explorator 12.23

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explorator 12.23                              September 27, 2009
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Rick Heli,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Dirk Collins, Jim Lockmiller,
Richard C. Griffiths, Diana Wright, Joos Postma, Kurt Theis,
Sarah George, Rochelle Altman, 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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On early humans, finger lengths, an monogamy:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/24/human-monogamy.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 5000 years b.p. 'Venus' figurine from Canakkale (can't really
tell from the photo):

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-187938-101-5000-year-old-venus-figure-found-in-cana
kkale.html

French archaeologists have uncovered a dugong-worship-site on an
island north of Dubai:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090924/sc_afp/archaeologyfranceuae
http://www.physorg.com/news173036950.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jETVz9AkwO4jsWUAkQDi_fP99iwA

A ca 3500 years b.p. 'burial cellar' find from Homs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090921173412.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4710845,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4711043,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090921-22061.html
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/aktuell/pressemitteilungen/pm-qatna-english.html

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 2000 years b.p. Miqveh
near the Western Wall:

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/23/1008095/2000-year-old-mikveh-uncovered
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/2000-year-old-miqve-exposed-in-Western-Wa
ll-Tunnels-23-Sep-2009.htm?DisplayMode=print
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?idE839
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jRaBu2HXlqmEo4EbqT9Lmzpok5TgD9AT12MG2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_bath
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jRaBu2HXlqmEo4EbqT9Lmzpok5TgD9AT12MG2
http://news.therecord.com/article/602088
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32983041/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133558

Feature on Herod's 'mystery temple' being at Omrit:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid53198156150&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu
ll

Feature on the destruction of sites in Iraq:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-tucker/brutal-destruction-of-ira_b_290667.html

Digging will resume in Ir David:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171382
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid53627541929&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu
ll

Some ninth century settlements found in Qatar:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ninth-century-settlements-found-in-qatar_100250
252.html

Some Ark of the Covenant items this week (both different):

http://www.physorg.com/news173034003.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo16921

For some reason that 'boxer figurine' from the City of David
(found last summer) is making the rounds again:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22783/

The Samaritan Archive 2.0 project might be of interest:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Archive-Watch-Good-Samaritans/8138

More on that stepped street from Jerusalem:

http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/09/20/news/world/doc4ab6793d7be0b285938366.txt

More on that 'exact date' for the Great Pyramid stuff:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090921-great-pyramid-giza-date-built.html
http://trak.in/news/construction-of-great-pyramid-of-giza-may-have-started-on-august-23-24
70-b-c/6794/

Review of Itamar Singer, *The Hittites and their Civilization*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116453.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Excavations at Troy have uncovered a burial of a couple who may
have died around the traditional date for the war:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58L2A820090922
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090922/sc_nm/us_archeology_turkey_troy_1
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia76960
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1757652/trojan_warera_couple_unearthed_in_turkey/inde
x.html?source=r_science
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32984311/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id7026&sectionid510212
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0923/1224255062863.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58L2A820090922
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-briefs26-2009sep26,0,6345661.story

A pile of Roman artifacts from a Roman settlement near Wiesbaden:

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section4&articled985

A Roman well find during A46 construction near Bingham:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Roman-A46-works/article-1353567-detail/article.
html
http://www.rac.co.uk/know-how/motoring-news/article.cgi?id£9688461253600004A&top
ic=ROAD+SAFETY
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jReJetV2s2scPTpbT2XZALDC4BGg

Claim that the Dionysius story is a clue about ancient neonatal
care:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindocy72805&maindocimgy68356&service
4
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2009/09-09-20_2.apeen.html#03

Feature on the tunnel beneath the Bosporus and all the things they're
finding:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/21/turkey.bosphorus.tunnel.marmaray/

Latest (bizarre, to me) idea for the Colchester Roman Circus:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4640646.Roman_circus_outline_may_be_marked_with_wind_tu
rbines/?ref=rss

The Globe and Mail seems to be jumping on the Latin-is-a-good-thing
bandwagon:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/winnie-ille-pu-the-next-bestseller/article1302725
/

