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explorator 19.16-17 August 11, 2016 ===============================================================
If you're having problems getting 'the whole issue', read Explorator online at:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Jona Lendering, Bob Heuman, Sandie B, David Critchley, Don Buck, Rick Heli,
Jim Plouffe, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, and Ross W. Sargent
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

nb: this is a double issue that is also a half issue, oddly enough. I've only compiled the
first few sections because this appears to have been an unsually busy couple of weeks
and even this half issue is HUGE (and my attention span is only so long). I'll augment
next week's issue with what I've missed this week.

nb2: I've also decided to stop including Daily Mail items in favour of reinstating the
rewrites from Archaeology Magazine

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Suggestion that some ‘percussive tools’ might actually have been weapons:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-tool-weapon-stone-artifacts-ancient.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/iu-tow081816.php

What we can learn from some 250 000 years bp butchery tools from Jordan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-archaeology-team-world-first-tool-discovery.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160808123824.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uov-uat080316.php http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=1543 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0809/What-can-we-learn-from-250-000-year-old-b
utcher-tools http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/08/09/prehistoric-stone-tools-where
s-the-beef-or-at-least-the-rhino/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/09/this-250000-y
ear-old-tool-was-used-to-butcher-a-rhinoceros/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/10/health/cavemen-ancient-tools-mystery/index.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/250000-years-ago-ancient-humans-used-th
ese-tools-butchery-180960102/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/residue-on-250000-year-old-
stone-tools-reveals-wide-range-of-prey

A 90 000 years bp ‘middle finger’ bone from Saudi Arabia:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-dig-up-middle-easts-oldest-middle-finger/
http://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-middle-easts-oldest-bone-90000-year
-old-middle-finger-491793 http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-british-archaeologists-dig-90000-year-old-bone
-ancient-lake-saudi-arabia-927035952

Plenty of interest for Otzi’s stylish attire:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-iceman-wore-hat-skin.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/08/18/iceman-dressed-to-kill/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37094141 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/it-becometh-the-iceman-otzi-clothing-s
tudy-reveals-stylish-secrets-of-leather-loving-ancient http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/the-oldest-european-mummy-ev
er-found-wore-a-stylish-hat-and-had-tattoos-scientists-have-said-a7199761.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0818/Frozen-fashion-What-was-Oetzi-the-Iceman
-wearing-when-he-died https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/
2016/08/18/what-was-otzi-the-iceman-wearing-when-he-died-pretty-much-an-entire-zoo/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11697515 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101621-iceman-otzi-rocks-the-bear-fur-hat-and-goat
-leather-coat-look/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-analysis-reveals-what-otzi-iceman-wor
e-his-grave-180960170/ http://www.archaeology.org/4776-160819-italy-otzi-clothing

They’ve figured out who forged Piltdown Man:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-piltdown-hoax-analysis-lone-forger.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoc-nph080916.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37021144 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/10/forensic-examination-reveals-identity-
of-piltdown-hoax-prime-suspect-charles-dawson https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/11/we-finally-kno
w-who-forged-piltdown-man-one-of-sciences-most-notorious-hoaxes/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0811/Piltdown-Man-Scientists-finally-get-to-the-b
ottom-of-notorious-scientific-forgery http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/08/10/piltdown-man-charles-dawson/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solving-the-piltdown-man-scientific-fraud/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/notorious-‘ape-man’-fossil-hoax-pinned-one-
wrongdoer

… i.e. Arthur Conan Doyle is off the hook:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/10/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-cleared-of-piltdown
-man-hoax/

On the evolution of the human brain:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160812074537.htm


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AFRICA
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Feature on the search for sunken ships off Africa associated with the slave trade:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/the-incredible-quest-to-find-the-african-slav
e-ships-that-sank-in-the-atlantic/2016/08/17/25dd6080-cf5b-46e0-b896-ea0512311bdd_st
ory.html
http://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/world/article96763287.html

Feature on Great Zimbabwe:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/18/great-zimbabwe-medieval-lost-city-racis
m-ruins-plundering

What Cathy D’Andrea is up to in Ethiopia:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2887016/sfu-archeologist-hopes-to-help-ethiopias-future-by-un
covering-its-past/

Libya is questioning some of UNESCO’s claims of threatened monuments:

http://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libyas-antiquities-department-refutes-unesco-report-l
epits-magna


