david meadows
2023-02-26 17:03:31 UTC
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explorator 25.45 February 26, 2023
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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, Robin Derricourt,
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 use of bows and arrows by modern humans in France some 54 000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bow-and-arrow-technology-modern-humans-europe.html
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1255/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1255/pub/1255/page/39/article/NaN
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-22/ty-article/modern-humans-with-bows-and-arrows-invaded-france-54-000-years-ago/00000186-790b-dc22-afe7-797f234f0000
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/23/world/france-cave-earliest-bow-arrow-use-outside-africa-scn
https://www.sciencealert.com/bows-were-being-used-in-europe-40000-years-earlier-than-we-thought
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archery-may-have-arrived-in-europe-thousands-of-years-earlier-than-thought-180981690/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/bow-and-arrow-technology-of-the-first-modern-humans-in-europe/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11252-230224-france-bows-arrows
cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4675
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00526-y
Feature on Palaeolithic children:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-was-it-like-to-grow-up-in-the-last-ice-age
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/20/what-was-it-like-being-a-child-during-the-last-ice-age.html
Feature on adaptability among Neanderthal groups in various places:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/neanderthals-spread-diverse-cultures-across-eurasia-before-we-came-along/
More on Neanderthals eating seafood:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/did-neanderthals-eat-seafood-neanderthals-cooked-and-ate-crab-off-the-coast
More on Paranthropus and the Oldowan toolkit:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/researchers-unearth-3-million-year-old-tools
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A group of 22 Persian, Roman, and Coptic tombs from Minya:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/489649/Antiquities/GrecoRoman/In-Photos--Persian,-Roman-and-Coptic-tombs-discove.aspx
https://www.egyptindependent.com/around-22-tombs-dating-back-to-different-eras-discovered-in-upper-egypt/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272595872.html
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/26/group-persian-roman-coptic-tombs-discovered-egypt/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/coptic-era-tombs-uncovered-in-upper-egypts-minya/146289
That 16-metre scroll of the Book of the Dead has gone on display:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/488450/Antiquities/In-Photos-Waziri-I-Papyrus-on-display-for-first-ti.aspx
https://www.livescience.com/see-photos-of-stunningly-preserved-52-foot-long-book-of-the-dead-papyrus-from-ancient-egypt
https://apnews.com/article/politics-middle-east-egypt-cairo-de982a0960d26b90025b83cef9b50914
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/02/21/second-longest-ancient-scroll-unveiled-in-special-ceremony-at-egyptian-museum/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/egypt-ap-cairo-tahrir-square-b2286076.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11789521/See-preserved-52-foot-long-Book-Dead-papyrus-laid-ancient-Egyptian-tomb.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/02/21/second-longest-ancient-scroll-unveiled-in-special-ceremony-at-egyptian-museum/
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/egypt-unveils-renovated-wing-of-oldest-museum-17795268.php
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66560
Zahi Hawass was speaking on recent finds at Saqqara:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2254981/art-culture
Feature on Mostafa Waziri:
https://egyptian-gazette.com/egypt/meet-the-guardian-of-egyptian-antiquities/
The sun illuminated the face of Ramses II at Aswan last week:
https://egyptindependent.com/sun-illuminates-face-of-ramses-ii-in-aswan/
A possible 2000 years bp burial from Gilan (Iran):
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482161/Newly-discovered-ancient-grave-may-allow-archaeologists-to-retrace
Plans for an underwater survey of the Persian Gulf:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482202/Archaeologists-to-commence-underwater-survey-in-Persian-Gulf
More on the 4500 years bp Sumerian palace site at Girsu:
https://www.livescience.com/4500-year-old-sumerian-temple-dedicated-to-mighty-thunder-god-discovered-in-iraq
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482084/Archaeologists-hail-find-of-Sumerian-palace-in-southern-Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/17/discovery-of-4500-year-old-palace-in-iraq-may-hold-key-to-ancient-civilisation
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/21/4500-year-old-sumerian-palace-discovered-iraq-desert/
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/4500-year-old-sumerian-temple-discovered-in-iraq/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732247
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-remains-4500-year-old-lost-palace-iraq-1234658416/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/lost-royal-sumerian-palace-and-temple-discovered-in-ancient-city-of-girsu/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11243-230217-girsu-palace-temple
More on the 5000 years bp 'tavern' site at Lagash:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/21/worlds-oldest-tavern-lagash-iraq/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/iraqi-sumerian-tavern-beer-recipe-2258061
Overview of a survey of the area between Al Hai and Rasan Naqab (Jordan):
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/swiss-archaeologist-examines-settlement-continuity-petra
A 3700 years bp Phoenician seal impression from Nahariya:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/21/content_85117762.htm
Late Bronze Age evidence of angular notched trephination ('brain surgery') from a burial at Megiddo:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-uncover-early-evidence-brain.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141115.htm
https://www.livescience.com/3400-years-ago-brain-surgery-left-man-with-square-hole-in-his-skull-ancient-bones-suggest
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/europe-experts-asia-b2287440.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732389
https://www.timesofisrael.com/earliest-brain-surgery-in-the-middle-east-uncovered-at-megiddo/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/world/bronze-age-brain-surgery-scn/index.html
https://wamu.org/story/23/02/22/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones/
https://www.newsweek.com/grave-elite-bronze-age-brothers-mystery-disease-discovered-1782580
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/22/1158721573/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-23/evidence-brain-surgery-brothers-meggido-bronze-era-israel/101989790
https://www.sciencealert.com/evidence-of-one-of-the-earliest-brain-surgeries-has-been-uncovered-in-israel
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/evidence-of-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-found-at-ancient-megiddo/146270
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/early-evidence-of-brain-surgery-in-ancient-near-east/
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281020
A family out hiking near Modin came across a 1400 years bp clay figure (the end of a candle holder):
https://www.timesofisrael.com/family-comes-face-to-face-with-1400-year-old-decorative-clay-figure/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732257
Some Roman-era burials were vandalized at Tel Kedesh:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732658
More coverage of that inscribed Canaanite ivory comb found a while ago:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f3svrh/decoding-oldest-known-sentence-written-in-first-alphabet
Feature on the rush to preserve the Pilgrimage Road site in Jerusalem mentioned a few weeks ago:
https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/discovery-of-pilgrimage-road-reveals-archaeologists-race-against-time-in-jerusalem
Feature on medieval Holy Land souvenirs:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/holy-land-souvenirs/
Three pre-Islamic gold rings and a Musnad inscription found during excavations at Al-Ukhdud:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/a-rare-inscription-in-an-ancient-arabian-script-was-uncovered-by-archaeologists-in-saudi-arabia-1234658685/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272575157.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 3rd century BC burial of a woman on Sardinia with a 'nail hole' in her skull:
https://www.livescience.com/3rd-century-bc-woman-was-buried-facedown-with-a-nail-hole-in-her-skull-heres-why
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-european-woman-mysterious-burial-b2287158.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-nail-hole-in-this-roman-skull-may-have-been-an-outdated-public-health-measure
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11249-230222-sardinia-punic-burial
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X23000214
Brief item on the find of a 2000 years bp stove (kiln?) from Genoa:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272573667.html
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article272573667.html
Evidence of 'wooden defenses' (wooden spikes) from a Roman fort site near a silver mine in Germany:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-roman-fort-wooden-spikes-germany-bad-ems-1234658682/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-failed-ancient-roman-silver-mining-operation-2259563
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-have-found-a-fort-that-the-romans-built-to-protect-their-silver-mines-complete-with-wooden-spikes/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66552
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/roman-military-camps-and-evidence-of-silver-mining-found-in-the-bad-ems-area/146263
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11253-230224-germany-roman-wood
... with more emphasis on the silver mining:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hidden-romans-tons-silver-shores.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230221132146.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980406
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/22/hidden-from-the-romans-200-tons-of-silver-on-the-shores-of-the-river-lahn/
A (late?) Roman era necropolis revealed in Friuli (Italian):
https://www.stilearte.it/necropoli-romana-emerge-durante-lavori-in-friuli-la-localita-esatta-tenuta-segreta-per-timore-di-furti/
An item identified as a 'darning tool' found years ago at Vindolanda is now being identified as an ancient sex toy:
