david meadows
2021-09-05 15:35:20 UTC
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explorator 24.20 September 5, 2021
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You can 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,
Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of 'bursts' of human migratory activity through Saudi Arabia over the past 400 000 years, tied to climate:
https://phys.org/visualstories/2021-09-prehistoric-climate-repeatedly-channelled-human.amp
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123500.htm
https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/610471/SAUDI-ARABIA/Early-human-migrations-from-Africa-dating-back-400000-years-discovered-in-Al-Nufud-desert
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1921331/saudi-arabia
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/early-humans-arabia-climate-change-b1912882.html
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/paradigm-shift-in-human-evolution-early-humans-left-africa-via-arabia-1.10165119
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/world/early-humans-arabia-migration-scn/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-from-africa/2021/09/01/31e165ea-0b44-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-africa-79768876
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-02/climate-change-early-human-migration-through-arabia/100419726
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arabia-stone-age-tools-humans-migration-green-lakes-desert
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-made-at-least-five-climate-driven-trips-into-arabia-over-the-last-400-000-years
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/prehistoric-climate-change-and-human-migrations-across-arabia/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9976-210903-arabia-oasis-migration
cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03863-y
400 000 years bp elephant bone tools from the Castel di Guido site in Italy:
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/08/30/researchers-identify-record-number-ancient-elephant-bone-tools
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancient-elephant-bone-tools.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210830144755.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/elephant-bone-tools-colorado-university-b1911652.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/castel-di-guido-elephant-bone-tools-10016.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-number-of-elephant-bone-tools-found-at-a-400-000-year-old-site-near-rome
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-hominids-crafted-advanced-bone-tools-carved-from-elephants/141156
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/humans-turned-elephant-remains-into-a-surprising-array-of-bone-tools/
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256090
An analysis of a 43 000 or so years bp Neanderthal child's tooth found in Iran back in 2017:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464420/New-study-sheds-light-on-Neanderthal-tooth-discovered-in-western
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9972-210902-iran-neanderthal-tooth
More on that 76 000 years bp Neanderthal hunting camp found near Madrid:
https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/neanderthal-hunting-camp-center-iberian-peninsula
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30082021-a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-center-of-iberian-peninsula/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-the-center-of-the-iberian-peninsula/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9962-210830-spain-neanderthal-hunting
Feature on some Neanderthal hand axes used for teaching at the University of Saskatchewan:
https://news.usask.ca/articles/colleges/2021/neanderthal-hand-axes-connect-usask-students-to-the-past.php
On the success of the Neanderthals as a species:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/rebecca-wragg-sykes-neanderthals-were-very-successful-at-what-they-did-they-were-not-failures.html
Another feature on Doggerland and environs:
https://www.science.org/content/article/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Pondering the obsession with Ancient Egypt:
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/pharoah-groupies-obsessed-ancient-egypt
An aid offering to conserve sites in Luxor:
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/31/usaid-offers-17m-to-conserve-archeological-sites-promote-tourism-in-luxor/
Extreme heat is apparently affecting Egypt's archaeological heritage:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/extreme-heat-takes-toll-egypts-archaeological-heritage
Plans to make the city of Fustat into an open air museum:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/egypt-make-oldest-islamic-capital-africa-open-museum
Recent finds from digs along the Great Wall of Grogan:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464568/Great-Wall-of-Grogan-excavations-give-clues-to-life-in-northern
Studying inscriptions at Persepolis to determine the evolution of Persian writing:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464522/Inscriptions-in-Persepolis-palace-hold-clues-about-evolution
Restoration of a pair of Safavid-era fortresses in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province has commenced:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464555/New-restoration-work-starts-on-fortresses-in-southeast-Iran
7000 years bp burials and structures from the dig at the Arslantepe Mound:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/over-20-graves-house-ruins-found-in-arslantepe-mound-167632
Interesting Urartian burial including a man, a dog, and assorted other animals near Cavustepe Castle (Van):
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/urartian-grave-excites-archaeologists-167478
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62114
Digging has resumed at Hasankeyf Castle:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hasankeyf-castle-undergoing-excavations-167505
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/archaeological-excavations-to-enlighten-turkeys-hasankeyf-castle/news
A major excavation project is under way in Trabzon:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-begin-in-trabzon-to-bring-to-light-traces-of-four-empires-167564
Overview of archaeological finds in Turkey in August:
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/august-2021-turkish-archaeology
A First Temple period 'fraudulent weight' find from the City of David:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/weight-used-to-cheat-in-trade-during-first-temple-era-found-in-jerusalem-678446
https://www.timesofisrael.com/stone-cold-sting-ancient-jerusalem-weight-points-to-2700-year-old-hustle/
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/sy2jrlc11y
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/rare-first-temple-era-fraudulent-weight-uncovered-in-ancient-jerusalem/2021/09/02/
A Second Temple quarry site from Jerusalem:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeologists-find-jerusalem-stone-quarry-from-second-temple-period-1.10183620
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313046
https://www.timesofisrael.com/quarry-that-may-have-been-source-of-second-temple-stones-uncovered-in-jerusalem/
I think we mentioned this 1500 years bp 'church to an unknown martyr' found in Israel a few years ago:
https://www.livescience.com/church-unknown-martyr-unearthed-israel.html
More on the rethinking about the purpose of Qumran:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/cairo-genizah-paper-may-hold-key-to-secrets-of-qumran-dead-sea-scrolls-678045
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/dead-sea-scrolls-site-mystery-solved-qumran-jerusalem-1.10155326
Feature on the Bet Guvrin-Maresha archaeological park:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/bet-guvrin-maresha/141300
Feature on Moses Shapira:
https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2021/8/31/the-myth-of-moses-shapira#_edn4
Feature on the Third Crusade and the Treaty of Jaffa:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/on-this-day-treaty-of-jaffa-signed-ending-the-third-crusade-678438
Feature on restoring artifacts damaged in the Beirut explosion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/arts/beirut-blast-art-restoration.html
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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a Roman theatre near Cordoba:
https://www.finestresullarte.info/archeologia/teatro-romano-ategua-cordova
Coverage (in English) of the find of two rostras from the battle of the Aegades off Sicily:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943277/Archaeology-Four-450lb-ancient-Roman-battering-rams-recovered-coast-Sicily.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/raised-from-the-deep-romes-deadly-weapon-c09rz6r68
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/ancient-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-site-of-the-battle-of-the-egadi-islands/141290
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/03/two-bronze-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-battle-of-the-aegates-site/
A Roman necropolis from the Castel di Tora site (Italian):
https://percevalasnotizie.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/archeologia-scoperta-una-necropoli-romana-a-castel-di-tora-ri-foto/
Brief item on the dig at a Roman bath site in Carlisle:
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19557365.archaeological-findings-carlisle-showing-rich-roman-history/
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19554531.big-finds-already-uncovered-roman-dig/
Overview of this year's dig at Despotikon:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/despotikon-2021-its-excavation-and-restoration-works/
Latest finds from the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia dig:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/01/the-new-finds-at-the-sanctuary-of-artemis-amarysia/
Excavations at Kastabala continue to reveal structures:
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/excavations-continue-to-unearth-ancient-city-of-kastabala
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ephesus-of-cukurova-being-unearthed-167539
Not sure where to put this one: a WWII Nazi bunker revealed inside a Roman fort on Guernsey:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-58331065
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943683/World-War-Two-Nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-ancient-Roman-fort-Guernsey.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-roman-tower-was-turned-into-nazi-fortress-678666
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wwii-nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-roman-fort-1234602877/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-unravel-the-history-of-alderneys-roman-fort/141278
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-uncover-world-war-ii-bunker-within-roman-fort-180978547/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9964-210830-alderney-german-bunker
Using robots to help piece together fragmented frescoes from Pompeii:
https://www.laprensalatina.com/robots-help-piece-together-the-fresco-puzzles-of-pompeii/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robot-tackles-the-puzzles-of-pompeii-3rgkcnp8r
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/713/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/713/pub/713/page/55/article/214691
Doing similar things without robots st the House of the Harpist Roman villa site in France:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/its-exactly-like-a-puzzle-experts-on-piecing-together-roman-fresco-find
The dig at Rossett Roman Villa has resumed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58427470
https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/19555526.rossett-archaeologists-begin-dig-roman-villa/
More on the purported find of a statue of Alexander the Great from the al-Shabty excavations in Egypt (still no photo?):
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/421930.aspx
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/29/egypt-unearths-remains-of-suburb-from-greek-roman-eras-in-alexandria/