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
The Malawi Museum is reopening after renovations:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/239149/Heritage/Museums/Newly-restore
d-Malawi-Museum-in-Egypts-Minya-to-re.aspx

Egypt and China see a need to cooperate on the cultural level:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/16/c_135604283.htm

Latest update on upgrades to the site around the pyramids and other sites:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/sisi-meets-antiquities-minister-briefing-progress
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/full-steam-ahead-revamp-pyramid-site-septembe
r-antiquities-ministry http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/08/11/pyramids-archaeological-development-proje
ct-70-complete-scheduled-opening-years-end/ http://www.eturbonews.com/73727/egypt-tourism-pyramides-improvements-ready-end-se
ptember

On looting in Egypt:

http://www.livescience.com/55687-children-dying-in-egypt-looting.html http://www.livescience.com/55685-photos-egypt-looting.html

On the durability of the pyramids:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160808-will-the-skyscrapers-outlast-the-pyramids

Anatolian hunter-gatherers started farming before they migrated to Europe, apparently:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/anatolian-hunter-gatherers-b
egan-to-farm-before-european-migration

A Bronze Age burial mound from Kazakhstan (sometimes styled a pyramid or mausoleum):

http://www.livescience.com/55796-ancient-mausoleum-not-worlds-first-pyramid.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-ancient-mausoleum-not-worlds-1st-pyramid-115801111.
html http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/26987/20160817/world-oldest-pyramid-kazakhs
tan.htm
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2418949&CategoryId=13936 http://www.archaeology.org/news/4772-160818-kazakhstan-bronze-age-mausoleum

A Hittite tunnel at Alacohuyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/secret-tunnel-found-in-hittite-capital-.aspx?pageID=238
&nid=103034&NewsCatID=375

Latest Hittite finds from Nerik:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/.aspx?pageID=238&nid=102780

More on fixing Mesopotamian chronology:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0157
144

A Persian temple from Minik Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-temple-found-in-turkeys-nigde.aspx?pageID=2
38&nid=102754

An Achaemenid palace from Shamkir:

http://www.today.az/news/society/153471.html


An inscribed column of Darius I from Phanagoria:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2016/08/12/inscribed-column-of-darius-i-found-in-ancient-gree
k-city-phanagoria/ http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/2016/08/more-on-old-persian-inscription-from.html
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/russian-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-persian-stele-i
nscribed-with-a-message-from-king-darius-i-/

Feature on Onder Bilg’s work at Ikiztepe Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/professor-dedicates-his-life-to-ancient-mound-in-turkey
s-black-sea.aspx?pageID=238&nID=102648&NewsCatID=375

Remains of a synagogue from Tel Rekhesh are being tenuously connected to Jesus:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-in-galilee-unearth-synagogue-from-jesuss-ti
me/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/archaeologists-find-new-galilean-synagogue
-from-first-century-ce/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.736752 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4841735,00.html https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/15/second-temple-era-synagogue-unearthed-in-nort
hern-israel/

A stone projectile from the Bar Kochba revolt:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35711

Overview of the evidence for the destruction of the the First and Second Temple:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4841735,00.html

… and Gabi Barkai on battles with the Waqf:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216086

Some Olympics chatter brought up the subject of ‘cupping’ in Ancient Israel:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/
ancient-cupping-in-israel/

Overview of Ancient Israel history:

http://www.livescience.com/55774-ancient-israel.html

Feature on the ‘altar of Joshua’:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/.aspx?pageID=238&nid=102780

The Museum of the Bible is hyping publication of some of its DSS fragments:

https://www.museumofthebible.org/museum-of-the-bible-releases-research-findings-unpu
blished-dead-sea-scrolls-fragments

More on mosaics from Huqoq:

http://gazette.com/noahs-ark-mosaic-uncovered-in-ancient-galilee-synagogue/article/
1582756

Sassanid pottery in a shipwreck:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/sassanid-era-pottery-clue-to-
historic-shipwreck-off-bushehr-peninsula

An early mosque from Saudi Arabia:

http://english.aawsat.com/2016/08/article55356621/mosque-early-islam-discovered-saud
i-arabia

A 1300 years bp burial from Stratonikeia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/skeleton-of-ancient-woman-unearthed-in-turkeys-south
west.aspx?pageID=238&nID=102560&NewsCatID=375

