[SunkenCiv]

Just a bit of a glimpse into the FR archives (soon to be GGG archives as well) -- a fine bunch o' topics from the "ancientegypt", "egypt", and "cleopatra" keywords:

• Disaster That Struck The Ancients
• Statue Find 'A Revelation' (Phoenician 'Baal Addir')
• Second snake shows up at beach display
• A post election memo from an angry and frustrated liberal Democrat
• Expert: Cleopatra Seduces Antony On Vase
• Cleopatra seduced the Romans with her irresistible . . . mind
• Cleopatra Was A Blonde - (terrific brief history of Egypt's rich past; optimistic democratic future)
• Unearthing the Treasures of the Mediterranean
• Cleopatra Found Depicted In Drag
• Dwarfs commanded respect in ancient Egypt
• Ancient Furnace Sparks Archaeological Interest
• Rare Egyptian sculpture [record price set for ancient sculpture]
• Archeologists Find Ancient Ship Remains (cargo carriers between Pharaonic Egypt and Punt)
• Ancient Egyptian royal head puzzles archaeologists
• Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
• Egypt Ruler Moved To Pull Down Cheops Pyramid For Noble Reasons
• Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
• Egypt's Sphinx to get facelift
• Hatshepsut mummy found
• Amarna Princess a forgery [Egyptian statue in forgery claim]
• Hatshepsut mummy found (Another glimpse at Islamic museum curatorship)
• Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep
• Murder, Mayhem and Mystery on Display [Ancient Alexandria]
• Mystery tomb could hold Tutankhamen's widow
• Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says
• Egypt's Ramses Gets a New Home Among Pyramids
• Coin Shows Cleopatra's Ugly Truth
• Ancient coin contradicts legend of Cleopatra's beauty (Oooof! She looked like Ed Koch)
• Heads she's homely; tails he's ugly
• German Indologist claims to have decoded Indus scripts
• King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]
• The significance of kitchens for Ancient Egyptians
• Mummy of Egyptian queen Hatshepsut may have been found (in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings)
• Mystery of Tut's Father: New Clues on Unidentified Mummy
• Massive Egyptian Fort Discovered
• Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
• Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief
• Tutankhamun's True Face To Be Revealed
• Face of King Tut unshrouded to public
• Excavations Reveal Ancient Egyptians Were Master Dam Builders
• Months after mummy claim, DNA science still lags [Hatshepsut]
• Is She Or Isn't She? Mummy Lab Working To ID Pharaoh Queen
• Sarkozy takes new love to ancient Egypt for Christmas
• Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert
• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
• How Wild Asses Became Donkeys Of The Pharaohs
• Study Shows Life Was Tough For Ancient Egyptians
• Egypt: Tomb Of Cleopatra And Lover To Be Uncovered
• Fury as Museum Bosses Cover Up Naked Egyptian Mummies to Protect 'Sensitivities' of Visitors
• 'Indiana Jones'-Like Archeologist Says He's Found Cleopatra's Tomb
• Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaoh (Menkauhor, obscure ruler over 4000 years ago)
• Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
• Egypt archaeologists find ancient painted coffins
• Archaeology and the Book of Exodus: Exit From Egypt
• New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
• How the Great Sphinx of Giza may have started out with the face of a lion
• The face of Cleopatra: Scientists recreate the first true image of the legendary beauty
• Images of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy revealed by scanner
• Found: the sister Cleopatra killed
• Skeleton of Cleopatra's Murdered Sister Identified
• Found: the Sister Cleopatra Killed
• Dig 'may reveal' Cleopatra's tomb
• Egyptians hope to find Cleopatra's tomb

[SunkenCiv]

topics, chrono, processed from my FR links page:

• New Chronology -- David Rohl (thanks Scythian)
• Ancient Site in Newfoundland Offers Clues to Vikings in America
• Genesis correctly predicts Y-Chromosome pattern
• Did the Vikings Stay? Vatican Files May Offer Clues (1)
• Did the Vikings Stay? Vatican Files May Offer Clues (2)
• Atlantis: Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba (update)
• Earth Story -- Plants arrived early [Panspermia]
• Revision of Ancient History -- A Perspective
• Freeper Views on Origins
• Pharaohs and Kings / Test of Time -- David Rohl (thanks Scythian)
• Evolution through the Back Door (thanks Alamo-Girl)
• Peopling Of The Americas -- Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway
• Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David Or Shishak?
• Geologist rebuts claim of forged Jesus inscription on ossuary
• Did hardy Ice Age hunters find the West?
• Siberian Graveyard's Secret (More Redheads)
• Big Chill Killed Off The Neanderthals
• Neandertal Forefathers
• Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together
• Science Trumps Ritual in Mystery Skeleton Row [Kennewick Man]
• Mesopotamian Climate Change (8,000 Years Ago)
• Inscription in Carian and Greek
• Ancient Germans weren't so fair
• Non-Attic Characters
• Split Between English and Scots Older Than Thought
• Latin Course Stage 6 -- Pompeii Slave Girl
• Romans in China?
• Romans in Ireland
• Rare coin find stuns historians
• Strand of Ancient Yarn Suggests Early European Presence in Canada
• Nestorian Tablet in China
• Antiquity of Man in America
• Vast and Deadly Fleets May Yield Secrets at Last
• Ogham alphabet
• Burial complex of Mentuhotep II
• Was There A Trojan War?
• New Dating For Wat's Dyke
• Archaeologist's dig reveals solution to ancient riddle of lost Roman town
• From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging
• Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
• City in the Clouds -- Sagalassos, ancient city in Turkey
• Sensational Finding at Samoil Fortress
• Xenophon's Retreat
• Etruscans: Reopening the Case of the Mute Civilization
• Djedefre
• Cyclops Myth Spurred by "One-Eyed" Fossils?
• Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer
• Antikythera Mechanism
• Etruscans: Engineering and Agricultural Achievements, Ancient City of Spina
• Swallowed by the Sands
• Franchthi Excavations: 17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory
• Argonaut Epos and Bronze Age Economic History
• Laocoon and His Son
• Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Int'l Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean
• Correct Dating of The Linear B Tablets
• Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
• Early volcano victims discovered
• Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?
• Ethnic Groups in Philistia
• Herodotus' History
• Tamil Trade
• Voyage around the Erythraean Sea
• Sifting for Clues at W.Md. Dig
• Egg Island theory -- Where Did Columbus Make Landfall?
• Camisea Pipeline Unearths Ancient Peru Relics
• Viking burial ground dispels myth of longship marauders
• Malta's Magnificent Hypogeum
• Solutrean Solution--Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe?
• Dating Early Man in the Americas
• First Americans - Homo Erectus in America
• Latin 1 -- the Easy Way
• First Mariners
• Retracing the footprints of time
• Abydos Royal Enclosures
• Skeleton in Armor
• Quarry, Setting and Team Marks -- The Carian Connection
• Emperor Aurelian -- Lucius Domitius Aurelianus
• Kadakkarapally Boat -- An Ancient Sailing Barge in India
• Yankee Air Museum Fire (update)
• Roman roads in Britain
• Calvin to show Petra exhibit
• Phoenicians: Quest for the Phoenicians -- National Geographic special
• Status drives extinction of languages
• Romans in Brazil During the Second or Third Century?
• Porticello Wreck -- A 5th Century B.C. Merchantman in Italy
• Deepest Wreck
• Phoenicians: Archaeology Team Helps Find Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwrecks
• Mindell has role in ancient shipwreck discovery
• Shipwreck at Assarca Island, Eritrea
• Lady Eleanor Talbot
• Golden treasures from Cornwall's past
• Ancient writing found in Turkmenistan
• Majdel Tarshish -- Roman Remains 50 km from Beirut
• Evidence of humans in North America 50,000 years ago
• Hidden History of Men -- thanks Blam
• Triumphalism in Science
• Men's DNA supports recent settlement of the Americas
• Ode to the Code
• Quality of Life in the Desert? High Living in Rome's Distant Quarries
• Arzawa
• Dynasty 0 -- Egyptian colonies in Canaan
• King Midas' Modern Mourners
• Dorians / Achaeans -- their origin?
• King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine
• Threads of old -- thanks Blam
• Sacred Precincts -- A Tartessian Sanctuary in Ancient Spain
• Greek Farmer Finds 2,000-Year-Old Monument
• Explorers Rediscover Incan City Near Machu Picchu
• Khirokitia
• Kourion -- Monuments Of The City
• Eusebius' Onomasticon -- Geographical Knowledge in Byzantine Palestine
• Out-of-Place Artifacts or Out-of-Whack Chronology
• Theban Mapping Project / Valley of the Kings etc
• Mysterious Inscription on the Great Pyramid
• Man Offers $10K for Pedro Mountain Mummy
• New RNA polymerase discovered in plants
• In Search of the Real Troy
• Were the dinosaurs done in by fungus?
• Warren G. Harding Was Black
• Semerano, The Scholar Feared By The Academy, Awarded
• Ancient coin worth a pretty penny
• Colossal find -- Ramses II statue at Akhmim
• Bernheze Roman Bronze Hoard from the Netherlands
• Remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships discovered
• Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
• Atlantis: Exploring The Ocean Basins With Satellite Altimeter Data
• Polynesian Connection
• Atlantis [euphemism] in Rock Lake Wisconsin
• Cross-cultural estimation of the human generation interval...
• Evidence for the Orangutan Relationship
• Cotton domestication (thanks, Renfield!)
• Ancient Egyptian treasure shown 16 years after discovery
• Archaeologists unearth Celtic burial site
• Fig Island has remarkable examples of shell rings
• Greek Temple Unearthed By UC Archeologists in Albania