https://egyptindependent.com/town-dating-back-to-greek-and-roman-eras-unearthed-in-alexandria/
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/2200-year-old-sculpture-alexander-great-discovered/
https://www.argophilia.com/news/new-archaeological-finds-stir-interest-in-alexander-the-great-tomb/229677/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/08/31/alexander-the-great-statue-discovery-sparks-renewed-interest-to-find-his-grave/
https://www.wionews.com/world/egypt-dig-uncovers-a-2200-year-old-alexander-the-great-statue-409483
More on that well-preserved burial from Pompeii:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/pompeii-tomb-reveals-formerly-enslaved-mans-rise-to-wealth-and-power/
More on the statue of Hygieia from Aizanoi:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-headless-statue-grecian-health-goddess-western-turkey-180978555/
More on the restoration of that Roman 'chandelier' in Spain:
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/08/30/roman-chandelier-restored-nearly-2000-years-later-on-in-alicante-area-of-spain/
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2021-08-27/the-roman-empires-largest-oil-lamp.html
More on that lion-eating-a-barbarian key handle:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/roman-psychological-warfare-in-britain-archaeologists-think-theyve-found-the-key
https://news.yahoo.com/roman-psychological-warfare-britain-archaeologists-123834794.html
The fortress at Aigosthena has been fully restored:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/30/ancient-fortress-at-aigosthena-in-west-attica-now-fully-restored/
Reviews of Charlotte Higgins, *Greek Myths*:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/weaving-stories/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-story-of-women-and-weaving-a-new-retelling-of-the-greek-myths
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greek-myths-by-charlotte-higgins-review-2xpgg7vgj
... and a column on Greek Myth by CH:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/03/fruits-of-the-loom-why-greek-myths-are-relevant-for-all-time
Feature on Gisela Richter:
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/gisela-marie-augusta-richter-archaeologist-art-historian-and-harlem-resident-1882-1972/
Feature on using GPR to reveal assorted ancient sites in Spain:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/how-to-detect-ancient-buried-cities-without-any-digging.html
Feature on the assassination of Julius Caesar and the fall of the Republic:
https://www.history.com/news/julius-caesar-assassination-fall-roman-republic
Feature on the Library of Alexandria:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/ancient-library-alexandria-treasures-mankind/
Feature on Roman ruins across Europe:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/destinations/2021/09/01/the-roman-ruins-hidden-across-europe/
Feature on Roman humour:
https://antigonejournal.com/2021/08/what-romans-found-funny/
Feature on the Varus disaster:
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/incompetent-scapegoat-varus-disaster/
Suggestion that the Romans were doing cataract surgery:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/714/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/714/pub/714/page/39/article/214972
cf: https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(21)00122-7/fulltext
Feature on how Greek knowledge was preserved in the Islamic age:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/how-scholars-of-the-islamic-golden-age-saved-ancient-greek-knowledge/
Feature on Archytas and mathematical mechanics:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/ancient-greek-general-archytas-was-founder-of-mathematical-mechanics/
Feature on Eratosthene's measurement of the circumference of the earth:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-05/eratosthenes-measured-circumference-of-the-earth-2200-years-ago/100434560
Feature on Petra:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/needs-edit-apostolis-to-give-publish-date-the-greek-inspired-architecture-of-the-ancient-city-of-petra/
Feature/opeddish thing on Pliny and Christianity:
https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/plinys-problem-christianity-and-ours
Feature on piracy and Delos:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09tvctz/how-pirates-destroyed-the-capital-of-the-roman-slave-trade
Latest installment in that series on the history of the Parthenon Marbles:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/04/parthenon-report-what-does-justice-require/
... in a similar vein:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/04/the-history-of-the-parthenon-marbles/
An attempt to relate Thucydides to our times:
https://hellenicnews.com/losing-the-knack-for-disaster-thucydides-and-our-time/
What Aristotle can teach teenagers during lockdown:
https://spectator.com.au/2021/09/lockdown-with-aristotle-and-a-teenager/
More complaints about changes on the Acropolis:
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-03/acropolis
Reactions to changes in Classics at Princeton:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/whiteness-and-the-humanities?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/persecution-propaganda-princeton-joshua-katz-racism/
https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/profs-princeton-diversity-offices-attack-on-universitys-history-and-the-anti-woke/
... and the Cambridge Museum cast collection:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/off-colour-3/
Reflecting on 9/11 via Greece and Rome:
https://theconversation.com/at-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-9-11-attacks-ancient-greece-and-rome-can-tell-us-a-lot-about-the-links-between-collective-trauma-and-going-to-war-166876
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Roman Archaeology Blog:
http://romanarc.blogspot.com/
Rogueclassicism:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a 10 000 years bp settlement (possibly Butovo culture) near the Black Sea in Russia:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-remains-of-10000-year-old-settlement-in-russia-678701
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-excavate-traces-of-10000-year-old-mesolithic-settlements/141294
Remains of a 5700 years bp dwelling in Cork:
https://www.irishamerica.com/2021/09/5700-year-old-neolithic-house-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-cork/
Pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the Balkans range from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-farmers-europe-balkans-date-5th.html
https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/the-first-farmers-of-europe/141168
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/the-first-farmers-of-europe/
A pair of settlements (Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age) from the Czech Republic:
https://english.radio.cz/archaeologists-discover-two-prehistoric-settlements-hradec-kralove-region-8726939
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9967-210831-prehistoric-czech-settlements
A pair of 3500 years bp (maybe) stone balls from a tomb on Orkney:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/3442598/archaeologists-discover-rare-polished-stone-balls-in-orkney-tomb/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/two-mysterious-stone-balls-found-buried-in-5500-year-old-disappearing-tomb-in-orkney-3368676
A Bronze Age hillfort site with plenty of artifacts in France is being touted as a possible 'lost capital city':
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9942967/Archaeology-Bronze-Age-hillfort-filled-treasure-unearthed-France-lost-capital-city.html
38 5th/6th century Christian burials near Varvarin:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident
A Viking-era (maybe) long knife from a site in Poland:
https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C88972%2Crare-scandinavian-combat-knife-found-poland.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9968-210831-poland-viking-knife
A coffin containing two burials (probably monks) from the King's Quarter excavations in Gloucester:
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/coffin-containing-two-human-burials-5870768
A medieval silver hoard from southwest Russia believed hidden from the Mongol invasion:
https://www.livescience.com/medieval-silver-hoard-russia.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9975-210903-russia-medieval-jewelry
I think we mentioned this 1600 years bp 'pagan idol' from an Irish bog a couple weeks ago:
https://www.livescience.com/pagan-idol-unearthed-ireland.html
https://www.irishpost.com/news/huge-1600-year-old-pagan-idol-found-in-irish-bog-219037
... and this 'lost monastery' associated with Cynethryth:
https://www.livescience.com/monastery-queen-mercia-england.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/archaeologists-find-lost-monastery-ruled-by-queen-of-mercia/
... and this Viking coin hoard found by a metal detectorist on the Isle of Man:
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/metal-detectorist-finds-viking-coin-hoard-in-the-isle-of-man
A 400 years bp hawking ring from Eastchurch:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/detectorist-finds-treasure-252802/
Home renovations at a mansion in Brittany revealed a trove of 239 17th century gold coins:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62125
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2021/09/french-home-renovation-yields-rare-gold-coin-treasure/
A dig at Rock Hall found a 19th century coin, among other things:
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19555290.archaeological-dig-rock-hall-discovers-19th-century-coin/
Significant 19th century finds (including a kiln) near John Constable's home in East Bergholt:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/housing/what-was-found-at-east-bergholt-heath-road-8287834
A dig is under way in Mojacar (Spain):
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/08/30/new-archaeology-campaign-begins-in-mojacar/
The dig at Gwynedd Hillfort has resumed:
https://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/19551375.gwynedd-archaeological-trust-resumes-excavating-gwynedd-hillfort/
Archaeologists are set to resume digging at Chirk Castle:
https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/19550525.archaeologists-return-chirk-castle-historic-building-dig/
Restoration of the Whitfield Tabernacle in Bristol is under way:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58403258
More on that 6000 years bp burial ground from Transylvania:
https://www.livescience.com/transylvanian-urns-offerings.html
https://www.newsweek.com/6000-year-old-transylvanian-skeletons-found-urns-their-heads-1625577
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-skeletons-show-odd-burial-practice-transylvania-180978556/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9966-210831-transylvania-cemetery-urns
More on that so-called 'Arthur's Stone' being older than Stonehenge:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/2004758-2004758
https://www.news24.com/arts/Culture/archaeologists-are-a-step-closer-to-telling-the-origin-story-of-the-stone-that-inspired-the-chronicles-of-narnia-20210902
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62134
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-ancient-monument-associated-with-King-Arthur-is-Older-than-Stonehenge-180978541/
More on the identification of that 17th century fluyt in the Gulf of Finland last year as the Swan:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62098
More on the finds (including a silver yad) from the Vilnius synagogue which was destroyed during WWII by the Nazis:
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/182873/excavation-of-destroyed-synagogue-in-lithuania-exposes-new-findings/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-lithuanian-synagogue-destroyed-nazis-and-soviets-unearthed-180978542/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9970-210901-lithuania-great-synagogue
Plans to map burials in 19 000 English churchyards:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/graves-in-19000-english-churchyards-to-be-mapped-online