An eighteenth century Ottoman settlement near Beitar:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216440

An ancient breakwater in Istanbul was damaged:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-breakwater-in-istanbul-broken.aspx?pageID=2
38&nID=102704&NewsCatID=375

Feature on Babylon:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/08/lost-cities-1-babylon-iraq-war-history-ma
nkind-greatest-heritage-site
http://www.aina.org/news/20160808115903.htm

Assorted agencies are working together to protect artifacts in Iraq and Syria:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/08/19/smithsonian-other-age
ncies-protect-artifacts-in-iraq-syria/

Tel Ajaja is the latest site plundered by ISIL:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.735889 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/08/09/isis-destroyed-almost-
half-of-an-ancient-city-in-syria/ http://artdaily.com/news/89351/At-ancient-Syria-site--IS-discovers-then-destroys-treasure
s-

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Plenty of attention for the discovery of a burial on Mount Lykaion:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-mountaintop-chilling-echo-dark-greek.html http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/new-finds-at-mt.-lykaion http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/david-romano-reflects-on-mt.-lykai
on-discovery http://www.livescience.com/55733-possible-human-sacrifice-to-zeus-discovered.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0815/Did-ancient-Greeks-practice-ritual-murder
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/10/skeletal-remains-confirm-ancient-greek
s-engaged-in-human-sacrifice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-bones-found-greek-mountaintop-153400508.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0815/Did-ancient-Greeks-practice-ritual-murder
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0812/Did-archaeologists-just-find-a-3-000-year-o
ld-human-sacrifice-on-Zeus-altar http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2016/08/10/chilling-mountaintop-find-may-confir
m-dark-greek-legend/clcyEUP3JO2lcIaQVTSFyN/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_Tod aysHeadline&s_campaign= https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/12/mystery-bone
s-from-ancient-greece-may-be-a-teenager-sacrificed-to-zeus/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/chilling-find-on-greek-mountain-may-confirm-dark-legend-of-
human-sacrifice/ http://www.ekathimerini.com/211168/article/ekathimerini/life/ancient-teenage-skeleton-un
earthed-on-mountain-top-could-confirm-darkest-greek-legend http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/08/11/skeleton-found-in-ancient-zeus-temple/
http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Archaeological-proof-of-human-sacrifice-taking-place-in-
ancient-Greece http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-ancient-greeks-engage-human-sacrifice-
180960111/

An important Bronze Age burial from Cyprus:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-sensational-grave-cypriote-bronze-age.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809122802.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uog-sgf081016.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/archaeologists-uncover-one-
of-the-richest-graves-of-bronze-age-cyprus-ever-found

A Greek ‘colonial fortress’ from the Crimea:

https://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/08/16/ancient-greek-colonial-fortress-found-in-cri
mea_621543

A Roman bath house beneath a modern mikveh in Jerusalem’s Old City (not sure where
to put this one):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216271

A very impressive 4th century chariot race mosaic from Cyprus:

http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/da/da.nsf/All/0301DD3B26AA989AC2257EBB00447C40?Ope nDocument http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/09/unique-mosaic-depicting-chariot-race-fully-revealed/
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-rare-4th-century-mosaic-chariot-cyprus.html http://famagusta-gazette.com/cypriot-archaeologists-unveil-th-century-mosaic-of-multicha
riot-race-p35615-69.htm http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-a-roman-day-at-the-races-tch2dfqv7 http://abcnews.go.com/International/rare-4th-century-mosaic-floor-unearthed-cyprus/
story?id=41266616 http://theartnewspaper.com/news/archeology/ancient-roman-mosaics-uncovered-in-cypru
s-/ http://abcnews.go.com/International/rare-4th-century-mosaic-floor-unearthed-cyprus/
story?id=41266616

Recent finds at Camelon Roman fort:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/outside-the-walls-excavation
s-within-the-annexe-at-camelon-roman-fort

The dig at Chedworth Roman Villa has resumed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-37076307 http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/14679496.Big_archaeological_dig_to_look_for_
hidden_mosaics_at_Chedworth_Roman_Villa/

… as has the one at Parion:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=102600

A Roman villa from Duzce (Turkey):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-villa-remains-found-in-turkeys-duzce-.aspx?pag
eID=238&nID=102982&NewsCatID=375