https://www.livescience.com/smooth-wooden-phallus-found-at-a-roman-fort-was-likely-a-sex-toy
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-discarded-roman-artifact-good-luck.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/its-not-a-darning-tool-its-a-very-naughty-toy-roman-dildo-found
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roman-dildo-found-northumberland-newcastle-b2285673.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-64678612
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ancient-roman-dildo-1.6755242
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/20/world/roman-wooden-phallus-sex-object-intl-scli-scn
https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/world/article272555225.html
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-02-22/hadrians-wall-treasure-trove-reveals-first-known-sex-toy-from-roman-world.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/20/oldest-roman-sex-toy-found-hadrians-wall/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ancient-artifact-might-actually-be-only-known-roman-dildo-experts-say
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ake5d8/ancient-roman-phallus-vindolanda
https://hyperallergic.com/802678/could-this-be-the-first-known-ancient-roman-dildo/
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/wood-you-believe-it-2000-year-old-sex-toy-found-at-vindolanda-roman-fort-in-northumberland
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732206
https://www.zmescience.com/science/this-roman-lucky-charm-may-actually-be-an-ancient-dildo/
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-wooden-phallus-might-be-a-rare-2000-year-old-dildo
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/first-known-roman-sex-toy-dildo-phallic-object-england-1234658422/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66535
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/disembodied-wooden-phallus-could-be-a-roman-sex-toy/146246
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/21/discarded-roman-artefact-may-have-been-more-than-a-good-luck-charm/
... and who might have made it:
https://theconversation.com/roman-dildo-could-have-been-made-by-shoemakers-an-expert-in-ancient-prosthetics-explains-200387
... and a related item on the long history of such devices:
https://theconversation.com/the-long-and-satisfying-28-000-year-history-of-the-dildo-200278
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-year-history-dildo.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-toys-history-romans-dildo-b2288055.html
Overview of a couple of decades of digging at the Fanum Martis site in France:
https://www.inrap.fr/les-dernieres-etudes-des-vestiges-du-quartier-occidental-de-fanum-martis-nord-17088
Overview of recent finds from Salona:
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/66598-ancient-salona
Evidence that the Hala Sultan Tekke region (Cyprus) was larger in antiquity than previously thought:
https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/02/24/hala-sultan-tekke-area-was-larger-in-antiquity-than-once-thought/
More on the Roman 'hall' from the villa excavations at Posillipo:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732115
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/archaeologists-in-italy-unearth-2000-year-old-hall-where-emperor-and-knights-used-to-party-articleshow.html
More on 'self-healing' Roman concrete:
https://hyperallergic.com/802267/roman-concrete-had-self-healing-properties-study-finds/
A guy in the UK found an ancient Greek coin in his garden (hmmm):
https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/lucky-northamptonshire-gardener-raking-after-8173045
https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/lucky-gardener-found-ancient-greek-coin-while-weeding-in-wellingborough-4040645
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/18/man-finds-ancient-greek-coin-garden/
A trio of Classics folks chatting about the Iliad:
https://www.ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-mcenroe-show/2023-02-21/anger-politics-death-revisiting-the-iliad-through-a-modern-lens
Catherine Baker was talking about assorted items from Pompeii:
https://dailycollegian.com/2023/02/dr-catherine-baker-discusses-artifacts-from-pompeii-excavation-project/
Daisy Dunn on Augustus' marriage laws:
https://spearswms.com/baby-boom-rewards-have-an-ancient-history-of-failure/
Review of Carlo Rovelli, *Anaximander*:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/anaximander-carlo-rovelli-review-meet-forgotten-father-science/
A pair of Muse sculptures are back with the Diana and Actaeon group at Caserta (Italian):
https://www.stilearte.it/due-splendide-muse-scolpite-in-epoca-romana-tornano-alla-reggia-di-caserta-dopo-90-anni-di-assenza/
Feature on what mythological narratives reveal about Mycenean trade:
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/02/mythological-narratives-mycenaean-trade
Feature on Hercules and Japan:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thereligioushistorynerd/2023/02/how-hercules-reached-japan/
Feature on Hindu/Greek religious syncretism:
https://theprint.in/opinion/shiva-skanda-how-hindu-gods-absorbed-iranian-greek-ideas/1391759/
Feature on reassembling broken frescoes from Pompeii using AI/robotics:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-23/ty-article-magazine/israeli-robot-helps-uncover-pompeiis-beauty/00000186-7998-d38d-ada7-79dbf3070000
Feature on recreating a lost drama of Aeschylus:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/how-david-greig-staging-aeschyluss-greek-tragedy-egyptians-when/
Feature on Hadrian's visits to Turkiye:
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/famous-travelers-to-turkiye-hadrian-emperor-with-wanderlust/news
Feature on Indo-Roman relations:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/evidence-of-indo-roman-relations/146284
Feature on three queens of ancient Caria:
https://www.thecollector.com/caria-queens/
Feature on three ancient Greek women philosophers:
https://www.thecollector.com/three-ancient-greek-female-philosophers-to-know/
Feature on Cleopatra:
https://www.thecollector.com/cleopatra-ancient-egypt-ruler/
Feature on Trajan's column:
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-story-behind-trajans-column/
Feature on the status of Vestal Virigins:
https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/02/19/the-unique-status-of-vestal-virgins-in-roman-society/
Feature on Arrian:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/24/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/
Feature on Alexander's dog:
https://scroll.in/article/1043785/not-just-alexander-the-great-there-are-myths-around-his-pet-dog-too
Feature on Alexander in Zoroastrian literature:
https://scroll.in/article/1043934/why-alexander-the-great-was-treated-with-hostility-in-zoroastrian-literature
Feature on the ancient Greeks of the Tamil Nadu region:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/19/ancient-greeks-tamil-nadu-india/
There's word of an Odyssey movie in the works:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/21/movie-homer-odyssey-filmed-greece/
https://greekherald.com.au/lifestyle/entertainment/new-movie-on-homers-odyssey-to-be-filmed-in-greece/
Nothing really new in the Parthenon Sculptures saga this week ... general pieces about the negotiations:
https://www.thenationalherald.com/return-reunification-loan-parthenon-marbles-wheeling-and-dealing/
Latest Pasts Imperfect:
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-22323
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Rogueclassicism:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A mesolithic site from the Vale of Pickering:
https://the-past.com/news/mesolithic-site-found-in-the-vale-of-pickering/
Evidence that humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9500 years bp may have had a heavier fish diet than previously thought:
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/mediterranean-hunter-gatherers-marine-resources/
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-mediterranean-hunter-gatherers-marine-resources-previously.html
Remains of a 6000 years bp settlement associated with 'megalithic builders' from France:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-homes-europe-monument-makers.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-21/ty-article/archaeologists-find-homes-of-europes-first-monument-builders-and-theyre-fortified/00000186-6dc6-dc51-a197-7fce6ec20000
https://arkeonews.net/6000-year-old-settlement-was-home-to-europes-first-megalithic-monument-makers/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/6000-year-old-settlement-of-europes-prehistoric-megalithic-builders/146255
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11251-230222-france-prehistoric-megaliths
3500 years bp arrowheads made of mussel shells from Norwegian glaciers:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-glaciers/archaeologists-surprised-when-3500-year-old-arrowheads-made-of-shells-melted-out-of-the-ice-in-the-norwegian-mountains/2157675
A 3000 years bp toddler's shoe from Kent:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11787153/Bronze-Age-childs-shoe-suggests-problem-toddlers-dropping-things-stretches-3-000-years.html
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2023/02/21/birchington-archaeologist-discovers-3000-year-old-bronze-age-toddlers-shoe-possibly-oldest-found-in-country-and-smallest-unearthed-in-world/
https://arkeonews.net/3000-year-old-leather-shoe-discovered-on-a-beach-in-kent-uk/
Six Iron Age burials found beneath a Highlands kitchen:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-64756840
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/5435818/story-of-six-mystery-skeletons-found-under-applecross-home/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66586
6th-8th century CE evidence of trepanation on a woman's skull from Italy:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-volunteering-cranial-surgery-medieval-italy.html
A study of plague in Denmark 1000-1800 CE:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-deadly-document-evolution-plague-hundreds.html
A study of the height of people in Milan over 2000 years:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-human-height-unchanged-years-milan.html
Vikings apparently left rune graffiti on the Great Lion in Venice:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-runes/vikings-tagged-the-great-lion-in-venice-with-runes/2157444
A 13th century coin and jewellery hoard found by a metal detectorist in Germany:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272583291.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66527
Construction of the Moscow-Kazan highway revealed a medieval burial ground featuring an embroidered deisis depicting Jesus and John the Baptist:
https://arkeonews.net/in-medieval-burial-ground-a-rare-embroidered-deisis-depicting-jesus-christ-was-discovered/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/rare-embroidered-deisis-depicting-jesus-christ-found-in-medieval-burial-ground/146293