... this seems related to the above:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/711/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/711/pub/711/page/73/article/213890
A study of the origins of European plagues after the Black Death:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/36/e2101940118
Feature on that medieval tunnel found near Tintern Abbey a while ago:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident
A Stalin-era mass grave from the Ukraine:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/officials-unearth-stalin-era-mass-grave-ukraine-180978570/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9971-210901-ukraine-mass-graves
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Archaeology in Europe News:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
Medievalists.net:
https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/
Viking Archaeology Blog:
http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A study suggests 'ritual beer drinking' was going on at a site in Qiaotou some 9000 years bp:
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/09/study-shows-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-southern-china?tags=891&page=90
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-evidence-beer-years-southern-china.html
https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2109034502/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9944499/Experts-ancient-pottery-linked-beer-drinking-9-000-years-ago-southern-China.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/beer-was-drunk-in-southern-china-9-000-years-ago-but-it-wasn-t-for-recreation
https://www.newsweek.com/9000-year-old-burial-site-includes-some-humanitys-first-beer-1625970
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/traces-of-9000-year-old-beer-found-in-chinese-burial-ground-678700
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/burial-site-reveals-evidence-of-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-in-china/141162
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-9000-year-old-beer-found-china-180978563/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9973-210902-china-ancient-beer
58 pre-Qin burials from Guangzhou:
https://archive.shine.cn/nation/58-tombs-excavated-in-Guangzhou/shdaily.shtml
http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0831/c90000-9890109.html
http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_oI095NVN.html
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255833
Burials and structures from various periods from Chenzhou:
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271017166/over-30-cultural-relics-discovered-in-central-china-city
A project to restore the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye City is under way:
http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_swF3DJ5y.html
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-09-01/Restoration-begins-of-1-600-year-old-Mati-Temple-Grottoes-in-NW-China-13c3sMikT4I/index.html
In case you missed the study of a 7200 years bp Toalean culture burial from South Sulawesi:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/7-200-year-old-skeleton-offers-clues-to-early-human-migration-69135
A 1200 years bp sculpture of Durga from workers extracting sand in the river Jhelum:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/ancient-idol-of-goddess-durga-found-in-jks-budgam/article36214367.ece
https://zeenews.india.com/india/1200-year-old-ancient-sculpture-of-goddess-durga-discovered-in-jammu-and-kashmir-2390149.html
Coverage of the excavation of Mahakal Temple in Ujjain:
https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/ujjain-archaeological-finds-of-excavation-in-mahakal-temple-inspected
The 11th season of digs at Pattanam are under way:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/11th-season-of-excavations-begins-at-pattanam/article36256744.ece
Overviewish thing on finds made over the past few decades from the Yen Bai site (Viet Nam):
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/over-6300-artifacts-excavated-at-yen-bais-archaeological-site/207331.vnp
Feature on the Trung sisters:
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/09/these-elephant-riding-warrior-sisters-freed-ancient-vietnam-from-chinese-rule
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Concerns for submerged Indigenous sites off the coast of Australia:
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-archeological-discoveries-australia-highlight-lack.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926829
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/archaeologist-call-for-greater-protection-submerged-heritage/100419636
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/undersea-archaeology-off-nt-coast-important-australian-history/100419400
cf: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1949085
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NORTH AMERICA
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Study suggests the people who occupied Poverty Point some 3000 years bp were 'sophisticated engineers':
https://source.wustl.edu/2021/09/new-evidence-supports-idea-that-americas-first-civilization-was-made-up-of-sophisticated-engineers/
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-evidence-idea-america-civilization-sophisticated.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210902101122.htm
Assorted imaging methods have revealed a number of 'shell ring' sites along the southeastern coast of the US:
https://news.psu.edu/story/666605/2021/08/19/research/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9965-210830-archaic-shell-rings
Concerns over a house being build on a Civil War site in Helena:
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/29/helena-house-being-built-on-historic-civil-war/
Overviewish thing on finds from a dig at Sagamore Hill:
https://www.liherald.com/stories/a-revealing-unearthing-of-bits-of-history-at-sagamore-hill,134481?
Plans to search for remains of a mission school on the campus of Williamette University:
https://www.salemreporter.com/posts/4933/salem-archeologists-and-historians-plan-to-use-radar-to-discover-site-of-1840s-mission-school
Feature on Lauren Ritterbush and her work researching the Kanza people:
https://news.yahoo.com/kristina-jackson-neighbors-archaeology-professor-222000999.html
Feature on David Ruggles:
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/02/david-ruggles-first-black-bookstore-owner-antislavery-abolitionist-journalist-printer/8158701002/
Feature on Robert Carter III:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/robert-carter-iii-deed-of-gift-slavery-anniversary/index.html
Feature on the history of iron mining in the Adirondacks:
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/more-than-a-parking-lot-upper-works-is-an-experience-in-itself
Feature on a hurricane that hit the Louisiana area during the Civil War:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/05/hurricane-last-island-louisiana-ida/
Feature on the Harlem Hellfighters:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/harlem-hellfighters-segregated-world-war-unit-earned-congressional-gol-rcna1825
A push for greater recognition for Native American peoples from the DC area:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/09/03/native-americans-dc-culture-lione/
Review of Robert Levine, *The Failed Promise*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/books/review-failed-promise-reconstruction-frederick-douglass-andrew-johnson-robert-levine.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Possible evidence of Tikal by Teotihuacan in the 4th century CE (not sure how new this is):
https://www.science.org/content/article/astounding-new-finds-suggest-ancient-empire-may-be-hiding-plain-sight
I think we've mentioned the mystery of the Wari's water issues:
https://www.science.org/content/article/shrewd-water-use-helped-south-america-s-first-empire-thrive-so-why-did-drought-destroy
... and this evidence from the Morelos neighbourhood of Mexico City of cultural resistance to the Spanish conquest:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeologists-identify-evidence-of-cultural-resistance-to-spanish-conquest/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/evidence-of-cultural-resistance-by-indigenous-groups-after-spanish-conquest-of-tlatelolco/141310
More on that 2000 years bp bouquet (and other items) found beneath the Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/below-pyramid-treasure-trove-sheds-new-light-ancient-mexican-rites-2149991
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/riches-of-artifacts-under-pyramid-reveals-ancient-mexican-culture/news
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/below-a-pyramid-a-treasure-trove-sheds-new-light-on-ancient-mexican-rites-167579
More on the burials of violence victims in the Atacama Desert dating to 1000 BCE:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/civilisations/battered-skulls-of-ancient-farmers-reveal-violent-conflicts/
https://www.sciencealert.com/brutal-wounds-of-the-dead-speak-of-ancient-violence-in-the-driest-desert-on-earth
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9974-210903-chile-violence-farmers
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027841652100057X
More on the 16th century Codex Telleriano-Remensis and its depiction of earthquakes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aztec-code-earthquakes-pictograms-180978534/
Feature on the Choquequilla Inca Huaca:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/the-choquequilla-inca-huaca/141171
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:
https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on 'all the rapes in the Met Museum':
https://hyperallergic.com/673046/what-every-sexual-assault-depicted-at-the-met-museum-tells-us-about-rape-culture/
Feature on the archaeological artifacts that survived 9/11:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-archaeological-treasures-that-survived-911
The Vinland Map is a fake:
https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake
Manuscript fragments from Bristol appear to tell an early version of the Merlin story:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-bristol-manuscript-fragments-famous-merlin.html
They've figured out the exact date when Tsar Boris Godunov was born:
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-scholars-tsar-boris-godunov-exact.html
Ireland's population is the highest it's been since 1851:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58399880
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/ireland-population-surpasses-5m-for-first-time-since-1851
On the history of tattoos:
https://theconversation.com/tattoos-have-a-long-history-going-back-to-the-ancient-world-and-also-to-colonialism-165584
... similar:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-ancient-art-of-tattooing
Michelangelo was pretty short by today's standards:
https://www.livescience.com/michelangelo-very-short-shoes-reveal.html
cf: https://doi.org/10.26720/anthro.20.02.25.1
Pondering Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/van-gogh-s-mysterious-wheatfield-with-crows-what-does-it-really-mean
David's painting of Lavoisier and his wife was originally different, apparently:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jacques-louis-david-portrait-once-carried-entirely-different-meaning-conservators-find-180978564/
Review of a book on Luisa Roldan:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/digging-deeper-into-luisa-roldan
On DH Lawrence as the father of modern travel writing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/best-travel-books-lawrence-etruscan-places/2021/09/02/082d93ea-0761-11ec-a266-7c7fe02fa374_story.html
On how PIccadilly Circus got its name:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/very-strange-400-year-old-21479570
On Yiddish words still used in German:
https://www.dw.com/en/yiddish-words-still-common-in-the-german-language/a-59075130
On whether we should rename the Pythagorean Theorem:
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/pythagorean-theorem-renamed-thalean-theorem
On Jefferson's hopes (maybe) for his university in the South:
https://aeon.co/essays/did-jefferson-believe-that-his-university-would-reform-the-south