• Catal Huyuk
• Neolithic France
• Treasures of Tanis
• Buddha statue from 6th c found in Viking hoard in Helgo, Sweden
• Neanderthal femur from France
• Rare Nubian King Statues Uncovered in Sudan
• Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns [writing 20,000 years ago?]
• Pannonian gladiators
• Villa Medici and 'Mount Parnassus' recover their former glory
• Origin of M1 mitochondrial DNA haplotype
• Kansas Dig May Have Found Early Campsite
• Mandible, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, Homo Antecessor, 800K years old
• Glassmakers key to Egypt's status
• Ancient fire temple found in Sabzevar
• Dilmun seals inscribed with Indus Valley inscription
• Helike, ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea
• Roman Chariots Unearthed in Thrace
• Roman shipwrecks From the wine-dark sea
• Unearthing the Treasures of the Mediterranean
• Lycian Influence To The Indian Cave Temples
• Great Pyramid may still contain Khufu's intact pharaonic tomb (thanks Constitution Day)
• Kommagene, The Forgotten Kingdom
• Bubastis stone
• King George's Madness Linked to Arsenic
• Venona decodes (thanks LibLoather)
• Seaport Museum Artifacts Ship Out
• Ramesses II Suffered From Arthritis
• British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says
• Tombs of Mede Priests Found in Qom Province
• Etruscans: Where Did The Etruscans Come From?
• Studies of Amazonian languages challenge linguistic theories
• Domitii Mark -- Rome's Greatest Brickmakers Identified
• Original Draconian Laws may be Revealed by New Machine (X-ray fluorescence imaging)
• Italian archeologists on trail of ancient warships
• Ancient Roman temple found
• Roman ruins to remain under rainwater canal
• Unlocking the Power of Myth
• Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai
• King Hezekiah's Water System
• Basques in the European Y-chromosome diversity landscape
• Ancient faces brought to life (Thanks, Blam!)
• Scientists unearth bronze casting centre -- Vietnam (Thanks, Blam!)
• Oldest Bridge in Ireland
• Ferriby boats -- 1600BC
• Neanderthals and modern man shared a cave
• Egypt discovers ancient tomb
• Bison in Illinois earlier
• new HBO series
• Schizophrenia 'price for speech?'
• 9000 Years Old Oriental Wine Found
• Spears Spawned Ancient Group Violence?
• Man in Salt, Salzwelten, Hallstatt, Austria
• Sofia Perched on Huge Ancient Amphitheatre
• Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
• Secrets of Ancient Iceland, Mount Hekla
• Major excavation for Roman relic
• Statue of Goddess Anahita can be only modern cast
• Houses may cover ancient grounds ( thanks Radix)
• Phaistos Disk
• 3000-year-old settlement found in Switzerland
• South Kazakhstan clay tablet, 1st-6th C AD
• Prehistoric skeletons found in cave near Oujda, eastern Morocco
• Mahogany Ship, Phoenician Coin
• Cambodian archaeological sites being decimated: archaeologists
• New Archaeological Site in Jerusalem's Old City
• Egyptomania
• Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
• Greek treasures unearthed -- Minoans, Linear A, Linear B
• How did Trajan succeed in subduing Parthia where Mark Antony failed?
• Armenian Archaeologists Find Large Settlement Of Early Bronze Age
• On the outskirts of Rome, an ancient city rivals Pompeii
• Claudius' Naumachia on Fucine Lake
• Salvaging Caligula [Nemi Ships, Caligula, and Mussolini] (thanks FastCoyote)
• Big new Roman find in city
• Earliest Animals Had Human-like Genes (thanks Pharmboy)
• Researchers to look into Victorian historical 'truths'
• Specialists Identify Bulgaria-Found Thracian King's Body
• CT tells mummy's secret: Preservation no accident
• Roman 'motorway' secrets unveiled
• Scientists discover Neolithic wine-making
• Prehistoric settlements found in Greece
• When did the horse get to America?
• Ancient Chinese may have worn necklaces 20,000 years ago
• Oldest Temple and Brazier of the Iron Age Discovered in Qom
• Birth of the Military History Ping List (thanks indcons)
• Decoding of Mammoth Genome Might Lead to Resurrection
• Quest for the tomb of Amenhotep I
• Discovery of the First Prostrate Figure Burial in Burnt City
• Ears of plenty / the story of wheat / man's staple food
• Gozo's unique archaeological treasures to return home
• Lycia Where Greek language has left its mark
• Sardinia's prehistoric towers
• A Talk With Colin Renfrew
• Jiroft Inscription, Oldest Evidence of Written Language
• Nearly 3,000-year-old ancient state found in north China province
• First Americans by James M. Adovasio with Jake Page reviewed
• Group Statue of Ka-nefer and His Family [record price set for ancient sculpture]
• Rescuing a Roman Mosaic
• Neolithic Europeans Made Cheese, Yogurt
• Swedish bog man murdered - 700 years ago
• Foreign Contact With Hawai'i Before Captain Cook
• Man's best friend stands test of time, study says
• Tall Tales / Medieval people weren't shorter
• Anatolian tree-ring studies are untrustworthy
• King Tut slain by sword in the knee (thanks DaveLoneRanger)
• US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
• Britain is likely to lose magnificent Roman tombstone
• Papyrus Reveals Ancient Stories / Artemidorus
• Turquoise-like Stones Unearthed in Burnt City, Iran
• Most Paleolithic cave art the work of teens, not shamans
• Find all arguments on all sides specious, but this made me laugh really hard
• Cyrenaica Archaeological Project
• Ruins of Harrappan city found in Haryana
• Visigoth in Kent?
• Neolithic site wins reprieve from diggers
• Excavation of tomb ruled out [Mausoleum of Qinshihuang]
• Humans vs. Neanderthals: Game Over Earlier
• Chinese Fossil Provides Clearer Picture of Pleistocene Humans
• Prehistory of Kansas is not what you thought
• NAGPRA and scientists
• Author says prehistoric humans were a lot like us [Jean Auel]
• Did the Urartians failed to overcome harsh winter conditions?
• 100-Mile-Long Wall in Africa [Sungbo's Eredo]
• Australian Pyramids
• Ancient Humans in Europe Controversy
• Tarxien Temples: past, present and future
• Basque Country horses
• Ancient Cypriots fed olive oil to furnaces-study
• Birdman Tablet Discovered in Monks Mound [Cahokia]