A 300 years bp mikveh find at Auschwitz:
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-732128
A fire in a 17th century Catholic church in Wissen:
https://www.ak-kurier.de/akkurier/www/artikel/126844-brand-in-der-katholischen-kirche-wissen--verdaechtiger-ist-auf-freiem-fuss
More on the Iron Age axle find from Suffolk:
https://the-past.com/news/iron-age-axle-revealed-in-suffolk/
More on the 'resilience' of Kent monks in the wake of attacks by Vikings:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11769411/Pillaging-Vikings-didnt-wipe-Englands-Anglo-Saxon-monks-all.html
More on the All Saints Anchoress:
https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/archaeologists-identify-the-remains-of-a-medieval-anchoress/
More on Vikings travelling with their animals:
https://the-past.com/news/first-evidence-that-vikings-travelled-with-animals-across-the-north-sea/
More on the Tudor jewellery find by a metal detectorist last month:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158580513/metal-detectorist-discovers-exquisite-tudor-necklace-linked-to-king-henry-viii
More on the medieval ship buried under a Wirral pub parking lot:
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/02/there-is-a-medieval-ship-under-this-building/
More on the medieval synagogue that became a hospital/church/bar:
https://www.livescience.com/medieval-synagogue-that-predates-the-inquisition-found-hidden-under-spanish-nightclub
Some new underwater footage of the wreck of the Gloucester:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-64758552
... and more on its remains going on display:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/25/remains-of-17th-century-shipwreck-go-on-display-in-norfolk
All the burials they're finding at Leicester Cathedral are slowing down restoration efforts:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64723462
The Museum of Somerset acquired a medieval brooch found by a metal detectorist a couple years ago:
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/23339149.medieval-brooch-acquired-museum-somerset/
The Lavatory de la Madeleine has been restored:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66576
Feature on Milan's Duomo and the constant need for restoration:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/world/europe/milan-italy-duomo-cathedral.html
Feature on artifacts found during Amsterdam's metro construction:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/world/amsterdam-train-tunnel-science-newsletter-wt-scn/index.html
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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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Evidence of 5000 years bp flood control/irrigation from a site in Hubei:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/23/content_85124173.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0223/c90000-10212010.html
3000 years bp bone skates froma site in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region:
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2023-02/26/content_85128698.htm?f=pad&a=true
The latest major site uncovered in China is the Dahuzui site, dating to the Western Zhou Dynasty era:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285945.shtml
A large Liao Dynasty building foundation find from Inner Mongolia:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/21/WS63f47df7a31057c47ebb000b.html
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/22/content_85121500.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0221/c90000-10210923.html
Tang tri-coloured pottery from a 1300 years bp burial in Jinan:
http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-02/24/content_85127317.htm
More on the 2400 years bp flush toilet find from Shaanxi:
https://english.news.cn/20230219/87ea452c215e46bb841986a79a53b0d8/c.html
https://www.livescience.com/2,400-year-old-flush-toilet-unearthed-in-China-could-be-one-of-the-worlds-oldest
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-oldest-toilet-remains-discovered-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732404
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archeologists-china-burst-laughter-unearthing-132857193.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/2200-year-old-flush-toilet-found-in-china-likely-one-of-the-oldest-ever-discovered
China is building a National Base of Underwater Archaeology:
https://english.news.cn/20230221/ac04d26922df4cfa92e20c465a3285f5/c.html
http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-02/21/content_85119970.htm
Feature on William Honeychurch's work in Mongolia:
https://news.yale.edu/2023/02/21/mobile-culture-yale-archaeologist-sifts-through-mongolias-ancient-past
Feature on life at a 1500 years bp fortress on the Great Wall:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272585959.html
China was highlighting six finds from 2022:
https://english.news.cn/20230222/564dc89e1a1447c98e23db32da7ae738/c.html
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/23/content_85123754.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0222/c90000-10211486.html
Using lake sediments to study changes to Tibetan religious activities during the past millennium:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-tibetan-religious-millennium-revealed-lake.html
More on 3000 years bp milk residue from Tibet:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/20/content_85115012.htm?f=pad&a=true
A 2000 years bp deer-antler-stringed-instrument find from a site in Viet Nam:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-year-old-instrument-uncovered-vietnam.html
https://arkeonews.net/southeast-asias-oldest-stringed-instrument-may-be-a-2000-year-old-antler/
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article272570690.html
https://www.iflscience.com/a-2-000-year-old-antler-in-vietnam-may-be-oldest-music-instrument-of-its-kind-67618
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-uncover-2000-year-old-stringed-instrument-in-vietnam/146259
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11248-230221-vietnam-music-instrument
A 12th century hero stone inscribed in Tamil from Srikalahasti:
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2023/feb/26/12th-century-hero-stone-inscription-in-tamil-unearthed-in-srikalahasti-2551085.html
There seems to be discussion/arguing going on over finds from Keeladi:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/explained-the-significance-of-the-findings-in-keeladi/article66541961.ece
https://scroll.in/article/1044567/debating-whether-tamil-nadus-keeladi-is-harappan-or-pre-harappan-is-pointless-says-archaeologist
Feature on Akbar's 'connection' to Alexander:
https://scroll.in/article/1044229/feeling-an-affinity-with-alexander-the-great-akbar-commissioned-a-special-manuscript-on-his-life
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Interesting study searching for the Indigenous creator of a bark painting made at the beginning of the 20th century:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bark-mystery-artist-important-family.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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7000 years bp finds from a potential condo site in Miami is causing controversy:
https://www.newsweek.com/miami-florida-condos-ancient-artifacts-bible-1782733
More on the find of a live Civil War shell at Gettysburg:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeologists-find-unexploded-artillery-shell-under-gettysburg-battlefield
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11246-230221-civil-war-shell
Interesting bit of experimental archaeology relating to Chaco Canyon:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-hauling-chaco-canyon-mystery.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/these-scientists-lugged-logs-on-their-heads-to-resolve-chaco-canyon-mystery/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/scientists-may-have-solved-a-chaco-canyon-mystery/
Researchers are working to identify the remains of the Revolutionary War soldiers found at the Camden battlefield a while ago:
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/street-squad/revolutionary-war-soldiers-excavated-camden-identities/101-81161969-b92a-46e8-b120-5c473c25cd96
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11244-230217-south-carolina-soldiers
A bit of flotsam that washed ashore in New York may be part of the SS Savannah:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-flotsam-york-famous-ss-savannah.html
https://apnews.com/article/science-new-york-city-bronx-savannah-oceans-dc09efafd9b191d0715a084516527ed5
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ss-savannah-shipwreck-fire-island-new-york/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/flotsam-found-off-new-york-famous-ss-savannah-97436695
Feature on the 1898 Wilmington coup:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wound-healed-activists-recount-1898-wilmington-coup-terrorized/story?id=96955381
Feature on Richard Henry Greene, Yale's first Black graduate:
https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5622-history-found
The unmarked grave of a Black Galveston priest killed in the Great Galveston Flood was found:
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/02/24/galveston-churches-discover-pioneering-black-priests-unmarked-grave/
Feature on the oldest bell in Quebec:
https://www.riposte-catholique.fr/archives/174961
Review of Jon K. Lauck, *The Good Country*:
https://newrepublic.com/article/170700/searching-spirit-midwest-lauck-good-country-review
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Conservation work has revealed assorted architectural features at the royal acropolis at Ek' Balam:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/new-discoveries-at-ek%CA%BC-balam-during-conservation-works/146296
30 Chancay culture burials from Peru:
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/peruvian-archaeologists-unearth-30-pre-inca-era-graves-2023-02-25/
A 1200 years bp Wari temple complex from Peru:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/23/peru-wari-ritual-complex-temple-uncovered
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732738
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-wari-ritual-complex-pakaytambo-southern-peru-1234658747/
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex-in-peru/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-unearth-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex/146279
16th/17th century burials from Mexico City's Chapultepec park show a mixture of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures:
https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/02/16/cemetery-from-the-early-viceregal-period-found-by-archaeologists-in-chapultepec-park/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-bodies-found-mexico-city-show-shared-catholic-pre-hispanic-graves-2023-02-21/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11242-230217-mexico-transition-cemetery