... in a similar vein:

http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-i-2009-09-24-81581.112114-sub18235.112114_L
atin_lovers_are_two_steps_ahead.html

A semi-touristy sort of thing on excavating in Italy:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090920/FEATURES05/909200305/1010/FEATURES/Unearth
ing+Italy+s+history

More coverage of that Alexander gemstone:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1759959/rare_gem_found_in_israel_identified/index.ht
ml?source=r_oddities
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/17/alexander-portrait.html
http://blog.taragana.com/n/archaeologists-stumble-on-gemstone-with-alexanders-portrait-175
046/

More on (digitally) building Rome in a day:

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/

More on the Roman salthouse from Coryton:

http://living.oneindia.in/insync/2009/roman-salthouse-excavation-coryton-port-210909.html

More on that amphitheatre near Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115737.html

Review of James Davidson, *The Greeks and Greek Love*:

http://www.slate.com/id/2221779/

Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Capturing most of the press attention this week was a story of
a metal detectorist finding major Anglo Saxon hoard (the BBC
especially gave it plenty of attention):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8275357.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8257958.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272848.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8271241.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272370.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8274279.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/world/europe/25treasure.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/24/world/AP-EU-Britain-Anglo-Saxon-Gold.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6847595.ece
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6847081.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6229683/Anglo-Saxon-gold-a-past-thats-no-longer-dea
d-and-buried.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090924/tuk-anglo-saxon-gold-hoard-discovered-6323e80.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/24/staffordshire-anglo-saxon-gold-find
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-golden-hoard-1792796
.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215723/Staffordshire-hoard-Amateur-treasure-hunte
r-finds-Britains-biggest-haul-Anglo-Saxon-gold.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215723/Largest-hoard-Anglo-Saxon-gold-Staffordshi
re.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601102&sid=apIEpjaNDxbE
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20090925_Huge_Anglo-Saxon_trove_is_found_in_Englis
h_field.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6bU4AZHX9m-PnJ7hHtgYNxlgpdgD9ATIKI81
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6bU4AZHX9m-PnJ7hHtgYNxlgpdgD9ATMNHG3
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Hallado/mayor/tesoro/anglosajon/Reino/Unido/elpepuc
ul/20090924elpepucul_1/Tes
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia77329
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-42682520090924

... and it has an official website already:

http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/

... and there's a great photoset at flickr of the various objects:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/

... other photos and/or video at:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/24/multimedia/1247464808581/gold-treasure-found-in-
british-field.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272370.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/6225743/The-Staffordshire-Hoard-An
glo-Saxon-gold-found-in-a-field-using-a-metal-detector.html

... some background on the Saxons:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6850885.ece>
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jrxpPynTP9X11lpQ63w_J7s0klxQD9ATM94G0
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-angloglance_25int.ART.St
ate.Edition1.4bbe4a0.html

There was another -- less publicized -- Saxon burial find near
Oxfordshire:

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/4641140.Does_brooch_dug_up_in_Oxfordshire_field_belong_
to_6th_century_Saxon_princess_/?ref=rss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8266264.stm

A 6th century burial of a young girl (maybe) from Oxfordshire (I
think this is the same as the previous):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8273342.stm

On the DNA front, Scandinavians are descended from Neolithic (?)
immigrants:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/uu-sad092409.php
http://www.physorg.com/news173022084.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924141049.htm
http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/ancient-dna-offers-clues-scandinavian-ancestry

A possible medieval (?) graveyard in Peterborough:

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Video-Bodies-found-in-a.5680100.jp

Archaeologists are excavating a 'ships' graveyard' in Gloucestershire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8265345.stm

The Vikings were apparently warned to avoid Scotland:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6212823/Vikings-were-warned-to-avoid-Scotland
.html

The roof is rotting over Shakespeare's grave:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/21/world/AP-EU-Britain-Shakespeares-Grave.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/od_nm/us_shakespeare_church_odd

Strange find of piles of finger bones in a Yorkshire garden:

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4632760.Can_you_solve_the_riddle_of_the_severed_fingers
_/

The White Horse is getting some new chalk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8265431.stm

All sorts of monuments are open for European Heritage Days:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090919-european-heritage-days-france-culture-museums-council-
of-europe-eu

