Today's issue of my free online newsletter Explorator has much of interest for this group -- enjoy! -- dm ]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR ]|[ ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World ]|[ ]|[ Volume 1, Issue 109 -- January 31, 1998 ]|[============================================]|[ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of 'publicatio' . ]|[============================================]|[ A somewhat slow week, but there's enough here to distract you from Superbowl pregame hype for a while: ]|[ The big news of the week is the possible discovery of a shipwreck which might have been carrying plenty of coronation material for Charles I; here's the Telegraph coverage(watch the wrap): <http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=gYGbgZru&atmo=HHHH HH8L&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/30/ntres30.html&pg=/et/99/1/30/ntres30.html> <url:http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=gYGbgZru&atmo= HHHHHH8L&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/30/ntres30.html&pg=/et/99/1/30/ntres30.html> ]|[ The BBC has a report on what is being done with the remains of St. Valentine: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_268000/268307.stm> <url:http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_268000/268307.stm> ]|[ The Jerusalem Post has a touristy piece on a mosaic discovered sixty years ago at Kibbutz Heftziba: <http://www.jpost.co.il/Tourism/Article-0.html> <url:http://www.jpost.co.il/Tourism/Article-0.html> ]|[ CNN's Custom News has a Reuters piece on an upcoming travelling exhibit of antiquities from Syrian museum (watch the wrap): <http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3389394&p_section_n ame=On+Target&p_art_type=985349> <url:http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3389394&p_secti on_name=On+Target&p_art_type=985349> ]|[ CNN's Custom News also has a report on Egypt's approval of the continued research of a number of groups (watch the wrap): <http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3380952&p_section_n ame=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category=> <url:http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3380952&p_secti on_name=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category=> ]|[ The Telegraph relates how efforts are ongoing in Cambodia to prevent theft of antiquities (watch the wrap): <http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=f3w0f3Ys&atmo=hhhh hhhe&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/30/wcam30.html&pg=/et/99/1/30/wcam30.html> <url:http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=f3w0f3Ys&atmo= hhhhhhhe&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/30/wcam30.html&pg=/et/99/1/30/wcam30.html> ]|[ CNN's Custom News has an AP report on the discovery of a tomb in China dating to the 'Warring States' period (watch the wrap): <http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3385921&p_section_n ame=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category=> <url:http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3385921&p_secti on_name=On+Target&p_art_type=985349&p_subcat=archaeology&p_category=> ]|[ This month's Scientific American has a profile of the Smithsonian's Dennis Stanford: <http://www.sciam.com/1999/0299issue/0299profile.html> <url:http://www.sciam.com/1999/0299issue/0299profile.html> ]|[ Smithsonian Magazine has a brief piece on the excavations at Cliff Palace: <http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/feb99/cliff.html> <url:http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues99/feb99/cliff.html> ]|[ The Telegraph has a piece which suggests there is evidence from the comparison of Mohawk and English that language is innate (watch the wrap): <http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=0GKs00Rq&atmo=9999 9999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/28/ecnlang28.html&pg=/et/99/1/28/ecnlang28.html> <url:http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=0GKs00Rq&atmo= 99999999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/28/ecnlang28.html&pg=/et/99/1/28/ecnlang28.html> ]|[ The Sunday Times has a thought piece by Amanda Foreman which argues that biography gives a better understanding of history than social theories (watch the wrap): <http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stirevnws02012.htm l?2177977> <url:http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stirevnws02012 .html?2177977> ]|[ Radio Finland has the latest news in Latin: http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html <url:http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html> ]|[============================================]|[ EXPLORATOR is an irregular newletter (posted every two-three days) representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured on a daily basis for news of the ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating to archaeology or history prior to about 1700 or so is fair game) and when a sufficient number of urls are gathered, they are delivered to your mailbox free of charge! Those articles that don't expire, plus supplementary links eventually find a home at: Commentarium (news articles) http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/commentarium.html The Rostra (audio files) http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/rostra.html A media archive of links of files that have previously appeared in Commentarium or at the Rostra is currently under construction. ]|[============================================]|[ Explorator is Copyright (c) 1998 David Meadows; Feel free to distribute these listings via email to your pals, students, teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. 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