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explorator 19.51 April 16, 2017
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McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Kris Curry, David Critchley, Rick Heli,
David Emery, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

.... lots of repeats this week
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= EARLY HOMINIDS
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= Another feature on Otzi:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-unsolved-case-of-otzi-the-iceman/

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= AFRICA
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= I think we mentioned this 5000 years bp rock art from South Africa:

http://www.livescience.com/58684-bushmen-painted-earliest-rock-art-southern
-africa.html
http://www.livescience.com/58689-photos-oldest-rock-art-in-southern-africa.ht
ml

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= ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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= Greco-Roman artifacts from a construction site in Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/262915/Heritage/GrecoRoman/
GraecoRoman-artefacts-discovered-at-future-Alexand.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/photos-artifacts-discovered-gustav-a
egeon-villa-alexandria
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5486-170413-greco-roman-egypt

More on that Ameny Qemau pyramid:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2nd-pyramid-bearing-pharaoh-ameny-16580082
0.html
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/remains-of-ancient-pyramid-found-in-egypt-.
aspx?pageID=238&nid=111591&NewsCatID=375

Zahi Hawass gets busier:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/zahi-hawas-be-un-ambassador-global
-cultural-heritage

Explaining the ten plagues:

http://www.livescience.com/58638-science-of-the-10-plagues.html

Feature on that statue of Idrimi:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-syrian-refugee-als
o-one-archaeologys-most-important-finds-180962843/

Concerns for a ziggurat in Iraq:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/04/iraq-ziggurat-nowruz-kassit
es-babylon-hittites.html

Latest from Catal Huyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mystery-of-catalhoyuks-early-structures-to-
be-solved-soon-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=111845&NewsCatID=375

More on sandstorms revealing a site in Iran:

http://www.archaeology.org/5483-170412-iran-sandstorm-fahraj

Suggestion that a tsunami may have hit Israel some 2800 years bp:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.782460

More on the Temple Mount Sifting Project and that Egyptian finger:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-bid-for-survival-archaeologists-point-to-egypti
an-finger-from-temple-mount/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Temple-Mount-Sifting-Project-finds-finger-fro
m-ancient-Egyptian-statue-486630
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/4/10/finger-from-egyptian-statue-found-in-t
emple-mount-excavation

More on that Jerusalem virtual reality app:

http://www.livescience.com/58566-ancient-jerusalem-reconstructed-in-virtual-
reality-app.html

More on possible evidence for King Solomon’s Mines:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/king-solomon-mines-bible-timna-
dung/

A response to the suggestion that Hebrew was the first alphabet:

http://asorblog.org/2017/04/14/response-douglas-petrovichs-hebrew-language
-behind-worlds-first-alphabet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&ut
m_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAsorBlog+%28The+ASOR+Blog%29

The Smithsonian is getting involved with ISIL-related antiquities:

http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/04/state-department-teams-smith
sonian-rescue-isis-harmed-antiquities/136960/

Pondering the future of Nimrud:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/reduced-rubble-isis-archaeologists-see-new-
day-ancient-city-nimrud/

OpEd on ISIL’s impact on Iraqi sites:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/ISIS-crimes-scarred-Iraqi-history
-and-landscape-486838

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= ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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= A Bronze Age dwelling from Slovakia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5437-170407-slovakia-bronze-age

The earliest structures from Nea Paphos:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5487-170413-cyprus-nea-paphos

Construction work revealed a section of Rome’s oldest aqueduct:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170406/metro-workers-have-accidentally-discovered-
romes-oldest-aqueduct

Latest from Verulamium:

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/15217172.Roman_remains_discovered
_in_Verulamium_Park/
http://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/new-roman-ruins-discovered-underneath-verul
amium-park-in-st-albans-1-4973463
http://www.bobfm.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-make-fresh-discoveri
es-about-the-ancient-hertfordshire-city-of-verulamium/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5479-170411-england-verulamium-floor

Looking for Roman remains in Dales:

http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/15215480.Hunt_launched_
for_Romans_in_Dales/

Feature on a site associated with Marcus Aurelius in Kibyratis:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.783703

There is a Greek item in a Mongolian burial [see the Asia section for more on
the burial]:

http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/12388/20170413/ancient-silk-cover-bod
y-excavated-inner-mongolia-cemetery.htm

Italy is showing off a pile of the Metro C finds:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-rome-treasures-subway.html
http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/11943/20170410/mysterious-world-of-an
cient-romes-hidden-treasure.htm

… and a pair of recently-found kouroi have gone on display in Chios:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/04/10/kour%CE%BFi-found-on-chios-disp
layed-at-chios-archaeological-museum/

… and we should mention Roman noses:

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/14/517941/Nasothek-Copenhagen

Reconstruction of the Arch of Titus:

https://www.yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus

Feature on an innovation associated with the Library of Alexandria:

http://time.com/4730810/first-card-catalog/

Looking at Rome’s borders in Britain:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/hard-or-soft-borders-the-roma
n-experience-in-britain.htm

Another feature on Crossrail finds:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/tunnel-the-archaeology-of-cro
ssrail.htm

On damnatio memoriae:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/11/how-do-you-damn-the-
memory-of-a-roman-emperor/

On female gladiators:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/12/female-gladiators-were-
a-part-of-the-lure-of-the-roman-arena-too/

It was Classics Day at the College of the Holy Cross:

http://news.holycross.edu/blog/2017/04/10/photo-gallery-togas-and-ancient-te
xts-take-over-holy-cross/

What Kristina Killgrove is up to:

http://news.uwf.edu/professor-receives-neh-summer-stipend-to-study-skeletal-
remains-in-italy/

… and semi-related:

http://news.uwf.edu/society-for-american-archaeology-to-honor-uwf-professor-f
or-public-education/

Interview with Natalie Haynes:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/natalie-haynes-interview-how-sh
e-combines-a-love-of-the-classics-with-standup-20170407-gvfws7.html

What Liz Young is up to:

http://thewellesleynews.com/2017/04/15/embracing-unconventionality-profess
or-liz-young-encourages-students-to-reshape-classical-studies/

What Antonis Makrinos is up to:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/04/14/talking-homeric-heroes-cinema/

Victor Nuovo on Plato’s Republic:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201704victor-nuovo-platos-republic-nuts
hell

Some Nero revisionism:

http://www.dw.com/en/rethinking-nero-part-1/av-38321780

Classical influences in ‘Prison Break’:

http://screenrant.com/prison-break-homers-odyssey-explained/

Another idiot tourist charged for scratching their name on the Colosseum:

http://www.startribune.com/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on-roman
-colosseum/419146534/
http://www.dailyastorian.com/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on-rom
an-colosseum-da-ap-webfeeds-news-nation-world632d8fa4c0f0445cabcb3542
842190f0
http://azdailysun.com/news/world/ecuadoran-tourist-cited-for-writing-names-on
-roman-colosseum/article_ac951953-adf8-5218-963f-274534688fa0.html

More on Roman remains beneath the A1:

http://www.livescience.com/58587-roman-settlement-discovered-beneath-engl
and-road.html

More on ‘concession stands’ at Carnuntum:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-concession-stands-shops-found-165700
908.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-roman-gladiator-arena-concession-stan
d-shops-found/

More on the search for Caligula’s ‘cruise ship’:

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/hunt-begins-wreck-ancient-roy
al-cruise-ship
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/caligulas-pleasure-boat/
8429476
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/the-search-for-caligula
-s-third-pleasure-ship-resumes-in-italy/article/489960