More on the elite residences found at Chichen Itza:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-residences-mexico-chichen-itza-180981674/
... although it now appears they were known over a century ago:
https://www.livescience.com/no-archaeologists-havent-found-elite-housing-at-chichen-itza
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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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Early in the week we read of an Australia-based archaeologist and his colleagues being taken hostage in Papua New Guinea:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64671699
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-university-professor-taken-hostage-highlands-papua-new-guinea-sources-2023-02-20/
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732098
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773795/Australian-professor-kidnapped-Papua-New-Guinea-gang-1-4m-ransom.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-police-say-4-being-held-by-criminals/2023/02/20/78765f54-b176-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australian-professor-hostage-papua-new-guinea-rcna71428
... and we read of plans for a 'rescue mission':
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64713695
... and one of the group was freed on Thursday:
https://thepublicsradio.org/article/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-free-woman-still-hold-4-others
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/one-woman-hostage-released-papua-new-guinea-negotiations-continue-police-2023-02-23/
... and today they have all been freed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64775769
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-release-3-hostages-97471876
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300816840/kiwi-hostage-safely-released-in-papua-new-guinea
In case you want to watch the dissection of a 3500 years bp frozen bear from Siberia:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2175649859504
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-dissect-3500-year-old-bear-discovered-siberian-permafrost-rcna71954
The Met is allowing 3d copies of some 16th century sculptures to be made:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ny-met-french-3d-16th-century.html
A 16th century drawing has been identified as a 'draft' by Michelangelo for a figure in the Sistine Chapel:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/19/when-we-rotated-it-90-degrees-it-was-obvious-mystery-sketch-is-rare-michelangelo-draft-for-sistine-chapel
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/20/drawing-of-male-nude-is-michelangelos-sketch-for-sistine-chapel-scholar-says
Feature on various ancient surgeries:
https://www.thecollector.com/mindboggling-ancient-surgeries-antiquity/
... and one on 'primitive' brain surgery:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-upsetting-world-of-primitive-brain-surgery
Feature on 20 historic jewels:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230224-the-10-most-iconic-jewels-through-history
Rethinking the portrait of Washington by Charles Peale (maybe):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/arts/george-washington-portrait-charles-peale.html
Seeing how hard it is to paint like Vermeer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/design/the-new-vermeer-tv-show.html
Interesting feature on determining whether a painting was a Dali or not:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/salvador-dali-art-institute-of-chicago-dream-of-venus/index.html
On the implications of ignoring the archaeological evidence for the Armenian genocide:
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/armenian-genocide/
Feature on Clara Driscoll:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/obituaries/clara-driscoll-overlooked.html
Pondering the 'creativity' of the US Founding Fathers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/opinion/bouie-newsletter-framers.html
More on the mummified 'mermaid' from a Japanese temple:
https://www.livescience.com/haunting-mermaid-mummy-discovered-in-japan-is-even-weirder-than-scientists-expected
https://arkeonews.net/300-year-old-sacred-mummified-mermaid-from-japans-mystery-solved/
More on Eadburg marking up medieval manuscripts:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-bodleian-uncovers-hidden-inscriptions-by-mysterious-medieval-woman-scribe/
More on Leonardo and gravity:
https://www.thecollector.com/leonardos-arundel-codex-and-the-theory-of-gravity/
Review of Naoise McSweeney, *The West*:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/23/the-west-by-naoise-mac-sweeney-review-history-rediscovered
Review of Joel Warner, *The Curse of the Marquis de Sade*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/books/review/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade-joel-warner.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Arslantepe Mound in Turkiye suffered some damage:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/arslantepe-mound-in-turkiye-partially-damaged-after-strong-quakes/2829553
Feature on the ruins of Antakya:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-22/ruins-of-turkish-city-of-antakya-tell-story-of-a-rich-past
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ruins-turkish-city-antakya-story-rich-past-97348268
... also on Antakya:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1159528587
Assorted items that were damaged in Turkey (and not):
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damaged-artifacts-moved-to-safe-museums-181035
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/12000-year-old-neolithic-artifacts-in-museums-survive-quakes/news
On saving cultural sites in Turkiye and Syria after the earthquakes:
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/how-can-cultural-sites-be-saved-after-the-turkiye-syria-earthquakes
A history of pancakes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-pancakes-180981667/
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on seven Greek philosophers' explanations of various things in nature:
https://bigthink.com/thinking/7-greek-philosophers-brilliantly-flawed-explanations-nature/
Five philosophers on family values:
https://www.thecollector.com/five-philosophers-on-values-of-families-parenting/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Antonine Wall:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23331390.antonine-wall-exhibition-shine-new-light-roman-history/
Pocklington Shield:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-64733701
Islanders:
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/200-ancient-artefacts-installed-fitzwilliam-26255504
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/islanders-mediterranean-fitzwilliam-museum/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/islanders-major-exhibition-opens-at-the-fitzwilliam-museum/
Vermeer:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-every-single-work-sold-out-rijksmuseum-show-2256255
Pompeii:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-museum-of-science-and-industry-travels-back-to-79-ad-with-pompeii-the-exhibition-301755628.html
Shakespeare:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64651007
Return to Country:
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/significant-object-heads-home-to-tasmania-after-230-years-2614191/
Labyrinth:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/24/labyrinth-knossos-myth-and-reality/
Roman cut glass:
https://www.wales247.co.uk/rare-roman-cut-glass-on-display-at-ceredigion-museum
Gathering Light:
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/incredible-3000-year-old-bronze-age-gold-sun-pendant-among-ancient-treasures-coming-to-sunderland-museum-winter-gardens-4034393
Suggestion that UK museums have too much in storage:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64707488
More on implications for changes to UK treasure laws:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/change-to-uk-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-museums
More on the plans for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/22/david-chipperfield-unveils-design-for-the-national-archaeological-museum-of-athens/
Plans for a Lincoln Museum under the Lincoln Memorial:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158292427/lincoln-memorial-museum-undercroft
https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/undercroft.htm
Feature on renovations to the Tahrir Square Museum:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/50/489515/AlAhram-Weekly/New-life-for-the-Egyptian-Museum.aspx
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-unveils-renovations-venerable-tahrir-square-museum-2023-02-21/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230221-egypt-unveils-renovations-of-venerable-tahrir-square-museum/
The Museum of Migration is moving:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64726006
Plans for a new archaeological museum on Lefkada:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1205299/plans-approved-for-new-archaeological-museum-on-lefkada-island/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/25/ancient-artifacts-excavated-lefkada-island-museum/
Some 'test openings' for the GEM:
https://egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-opens-its-doors-for-visits-before-official-opening/
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genetic study is shedding light on the expansion of the Tubo Empire:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285378.shtml
Feature on using genetics to track movements of ancient Siberians:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/genetics-reveal-movements-of-ancient-siberians
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on LiDAR:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Venice's canals are drying up:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-canal-drought-italy-climate-scli-intl/index.html
Nelanda:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Pondering the tempo of Beethoven's Ninth:
https://apnews.com/article/classical-music-boston-entertainment-21f41fbf948c7d1875d7e926dd142363
More discussion of Ancient Apocalypse and pseudoarchaeology:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/atlantis-and-the-apocalypse-the-world-of-fringe-archaeology-1.6757733
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CRIME BEAT
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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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The US is returning 77 stolen antiquities to Yemen:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/us-attorneys-office-eastern-district-new-york-joins-department-homeland-security
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen
https://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-artifacts-smuggled-brooklyn-antiquities-003200022.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/02/22/us-to-return-77-stolen-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://menafn.com/1105644819/US-Returns-77-Stolen-Antiquities-Back-To-Yemen
