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explorator 21.26 October 21 , 2018
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David
Critchley, Adrienne Mayor, David Emery, Kris Curry, 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 HOMINIDS
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Pondering Neanderthal injuries:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/neanderthal-medicine/
573028/

More on remains of a Neanderthal child who was eaten by a bird:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/neanderthal-child-bird-14102018/

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan some 3500
years bp:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/6256_ENG_HTML.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-extensive-fish-egypt-canaan-years.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181015100451.htm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-fish-teeth-reveal-intensive-3500-y
ear-old-aquaculture-in-sinai/
https://www.france24.com/en/20181016-egyptians-farmed-fish-3500-years-ag
o-study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32468-1
https://www.academia.edu/37481481/

Tattoos have been found on another 3000 years bp Egyptian mummy from
Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/59149/3-000-year-old-tattooed-mummy-
uncovered-in-Luxor-belongs
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/17/c_137539840.htm
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e3567544f7a457a6333566d54/share.html

Egypt is restoring the al-Zahir Baybars mosque:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-antiquities-religion/egypt-resu
mes-restoration-of-historic-al-zahir-baybars-mosque-idUSKCN1MR2BE

What Zahi Hawass is up to:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/59229/Italy-to-grant-Zahi-Hawass-Soc
ial-Commitment-award

Feature on powerful women of Egypt:

http://time.com/5425216/ancient-egypt-women-in-power-today/

Evidence that the site of Gaugamela has been inhabited for 9000 years:

http://www.rudaw.net/english/people-places/17102018

A Bronze Age wall from northeastern Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/428763/Bronze-Age-wall-discovered-in-nor
theast-Iran

Recent Bronze/Iron Age finds from Sirkeli Hoyuk:

http://www.unibe.ch/aktuell/medien/media_relations/medienmitteilungen/
2018/medienmitteilungen_2018/komplexe_antike_stadtanlage_in_der_tuerkei_
entdeckt/index_ger.html

More on the oldest (so far) inscriptional mention of Jerusalem by that
name:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-ancient-stone-inscriptio
n-unusual-spelling-jerusalem-180970513/

More on that mass beheading site being associated with Alexander
Jannaeus:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-decapitated-2-000-year-old-
skeletons-unearthed-at-jerusalem-dig-1.6553289
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-beheadings-and-holy-kings-brutal-slaugh
ter-revealed-jerusalem-mass-1176260

1500 years bp carpentry and agricultural tools from Alexandria Troas:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/10/15/1500-year-old-antiquities-
found-in-turkeys-alexandria-troas
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1500-year-old-heritages-found-in-canakk
ale-137863

On settlements in Jordan during the Mongol invasions:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/%E2%80%98human-settlement-jordan-e
ndured-woes-history%E2%80%99-%C2%AD%E2%80%94-expert

On the archaeological evidence for Goliath (probably paywalled):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-huge-if-true-the-archaeolog
ical-case-for-goliath-1.6568421

Feature on restoring Petra papyri:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/petra-papyri-brought-back-full-glo
ry-after-quarter-century

Feature on the Ilisu Dam and the archaeology being inundated:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/10/Upper-Tigris-Il%C4%B1su-Dam

Feature on the Queen of Sheba:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-
eastern-world/who-is-the-queen-of-sheba-in-the-bible/

Feature on dragons in the Bible (and elsewhere):

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/10/Dragons-in-the-Bible

Brian Rose is talking about Midas:

https://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2018/10/17/from-tale-to-truth-golden-to
uch-of-king-midas-is-uncovered/

Review of Karen Stern, *Writing on the Wall*:

http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/matters/2018/10/10/graffiti-illuminates-the-l
ives-of-jews-of-antiquity/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On Italy's oldest musical instrument (maybe):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/arts/music/italy-prehistoric-musical-
instrument.html

A 4th century BCE gymnasium from Eretria:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/10/17/ancient-palaestra-discovered
-in-greeces-eretria/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7078-181017-greece-eretria-palaestra

A 3rd century BCE burial from Sozopol:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/192622/Bulgarian+and+French+Archaeolog
ists+Discovered+an+Impressive+Tomb+in+Sozopol

I think we had this shipwrecks (5?) off Fourni story already (might be
five more):

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-shipwrecks-discovered-greece-rome-lost-
civilization-1171965
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/32960-more-ancient-wrecks
-and-pottery-discovered-in-greek-ships%E2%80%99-graveyard.html
https://neoskosmos.com/en/122760/sea-between-ikaria-and-samos-an-ancient
-ships-graveyard/
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-ship-grav
eyard-discovered-in-treacherous-waters/news-story/954dda18b0478586fe5127
345c550108
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7077-181016-greece-fourni-wrecks

The big news this week is some graffiti from Pompeii lending support to
a later date for the eruption:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/10/16/find-suggests-
pompeii-eruption-in-oct_9d778882-2364-4a15-b6e6-6e8ca49b9571.html
https://www.thelocal.it/20181016/was-pompeii-destroyed-two-months-later-
than-we-thought
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45874858
https://www.livescience.com/63866-pompeii-graffiti-rewrites-vesuvius-tim
eline.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/16/archeological-find-changes
-date-of-pompeiis-destruction
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-pompeii/charcoal-inscription-po
ints-to-date-change-for-pompeii-eruption-idUSKCN1MQ2CR
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pompeii-date-mount-vesuv
ius-eruption-ad-79-august-october-a8588876.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/newly-found-pompeii-inscription-re
writes-history-of-mount-vesuvius-eruption-a3964591.html
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/pompeii-discovery-casts-doubt-on-d
ate-of-vesuvius-eruption-37427863.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-pompeii-evidence-rewrites-vesuvius-eruptio
n.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-graffiti-may-give-clue-to-rea
l-date-of-vesuvius-eruption-p00sxhsg9
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/newly-found-inscription-pomp
eii-rewrites-history-eruption-mt/
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pompeii-eruption-inscription-date-intl
/index.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/pompeii-graffiti-may-suggests-a-d
ifferent-date/10385468
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/pompeiis-new-date-
with-destiny-corrects-younger-plinys-script/news-story/1d8d3cf327105926e
ad7e88c826a962c
http://www.theweek.co.uk/97164/graffiti-in-pompeii-set-to-rewrite-histor
y-books
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-october-17-2018-1372
687
https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/10/17/actualidad/1539759970_244111.html
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/graffiti-reveals-when-pompeii-wa
s-destroyed-and-its-not-when-we-thought/
https://www.sciencealert.com/wrong-date-for-pompeii-catastrophe-vesuvius
-eruption
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7076-181016-pompeii-date-inscription

.... and some useful commentary:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/10/16/new-pompeii-gr
affiti-may-rewrite-history-in-a-major-way/
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/when-did-vesuvius-erupt/

Recent finds from Akrotiri:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/10/16/santorinis-akrotiri-site-produces-new-arc
haeological-finds/

What they're learning from a Roman site outside Flint (not Michigan):

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16992374.how-field-outside-flint-is-rev
ealing-more-roman-secrets-than-previously-thought/

Evidence of Roman remains at Torwodlee and Trimontium:

https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/16987944.german-archaeologists-unco
ver-the-secrets-of-torwodlee-and-trimontium/