A phallic pendant from Lincolnshire:

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/phallic-shaped-roman-pendant-dug-up-in-lincolnshire-f
ield/story-29614028-detail/story.html http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/oo-err-what-was-this-bronze-roman-phallus-dug-up-in-h
orncastle-used-for/story-29612754-detail/story.html

A mosaic depicting the Roman zodiac from Bursa:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/08/19/mosaic-featuring-roman-zodiac-uneathed-i
n-bursa

Not sure if we mentioned these gold curse tablets from Serbia:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/09/mysterious-magic-spells-unearthed-ar
chaeologists-serbia http://www.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-archaeology-magic-idUSKCN10K10L?feedType=
RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-archaeology-magic-idUKKCN10K10L https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-magic-spells-unearthed-ancient-skeletons-serbia-
103626296.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/10/archaeologists-find-2000-year-old-sil
ver-gold-scro/ http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/26661/20160811/ancient-black-magic-unlocked-
archeologists-find-devil-invoking-spells-skeletons-in-serbian-grave.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/4714-160809-viminacium-curse-tablet

Archaeology reveals the Roman port at Triport (Albania) was larger than previously
thought:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-fortified-roman-port-larger-previously.html

The heating in Lufton Roman Villa was in the wrong place apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-37131060 http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/lufton-roman-villa-dig-heated-room-uncovered-by-newcastl
e-university-team/story-29618910-detail/story.html

1800 years bp frescoes from Zippori (not sure where to put this one):

http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/32216 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160810113901.htm http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216210 http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/347648/1-800-year-old-frescoes-tell-story-of-israe
ls-ancient-multicultural-town/ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4840456,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-fresco-fragments-dating-back-to-Roman-era-disco
vered-at-Zippori-National-Park-463760 http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/rare-frescoes-roman-period-discovered-zippori-galilee
-hebrew-university-excavations

A 2600 bp temple from Soli Pompeiopolis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-temple-found-in-turkeys-south.aspx?pageID=5
17&nID=102651&NewsCatID=375 http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/08/11/ancient-roman-temple-unearthed-in-south
ern-turkey

I think we mentioned these Illyrian palaces in Montenegro:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3731233/Is-home-Illyrian-rulers-Archaeolo
gists-discover-two-palaces-belonged-ancient-Indo-European-royalty.html

Digging has resumed at the ‘Ephesus of the Black Sea’:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/08/16/ephesus-of-the-black-sea-undergoes-arch
aeological-excavation

… while some mosaics at the real Ephesus have been restored:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.736389

Feature on UNG’s dig at Alcamo:

http://ung.edu/news/articles/students-dig-into-field-work-during-italy-excavation.php

A massive Roman coin hoard from near York:

http://blog.gainesvillecoins.com/2016/08/14/hoard-of-roman-coins-found-near-york/

Feature on the dig at Lixus:

http://tntoday.utk.edu/2016/08/15/classics-students-spent-summer-seeking-archaeologic
al-sites-morocco/

Feature on Orraon:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/08/12/orraon-ancient-greeces-best-preserved-settle
ment/

Greece has opened the ‘Tower of the Winds’ to visitors:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-greece-ancient-clock-athens-visitors.html

An antiquities bust in Grevena:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/211122/article/ekathimerini/news/family-of-three-charged-ov
er-possession-of-illegal-antiquities-drugs

There were plenty of features on cheating and other shenanigans at the ancient Olympics:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/olympics-scandal-doping-ancient-greece-loc
hte/ http://theconversation.com/cheating-bribery-and-scandal-how-the-ancient-greeks-did-the-
olympic-games-64048 http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/08/cheating-at-the-olympics/495938/
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/08/14/olympic-games-in-ancient-greece-were-not-fr
ee-of-corruption/ http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/08/12/doping-in-ancient-greece-olympic-games/

… while Michael Phelps’ achievements brought up Leonidas of Rhodes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37033910 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/sports/olympics/michael-phelps-200-im-ryan-lochte-l
eonidas.html http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/08/14/michael-phelps-breaks-2168-year-old-olympi
c-record-held-by-leonidas-of-rhodes/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/12/meet-leonidas-of-rhode
s-the-michael-phelps-of-the-ancient-olympics/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/10/rio-2016-games-michael-phelps-v-the-21
68-year-old-olympic-record/ http://www.pappaspost.com/leonidas-rhodes-talks-politics-michael-phelps-record-deman
ds-whe
aties-box-exclusive-interview/ http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/ 17736-phelps-breaks-ancient-olympic-record-by-greek-athlete-leonidas-of-rhodes.html