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230222-us-to-return-77-looted-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen-181095
... but they'll be at the Smithsonian for a while:
https://hyperallergic.com/803211/smithsonian-to-house-repatriated-yemeni-artifacts/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-yemeni-artifacts-us-repatriation-1234658629/
77 items (hmmm) associated with Latchford were also returned to Cambodia from the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/stolen-trove-of-angkor-crown-jewels-returned-to-cambodia-after-resurfacing-in-london
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64649771
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/arts/cambodia-gold-jewelry-royals-latchford.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/url-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-cambodia-phnom-penh-ll377kplt
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/collection-rare-centuries-jewelry-returns-cambodia-97330566
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/collection-of-rare-centuries-old-jewelry-returns-to-cambodia/2023/02/20/8dbba134-b11d-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3210907/britain-returns-treasure-trove-stolen-angkor-crown-jewels-cambodia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cambodia-douglas-latchford-repatriation-1234658517/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66541
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-jewelry-cambodia-returned-180981677/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11247-230221-cambodia-repatriated-jewelry
The Uppsala University Museum returned a Bronze Age cylinder seal to Greece:
https://greekherald.com.au/news/unique-bronze-age-clay-seal-returned-to-greece-after-100-years/
A BC museum return a totem pole to the Nuxalk Nation:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/americas/nuxalk-nation-totem-pole-royal-bc-museum-reaj/index.html
The Geneva Museum of Ethnography returned a pair of sacred objects to the Haudenosaunee Confederation:
https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local/swiss-museum-returns-two-artifacts-to-the-haudenosaunee-iroquois-confederacy-6589516
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11250-230222-canada-haudenosaunee-repatriation
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of ancient Pamphylia:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-ancient-greek-pamphylia/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n08.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n09.html
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Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Nicholas David:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/nicholas-david-obituary
George Huxley:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/21/professor-george-huxley-classics-scholar-mathematician-who-became/
Don Benson:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/24/don-benson-obituary
Raymond Clark:
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/26680968/raymond-john-clark
Linda King Newell:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/books/linda-king-newell-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/3261-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-12th-through-the-18th-2023
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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, Robin Derricourt,
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 use of bows and arrows by modern humans in France some 54 000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bow-and-arrow-technology-modern-humans-europe.html
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1255/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1255/pub/1255/page/39/article/NaN
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-22/ty-article/modern-humans-with-bows-and-arrows-invaded-france-54-000-years-ago/00000186-790b-dc22-afe7-797f234f0000
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/23/world/france-cave-earliest-bow-arrow-use-outside-africa-scn
https://www.sciencealert.com/bows-were-being-used-in-europe-40000-years-earlier-than-we-thought
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archery-may-have-arrived-in-europe-thousands-of-years-earlier-than-thought-180981690/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/bow-and-arrow-technology-of-the-first-modern-humans-in-europe/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11252-230224-france-bows-arrows
cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4675
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00526-y
Feature on Palaeolithic children:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-was-it-like-to-grow-up-in-the-last-ice-age
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/20/what-was-it-like-being-a-child-during-the-last-ice-age.html
Feature on adaptability among Neanderthal groups in various places:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/neanderthals-spread-diverse-cultures-across-eurasia-before-we-came-along/
More on Neanderthals eating seafood:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/did-neanderthals-eat-seafood-neanderthals-cooked-and-ate-crab-off-the-coast
More on Paranthropus and the Oldowan toolkit:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/researchers-unearth-3-million-year-old-tools
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A group of 22 Persian, Roman, and Coptic tombs from Minya:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/489649/Antiquities/GrecoRoman/In-Photos--Persian,-Roman-and-Coptic-tombs-discove.aspx
https://www.egyptindependent.com/around-22-tombs-dating-back-to-different-eras-discovered-in-upper-egypt/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272595872.html
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/26/group-persian-roman-coptic-tombs-discovered-egypt/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/coptic-era-tombs-uncovered-in-upper-egypts-minya/146289
That 16-metre scroll of the Book of the Dead has gone on display:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/488450/Antiquities/In-Photos-Waziri-I-Papyrus-on-display-for-first-ti.aspx
https://www.livescience.com/see-photos-of-stunningly-preserved-52-foot-long-book-of-the-dead-papyrus-from-ancient-egypt
https://apnews.com/article/politics-middle-east-egypt-cairo-de982a0960d26b90025b83cef9b50914
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/02/21/second-longest-ancient-scroll-unveiled-in-special-ceremony-at-egyptian-museum/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/egypt-ap-cairo-tahrir-square-b2286076.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11789521/See-preserved-52-foot-long-Book-Dead-papyrus-laid-ancient-Egyptian-tomb.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/02/21/second-longest-ancient-scroll-unveiled-in-special-ceremony-at-egyptian-museum/
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/egypt-unveils-renovated-wing-of-oldest-museum-17795268.php
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66560
Zahi Hawass was speaking on recent finds at Saqqara:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2254981/art-culture
Feature on Mostafa Waziri:
https://egyptian-gazette.com/egypt/meet-the-guardian-of-egyptian-antiquities/
The sun illuminated the face of Ramses II at Aswan last week:
https://egyptindependent.com/sun-illuminates-face-of-ramses-ii-in-aswan/
A possible 2000 years bp burial from Gilan (Iran):
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482161/Newly-discovered-ancient-grave-may-allow-archaeologists-to-retrace
Plans for an underwater survey of the Persian Gulf:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482202/Archaeologists-to-commence-underwater-survey-in-Persian-Gulf
More on the 4500 years bp Sumerian palace site at Girsu:
https://www.livescience.com/4500-year-old-sumerian-temple-dedicated-to-mighty-thunder-god-discovered-in-iraq
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/482084/Archaeologists-hail-find-of-Sumerian-palace-in-southern-Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/17/discovery-of-4500-year-old-palace-in-iraq-may-hold-key-to-ancient-civilisation
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/21/4500-year-old-sumerian-palace-discovered-iraq-desert/
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/4500-year-old-sumerian-temple-discovered-in-iraq/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732247
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-remains-4500-year-old-lost-palace-iraq-1234658416/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/lost-royal-sumerian-palace-and-temple-discovered-in-ancient-city-of-girsu/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11243-230217-girsu-palace-temple
More on the 5000 years bp 'tavern' site at Lagash:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/21/worlds-oldest-tavern-lagash-iraq/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/iraqi-sumerian-tavern-beer-recipe-2258061
Overview of a survey of the area between Al Hai and Rasan Naqab (Jordan):
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/swiss-archaeologist-examines-settlement-continuity-petra
A 3700 years bp Phoenician seal impression from Nahariya:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/21/content_85117762.htm
Late Bronze Age evidence of angular notched trephination ('brain surgery') from a burial at Megiddo:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-uncover-early-evidence-brain.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141115.htm
https://www.livescience.com/3400-years-ago-brain-surgery-left-man-with-square-hole-in-his-skull-ancient-bones-suggest
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/europe-experts-asia-b2287440.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732389
https://www.timesofisrael.com/earliest-brain-surgery-in-the-middle-east-uncovered-at-megiddo/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/world/bronze-age-brain-surgery-scn/index.html
https://wamu.org/story/23/02/22/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones/
https://www.newsweek.com/grave-elite-bronze-age-brothers-mystery-disease-discovered-1782580
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/22/1158721573/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-23/evidence-brain-surgery-brothers-meggido-bronze-era-israel/101989790
https://www.sciencealert.com/evidence-of-one-of-the-earliest-brain-surgeries-has-been-uncovered-in-israel
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/evidence-of-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-found-at-ancient-megiddo/146270
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/early-evidence-of-brain-surgery-in-ancient-near-east/
cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281020
A family out hiking near Modin came across a 1400 years bp clay figure (the end of a candle holder):
https://www.timesofisrael.com/family-comes-face-to-face-with-1400-year-old-decorative-clay-figure/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732257