Feature on cities buried by volcanoes:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-cities-buried-by-volcanoes/141147
Feature on 'lost' cities:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/forgotten-historical-lost-cities/
Feature on women explorers:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210825-in-the-steps-of-historys-forgotten-female-explorers
Vintage photos of Paris:
https://www.elle.com/life-love/g37431108/vintage-paris-photos/
Feature on Varanasi:
https://aeon.co/essays/can-enlightenment-still-be-found-on-the-banks-of-the-ganges
On Galileo's experiments with the inclined plane:
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-09-03/el-plano-inclinado-de-galileo.html
On the origin of churros:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3147120/did-churros-beloved-spain-and-portugal-come-china-where-fried
Feature on some Arabic poetry:
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-meaning-of-cowardly-dogs-and-other-puzzles-of-arabic-poetry
A project to recreate an 18th century voyage from Sweden to China:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/gotheborg-ii-ship-sweden-asia-intl-hnk/index.html
Review of Andrew Kaufman, *The Gambler Wife*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review/the-gambler-wife-andrew-d-kaufman.html
On UNESCO and World Heritage Site success:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3145563/why-unesco-can-do-little-prevent-world-heritage
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Comparing some medieval pregnancy laws to Texas' recent efforts:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/pregnancy-laws-medieval-europe-how-they-compare-to-texas-abortion-law.html
The Bank of England removed art of leaders associated with the slave trade:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/world/europe/bank-england-slavery-art.html
West Point put up a monument honouring Buffalo Soldiers:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/08/31/west-point-buffalo-soldiers-statue/
Feature and modern parallels with George Schiffler:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/ashli-babbitt-martyrdom-capitol-riot-death-explained.html
Some Labour history (US):
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/04/1033177379/labor-day-history-triangle-shirtwaste-factory-fire-patco-strike
Concerns for an ancient Buddhist city on top of a copper reserve in Afghanistan:
https://theartnewspaper.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2b93c36d5d680004a859c739e&id=004015c4d7&e=45a385133d
On the west as the rebirth of the Persian Empire:
https://www.thearticle.com/from-thermopylae-to-kabul-why-the-west-is-now-the-persian-empire-reborn
How the Maori are reclaiming ancestral lands:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/01/unstoppable-movement-how-new-zealands-maori-are-reclaiming-land-with-occupations
Controversy over the revamp of India's Jallianwala Bagh memorial:
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3147315/disney-fied-revamp-indias-jallianwala-bagh-memorial-sparks
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Kallos:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82-the-ultimate-beauty/
Drinking With the Gods:
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/wine-greek-gods-bordeaux/
Max Stern:
https://www.dw.com/en/controversial-max-stern-art-exhibition-starts/a-58251037
Tenochtilan:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeological-windows-exhibition-displays-relics-of-mexica-capital/
Titian:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/titians-six-mythological-paintings-the-show-of-the-year/
Dacians and Romans:
https://actmedia.eu/daily/madrid-to-host-archaeological-treasures-from-romania.-dacian-and-roman-roots-exhibition/93867
Paolo Veneziano:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/paolo-venziano-painter-getty-exhibit/2021/08/27/2f39bd78-04ec-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html
A donor has given a major collection of artefacts (where are they from?) to the Trimontium Museum:
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/donor-shares-incredible-collection-of-artefacts-with-new-museum-of-roman-invasion-of-scotland-3366029
How a museum saved items from Hurricane Ida:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/1811-kid-ory-museum-hurricane-ida-trnd/index.html
cf: https://www.1811kidoryhistorichouse.com/
.... but there was damage at the Whitney Plantation Museum:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hurricane-ida-damages-whitney-plantation-180978577/
On museums that are refusing money from the Sacklers:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/09/01/here-are-the-major-museums-that-refuse-the-sackler-money-though-some-keep-the-name-up/
Florida is getting a museum dedicated to the Arts and Crafts Movement:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/arts-and-crafts-movement-gets-a-dedicated-museum-in-st-petersburg-florida
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Paintings by some of India's 'forgotten masters' are coming to auction:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/29/forgotten-masters-auction-shines-light-on-indias-overlooked-artists
Big bucks for the gun that killed Billy the Kid:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62109
High expectations for a medieval Hebrew prayer book:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/medieval-hebrew-prayer-book-expected-to-fetch-up-to-6m-at-auction
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA is shedding light on the origins of the first Scandinavians:
https://norwaytoday.info/culture/ancient-dna-sheds-light-on-the-mysterious-origins-of-the-first-scandinavians/
More on that genome study and its implications of Central European prehistory:
https://www.shh.mpg.de/2038011/papac-central-european-history?c=1935799
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/30/central-european-prehistory-was-highly-dynamic/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9963-210830-bohemia-genome-migration
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction project is assorted Greek philosophers and the like:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/the-real-face-of-aristotle-artist-reconstructs-famous-ancient-greeks/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Milos Catacombs:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/milos-catacombs-mark-the-rich-history-of-the-island/
Paris Catacombs:
https://www.thetravel.com/how-to-see-the-paris-catacombs/
Roman Catacombs:
https://www.thetravel.com/which-roman-catacombs-to-visit/
Taranto:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/taranto-italy-tourism/index.html
Mount Athos:
https://neoskosmos.com/en/208775/mount-athos-the-autonomous-monastic-republic-of-the-holy-mountain/
Greek Monasteries:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/05/here-are-10-must-see-greek-monasteries/
Kyrenia:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/05/kyrenia-ancient-greek-colony-libya/
Rome:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rome-walking-tour-try-seeing-the-city-through-its-obelisks
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Feature on Vikingur Olafsson:
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/09/03/1026695986/vikingur-olafsson-wants-to-change-your-mind-about-mozart
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Review of a movie about Botero:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3146848/botero-movie-review-depth-documentary-colombian-artist
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CRIME BEAT
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Norway seized a number of Mesopotamian items from the Shoyen Collection which belong to Iraq, apparently:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-ancient-mesopotamian-artifacts-seized-norway.html
http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/norway-seizes-ancient-artifacts-reported-by-iraqi-authorities-1.1647542
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ancient-mesopotamian-artefacts-norway-b1913730.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/trove-missing-ancient-mesopotamian-artefacts-found-norway-2021-09-03/
A theft of assorted things from Kuda Sithulpawwa:
https://www.dailymirror.lk/latest_news/Treasure-hunters-broke-into-Kuda-Sithulpawwa-treasures-stolen-Archaeology-Dept-Head/342-219460
A man in Pella was arrested for possession of ancient objects:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/01/pella-arrested-ancient-objects/
More arrests in the Green Room heist:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033584344/german-prosecutors-charge-6-over-spectacular-jewelry-heist
More on the Sadigh Gallery bust:
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-egyptian-antiquities-fake-20210831-xxhxmgzydjhz3c52kg53qftwae-story.html
... and some interesting backstory:
https://dailyiowan.com/2021/09/02/decades-long-scheme-exposed-university-of-iowa-professor-and-grad-student-uncover-forged-antiquities/
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conflict antiquities:
http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/
anonymous swiss collector:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:
http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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Background to the recovery of the looted Agios Anastasios Royal doors:
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/the-story-behind-the-looted-agios-anastasios-royal-doors/
Switzerland returned items to Iran:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464367/Prehistorical-artworks-repatriated-from-Switzerland-to-go-on
More on the US returning things to Pakistan:
https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/15087-u-s-returns-trove-of-looted-antiquities-to-pakistan
Oped on Benin Bronzes ownership issues:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/should-the-british-museum-return-its-benin-bronzes-
Not sure if this settlement with Max Liebermann's heirs goes in this section or not:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/arts/design/max-liebermann-nazi-settlement.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Conference highlights relating to Roman provincial coinage:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinage-in-the-roman-provinces-ans-conference-highlights-part-3/
Feature on depiction of weapons on ancient coins:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/weapons-on-ancient-coins/
Using coin inscriptions to study 'happiness' among the Romans:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/107450/Ancient-inscriptions-on-antique-coins-highlight-concept-of-happiness-among
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n35.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n36.html
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Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Maurice Taieb:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/maurice-taieb-geologist-who-discovered-lucy-site-dies-at-86-69134
David Rudkin:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/30/david-rudkin-obituary
Robert Ritner:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-robert-ritner-obituary-20210831-3vxkvfhpibbvjp6ckv6sie7e6y-story.html
Sarah Broadie:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/sarah-broadie-1941-2021
Mikis Theodorakis:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58419832
Ernst-Ludwig Schwander:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/03/professor-ernst-ludwig-schwandner-has-died/
Ernst van de Wetering:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/arts/ernst-van-de-wetering-dead.html
Robert Middlekauff:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/robert-middlekauff-dead.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3099-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-22-through-august-28-2021
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Atlas Obscura:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/
Heritage Daily:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/
Sapiens Archaeology:
https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,
Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of 'bursts' of human migratory activity through Saudi Arabia over the past 400 000 years, tied to climate:
https://phys.org/visualstories/2021-09-prehistoric-climate-repeatedly-channelled-human.amp
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123500.htm
https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/610471/SAUDI-ARABIA/Early-human-migrations-from-Africa-dating-back-400000-years-discovered-in-Al-Nufud-desert
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1921331/saudi-arabia
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/early-humans-arabia-climate-change-b1912882.html
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/paradigm-shift-in-human-evolution-early-humans-left-africa-via-arabia-1.10165119
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/world/early-humans-arabia-migration-scn/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-from-africa/2021/09/01/31e165ea-0b44-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-africa-79768876
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-02/climate-change-early-human-migration-through-arabia/100419726
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arabia-stone-age-tools-humans-migration-green-lakes-desert
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-made-at-least-five-climate-driven-trips-into-arabia-over-the-last-400-000-years
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/prehistoric-climate-change-and-human-migrations-across-arabia/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9976-210903-arabia-oasis-migration
cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03863-y
400 000 years bp elephant bone tools from the Castel di Guido site in Italy:
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/08/30/researchers-identify-record-number-ancient-elephant-bone-tools
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancient-elephant-bone-tools.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210830144755.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/elephant-bone-tools-colorado-university-b1911652.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/castel-di-guido-elephant-bone-tools-10016.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-number-of-elephant-bone-tools-found-at-a-400-000-year-old-site-near-rome
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-hominids-crafted-advanced-bone-tools-carved-from-elephants/141156
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/humans-turned-elephant-remains-into-a-surprising-array-of-bone-tools/
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256090
An analysis of a 43 000 or so years bp Neanderthal child's tooth found in Iran back in 2017:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464420/New-study-sheds-light-on-Neanderthal-tooth-discovered-in-western
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9972-210902-iran-neanderthal-tooth
More on that 76 000 years bp Neanderthal hunting camp found near Madrid:
https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/neanderthal-hunting-camp-center-iberian-peninsula
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30082021-a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-center-of-iberian-peninsula/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-the-center-of-the-iberian-peninsula/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9962-210830-spain-neanderthal-hunting
Feature on some Neanderthal hand axes used for teaching at the University of Saskatchewan:
https://news.usask.ca/articles/colleges/2021/neanderthal-hand-axes-connect-usask-students-to-the-past.php
On the success of the Neanderthals as a species:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/rebecca-wragg-sykes-neanderthals-were-very-successful-at-what-they-did-they-were-not-failures.html
Another feature on Doggerland and environs:
https://www.science.org/content/article/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Pondering the obsession with Ancient Egypt:
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/pharoah-groupies-obsessed-ancient-egypt
An aid offering to conserve sites in Luxor:
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/31/usaid-offers-17m-to-conserve-archeological-sites-promote-tourism-in-luxor/
Extreme heat is apparently affecting Egypt's archaeological heritage:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/extreme-heat-takes-toll-egypts-archaeological-heritage
Plans to make the city of Fustat into an open air museum:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/egypt-make-oldest-islamic-capital-africa-open-museum
Recent finds from digs along the Great Wall of Grogan:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464568/Great-Wall-of-Grogan-excavations-give-clues-to-life-in-northern
Studying inscriptions at Persepolis to determine the evolution of Persian writing:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464522/Inscriptions-in-Persepolis-palace-hold-clues-about-evolution
Restoration of a pair of Safavid-era fortresses in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province has commenced:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464555/New-restoration-work-starts-on-fortresses-in-southeast-Iran
7000 years bp burials and structures from the dig at the Arslantepe Mound:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/over-20-graves-house-ruins-found-in-arslantepe-mound-167632
Interesting Urartian burial including a man, a dog, and assorted other animals near Cavustepe Castle (Van):
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/urartian-grave-excites-archaeologists-167478
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62114
Digging has resumed at Hasankeyf Castle:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hasankeyf-castle-undergoing-excavations-167505
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/archaeological-excavations-to-enlighten-turkeys-hasankeyf-castle/news
A major excavation project is under way in Trabzon:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-begin-in-trabzon-to-bring-to-light-traces-of-four-empires-167564
Overview of archaeological finds in Turkey in August:
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/august-2021-turkish-archaeology
A First Temple period 'fraudulent weight' find from the City of David:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/weight-used-to-cheat-in-trade-during-first-temple-era-found-in-jerusalem-678446
https://www.timesofisrael.com/stone-cold-sting-ancient-jerusalem-weight-points-to-2700-year-old-hustle/
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/sy2jrlc11y
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/rare-first-temple-era-fraudulent-weight-uncovered-in-ancient-jerusalem/2021/09/02/
A Second Temple quarry site from Jerusalem:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeologists-find-jerusalem-stone-quarry-from-second-temple-period-1.10183620
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313046
https://www.timesofisrael.com/quarry-that-may-have-been-source-of-second-temple-stones-uncovered-in-jerusalem/
I think we mentioned this 1500 years bp 'church to an unknown martyr' found in Israel a few years ago:
https://www.livescience.com/church-unknown-martyr-unearthed-israel.html
More on the rethinking about the purpose of Qumran:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/cairo-genizah-paper-may-hold-key-to-secrets-of-qumran-dead-sea-scrolls-678045
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/dead-sea-scrolls-site-mystery-solved-qumran-jerusalem-1.10155326
Feature on the Bet Guvrin-Maresha archaeological park:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/bet-guvrin-maresha/141300
Feature on Moses Shapira:
https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2021/8/31/the-myth-of-moses-shapira#_edn4
Feature on the Third Crusade and the Treaty of Jaffa:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/on-this-day-treaty-of-jaffa-signed-ending-the-third-crusade-678438
Feature on restoring artifacts damaged in the Beirut explosion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/arts/beirut-blast-art-restoration.html
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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a Roman theatre near Cordoba:
https://www.finestresullarte.info/archeologia/teatro-romano-ategua-cordova
Coverage (in English) of the find of two rostras from the battle of the Aegades off Sicily:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943277/Archaeology-Four-450lb-ancient-Roman-battering-rams-recovered-coast-Sicily.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/raised-from-the-deep-romes-deadly-weapon-c09rz6r68
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/ancient-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-site-of-the-battle-of-the-egadi-islands/141290
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/03/two-bronze-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-battle-of-the-aegates-site/
A Roman necropolis from the Castel di Tora site (Italian):
https://percevalasnotizie.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/archeologia-scoperta-una-necropoli-romana-a-castel-di-tora-ri-foto/
Brief item on the dig at a Roman bath site in Carlisle:
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19557365.archaeological-findings-carlisle-showing-rich-roman-history/
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19554531.big-finds-already-uncovered-roman-dig/
Overview of this year's dig at Despotikon:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/despotikon-2021-its-excavation-and-restoration-works/
Latest finds from the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia dig:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/01/the-new-finds-at-the-sanctuary-of-artemis-amarysia/
Excavations at Kastabala continue to reveal structures:
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/excavations-continue-to-unearth-ancient-city-of-kastabala
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ephesus-of-cukurova-being-unearthed-167539
Not sure where to put this one: a WWII Nazi bunker revealed inside a Roman fort on Guernsey:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-58331065
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943683/World-War-Two-Nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-ancient-Roman-fort-Guernsey.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-roman-tower-was-turned-into-nazi-fortress-678666
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wwii-nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-roman-fort-1234602877/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-unravel-the-history-of-alderneys-roman-fort/141278
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-uncover-world-war-ii-bunker-within-roman-fort-180978547/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9964-210830-alderney-german-bunker
Using robots to help piece together fragmented frescoes from Pompeii:
https://www.laprensalatina.com/robots-help-piece-together-the-fresco-puzzles-of-pompeii/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robot-tackles-the-puzzles-of-pompeii-3rgkcnp8r
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/713/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/713/pub/713/page/55/article/214691
Doing similar things without robots st the House of the Harpist Roman villa site in France:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/its-exactly-like-a-puzzle-experts-on-piecing-together-roman-fresco-find
The dig at Rossett Roman Villa has resumed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58427470
https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/19555526.rossett-archaeologists-begin-dig-roman-villa/
More on the purported find of a statue of Alexander the Great from the al-Shabty excavations in Egypt (still no photo?):
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/421930.aspx
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/29/egypt-unearths-remains-of-suburb-from-greek-roman-eras-in-alexandria/
https://egyptindependent.com/town-dating-back-to-greek-and-roman-eras-unearthed-in-alexandria/
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/2200-year-old-sculpture-alexander-great-discovered/