… and there was a feature on the Heraia:

http://qz.com/762320/a-mythical-olympics-for-women-shows-the-ancient-roots-of-inequalit
y-at-the-games/

… and how athletes ‘made money’:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/08/10/how-athletes-have-made-money-off-
the-olympics-from-ancient-athens-to-rio/

… and the Getty had a general guide to the ancient Olympics:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-getty-villa-guide-to-the-ancient-olympics/

Semi-related is a feature on the Taranto Athlete burial:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/08/09/this-skeleton-is-the-oldest-know
n-ancient-olympic-athlete/#e5880aa210d7

Feature on the epinikion:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2016/08/11/what_the_epinikion_teaches_us_
about_how_to_celebrate_olympic_heroes.html

Feature on Pherenike of Rhodes:

http://www.pappaspost.com/pherenike-rhodes-ancient-greek-mom-risked-guarantee-sons-
olympic-glory/

Another feature on Rome’s trade links with Chennai:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Finding-2000-yr-old-Roman-trade-links/
articleshow/53791630.cms

Feature on Thonis-Heracleion:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/15/lost-cities-6-thonis-heracleion-egypt-sun
ken-sea

Feature on Pompeii:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/11/lost-cities-4-pompeii-roman-preserved-d
isaster-vesuvius-volcano-second-extinction

Feature on Troy:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/09/lost-cities-2-search-real-troy-hisarlik-turk
ey-mythology-homer-iliad

The brouhaha over antiquities in Paphos continues:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/09/spat-paphos-antiquities-continues/ http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/08/ministry-ask-police-investigate-allegations-missing-an
tiquities-made-paphos-mayor/

Suggestion that Draco’s laws weren’t ‘Draconian’:

http://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/dracos-laws-were-not-draconian-1271788

Studying Classics is good for your brain:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/better-for-brain-to-study-classics-than-play-video-games-
1-4208011

The argument over Latin in the curriculum continues in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/aug/19/right-to-rome-the-d
ebate-over-latin-on-the-curriculum

… cf Mary Beard:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2016/08/what-does-the-latin-actually-say.html

Mary Beard was also interviewed by NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/12/489646223/from-gladiator-duels-to-caesars-last-words-the-
myths-of-ancient-rome

Feature on MSU’s Classics program:

http://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2016/08/msu-program-draws-ancient-worlds-ta
ckle-21st-century/

Interview with Paul Cartledge:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/york-history-weekend-5-minutes-paul-cartledg
e

What Jessica Lamont is up to:

http://classics.yale.edu/jessica-lamont-joins-yale http://classics.yale.edu/people/jessica-lamont

NPR remembers Elaine Fantham:

http://radio.wpsu.org/post/remembering-weekend-editions-classics-commentator-elaine-f
antham

On Thucydides and Trump:

http://theconversation.com/can-we-learn-from-thucydides-writings-on-the-trump-of-ancient
-athens-63391


Review of Patty, *Living With a Dead Language*:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-modern-metamorphosis-1470783170 http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Living-With-a-Dead-Language-My-Romance-With-91
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Evidence of humans at Cnoc Coig in the late Mesolithic:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-britain-hunter-gatherers-breakthrough-analysis-bone.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoy-blh081116.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/bone-collagen-analysis-tech
nique-used-to-find-britains-last-hunter-gatherers

Europe’s oldest gold artifact (so far) comes from Bulgaria:

http://www.livescience.com/55761-oldest-gold-artifact-found-in-bulgaria.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oldest-gold-artifact-1.3714734?cmp=rss http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-archaeology-gold-idUSKCN10L0YQ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-gold-object-unearthed-bulgaria-1809
60093/

‘Superhenge’ (recently found) turns out to be a bunch of filled postholes (still
impressive):

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-superhenge-giant-circle-chalk-filled-holes.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/08/16/that-superhenge-was-a-super-dud/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-37047010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/12/huge-ritual-monument-thought-to-be-buried-n
ear-stonehenge-doesnt/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-remarkable-ancient-str
ucture-found-just-two-miles-from-stonehenge-a7190476.html http://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-wooden-circle-used-to-stand-just-a-few-kilometres-fro
m-stonehenge http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/so-called-superhenge-was-made-wood-not-
stone-180960152/

