More on Hatshepsut
- When Was Hatshepsut Pharaoh of Egypt?, N.S. Gill on Ancient History
- Egyptian Archaeologists Identify Remains of Hatshepsut, Female Pharaoh, Jone Johnson Lewis on Women's History
- Field photos of KV-20, Anthony on ArchaeoBlog gives some pictures of himself in the bottom of Hatshetsup's original tomb
- Back in the limelight, Nevine el-Aref in Al-Ahram, via ArchaeoBlog
- Photo gallery: Mummy of Egypt's Lost Queen" on National Geographic News.
- Egypt Says Mummy Is Queen Hatshepsut, Katarina Kratovac, AP
- Egypt to use DNA tests to identify pharaoh Tuthmosis, Reuters (Tuthmosis was Hatshepsut's father)
Archaeology
- Excavating Etowah Without Shovels, Afarensis
- The End of Civilization as We Know it, Greg Laden on the Christian Dark Ages
- Archaeological Theory? Legacies, burdens, futures, Andrew Cochrane and Ian Russell on Archaeolog
- Field School Fun, Chris O'Brien on results of his field school at Eagle Lake Field Station, Utah
- Dak Lak Province archaeology, a couple of stories on excavations in Vietnam, from Southeast Asian Archaeology
- The Road to Ruin, Laura Sexton on Archaeology online discusses the controversy over the planned demolition of an Iron Age site near the Hill of Tara in central Ireland.
- Field Update on Johnson's Island, from Archaeology magazine
- De Soto artifacts unearthed near Tallahassee, Florida, David Royse for AP
- France's earliest winery found, jovial discussion of the latest archaeology info about wine making in decanter.com
- Some Masada Remains Questioned by Study, Matti Friedman, AP
Domestic News (running out of puns, already?)
- Dillehay's New Squash Dates, Greg Laden
- Cat Origins, from Greg Laden
- Domestic Cats May Have Ancient Roots, Randolph Schmid, AP
Humanity a Long Time Ago
- At last, the death of the Toba bottleneck, John Hawks on a paper discounting the theory about the eruption of Mt. Toba in Sumatra killing off much of human kind and allowing the spread of modern humans
- Another diagnosis for a hobbit, Hawks on a paper that argues that Liang Bua I was the result of Laron's Syndrome, and is not a separate species
- Miocene hominids and a crisis of confidence, Hawks on a NYT summary of fossil evidence by J.N. Wilford
- We are all made of stars, Tim on Metalithica muses on the Lower Paleolithic
- Life as we know it, a time line on the important discoveries in evolutionary science, from the NYT
Around About
- Endangered monunments list, Matt Rosenberg at Geography
- Serpentinites, Andrew Alden in Geology
- From the summer exhibitions, Shelley Esaak and Stan Parchin, Art History
- Your Travel Personality, James Martin, Europe for Visitors
- New Seven Wonders Hype to a Climax, Matt Rosenberg at Geography defines his own wonders, and the ancient ones
Blog Carnivals
- Tangled Bank #83, on Aardvarchaeology
- Four Stone Hearth #18, on Clioaudio
Open Access/Journalism
- The Guardian on the Age of Ignorance, the darker side to CP Snow's The Third Culture is discussed in an article in the Guardian, here linked from David Pescovitz on Boing Boing
- Archlib, new service with online access to a broad library of resources (on subscription basis, sadly)
Multimedia
- Photos of Lepcis Magna, from Libyan Soup (even if he spells the site name wrong, the photos are fabulous and plentiful)
- London 1616 a three-dimensional vision of London, based on a Medieval painting, dated 1616, from Digital Urban via Bruce Sterling
Humor (er, Humour)
- Experimental Archaeology: Have We Learned Anything from History?, Alun on ClioAudio brings us this funny Australian riff
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