explorator 12.25
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=============================================================== explorator 12.25 October 11, 2009 =============================================================== Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! =============================================================== =============================================================== Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,Rick Heli, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri,Bob Heuman, Kurt Theis, Rochelle Altman, John Hall, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Rick Pettigrew, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). =============================================================== EARLY HUMANS =============================================================== Hype for a television show about Ardi: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/television/10ardi.html More about Ardi: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008113341.htm http://www.miamistudent.net/news/2009/10/09/Campus/Mu.Geologists.Help.Find.ardi-3798804.sh tml http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/06/new-human-ancestor-ardi-ethiopia-opinions-contributors-li onel-tiger.html =============================================================== AFRICA =============================================================== =============================================================== ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT =============================================================== Zahi Hawass writes about his early 'captivation' with Cleopatra: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/966/he2.htm ... and he's apparently 'under fire' from various constituencies in the Egyptological community: http://bikyamasr.com/?pF83 The Siwa Oasis is in danger (apparently) of drying up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8289532.stm Latest from KV-63: http://www.kv-63.com/ A lecture on Christian mummification in Egypt: http://www.turnto23.com/southwest_county/21209385/detail.html [Egypt is much in the news in our Museums section below] Feature on the 'Four Species' in various contexts: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo19794 Not sure if this synagogue find in Turkey is the one we mentioned a few weeks ago or not: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid54756250229&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu ll Latest in the Temple Mount saga (various): http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid54756248116&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu ll http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/289242,jews-forbidden-to-go-to-flashpoint-jerusale m-site-top-rabbi.html http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/71e7ebbda06e44b384252d557cfa7000/07-10-2009- 07-08/Israel_will_guard_holy_places http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid54827721520&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FSh owFull (OpEd) ... while the controversy over digging in Palestine continues too: http://english.wafa.ps/?actionÞtail&id184 Opeddish sort of thing on 'fast archaeology' in Jerusalem: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo19641 Cyrus the Great's palace continues to be in danger of destruction: http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id†:cyrus- the-great-palace-faces-total-destruction-&catid6 Interesting Byzantine-era burials from Palmyra: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200910093076/Culture/archaeological-discoveries-f irst-of-their-kind-tombs-unearthed-in-palmyra.html More on Dr. Granville's mummy autopsy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06obmummy.html http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/10/one_of_the_oldest_medical_mysteries_may_have_bee n_solved.html =============================================================== ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) =============================================================== Interesting frescoed Roman cave tomb (enough adjectives for you?) find from Tyre: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLMxQJu88jzRBk0pSP9iW6rmsh6Q http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_438492.htm l http://nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID7991 Much coverage of a paper suggesting that Roman coin hoards are evidence of population decline: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005161122.htm http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1765275/buried_coins_key_to_roman_mystery/index.html? source=r_science http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/nsf-bck100509.php <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/nsf-bcm100209.php http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091005/tsc-roman-coin-hoards-hint-at-turmoil-4b158bc.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091005/sc_livescience/ancientromesrealpopulationreve aled http://www.physorg.com/news173975496.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/10/06/for-ancient-rome-buried-treasure-mean s-an-empire-in-crisis/ http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2009/10/buried-coins-speak-of-population-decli nes-in-ancient-rome.html http://dailynews.muzi.com/news/ll/english/10094145.shtml http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/roman-coin-hoards/> http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1005/3 A brief item on graffiti in Pompeii is making the rounds: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-128849.html http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/pompeii-residents-were-extraordinary-graffiti-a rtists_100259012.html Making the rounds this week was a youtube video thing recreating the Oxyrhynchus Hymn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYfLEZW3bc A rare find in the Parthenon (but not the one you're thinking of): http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091010/NEWS01/910100314/1002 http://www.wsmv.com/news/21239006/detail.html If there are tsunamis in the world, you know there will be an article about the Atlantis story being inspired by one: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33243284/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.livescience.com/history/091009-atlantis-tsunami.html UNL's Classical language program has survived, despite challenges: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-s-classical-language-program-remains-despite-challe nges-1.1939934 Folks might appreciate the satire in this piece about Nero from the Motley Fool: http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid'3843&t007422989251003253 Interview with Michael Cosmopoulos: http://media.www.thecurrentonline.com/media/storage/paper304/news/2009/10/05/Science/UmSt- Louis.Professor.Discovers.Ancient.Greek.Palace-3793112.shtml Interviews with Robert Harris: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interviews/robert-harris-a-writer-close-to -the-power-elite-1799682.html http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?Robert_Harris_is_no_stranger_to_power_ play&in_article_idt9204&in_page_id(> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/artic le6857686.ece Reviews of Lustrum: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/11/lustrum-robert-harris Review of Michael Scott, *From Democrats to Kings* (this one is being presented in very different ways): http://www.physorg.com/news173955504.