Revisiting some lesser-known pirates:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7588518.stm

Rushing to see the Mary Rose before she goes away for three years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8265703.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8265405.stm

More on those 34 000 years b.p. flax fibres from the Republic of
Georgia:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?refR9173
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555601,00.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the DNA front, India was founded by two distinct ancient groups:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-118872.html
http://www.physorg.com/news172931737.html

... and it's being linked to the caste system:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article6846424.ece

A dolmen with petroglyphs from near Villupuram:

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article22589.ece?homepage=true

The Great Wall was longer than previously believed:

http://trak.in/news/great-wall-of-china-longer-than-originally-believed/6963/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090922/wl_asia_afp/chinaculturearchaeologywall_2009092213241
1

Remains of a 'city' beneath Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) are being
excavated:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/09/22/news25.asp

They've begun the salvage operation to raise a Wanli shipwreck
loaded with porcelain:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6768763.html
http://english.eastday.com/e/0927/u1a4691370.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-09/26/content_8739938.htm

Mystery objects from Mokumanamana:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090918/NEWS01/909180346/Ancient+objects+found+
on+remote+Mokumanamana++an+archaeological+mystery+

Feature on Confucius in modern times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/26iht-confucius.html

... and apparently there are quite a few more folks who can claim
descent from the sage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8275269.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An MSU team has found a 16000 years b.p. undisturbed sand dune (!):

http://news.msu.edu/story/6856/
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid3889

... also on the MSU front, archaeologists have found remains of
MSU's first building:

http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/09/remnants_of_msus_1st_building_found

Poking around a Paleo-Indian rock shelter site in Ohio:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/09/20/Sci_Rock_Shelter.A
RT_ART_09-20-09_G3_RJF37TH.html?sid1
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/09/20/Sci_Rock_Shelter.ART_ART_0
9-20-09_G3_RJF37TH.html?type=rss&cat=&sid1

Native American artifacts from Greenwood Island (Miss.):

http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/news.ssf?/base/news/1253441737132540.xml&
;coll=5

Latest on the Fort Edward dig/site:

http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2009/09/24/news/doc4abae663c8404608209598.txt
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S189995

More on the search for evidence of human habitation in the Gulf
of Mexico (no ... it's not like it sounds):

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09266/1000076-115.stm

A 'yardifact' (love that word) from Humboldt is causing some
head scratching:

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id397

A significant artifact from the Santa Margarita:

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_idQ286100734

A family burial site (apparently) from Rochester:

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090923/GJNEWS_01/709239919/-1/FOSNEWS

New York's coldest 'cold case':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/nyregion/05murder.html

Nice feature on the Astor House:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/realestate/27scapesready.html

More on that Antietam Union soldier 'repatriation':

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId2970172

Reviewish/opeddish sort of thing of William Fiennes, *The Music Room*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/books/24fiennes.html

Review of Barry Friedman, *The Will of the People*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Bazelon-t.html

Review of *A New Literary History of America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/books/23harvard.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Claim that the Maya built pyramids to create 'raindrop music'
(hmmmmmmmmmmm):

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ancient-mayans-made-pyramids-to-make-music-for-
rain-god_100251139.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-117356.html

A Wari site from a Catholic shrine in Chinceros province (Peru):

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id6kWMRSekbA

Photos of that 'unexpected male' in a pre-Inca tomb:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/photogalleries/moche-pre-inca-treasure-dig
/

More on Puuc and the Mayan collapse:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-09-19-mayan-collapse_N.htm

More on submerged sites in Belize:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212257742.shtml?ref=rss
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A lost Mazzolino has been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8266741.stm

The Amish and the Internet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/technology/internet/21link.html

Some sort of ancient congruent numbers math problem (that I don't
quite
understand) has been potentially solved with computers:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1757040/new_computer_methods_reveal_secrets_of_anc
ient_math_problem/index.html?source=r_technology

The Times reprised (sort of) its original review of *The Hobbit*:

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1937-10-0
8-20-006&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1937-10-08-20

OpEd piece on national academic standards (US):