additional list related stuff:

• Birth of Gods, Graves, Glyphs eyewitness accounts
• FairOpinion takes over the list
• Discussion about a separate History list (thanks Blam)
• A New Topic -- click to post one (thanks SwordMaker!)
• Send 'Civ FReemail about the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list or weekly digest ping list

off-site resources:

• Ancient Egypt Magazine
• Ancient Scripts, A to Z
• The Anomalist
• Anthropology in the News
• ArchaeoBlog
• Archaeological News
• Archaeology magazine (headlines)
• Biblical Archaeology Review and Archaeology Odyssey
• Biblical Archaeology Review archive CD-ROM (for Mac; a PC version is available)
• Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
• E.F. Legner's "archeology" index page
• Fake Latin Demo
• Gene Expression blog
• Genome Sequencing Projects
• Google News on Ancient Egypt
• index of maps of ancient Greek world
• Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding
• Ireland: Was Ollamh Fodhla King David of Israel? [No. Next!]
• Finds or Fakes?
• Khufu's Tomb Chamber in the Great Pyramid
• Marilyn vos Savant is Wrong! by Herb Weiner
• Megalithic Sites, also outside Europe (thanks Sonofron!)
• Omniglot, a guide to written language
• On Proving Ancient Megalith Construction by Jim Solley
• Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project
• Pharaohs and Kings 2001 (wayback machine)
• rare, old, hard-to-find archaeology titles
• Rogue Classicism
• Rune Fonts (a nice index to downloads and whatnot)
• Tabula Peutingeriana, a Roman Road Map (thanks WSGilcrest)
• Tutankhamun -- Anatomy of an Excavation (thanks Romana)
• Yahoo Anthrop- and Archaeology (thanks Shermy)
• Yuri Kuchinsky's