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218082/How-Alexander-mummys-boy.html?ITO90 Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html More on Nero's dining room: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKeOkAV87ATNn1cjzOuZo6Fam0XQ http://www.euronews.net/2009/10/05/nero-s-rotating-dining-room/ More on the amphitheatre find at Portus: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/oct/01/italy-archaeology-rome (photos) http://www.newspostonline.com/science/discovery-of-ancient-roman-amphitheatre-as-significa nt-as-stonehenge-2009100570451 More on the Roman taste for French wine: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/romans-had-a-taste-for-french-wine_100256236.ht ml http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?idH152&cat_id=1 =============================================================== EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) =============================================================== Some 20 000 years b.p. cave paintings from Gipuzkoa: http://www.eitb.com/news/technology/detail/263003/cave-paintings-more-than-20000-years-old -found-in-deba-gipuzkoa/ A 6000 years b.p. axe head from South Kilkenny: http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/Man-digging-potatoes-finds-axe.5708395.jp Some 5000 years b.p. tombs from Malta are being studied: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091010/local/5000-year-old-tombs-found-at-kerc em Recent tests suggest a body unearthed in Gloucester back in the 70s was a Goth warrior: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8298825.stm http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-128833.html Another witch's bottle ... this time from Stafford: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6256841/Archaeologists-unearth-17t h-century-bottle-used-to-scare-off-witches.html http://www.birminghammail.net/news/staffordshire-news/2009/10/10/rare-17th-century-bellarm ine-jar-discovered-in-excavation-of-land-beneath-the-former-turk-s-head-inn-stafford-97319 -24894745/ A restored Royal Charter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8296400.stm A Bishop's Palace has emerged at the Wisbech Castle dig: http://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/Castle-dig-unearth-Bishop39s-Palace.5700212.jp A helmet from the Battle of Stamford Bridge has turned up in an antiques shop: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6861130.ece Concerns for shipwrecks in the English Channel: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125503519791274253.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_world They've confirmed that the blood disorder which afflicted the British royal family for the past century or so was a form of hemophilia: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8297467.stm http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1008/2 The Stonehenge site is going to get a 'facelift': http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1218201/Stonehenge-site-25-million-facelift.html Followup on the Staffordshire hoard: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8291818.stm More on Bluestonehenge: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/07/stonehenge.discovery/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091005-mini-stonehenge-bluestonehenge-blue henge.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Localizado/segundo/Stonehenge/cerca/original/elpepu cul/20091007elpepucul_2/Tes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8288567.stm http://www.physorg.com/news174035874.html http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-stone-henge6-2009oct06,0,5985835.st ory?track=rss Review of Dan Cruickshank, *The Secret History of Georgian London*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/articl e6857574.ece Review of Peter Heather, *Empires and Barbarians*: http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/10/08/books-how-the-barbarians-turned-the-western-wo rld-upside-down/ Review of Hilary Mantel, *Wolf Hall*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/books/05maslin.html ... for which she won the Booker: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/hilary-mantel-wins-the-mann-booker-prize/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/books/07booker.html =============================================================== ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC =============================================================== A neolithic axe from Kerala: http://www.ptinews.com/news/325577_Neolithic-axe-unearthed-from-Ambukutty-hills Latest Indus Script theories: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article31700.ece =============================================================== NORTH AMERICA =============================================================== Conducting a survey of Paleoindian points in Montana: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091009/LIFESTYLE/910090319 Feature on the Newark Earthworks: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hopewell/ Michelle Obama's ancestry was in the news this week: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/politics/08genealogy.