https://www.argophilia.com/news/new-archaeological-finds-stir-interest-in-alexander-the-great-tomb/229677/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/08/31/alexander-the-great-statue-discovery-sparks-renewed-interest-to-find-his-grave/
https://www.wionews.com/world/egypt-dig-uncovers-a-2200-year-old-alexander-the-great-statue-409483
More on that well-preserved burial from Pompeii:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/pompeii-tomb-reveals-formerly-enslaved-mans-rise-to-wealth-and-power/
More on the statue of Hygieia from Aizanoi:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-headless-statue-grecian-health-goddess-western-turkey-180978555/
More on the restoration of that Roman 'chandelier' in Spain:
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/08/30/roman-chandelier-restored-nearly-2000-years-later-on-in-alicante-area-of-spain/
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2021-08-27/the-roman-empires-largest-oil-lamp.html
More on that lion-eating-a-barbarian key handle:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/roman-psychological-warfare-in-britain-archaeologists-think-theyve-found-the-key
https://news.yahoo.com/roman-psychological-warfare-britain-archaeologists-123834794.html
The fortress at Aigosthena has been fully restored:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/30/ancient-fortress-at-aigosthena-in-west-attica-now-fully-restored/
Reviews of Charlotte Higgins, *Greek Myths*:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/weaving-stories/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-story-of-women-and-weaving-a-new-retelling-of-the-greek-myths
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greek-myths-by-charlotte-higgins-review-2xpgg7vgj
... and a column on Greek Myth by CH:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/03/fruits-of-the-loom-why-greek-myths-are-relevant-for-all-time
Feature on Gisela Richter:
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/gisela-marie-augusta-richter-archaeologist-art-historian-and-harlem-resident-1882-1972/
Feature on using GPR to reveal assorted ancient sites in Spain:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/how-to-detect-ancient-buried-cities-without-any-digging.html
Feature on the assassination of Julius Caesar and the fall of the Republic:
https://www.history.com/news/julius-caesar-assassination-fall-roman-republic
Feature on the Library of Alexandria:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/ancient-library-alexandria-treasures-mankind/
Feature on Roman ruins across Europe:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/destinations/2021/09/01/the-roman-ruins-hidden-across-europe/
Feature on Roman humour:
https://antigonejournal.com/2021/08/what-romans-found-funny/
Feature on the Varus disaster:
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/incompetent-scapegoat-varus-disaster/
Suggestion that the Romans were doing cataract surgery:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/714/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/714/pub/714/page/39/article/214972
cf: https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(21)00122-7/fulltext
Feature on how Greek knowledge was preserved in the Islamic age:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/how-scholars-of-the-islamic-golden-age-saved-ancient-greek-knowledge/
Feature on Archytas and mathematical mechanics:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/ancient-greek-general-archytas-was-founder-of-mathematical-mechanics/
Feature on Eratosthene's measurement of the circumference of the earth:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-05/eratosthenes-measured-circumference-of-the-earth-2200-years-ago/100434560
Feature on Petra:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/needs-edit-apostolis-to-give-publish-date-the-greek-inspired-architecture-of-the-ancient-city-of-petra/
Feature/opeddish thing on Pliny and Christianity:
https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/plinys-problem-christianity-and-ours
Feature on piracy and Delos:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09tvctz/how-pirates-destroyed-the-capital-of-the-roman-slave-trade
Latest installment in that series on the history of the Parthenon Marbles:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/04/parthenon-report-what-does-justice-require/
... in a similar vein:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/04/the-history-of-the-parthenon-marbles/
An attempt to relate Thucydides to our times:
https://hellenicnews.com/losing-the-knack-for-disaster-thucydides-and-our-time/
What Aristotle can teach teenagers during lockdown:
https://spectator.com.au/2021/09/lockdown-with-aristotle-and-a-teenager/
More complaints about changes on the Acropolis:
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-03/acropolis
Reactions to changes in Classics at Princeton:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/whiteness-and-the-humanities?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/persecution-propaganda-princeton-joshua-katz-racism/
https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/profs-princeton-diversity-offices-attack-on-universitys-history-and-the-anti-woke/
... and the Cambridge Museum cast collection:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/off-colour-3/
Reflecting on 9/11 via Greece and Rome:
https://theconversation.com/at-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-9-11-attacks-ancient-greece-and-rome-can-tell-us-a-lot-about-the-links-between-collective-trauma-and-going-to-war-166876
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Roman Archaeology Blog:
http://romanarc.blogspot.com/
Rogueclassicism:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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Remains of a 10 000 years bp settlement (possibly Butovo culture) near the Black Sea in Russia:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-remains-of-10000-year-old-settlement-in-russia-678701
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-excavate-traces-of-10000-year-old-mesolithic-settlements/141294
Remains of a 5700 years bp dwelling in Cork:
https://www.irishamerica.com/2021/09/5700-year-old-neolithic-house-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-cork/
Pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the Balkans range from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-farmers-europe-balkans-date-5th.html
https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/the-first-farmers-of-europe/141168
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/the-first-farmers-of-europe/
A pair of settlements (Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age) from the Czech Republic:
https://english.radio.cz/archaeologists-discover-two-prehistoric-settlements-hradec-kralove-region-8726939
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9967-210831-prehistoric-czech-settlements
A pair of 3500 years bp (maybe) stone balls from a tomb on Orkney:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/3442598/archaeologists-discover-rare-polished-stone-balls-in-orkney-tomb/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/two-mysterious-stone-balls-found-buried-in-5500-year-old-disappearing-tomb-in-orkney-3368676
A Bronze Age hillfort site with plenty of artifacts in France is being touted as a possible 'lost capital city':
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9942967/Archaeology-Bronze-Age-hillfort-filled-treasure-unearthed-France-lost-capital-city.html
38 5th/6th century Christian burials near Varvarin:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident
A Viking-era (maybe) long knife from a site in Poland:
https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C88972%2Crare-scandinavian-combat-knife-found-poland.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9968-210831-poland-viking-knife
A coffin containing two burials (probably monks) from the King's Quarter excavations in Gloucester:
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/coffin-containing-two-human-burials-5870768
A medieval silver hoard from southwest Russia believed hidden from the Mongol invasion:
https://www.livescience.com/medieval-silver-hoard-russia.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9975-210903-russia-medieval-jewelry
I think we mentioned this 1600 years bp 'pagan idol' from an Irish bog a couple weeks ago:
https://www.livescience.com/pagan-idol-unearthed-ireland.html
https://www.irishpost.com/news/huge-1600-year-old-pagan-idol-found-in-irish-bog-219037
... and this 'lost monastery' associated with Cynethryth:
https://www.livescience.com/monastery-queen-mercia-england.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/archaeologists-find-lost-monastery-ruled-by-queen-of-mercia/
... and this Viking coin hoard found by a metal detectorist on the Isle of Man:
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/metal-detectorist-finds-viking-coin-hoard-in-the-isle-of-man
A 400 years bp hawking ring from Eastchurch:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/detectorist-finds-treasure-252802/
Home renovations at a mansion in Brittany revealed a trove of 239 17th century gold coins:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62125
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2021/09/french-home-renovation-yields-rare-gold-coin-treasure/
A dig at Rock Hall found a 19th century coin, among other things:
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19555290.archaeological-dig-rock-hall-discovers-19th-century-coin/
Significant 19th century finds (including a kiln) near John Constable's home in East Bergholt:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/housing/what-was-found-at-east-bergholt-heath-road-8287834
A dig is under way in Mojacar (Spain):
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/08/30/new-archaeology-campaign-begins-in-mojacar/
The dig at Gwynedd Hillfort has resumed:
https://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/19551375.gwynedd-archaeological-trust-resumes-excavating-gwynedd-hillfort/
Archaeologists are set to resume digging at Chirk Castle:
https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/19550525.archaeologists-return-chirk-castle-historic-building-dig/
Restoration of the Whitfield Tabernacle in Bristol is under way:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58403258
More on that 6000 years bp burial ground from Transylvania:
https://www.livescience.com/transylvanian-urns-offerings.html
https://www.newsweek.com/6000-year-old-transylvanian-skeletons-found-urns-their-heads-1625577
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-skeletons-show-odd-burial-practice-transylvania-180978556/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9966-210831-transylvania-cemetery-urns
More on that so-called 'Arthur's Stone' being older than Stonehenge:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/2004758-2004758
https://www.news24.com/arts/Culture/archaeologists-are-a-step-closer-to-telling-the-origin-story-of-the-stone-that-inspired-the-chronicles-of-narnia-20210902
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62134
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-ancient-monument-associated-with-King-Arthur-is-Older-than-Stonehenge-180978541/
More on the identification of that 17th century fluyt in the Gulf of Finland last year as the Swan:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62098
More on the finds (including a silver yad) from the Vilnius synagogue which was destroyed during WWII by the Nazis:
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/182873/excavation-of-destroyed-synagogue-in-lithuania-exposes-new-findings/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-lithuanian-synagogue-destroyed-nazis-and-soviets-unearthed-180978542/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9970-210901-lithuania-great-synagogue
Plans to map burials in 19 000 English churchyards:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/graves-in-19000-english-churchyards-to-be-mapped-online
... this seems related to the above:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/711/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/711/pub/711/page/73/article/213890
