The Last of Hapshetsut

• Discovery Channel’s Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen, NS Gill, Ancient History at About.com
• Review: Egypt's Lost Queen, Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com's guide to Women's History, has seen the video and reports

7 Wonders

• The Seven Wonders of the WorldMatt Rosenberg, guide to Geography at About.com, points out that this isn't the first modern 7 Wonders
• Why Angkor didn't win, noelbynature in Southeast Asian Archaeology news blog
• 7 new wonders of the world update, Anthony on ArchaeoBlog is unimpressed...
• New Seven Wonders: Bothered and bewildered, Mark Morgan at the Egyptology Blog sends along this article in Al-Ahram
• Seven Wonders Fallout, passed along by David Meadows in RogueClassicism, story from Kathimerini
• The very last on the 7 Wonders, Andie on Egyptology News
• New 7 wonders of the World, David Pescovitz on Boing Boing
• New Seven Wonders of the World in Google Earth, say no more

Open Source

• PLoS-ONE and OpenSource, Greg Laden
• Open-Source Journalism: It's a Lot Tougher Than You Think, Anna Hayes in Wired

Archaeology

• Astronomy in Da Heights, Alun at Clioaudio, on a new stone circle in Scotland
• A rare photograph of Fort Tanjong Katong from noelbynature in Southeast Asian Archaeology News Blog
• News from Castanheiro... images of a first week of work, Vitor Oliveira Jorge on Trans-Ferir
• Ancient Hero Dancing Robots, from Cabinet of Wonders, New Scientists' rebuild of Hero's 1st century AD automata

Vacation Notes

• I know what I did last summer, David Meadows at Rogue Classicism spent last summer in Sicily
• Life in ancient Korinth, Arranged Delirium
• Google Finds Matt in Google Earth, that dancing fool of Where the Hell is Matt? has added kmz files to his world wide tours.
• In the Wonderland of Ruins, Salon's Gary Kamiya goes to Turkey

Etc

• Bee Not Afraid: The disappearance of the honeybees isn't the end of the world, Heather Smith on Slate
• Plant domestication: early and often, John Timmer on Ars Technica, via Bruce Sterling
• History of the First Mount Everest Club, from Jen Rosenberg, 20th century history

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