Study of the astronomical alignment of stone circles in Scotland:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160817101709.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoa-ast081716.php http://www.theleadsouthaustralia.com.au/ideas/3d-mapping-of-scottish-stone-circles-prov
es-alignment-theories/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-circles-secrets-research-
callanish-stenness-scotland-orkney-gail-higginbottom-a7201096.html

Possible remains of a prehistoric village on Iona:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14692088.New_discoveries_rewrite_history_of_hol
y_Iona/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/4777-160819-scotland-prehistoric-village

A Bell Beaker people earthwork from Spain:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809095145.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/first-bell-beaker-earthwork-e
nclosure-found-in-spain

Searching for Stirling’s ‘lost’ Iron Age roundhouse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-37044268

A gold brooch from near Castle Killbury is being linked to Arthur:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/700205/King-Arthur-brooch-discovered-Camelot-field-S
t-Mabyn

Not sure there’s anything new yet in the latest from the dig at Tintagel:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/tintagel-arthur-knights-england-castle-medie
val-royalty-merlin-archaeology/ http://www.livescience.com/55712-photos-archaeological-excavations-at-tintagel.html
http://www.livescience.com/55712-photos-archaeological-excavations-at-tintagel.html

Finds from various periods in Aylsham:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/more_than_5_000_finds_uncovered_at_tantalising_roman
_dig_site_in_aylsham_1_4656459

Insulting a Viking wasn’t a good idea, apparently:

http://sciencenordic.com/%E2%80%99twas-dangerous-insult-viking

A 1000 year bp Viking amulet:

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160805/danish-amateur-finds-1000-year-old-viking-amulet

Dating burials in the Rothwell Bone Crypt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-36989717

Medieval burials from Kilkenny:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0809/808039-medieval-skeletons-kilkenny/

A 300 years bp ‘lucky shoe’ found in a wall in Cambridge University:

http://www.livescience.com/55812-lucky-shoe-found-in-university-wall.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/19/the-strange-reason-w
hy-this-old-shoe-was-hidden-in-a-wall-at-a-british-university/ http://www.archaeology.org/4773-160818-england-cambridge-shoe

Official protection for shipwrecks off Devon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-37059478 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/british-shipwrecks-dating-back-t
o-medieval-era-given-protected-status-a7190121.html http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/centuries-old-shipwrecks-in-devon-given-protected-statu
s/story-29618939-detail/story.html

… this seems related:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/15/200-year-old-shipwreck-sally-emerge-fr
om-water-devon-beach

… and an accounting of the huge number of shipwrecks that might lie off the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/14/40000-shipwrecks-waiting-to-be-found-off-
british-coast-says-hist/

Concerns for the wreck of the London:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-37116685

Europe’s oldest known tree is in Greece:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/su-eok081916.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/adonis-europes-oldest-know
n-tree

A water channel from the Great Basilica at Pliska:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2016/08/15/410290/archaeologists-find-hydro-installation-
at-great-basilica-of-pliska.html

Feature on Suleiman’s tomb:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/08/hungary-unearthing-suleiman-magnifi
cent-tomb-160814120849950.html

Some William the Conqueror revisionism (book hype):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/20/william-i-how-we-misunderstood-the-co
nqueror-for-950-years

A 7th century king’s charter relating to Lincoln has been authenticated:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-rights-men-medieval-charter-king.html

A theft from a Leicestershire chapel:

http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/latestnews/2016-08-08/Irreplaceable-Tudor-stained-glass
-panel-stolen-from-historic-Leicestershire-chapel/

Work has started to restore the Jorvik Viking Centre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-37020655

Feature on London’s early ‘east enders’:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/the-archaeology-of-the-olympic-park-londo
ns-first-east-enders.htm

Magna Carta has returned to Lincoln Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-36983621

Restoration of Aethelflaed’s priory has commenced:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-36983621


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A 10 500 year bp camp from Ladakh:

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/archaeologists-discover-ancient-camping-site-in-la
dakh-dating-back-10-500-years-260267.html

An ancient ‘catacomb’ from Gabala:


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