Some Roman-era burials were vandalized at Tel Kedesh:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732658
More coverage of that inscribed Canaanite ivory comb found a while ago:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f3svrh/decoding-oldest-known-sentence-written-in-first-alphabet
Feature on the rush to preserve the Pilgrimage Road site in Jerusalem mentioned a few weeks ago:
https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/discovery-of-pilgrimage-road-reveals-archaeologists-race-against-time-in-jerusalem
Feature on medieval Holy Land souvenirs:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/holy-land-souvenirs/
Three pre-Islamic gold rings and a Musnad inscription found during excavations at Al-Ukhdud:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/a-rare-inscription-in-an-ancient-arabian-script-was-uncovered-by-archaeologists-in-saudi-arabia-1234658685/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272575157.html
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https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 3rd century BC burial of a woman on Sardinia with a 'nail hole' in her skull:
https://www.livescience.com/3rd-century-bc-woman-was-buried-facedown-with-a-nail-hole-in-her-skull-heres-why
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-european-woman-mysterious-burial-b2287158.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-nail-hole-in-this-roman-skull-may-have-been-an-outdated-public-health-measure
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11249-230222-sardinia-punic-burial
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X23000214
Brief item on the find of a 2000 years bp stove (kiln?) from Genoa:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272573667.html
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article272573667.html
Evidence of 'wooden defenses' (wooden spikes) from a Roman fort site near a silver mine in Germany:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-roman-fort-wooden-spikes-germany-bad-ems-1234658682/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-failed-ancient-roman-silver-mining-operation-2259563
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-have-found-a-fort-that-the-romans-built-to-protect-their-silver-mines-complete-with-wooden-spikes/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66552
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/roman-military-camps-and-evidence-of-silver-mining-found-in-the-bad-ems-area/146263
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11253-230224-germany-roman-wood
... with more emphasis on the silver mining:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hidden-romans-tons-silver-shores.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230221132146.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980406
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/22/hidden-from-the-romans-200-tons-of-silver-on-the-shores-of-the-river-lahn/
A (late?) Roman era necropolis revealed in Friuli (Italian):
https://www.stilearte.it/necropoli-romana-emerge-durante-lavori-in-friuli-la-localita-esatta-tenuta-segreta-per-timore-di-furti/
An item identified as a 'darning tool' found years ago at Vindolanda is now being identified as an ancient sex toy:
https://www.livescience.com/smooth-wooden-phallus-found-at-a-roman-fort-was-likely-a-sex-toy
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-discarded-roman-artifact-good-luck.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/its-not-a-darning-tool-its-a-very-naughty-toy-roman-dildo-found
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roman-dildo-found-northumberland-newcastle-b2285673.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-64678612
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ancient-roman-dildo-1.6755242
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/20/world/roman-wooden-phallus-sex-object-intl-scli-scn
https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/world/article272555225.html
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-02-22/hadrians-wall-treasure-trove-reveals-first-known-sex-toy-from-roman-world.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/20/oldest-roman-sex-toy-found-hadrians-wall/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ancient-artifact-might-actually-be-only-known-roman-dildo-experts-say
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ake5d8/ancient-roman-phallus-vindolanda
https://hyperallergic.com/802678/could-this-be-the-first-known-ancient-roman-dildo/
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/wood-you-believe-it-2000-year-old-sex-toy-found-at-vindolanda-roman-fort-in-northumberland
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732206
https://www.zmescience.com/science/this-roman-lucky-charm-may-actually-be-an-ancient-dildo/
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-wooden-phallus-might-be-a-rare-2000-year-old-dildo
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/first-known-roman-sex-toy-dildo-phallic-object-england-1234658422/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66535
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/disembodied-wooden-phallus-could-be-a-roman-sex-toy/146246
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/21/discarded-roman-artefact-may-have-been-more-than-a-good-luck-charm/
... and who might have made it:
https://theconversation.com/roman-dildo-could-have-been-made-by-shoemakers-an-expert-in-ancient-prosthetics-explains-200387
... and a related item on the long history of such devices:
https://theconversation.com/the-long-and-satisfying-28-000-year-history-of-the-dildo-200278
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-year-history-dildo.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-toys-history-romans-dildo-b2288055.html
Overview of a couple of decades of digging at the Fanum Martis site in France:
https://www.inrap.fr/les-dernieres-etudes-des-vestiges-du-quartier-occidental-de-fanum-martis-nord-17088
Overview of recent finds from Salona:
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/66598-ancient-salona
Evidence that the Hala Sultan Tekke region (Cyprus) was larger in antiquity than previously thought:
https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/02/24/hala-sultan-tekke-area-was-larger-in-antiquity-than-once-thought/
More on the Roman 'hall' from the villa excavations at Posillipo:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732115
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/archaeologists-in-italy-unearth-2000-year-old-hall-where-emperor-and-knights-used-to-party-articleshow.html
More on 'self-healing' Roman concrete:
https://hyperallergic.com/802267/roman-concrete-had-self-healing-properties-study-finds/
A guy in the UK found an ancient Greek coin in his garden (hmmm):
https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/lucky-northamptonshire-gardener-raking-after-8173045
https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/lucky-gardener-found-ancient-greek-coin-while-weeding-in-wellingborough-4040645
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/18/man-finds-ancient-greek-coin-garden/
A trio of Classics folks chatting about the Iliad:
https://www.ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-mcenroe-show/2023-02-21/anger-politics-death-revisiting-the-iliad-through-a-modern-lens
Catherine Baker was talking about assorted items from Pompeii:
https://dailycollegian.com/2023/02/dr-catherine-baker-discusses-artifacts-from-pompeii-excavation-project/
Daisy Dunn on Augustus' marriage laws:
https://spearswms.com/baby-boom-rewards-have-an-ancient-history-of-failure/
Review of Carlo Rovelli, *Anaximander*:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/anaximander-carlo-rovelli-review-meet-forgotten-father-science/
A pair of Muse sculptures are back with the Diana and Actaeon group at Caserta (Italian):
https://www.stilearte.it/due-splendide-muse-scolpite-in-epoca-romana-tornano-alla-reggia-di-caserta-dopo-90-anni-di-assenza/
Feature on what mythological narratives reveal about Mycenean trade:
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/02/mythological-narratives-mycenaean-trade
Feature on Hercules and Japan:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thereligioushistorynerd/2023/02/how-hercules-reached-japan/
Feature on Hindu/Greek religious syncretism:
https://theprint.in/opinion/shiva-skanda-how-hindu-gods-absorbed-iranian-greek-ideas/1391759/
Feature on reassembling broken frescoes from Pompeii using AI/robotics:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-23/ty-article-magazine/israeli-robot-helps-uncover-pompeiis-beauty/00000186-7998-d38d-ada7-79dbf3070000
Feature on recreating a lost drama of Aeschylus:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/how-david-greig-staging-aeschyluss-greek-tragedy-egyptians-when/
Feature on Hadrian's visits to Turkiye:
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/famous-travelers-to-turkiye-hadrian-emperor-with-wanderlust/news
Feature on Indo-Roman relations:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/evidence-of-indo-roman-relations/146284
Feature on three queens of ancient Caria:
https://www.thecollector.com/caria-queens/
Feature on three ancient Greek women philosophers:
https://www.thecollector.com/three-ancient-greek-female-philosophers-to-know/
Feature on Cleopatra:
https://www.thecollector.com/cleopatra-ancient-egypt-ruler/
Feature on Trajan's column:
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-story-behind-trajans-column/
Feature on the status of Vestal Virigins:
https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/02/19/the-unique-status-of-vestal-virgins-in-roman-society/
Feature on Arrian:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/24/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/
Feature on Alexander's dog:
https://scroll.in/article/1043785/not-just-alexander-the-great-there-are-myths-around-his-pet-dog-too
Feature on Alexander in Zoroastrian literature:
https://scroll.in/article/1043934/why-alexander-the-great-was-treated-with-hostility-in-zoroastrian-literature
Feature on the ancient Greeks of the Tamil Nadu region:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/19/ancient-greeks-tamil-nadu-india/
There's word of an Odyssey movie in the works:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/21/movie-homer-odyssey-filmed-greece/
https://greekherald.com.au/lifestyle/entertainment/new-movie-on-homers-odyssey-to-be-filmed-in-greece/
Nothing really new in the Parthenon Sculptures saga this week ... general pieces about the negotiations:
https://www.thenationalherald.com/return-reunification-loan-parthenon-marbles-wheeling-and-dealing/
Latest Pasts Imperfect:
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-22323
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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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A mesolithic site from the Vale of Pickering:
