arguing over Amundsen's shipwreck:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-arctic-explorer-ship-norway.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-norway-arctic-explorer-amundsen-ship.html(pr\
e)

Encyclopedia Britannica ends its print version:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-\
publication
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/03/14/britannica-define-outdated/

Did a woman teach Christopher Wren?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/the-case-for-a-17th-century-female\
-british-architect.html

Interesting hieroglyphics story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-hieroglyphics-prisoner-20120314,0,553\
203.story

Totally out of our purview, but it's interesting to note that looters have
already
hit that Italian shipwreck that ran aground a month or so ago:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/16/thieves-evade-lasers-to-nab-shipwrecks-bell

Santorini might be in store for another big blow up:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-santorini-ground-paradise.html

This year's Bancroft Prize winner(s):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/bancroft-prize-for-history-goes-to-\
three-scholars/

Another feature on LIDAR:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/03/12/l-is-for-l\
idar/

Why treasure hunting (the underwater variety) is big bucks (op ed):

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/13/business/sunken-treasure-business/index.html

Reviewish of Ted Bishop, *Social Life of Ink*:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-social-life-ink.html

Review of Kathryn Harrison, *Enchantments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/kathryn-harrisons-enchantments.ht\
ml

Review of Anne Sebba, *That Woman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/that-woman-by-anne-sebba.html

Review of Eyal Press, *Beautiful Souls*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-souls-by-eyal-press.htm\
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http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted sites in Turkey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/9137950/Away-from-t\
he-desk-Benedict-Brogans-crash-course-in-the-antiquities-of-Turkey.html

Interview with Peter Whitfield about his *Travel: A Literary History*:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/peter-whitfield-talks-about-the-his\
tory-of-travel-literature/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some would-be looters in Egypt were killed when their 'site'
caved in on them:

http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524621/s/1d5b7133/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CWorld0CStory0CSTIStory0I7767660Bhtml/story01.htm
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=23395&title=Deluded%20d\
iggers%20defy%20death
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/12/200177.html

Spain returned some items purloined from Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/36583/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Nine-l\
imestone-reliefs-are-back-home-from-Spain.aspx
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/03/12/spain-to-return-antiquitie\
s-to-egypt-dating-back-to-time-pharaohs/

Perhaps not surprisingly, Syrian antiquities are being "eyed":

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5043/

A bust in Mexico:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=478658&CategoryId=14091

More on the looting at El Hibeh:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/massive-looting-at-el-h\
ibeh-egypt
http://www.eloquentpeasant.com/2012/03/09/looting-in-el-hibeh/#101

More on those looters guided by the Copper Scroll:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/no-gold-in-them-hills-1.417506

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a 'year one' shekel:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/11/3092076/ancient-judean-shekel-nets-11\
-million-at-auction
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54100

... here's a different spin:

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6541

The High Weald hoard of Roman coins is on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17378763

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n11.html

... and the one which will probably be out by the time I finish
this week's explorator (It's taking forever!):

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n12.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/travel/2012/03/18/1-out-of-the-ashes.htm\
l

Antikythera Shipwreck:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2012/03/06/visualizza_n\
ew.html_128211190.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/06/national-archaeological-museum-to-pre\
sent-temporary-exhibition-of-the-antikythera-shipwreck/

Inca Empire:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fa20120315t1.html

Etruscans:

http://visnews-en.blogspot.ca/2012/03/vatican-museums-contribute-to.html

Weimar Classicism:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54224

Verbum Domini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7grozBoF9Y&feature=uploademail

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/princes-and-painters-in-mughal-del\
hi-at-asia-society.html

Degas:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/degas-impressionism-stripped-bare-1386540.html

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/byzantium-and-islam-age-of-transit\
ion-at-the-met.html

Alexander the Great:

http://nine-to-five.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/alexander-the-great-comes-\
to-sydney-museum-1/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-09/alexander-the-great-exhibition/3879368/?si\
te=newcastle
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/alexander-the-great-exhibition-\
rides-into-the-australian-museum-in-sydney/story-e6freuzi-1226295072363

The Getty returned a couple items to Greece:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/03/11/getty-museum-returns-two-ancient-artifac\
ts-to-greece/

The Deutsches Historisches Museum has to return some Nazi looted posters:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/german-museum-ordered-to-return-col\
lection-of-posters-seized-by-nazis/

Some interesting coverage of items available at the Maastricht thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/arts/17iht-melikian17.html

Some Old Masters auction 'advice':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartmelikian16.html

Assorted antiques/auction items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/fern-history-fry-glass-and-a-milit\
iamans-sword.html

Coverage of Asia Week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/asia-week-in-new-york-includes-mor\
e-than-40-shows.html

Profile of one of the more prolific auction patrons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartjessop16.html

Plenty of museum items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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L'Apeggiata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/music/larpeggiatas-period-instruments-at-\
zankel-hall.html

Francois Cuperin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/arts/music/tenet-performs-couperins-lessons-fo\
r-lent.html

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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