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/national-academic-standards-the-first-te
st/

Earth scientist have agreed to move the boundary for the Quaternary
Age:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922095703.htm

More on revisionism for John Dee:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6213913/Scholars-try-to-rescue-reputation-
of-royal-wizard-John-Dee.html

Review of Seamus Heaney's *Beowulf*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/27/seamus-heaney-beowulf-anglo-saxon

Review of *Logicomix*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Holt-t.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Taygete Atlantis dig blog aggregator:

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

Here are the blogs that have been mentioned to us specifically:

New this week:

Culver Archaeological Project:

http://www.culverproject.com/indexfirefox.htm

Ongoing:

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog (dig concluded):

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/

Pyla-Koutsopetria (three blogs in one! twitter too!):

http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/PKAPBlogAggregator.html

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Essex:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enjoy-england/essex-weekend-break-recommendations

Montegrotto:

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/Caribbean/article/699962

Hiking Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/59245412.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Another bust in Iraq:

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42581320090920

A Magritte was stolen from a Belgian Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/24/world/AP-EU-Belgium-Magritte-Robbery.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/arts/25arts.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8272787.stm

A pile of purloined artifacts were returned to various tribes
in Washington State:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/25/tribal-artifacts-returned/

Probation for some folks in the Utah case:

http://www.sjrnews.com/pages/full_story/full_story?content_instance_id689828

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NUMISMATICA
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Claims that coins from the era of Joseph have been found are likely
squirrel fodder:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid53820674074&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FSh
owFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133601
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-118909.html
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD256109

Four silver coins from Norman times have been found in
Gloucestershire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8274509.stm

A Nelson medal has 'returned':

http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2004/0407/0004071201.asp

Kittredge Collection:

http://www.kittredgecollection.org/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Roman Imperial Painting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32970432/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_en_ot/eu_italy_rome_painting_1
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-09-22-roman-imperial-painting-exhibition_
N.htm

Moctezuma:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/moctezuma-aztec-ruler-british-
museum-london-1793707.html
http://www.topnews.in/british-museum-exhibition-puts-spotlight-last-aztec-ruler-2217704
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hSrUwGOCzFqoXunUnkh7TRxL6JEQD9AT4E5O0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/sep/23/museums-exhibition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/6213665/Moctezuma-the-leader-who-lost-
an-empire.html
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article68462
90.ece

... related:

http://www.physorg.com/news172911763.html

The Onondaga Nation reburied the remains of a number of ancestors
and objects which had been repatriated from the NY State Museum:

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/59734017.html

Latest in the Brandeis Museum saga:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/brandeis-committee-recommends-keeping-its-art
-museum-open/

The Shubin Gems have been donated to the Michael C. Carlos Museum:

http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n'364

Not sure where to classify this one ... efforts are under way to
save a Swedish (Kosta Boda) glass-making archive:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/antiques-efforts-underway-to-save-swedish-gla
ss-making-archive/

On 'antique' toys coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/24/arts/entertainment-us-auction-toys.html

Chinese collectors are having an impact on the auction market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/26iht-melik26.html

Assorted 'recent' collectibles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/arts/design/25antiques.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Tempest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/nyregion/26metjournal.html

Othello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/arts/23iht-lon23.html

Cymbeline:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/theater/reviews/24cymbeline.html

Frederick Douglass Now:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/theater/reviews/25douglass.html

Bright Star:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId2856601

BYU as cancelled (sort of) a rock opera version of the Bakkhai:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705331761/BYU-cancels-U-version-of-Greek-tragedy.html&g
t;

Disney is going to bring Hindu mythological heroes to film and
television:

http://www.newspostonline.com/entertainment/disney-to-bring-hindu-mythological-superheroes
-to-screen-2009092169492

Bartoli's honouring castrati:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/25/arts/AP-EU-Italy-Opera-Castrati.html

A Chinese approach to baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/arts/17iht-LOOMIS.html

Chopin and Poland's past

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/arts/music/24abroad.html
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OBITUARIES
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Ertugrul Osman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/nyregion/24osman.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/realestate/26habi.html


Humphrey Case:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/17/humphrey-case-obituary
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