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId3627049 cf: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/one-familys-roots-a-nations-history/ Efforts to get a whaling captain's house historical designation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/us/04chappaquiddick.html The top floors of the Corn Exchange in Harlem are to be demolished: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/nyregion/06corn.html http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/harlem-landmark-may-lose-two-floors/ Kind of slow for this section this week, so we'll mention the demise of a 600 b.p. tree in Queens: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/nyregion/06tree.html =============================================================== CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA =============================================================== Some pre-Columbian burials from Cuzco: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=RF3ATCcodGg http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId45371&CategoryId095 A Toltec Temple from Hidalgo: http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/2009/10/ancient-mesoamerica-news-upda tes-2009.html Interesting frieze from the Vichama archaeological complex: http://elcomercio.pe/impresa/notas/friso-tendria000-anos-antiguedad/20091007/351825 http://www.livinginperu.com/news/10316 (photo) The Maya have no one to blame but themselves, apparently: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/06oct_maya.htm?list9569 http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-127140.html http://www.physorg.com/news174152911.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1766096/the_fall_of_the_maya/> Tourists are messing up Easter Island: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/easter-island----tourists-destroying-per fect-place-63835042.html =============================================================== OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST =============================================================== The World Monuments Fund has released its list of threatened sites: http://www.wmf.org/watch/project-map?list=1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6267197/Machu-Picchu-and-Gaudi-church-among-w orld-heritage-sites-at-risk.html http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/10/07/world-monuments-2010-list-ranges-from -dockyards-to-cave-art/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20091007/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_endangered_monuments http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/07/us-school-perus-ancient-ruins-top-list-of- at-risk-/ http://www.thebostonchannel.com/travelgetaways/21214629/detail.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601088&sid®qaG_mJa8s4 Plenty of coverage of an Italian scientist's recreation of the Shroud of Turin: http://www.physorg.com/news173977462.html http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/07/italy.turin.shroud/ http://www.nbcnewyork.com/station/as-seen-on/A_Shroud_Over_The_Truth__Los_Angeles.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEpbatbYlTMk7i4ydVWEnJ0SU4OAD9B556IG0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/8291948.stm http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/10/06/2009-10-06_shroud_of_turin_replicated_by_ italian_scientist_using_ancient_techniques_may_pro.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hitISYixOv_DC0ABZeYzc6dg2BDAD9B56VUO0 http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5943HL20091005 cf.: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n323 Ships' logs as a source of weather information: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09fri4.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8291267.stm Very interesting item on the continuing search for a lost DaVinci: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06tier.html A history of blackmail: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/weekinreview/04schwartz.html The Book of Genesis ... illustrated by R. Crumb: http://www.forward.com/articles/116232/ Edgar Allen Poe's funeral is getting a do-over today: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/06/us/AP-US-Poe-Funeral.html They're going to rebuild the Cooke telescope: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8291201.stm Defending Google Books: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09brin.html Not really in our purview, but this baby woolly mammath (frozen) is really interesting: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6860975.ece#cid=OTC -RSS&attry7093 Review of Michael Slater, *Charles Dickens*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/10/charles-dickens-michael-slater-review =============================================================== DIG DIARIES/BLOGS =============================================================== Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ I think most of these are dormant now: Culver Archaeological Project: http://www.culverproject.com/indexfirefox.htm 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 =============================================================== TOURISTY THINGS =============================================================== Paris in the Fall: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/travel/11footsteps.html Southern Sicily: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/oct/10/sicily-trapani-beach-villas-remote Mykonos and Delos: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/06/travel-greek-islands-mykonos-and-delos/ =============================================================== CRIME BEAT =============================================================== A former US soldier has returned a couple of texts he took during WWII: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8293953.stm A Nabatean site at Avdat National Park was vandalized: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo19364 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo18973 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid54756247973&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu ll http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid54827719355&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFu ll http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3785941,00.html http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/cad77a7fc9be435089a8ce0a88c079d7/05-10-2009% 2006-16/Israeli_heritage_site_defaced http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/705519 Some stolen artifacts are back on display in Afghanistan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/06/looted-artefacts-returned-afghanistan-museum http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07afghan.html?hp =============================================================== NUMISMATICA =============================================================== A Roman coin find 'from the past': http://www.sidmouthherald.co.uk/sidmouthherald/news/story.aspx?brand=SMHOnline&categor y=news&tBrandÞvon24&tCategory=newssmh&itemidÞED07%20Oct%202009%200 9%3A12%3A27%3A857 I think we've mentioned this purported Joseph coin find: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID1388 =============================================================== EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED =============================================================== Portraits of Excellence: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09antiques.html West African Gold from the Ivory Coast: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/nyregion/04artct.html Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait: http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2009-10-06__12-02-02.