https://the-past.com/news/mesolithic-site-found-in-the-vale-of-pickering/
Evidence that humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9500 years bp may have had a heavier fish diet than previously thought:
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/research/mediterranean-hunter-gatherers-marine-resources/
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-mediterranean-hunter-gatherers-marine-resources-previously.html
Remains of a 6000 years bp settlement associated with 'megalithic builders' from France:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-homes-europe-monument-makers.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-21/ty-article/archaeologists-find-homes-of-europes-first-monument-builders-and-theyre-fortified/00000186-6dc6-dc51-a197-7fce6ec20000
https://arkeonews.net/6000-year-old-settlement-was-home-to-europes-first-megalithic-monument-makers/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/6000-year-old-settlement-of-europes-prehistoric-megalithic-builders/146255
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11251-230222-france-prehistoric-megaliths
3500 years bp arrowheads made of mussel shells from Norwegian glaciers:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-glaciers/archaeologists-surprised-when-3500-year-old-arrowheads-made-of-shells-melted-out-of-the-ice-in-the-norwegian-mountains/2157675
A 3000 years bp toddler's shoe from Kent:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11787153/Bronze-Age-childs-shoe-suggests-problem-toddlers-dropping-things-stretches-3-000-years.html
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2023/02/21/birchington-archaeologist-discovers-3000-year-old-bronze-age-toddlers-shoe-possibly-oldest-found-in-country-and-smallest-unearthed-in-world/
https://arkeonews.net/3000-year-old-leather-shoe-discovered-on-a-beach-in-kent-uk/
Six Iron Age burials found beneath a Highlands kitchen:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-64756840
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/5435818/story-of-six-mystery-skeletons-found-under-applecross-home/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66586
6th-8th century CE evidence of trepanation on a woman's skull from Italy:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-volunteering-cranial-surgery-medieval-italy.html
A study of plague in Denmark 1000-1800 CE:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-deadly-document-evolution-plague-hundreds.html
A study of the height of people in Milan over 2000 years:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-human-height-unchanged-years-milan.html
Vikings apparently left rune graffiti on the Great Lion in Venice:
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-runes/vikings-tagged-the-great-lion-in-venice-with-runes/2157444
A 13th century coin and jewellery hoard found by a metal detectorist in Germany:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272583291.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66527
Construction of the Moscow-Kazan highway revealed a medieval burial ground featuring an embroidered deisis depicting Jesus and John the Baptist:
https://arkeonews.net/in-medieval-burial-ground-a-rare-embroidered-deisis-depicting-jesus-christ-was-discovered/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/rare-embroidered-deisis-depicting-jesus-christ-found-in-medieval-burial-ground/146293
A 300 years bp mikveh find at Auschwitz:
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-732128
A fire in a 17th century Catholic church in Wissen:
https://www.ak-kurier.de/akkurier/www/artikel/126844-brand-in-der-katholischen-kirche-wissen--verdaechtiger-ist-auf-freiem-fuss
More on the Iron Age axle find from Suffolk:
https://the-past.com/news/iron-age-axle-revealed-in-suffolk/
More on the 'resilience' of Kent monks in the wake of attacks by Vikings:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11769411/Pillaging-Vikings-didnt-wipe-Englands-Anglo-Saxon-monks-all.html
More on the All Saints Anchoress:
https://aleteia.org/2023/02/22/archaeologists-identify-the-remains-of-a-medieval-anchoress/
More on Vikings travelling with their animals:
https://the-past.com/news/first-evidence-that-vikings-travelled-with-animals-across-the-north-sea/
More on the Tudor jewellery find by a metal detectorist last month:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158580513/metal-detectorist-discovers-exquisite-tudor-necklace-linked-to-king-henry-viii
More on the medieval ship buried under a Wirral pub parking lot:
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/02/there-is-a-medieval-ship-under-this-building/
More on the medieval synagogue that became a hospital/church/bar:
https://www.livescience.com/medieval-synagogue-that-predates-the-inquisition-found-hidden-under-spanish-nightclub
Some new underwater footage of the wreck of the Gloucester:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-64758552
... and more on its remains going on display:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/25/remains-of-17th-century-shipwreck-go-on-display-in-norfolk
All the burials they're finding at Leicester Cathedral are slowing down restoration efforts:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64723462
The Museum of Somerset acquired a medieval brooch found by a metal detectorist a couple years ago:
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/23339149.medieval-brooch-acquired-museum-somerset/
The Lavatory de la Madeleine has been restored:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66576
Feature on Milan's Duomo and the constant need for restoration:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/world/europe/milan-italy-duomo-cathedral.html
Feature on artifacts found during Amsterdam's metro construction:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/world/amsterdam-train-tunnel-science-newsletter-wt-scn/index.html
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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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Evidence of 5000 years bp flood control/irrigation from a site in Hubei:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/23/content_85124173.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0223/c90000-10212010.html
3000 years bp bone skates froma site in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region:
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2023-02/26/content_85128698.htm?f=pad&a=true
The latest major site uncovered in China is the Dahuzui site, dating to the Western Zhou Dynasty era:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285945.shtml
A large Liao Dynasty building foundation find from Inner Mongolia:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/21/WS63f47df7a31057c47ebb000b.html
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/22/content_85121500.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0221/c90000-10210923.html
Tang tri-coloured pottery from a 1300 years bp burial in Jinan:
http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-02/24/content_85127317.htm
More on the 2400 years bp flush toilet find from Shaanxi:
https://english.news.cn/20230219/87ea452c215e46bb841986a79a53b0d8/c.html
https://www.livescience.com/2,400-year-old-flush-toilet-unearthed-in-China-could-be-one-of-the-worlds-oldest
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-oldest-toilet-remains-discovered-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732404
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archeologists-china-burst-laughter-unearthing-132857193.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/2200-year-old-flush-toilet-found-in-china-likely-one-of-the-oldest-ever-discovered
China is building a National Base of Underwater Archaeology:
https://english.news.cn/20230221/ac04d26922df4cfa92e20c465a3285f5/c.html
http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-02/21/content_85119970.htm
Feature on William Honeychurch's work in Mongolia:
https://news.yale.edu/2023/02/21/mobile-culture-yale-archaeologist-sifts-through-mongolias-ancient-past
Feature on life at a 1500 years bp fortress on the Great Wall:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article272585959.html
China was highlighting six finds from 2022:
https://english.news.cn/20230222/564dc89e1a1447c98e23db32da7ae738/c.html
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/23/content_85123754.htm
http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0222/c90000-10211486.html
Using lake sediments to study changes to Tibetan religious activities during the past millennium:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-tibetan-religious-millennium-revealed-lake.html
More on 3000 years bp milk residue from Tibet:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-02/20/content_85115012.htm?f=pad&a=true
A 2000 years bp deer-antler-stringed-instrument find from a site in Viet Nam:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-year-old-instrument-uncovered-vietnam.html
https://arkeonews.net/southeast-asias-oldest-stringed-instrument-may-be-a-2000-year-old-antler/
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article272570690.html
https://www.iflscience.com/a-2-000-year-old-antler-in-vietnam-may-be-oldest-music-instrument-of-its-kind-67618
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-uncover-2000-year-old-stringed-instrument-in-vietnam/146259
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11248-230221-vietnam-music-instrument
A 12th century hero stone inscribed in Tamil from Srikalahasti:
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2023/feb/26/12th-century-hero-stone-inscription-in-tamil-unearthed-in-srikalahasti-2551085.html
There seems to be discussion/arguing going on over finds from Keeladi:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/explained-the-significance-of-the-findings-in-keeladi/article66541961.ece
https://scroll.in/article/1044567/debating-whether-tamil-nadus-keeladi-is-harappan-or-pre-harappan-is-pointless-says-archaeologist
Feature on Akbar's 'connection' to Alexander:
https://scroll.in/article/1044229/feeling-an-affinity-with-alexander-the-great-akbar-commissioned-a-special-manuscript-on-his-life
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Interesting study searching for the Indigenous creator of a bark painting made at the beginning of the 20th century:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bark-mystery-artist-important-family.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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7000 years bp finds from a potential condo site in Miami is causing controversy:
https://www.newsweek.com/miami-florida-condos-ancient-artifacts-bible-1782733
More on the find of a live Civil War shell at Gettysburg:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeologists-find-unexploded-artillery-shell-under-gettysburg-battlefield
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11246-230221-civil-war-shell