A study of the origins of European plagues after the Black Death:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/36/e2101940118
Feature on that medieval tunnel found near Tintern Abbey a while ago:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident
A Stalin-era mass grave from the Ukraine:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/officials-unearth-stalin-era-mass-grave-ukraine-180978570/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9971-210901-ukraine-mass-graves
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Archaeology in Europe News:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
Medievalists.net:
https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/
Viking Archaeology Blog:
http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A study suggests 'ritual beer drinking' was going on at a site in Qiaotou some 9000 years bp:
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/09/study-shows-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-southern-china?tags=891&page=90
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-evidence-beer-years-southern-china.html
https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2109034502/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9944499/Experts-ancient-pottery-linked-beer-drinking-9-000-years-ago-southern-China.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/beer-was-drunk-in-southern-china-9-000-years-ago-but-it-wasn-t-for-recreation
https://www.newsweek.com/9000-year-old-burial-site-includes-some-humanitys-first-beer-1625970
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/traces-of-9000-year-old-beer-found-in-chinese-burial-ground-678700
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/burial-site-reveals-evidence-of-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-in-china/141162
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-9000-year-old-beer-found-china-180978563/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9973-210902-china-ancient-beer
58 pre-Qin burials from Guangzhou:
https://archive.shine.cn/nation/58-tombs-excavated-in-Guangzhou/shdaily.shtml
http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0831/c90000-9890109.html
http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_oI095NVN.html
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255833
Burials and structures from various periods from Chenzhou:
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271017166/over-30-cultural-relics-discovered-in-central-china-city
A project to restore the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye City is under way:
http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_swF3DJ5y.html
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-09-01/Restoration-begins-of-1-600-year-old-Mati-Temple-Grottoes-in-NW-China-13c3sMikT4I/index.html
In case you missed the study of a 7200 years bp Toalean culture burial from South Sulawesi:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/7-200-year-old-skeleton-offers-clues-to-early-human-migration-69135
A 1200 years bp sculpture of Durga from workers extracting sand in the river Jhelum:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/ancient-idol-of-goddess-durga-found-in-jks-budgam/article36214367.ece
https://zeenews.india.com/india/1200-year-old-ancient-sculpture-of-goddess-durga-discovered-in-jammu-and-kashmir-2390149.html
Coverage of the excavation of Mahakal Temple in Ujjain:
https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/ujjain-archaeological-finds-of-excavation-in-mahakal-temple-inspected
The 11th season of digs at Pattanam are under way:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/11th-season-of-excavations-begins-at-pattanam/article36256744.ece
Overviewish thing on finds made over the past few decades from the Yen Bai site (Viet Nam):
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/over-6300-artifacts-excavated-at-yen-bais-archaeological-site/207331.vnp
Feature on the Trung sisters:
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/09/these-elephant-riding-warrior-sisters-freed-ancient-vietnam-from-chinese-rule
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Concerns for submerged Indigenous sites off the coast of Australia:
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-archeological-discoveries-australia-highlight-lack.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926829
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/archaeologist-call-for-greater-protection-submerged-heritage/100419636
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/undersea-archaeology-off-nt-coast-important-australian-history/100419400
cf: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1949085
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NORTH AMERICA
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Study suggests the people who occupied Poverty Point some 3000 years bp were 'sophisticated engineers':
https://source.wustl.edu/2021/09/new-evidence-supports-idea-that-americas-first-civilization-was-made-up-of-sophisticated-engineers/
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-evidence-idea-america-civilization-sophisticated.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210902101122.htm
Assorted imaging methods have revealed a number of 'shell ring' sites along the southeastern coast of the US:
https://news.psu.edu/story/666605/2021/08/19/research/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9965-210830-archaic-shell-rings
Concerns over a house being build on a Civil War site in Helena:
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/29/helena-house-being-built-on-historic-civil-war/
Overviewish thing on finds from a dig at Sagamore Hill:
https://www.liherald.com/stories/a-revealing-unearthing-of-bits-of-history-at-sagamore-hill,134481?
Plans to search for remains of a mission school on the campus of Williamette University:
https://www.salemreporter.com/posts/4933/salem-archeologists-and-historians-plan-to-use-radar-to-discover-site-of-1840s-mission-school
Feature on Lauren Ritterbush and her work researching the Kanza people:
https://news.yahoo.com/kristina-jackson-neighbors-archaeology-professor-222000999.html
Feature on David Ruggles:
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/02/david-ruggles-first-black-bookstore-owner-antislavery-abolitionist-journalist-printer/8158701002/
Feature on Robert Carter III:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/robert-carter-iii-deed-of-gift-slavery-anniversary/index.html
Feature on the history of iron mining in the Adirondacks:
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/more-than-a-parking-lot-upper-works-is-an-experience-in-itself
Feature on a hurricane that hit the Louisiana area during the Civil War:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/05/hurricane-last-island-louisiana-ida/
Feature on the Harlem Hellfighters:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/harlem-hellfighters-segregated-world-war-unit-earned-congressional-gol-rcna1825
A push for greater recognition for Native American peoples from the DC area:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/09/03/native-americans-dc-culture-lione/
Review of Robert Levine, *The Failed Promise*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/books/review-failed-promise-reconstruction-frederick-douglass-andrew-johnson-robert-levine.html
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Possible evidence of Tikal by Teotihuacan in the 4th century CE (not sure how new this is):
https://www.science.org/content/article/astounding-new-finds-suggest-ancient-empire-may-be-hiding-plain-sight
I think we've mentioned the mystery of the Wari's water issues:
https://www.science.org/content/article/shrewd-water-use-helped-south-america-s-first-empire-thrive-so-why-did-drought-destroy
... and this evidence from the Morelos neighbourhood of Mexico City of cultural resistance to the Spanish conquest:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeologists-identify-evidence-of-cultural-resistance-to-spanish-conquest/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/evidence-of-cultural-resistance-by-indigenous-groups-after-spanish-conquest-of-tlatelolco/141310
More on that 2000 years bp bouquet (and other items) found beneath the Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/below-pyramid-treasure-trove-sheds-new-light-ancient-mexican-rites-2149991
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/riches-of-artifacts-under-pyramid-reveals-ancient-mexican-culture/news
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/below-a-pyramid-a-treasure-trove-sheds-new-light-on-ancient-mexican-rites-167579
More on the burials of violence victims in the Atacama Desert dating to 1000 BCE:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/civilisations/battered-skulls-of-ancient-farmers-reveal-violent-conflicts/
https://www.sciencealert.com/brutal-wounds-of-the-dead-speak-of-ancient-violence-in-the-driest-desert-on-earth
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9974-210903-chile-violence-farmers
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027841652100057X
More on the 16th century Codex Telleriano-Remensis and its depiction of earthquakes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aztec-code-earthquakes-pictograms-180978534/
Feature on the Choquequilla Inca Huaca:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/the-choquequilla-inca-huaca/141171
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:
https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on 'all the rapes in the Met Museum':
https://hyperallergic.com/673046/what-every-sexual-assault-depicted-at-the-met-museum-tells-us-about-rape-culture/
Feature on the archaeological artifacts that survived 9/11:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-archaeological-treasures-that-survived-911
The Vinland Map is a fake:
https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake
Manuscript fragments from Bristol appear to tell an early version of the Merlin story:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-bristol-manuscript-fragments-famous-merlin.html
They've figured out the exact date when Tsar Boris Godunov was born:
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-scholars-tsar-boris-godunov-exact.html
Ireland's population is the highest it's been since 1851:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58399880
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/ireland-population-surpasses-5m-for-first-time-since-1851
On the history of tattoos:
https://theconversation.com/tattoos-have-a-long-history-going-back-to-the-ancient-world-and-also-to-colonialism-165584
... similar:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-ancient-art-of-tattooing
Michelangelo was pretty short by today's standards:
https://www.livescience.com/michelangelo-very-short-shoes-reveal.html
cf: https://doi.org/10.26720/anthro.20.02.25.1
Pondering Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/van-gogh-s-mysterious-wheatfield-with-crows-what-does-it-really-mean
David's painting of Lavoisier and his wife was originally different, apparently:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jacques-louis-david-portrait-once-carried-entirely-different-meaning-conservators-find-180978564/
Review of a book on Luisa Roldan:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/digging-deeper-into-luisa-roldan
On DH Lawrence as the father of modern travel writing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/best-travel-books-lawrence-etruscan-places/2021/09/02/082d93ea-0761-11ec-a266-7c7fe02fa374_story.html
On how PIccadilly Circus got its name:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/very-strange-400-year-old-21479570
On Yiddish words still used in German:
https://www.dw.com/en/yiddish-words-still-common-in-the-german-language/a-59075130
On whether we should rename the Pythagorean Theorem:
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/pythagorean-theorem-renamed-thalean-theorem
On Jefferson's hopes (maybe) for his university in the South:
https://aeon.co/essays/did-jefferson-believe-that-his-university-would-reform-the-south
Feature on cities buried by volcanoes:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-cities-buried-by-volcanoes/141147