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/nyregion/11artsnj.html The Sacred Made Real: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/10/spanish-painting-zurbaran-james-hall Lincoln and New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09lincoln.html?em City of Gods: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/mexicos-mystery-city-of-gods-teotihuacan-comes-to-pa ris-1798867.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/6149239/mexicos-mystery-c ity-of-gods-comes-to-paris/ Eccentric Visions: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09visions.html Style of the Czar: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/10iht-conway.html Cezanne and American Modernism: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09cezanne.html Moctezuma: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/10iht-melik10.html Okay ... finally we get to the big news of the week ... at the beginning of the week, Egypt was going to cut ties with the Louvre because of a dispute over some stolen murals: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/07/world/AP-ML-Egypt-Louvre.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/world/middleeast/08egypt.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/10/egypt-antiquities-council-cuts-ties- with-louvre.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/08/egypt-france-row-brews-over-trove/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/07/world/main5369507.shtml http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601104&sid=aJJFRQZNYkDQ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3786893,00.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601088&sid¬uVpLdPY_TQ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1xfZf3oPoqQ8J0ScKRYb58ZX5dQD9B68EFG0 http://www.france24.com/en/20091007-egypt-cairo-suspends-cooperation-with-louvre-museum-fr ance-stolen-antiquities http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrVBBVaEjMygrxeydpYQlFEqHmzA ... with some explanation: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/08/world/AP-ML-Egypt-Louvre.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1xfZf3oPoqQ8J0ScKRYb58ZX5dQD9B6ULPO0 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id8179§ionid51020206 http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/10/08/11342606.html ... and the Louvre rather quickly (it seems) capitulated: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/10/10/louvre-egypt-mural.html http://www.france24.com/en/20091009-culture-archaeology-egypt-france-museum-louvre-luxor-f ive-relics-stolen-valley-king-restore-ties http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/egypt-france-resolve-differences-over-dispute d-artifacts-in-louvre/ http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5983ym-us-france-egypt-murals/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8299495.stm http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5983YM20091009?feedType=RSS&feedName =scienceNews http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jpLywtqz8lcis86949ZMltxw9DAg http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2u7Dk8PM-3lPmVBdf0JlcBL7WMQD9B7KOFG0 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id‡73682 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091007/sc_nm/us_france_egypt_louvre_1 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/08/2707920.htm ... and now Egypt is asking the British Museum for the Rosetta Stone: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/6285859/Egypt-asks-Br itish-Museum-for-the-Rosetta-Stone-after-Louvre-victory.html Meanwhile, the British Museum has cancelled its planned loan of the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id8326§ionid51020105 ... so Iran, of course, threatened to cut ties: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601088&sid=aZmy0YWB2aKo http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id8148§ionid51020105 ... and the US is trying to get an Egyptian sarcophagus returned as well: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/10/09/us_sues_to_return_stolen_egyptian_ar tifact/ The Louvre stuff totally eclipsed the news that they were putting a McDonald's therein ... still it sparked this 'loosening up' piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/arts/design/11voge.html Nefertiti has a new home: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/05/arts/AP-EU-Germany-Nefertiti.html http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/10/05/queen-nefertiti.html?ref=rss http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/royalwatch/news/article_1505329.php/Queen-Nerfert iti-s-bust-moved> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Nefertiti/muda/elpepucul/20091005elpepucul_6/Tes http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/288779,queen-nefertiti-moves-back-to-previous-muse um-home.html No one bid on that Hitler-Lenin chess match thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/arts/design/06arts-HITLERLENINE_BRF.html Interesting story of a Carracci and a British Museum director: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Secret-scandal-of-British-Museum-director-s-master piece/19364 The Young Archer is visiting the Met: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/05/arts/AP-US-Met-Marble-Statue.html A new home for the Barnes in the works: http://nytimes.com/2009/10/07/arts/design/07barnes.html Assorted arts items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/arts/design/09vogel.html A fun museum piece from the Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/98317 =============================================================== PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED =============================================================== Hamlet: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100701118.html?hpid= moreheadlines The Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center is now open: 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