Feature on 'lost' cities:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/forgotten-historical-lost-cities/
Feature on women explorers:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210825-in-the-steps-of-historys-forgotten-female-explorers
Vintage photos of Paris:
https://www.elle.com/life-love/g37431108/vintage-paris-photos/
Feature on Varanasi:
https://aeon.co/essays/can-enlightenment-still-be-found-on-the-banks-of-the-ganges
On Galileo's experiments with the inclined plane:
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-09-03/el-plano-inclinado-de-galileo.html
On the origin of churros:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3147120/did-churros-beloved-spain-and-portugal-come-china-where-fried
Feature on some Arabic poetry:
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-meaning-of-cowardly-dogs-and-other-puzzles-of-arabic-poetry
A project to recreate an 18th century voyage from Sweden to China:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/gotheborg-ii-ship-sweden-asia-intl-hnk/index.html
Review of Andrew Kaufman, *The Gambler Wife*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review/the-gambler-wife-andrew-d-kaufman.html
On UNESCO and World Heritage Site success:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3145563/why-unesco-can-do-little-prevent-world-heritage
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Comparing some medieval pregnancy laws to Texas' recent efforts:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/pregnancy-laws-medieval-europe-how-they-compare-to-texas-abortion-law.html
The Bank of England removed art of leaders associated with the slave trade:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/world/europe/bank-england-slavery-art.html
West Point put up a monument honouring Buffalo Soldiers:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/08/31/west-point-buffalo-soldiers-statue/
Feature and modern parallels with George Schiffler:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/ashli-babbitt-martyrdom-capitol-riot-death-explained.html
Some Labour history (US):
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/04/1033177379/labor-day-history-triangle-shirtwaste-factory-fire-patco-strike
Concerns for an ancient Buddhist city on top of a copper reserve in Afghanistan:
https://theartnewspaper.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2b93c36d5d680004a859c739e&id=004015c4d7&e=45a385133d
On the west as the rebirth of the Persian Empire:
https://www.thearticle.com/from-thermopylae-to-kabul-why-the-west-is-now-the-persian-empire-reborn
How the Maori are reclaiming ancestral lands:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/01/unstoppable-movement-how-new-zealands-maori-are-reclaiming-land-with-occupations
Controversy over the revamp of India's Jallianwala Bagh memorial:
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3147315/disney-fied-revamp-indias-jallianwala-bagh-memorial-sparks
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Kallos:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82-the-ultimate-beauty/
Drinking With the Gods:
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/wine-greek-gods-bordeaux/
Max Stern:
https://www.dw.com/en/controversial-max-stern-art-exhibition-starts/a-58251037
Tenochtilan:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeological-windows-exhibition-displays-relics-of-mexica-capital/
Titian:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/titians-six-mythological-paintings-the-show-of-the-year/
Dacians and Romans:
https://actmedia.eu/daily/madrid-to-host-archaeological-treasures-from-romania.-dacian-and-roman-roots-exhibition/93867
Paolo Veneziano:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/paolo-venziano-painter-getty-exhibit/2021/08/27/2f39bd78-04ec-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html
A donor has given a major collection of artefacts (where are they from?) to the Trimontium Museum:
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/donor-shares-incredible-collection-of-artefacts-with-new-museum-of-roman-invasion-of-scotland-3366029
How a museum saved items from Hurricane Ida:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/1811-kid-ory-museum-hurricane-ida-trnd/index.html
cf: https://www.1811kidoryhistorichouse.com/
.... but there was damage at the Whitney Plantation Museum:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hurricane-ida-damages-whitney-plantation-180978577/
On museums that are refusing money from the Sacklers:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/09/01/here-are-the-major-museums-that-refuse-the-sackler-money-though-some-keep-the-name-up/
Florida is getting a museum dedicated to the Arts and Crafts Movement:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/arts-and-crafts-movement-gets-a-dedicated-museum-in-st-petersburg-florida
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Paintings by some of India's 'forgotten masters' are coming to auction:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/29/forgotten-masters-auction-shines-light-on-indias-overlooked-artists
Big bucks for the gun that killed Billy the Kid:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62109
High expectations for a medieval Hebrew prayer book:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/medieval-hebrew-prayer-book-expected-to-fetch-up-to-6m-at-auction
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA is shedding light on the origins of the first Scandinavians:
https://norwaytoday.info/culture/ancient-dna-sheds-light-on-the-mysterious-origins-of-the-first-scandinavians/
More on that genome study and its implications of Central European prehistory:
https://www.shh.mpg.de/2038011/papac-central-european-history?c=1935799
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/30/central-european-prehistory-was-highly-dynamic/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9963-210830-bohemia-genome-migration
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction project is assorted Greek philosophers and the like:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/the-real-face-of-aristotle-artist-reconstructs-famous-ancient-greeks/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Milos Catacombs:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/milos-catacombs-mark-the-rich-history-of-the-island/
Paris Catacombs:
https://www.thetravel.com/how-to-see-the-paris-catacombs/
Roman Catacombs:
https://www.thetravel.com/which-roman-catacombs-to-visit/
Taranto:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/taranto-italy-tourism/index.html
Mount Athos:
https://neoskosmos.com/en/208775/mount-athos-the-autonomous-monastic-republic-of-the-holy-mountain/
Greek Monasteries:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/05/here-are-10-must-see-greek-monasteries/
Kyrenia:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/05/kyrenia-ancient-greek-colony-libya/
Rome:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rome-walking-tour-try-seeing-the-city-through-its-obelisks
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Feature on Vikingur Olafsson:
https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/09/03/1026695986/vikingur-olafsson-wants-to-change-your-mind-about-mozart
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Review of a movie about Botero:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3146848/botero-movie-review-depth-documentary-colombian-artist
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CRIME BEAT
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Norway seized a number of Mesopotamian items from the Shoyen Collection which belong to Iraq, apparently:
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-ancient-mesopotamian-artifacts-seized-norway.html
http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/norway-seizes-ancient-artifacts-reported-by-iraqi-authorities-1.1647542
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ancient-mesopotamian-artefacts-norway-b1913730.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/trove-missing-ancient-mesopotamian-artefacts-found-norway-2021-09-03/
A theft of assorted things from Kuda Sithulpawwa:
https://www.dailymirror.lk/latest_news/Treasure-hunters-broke-into-Kuda-Sithulpawwa-treasures-stolen-Archaeology-Dept-Head/342-219460
A man in Pella was arrested for possession of ancient objects:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/01/pella-arrested-ancient-objects/
More arrests in the Green Room heist:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033584344/german-prosecutors-charge-6-over-spectacular-jewelry-heist
More on the Sadigh Gallery bust:
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-egyptian-antiquities-fake-20210831-xxhxmgzydjhz3c52kg53qftwae-story.html
... and some interesting backstory:
https://dailyiowan.com/2021/09/02/decades-long-scheme-exposed-university-of-iowa-professor-and-grad-student-uncover-forged-antiquities/
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conflict antiquities:
http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/
anonymous swiss collector:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:
http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
SAFE:
http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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Background to the recovery of the looted Agios Anastasios Royal doors:
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/the-story-behind-the-looted-agios-anastasios-royal-doors/
Switzerland returned items to Iran:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464367/Prehistorical-artworks-repatriated-from-Switzerland-to-go-on
More on the US returning things to Pakistan:
https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/15087-u-s-returns-trove-of-looted-antiquities-to-pakistan
Oped on Benin Bronzes ownership issues:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/should-the-british-museum-return-its-benin-bronzes-
Not sure if this settlement with Max Liebermann's heirs goes in this section or not:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/arts/design/max-liebermann-nazi-settlement.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Conference highlights relating to Roman provincial coinage:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinage-in-the-roman-provinces-ans-conference-highlights-part-3/
Feature on depiction of weapons on ancient coins:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/weapons-on-ancient-coins/
Using coin inscriptions to study 'happiness' among the Romans:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/107450/Ancient-inscriptions-on-antique-coins-highlight-concept-of-happiness-among
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n35.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n36.html
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Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Maurice Taieb:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/maurice-taieb-geologist-who-discovered-lucy-site-dies-at-86-69134
David Rudkin:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/30/david-rudkin-obituary
Robert Ritner:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-robert-ritner-obituary-20210831-3vxkvfhpibbvjp6ckv6sie7e6y-story.html
Sarah Broadie:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/sarah-broadie-1941-2021
Mikis Theodorakis:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58419832
Ernst-Ludwig Schwander:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/03/professor-ernst-ludwig-schwandner-has-died/
Ernst van de Wetering:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/arts/ernst-van-de-wetering-dead.html
Robert Middlekauff:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/robert-middlekauff-dead.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3099-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-22-through-august-28-2021
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/
About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Atlas Obscura:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/
Heritage Daily:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/
Sapiens Archaeology:
https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/
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