Interesting bit of experimental archaeology relating to Chaco Canyon:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-hauling-chaco-canyon-mystery.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/these-scientists-lugged-logs-on-their-heads-to-resolve-chaco-canyon-mystery/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/23/scientists-may-have-solved-a-chaco-canyon-mystery/
Researchers are working to identify the remains of the Revolutionary War soldiers found at the Camden battlefield a while ago:
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/street-squad/revolutionary-war-soldiers-excavated-camden-identities/101-81161969-b92a-46e8-b120-5c473c25cd96
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11244-230217-south-carolina-soldiers
A bit of flotsam that washed ashore in New York may be part of the SS Savannah:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-flotsam-york-famous-ss-savannah.html
https://apnews.com/article/science-new-york-city-bronx-savannah-oceans-dc09efafd9b191d0715a084516527ed5
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ss-savannah-shipwreck-fire-island-new-york/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/flotsam-found-off-new-york-famous-ss-savannah-97436695
Feature on the 1898 Wilmington coup:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wound-healed-activists-recount-1898-wilmington-coup-terrorized/story?id=96955381
Feature on Richard Henry Greene, Yale's first Black graduate:
https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5622-history-found
The unmarked grave of a Black Galveston priest killed in the Great Galveston Flood was found:
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/02/24/galveston-churches-discover-pioneering-black-priests-unmarked-grave/
Feature on the oldest bell in Quebec:
https://www.riposte-catholique.fr/archives/174961
Review of Jon K. Lauck, *The Good Country*:
https://newrepublic.com/article/170700/searching-spirit-midwest-lauck-good-country-review
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Conservation work has revealed assorted architectural features at the royal acropolis at Ek' Balam:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/new-discoveries-at-ek%CA%BC-balam-during-conservation-works/146296
30 Chancay culture burials from Peru:
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/peruvian-archaeologists-unearth-30-pre-inca-era-graves-2023-02-25/
A 1200 years bp Wari temple complex from Peru:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/23/peru-wari-ritual-complex-temple-uncovered
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732738
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-wari-ritual-complex-pakaytambo-southern-peru-1234658747/
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex-in-peru/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-unearth-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex/146279
16th/17th century burials from Mexico City's Chapultepec park show a mixture of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures:
https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/02/16/cemetery-from-the-early-viceregal-period-found-by-archaeologists-in-chapultepec-park/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-bodies-found-mexico-city-show-shared-catholic-pre-hispanic-graves-2023-02-21/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11242-230217-mexico-transition-cemetery
More on the elite residences found at Chichen Itza:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-residences-mexico-chichen-itza-180981674/
... although it now appears they were known over a century ago:
https://www.livescience.com/no-archaeologists-havent-found-elite-housing-at-chichen-itza
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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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Early in the week we read of an Australia-based archaeologist and his colleagues being taken hostage in Papua New Guinea:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64671699
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-university-professor-taken-hostage-highlands-papua-new-guinea-sources-2023-02-20/
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732098
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773795/Australian-professor-kidnapped-Papua-New-Guinea-gang-1-4m-ransom.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-police-say-4-being-held-by-criminals/2023/02/20/78765f54-b176-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australian-professor-hostage-papua-new-guinea-rcna71428
... and we read of plans for a 'rescue mission':
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64713695
... and one of the group was freed on Thursday:
https://thepublicsradio.org/article/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-free-woman-still-hold-4-others
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/one-woman-hostage-released-papua-new-guinea-negotiations-continue-police-2023-02-23/
... and today they have all been freed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64775769
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-release-3-hostages-97471876
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300816840/kiwi-hostage-safely-released-in-papua-new-guinea
In case you want to watch the dissection of a 3500 years bp frozen bear from Siberia:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2175649859504
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-dissect-3500-year-old-bear-discovered-siberian-permafrost-rcna71954
The Met is allowing 3d copies of some 16th century sculptures to be made:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ny-met-french-3d-16th-century.html
A 16th century drawing has been identified as a 'draft' by Michelangelo for a figure in the Sistine Chapel:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/19/when-we-rotated-it-90-degrees-it-was-obvious-mystery-sketch-is-rare-michelangelo-draft-for-sistine-chapel
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/20/drawing-of-male-nude-is-michelangelos-sketch-for-sistine-chapel-scholar-says
Feature on various ancient surgeries:
https://www.thecollector.com/mindboggling-ancient-surgeries-antiquity/
... and one on 'primitive' brain surgery:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-upsetting-world-of-primitive-brain-surgery
Feature on 20 historic jewels:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230224-the-10-most-iconic-jewels-through-history
Rethinking the portrait of Washington by Charles Peale (maybe):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/arts/george-washington-portrait-charles-peale.html
Seeing how hard it is to paint like Vermeer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/design/the-new-vermeer-tv-show.html
Interesting feature on determining whether a painting was a Dali or not:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/salvador-dali-art-institute-of-chicago-dream-of-venus/index.html
On the implications of ignoring the archaeological evidence for the Armenian genocide:
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/armenian-genocide/
Feature on Clara Driscoll:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/obituaries/clara-driscoll-overlooked.html
Pondering the 'creativity' of the US Founding Fathers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/opinion/bouie-newsletter-framers.html
More on the mummified 'mermaid' from a Japanese temple:
https://www.livescience.com/haunting-mermaid-mummy-discovered-in-japan-is-even-weirder-than-scientists-expected
https://arkeonews.net/300-year-old-sacred-mummified-mermaid-from-japans-mystery-solved/
More on Eadburg marking up medieval manuscripts:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-bodleian-uncovers-hidden-inscriptions-by-mysterious-medieval-woman-scribe/
More on Leonardo and gravity:
https://www.thecollector.com/leonardos-arundel-codex-and-the-theory-of-gravity/
Review of Naoise McSweeney, *The West*:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/23/the-west-by-naoise-mac-sweeney-review-history-rediscovered
Review of Joel Warner, *The Curse of the Marquis de Sade*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/books/review/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade-joel-warner.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Arslantepe Mound in Turkiye suffered some damage:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/arslantepe-mound-in-turkiye-partially-damaged-after-strong-quakes/2829553
Feature on the ruins of Antakya:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-22/ruins-of-turkish-city-of-antakya-tell-story-of-a-rich-past
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ruins-turkish-city-antakya-story-rich-past-97348268
... also on Antakya:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1159528587
Assorted items that were damaged in Turkey (and not):
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damaged-artifacts-moved-to-safe-museums-181035
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/12000-year-old-neolithic-artifacts-in-museums-survive-quakes/news
On saving cultural sites in Turkiye and Syria after the earthquakes:
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/how-can-cultural-sites-be-saved-after-the-turkiye-syria-earthquakes
A history of pancakes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-pancakes-180981667/
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on seven Greek philosophers' explanations of various things in nature:
https://bigthink.com/thinking/7-greek-philosophers-brilliantly-flawed-explanations-nature/
Five philosophers on family values:
https://www.thecollector.com/five-philosophers-on-values-of-families-parenting/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Antonine Wall:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23331390.antonine-wall-exhibition-shine-new-light-roman-history/
Pocklington Shield:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-64733701
Islanders:
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/200-ancient-artefacts-installed-fitzwilliam-26255504
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/islanders-mediterranean-fitzwilliam-museum/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/islanders-major-exhibition-opens-at-the-fitzwilliam-museum/
Vermeer:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-every-single-work-sold-out-rijksmuseum-show-2256255
Pompeii:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-museum-of-science-and-industry-travels-back-to-79-ad-with-pompeii-the-exhibition-301755628.html
Shakespeare:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64651007
Return to Country:
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/significant-object-heads-home-to-tasmania-after-230-years-2614191/
Labyrinth:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/24/labyrinth-knossos-myth-and-reality/
Roman cut glass:
https://www.wales247.co.uk/rare-roman-cut-glass-on-display-at-ceredigion-museum
Gathering Light:
https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/incredible-3000-year-old-bronze-age-gold-sun-pendant-among-ancient-treasures-coming-to-sunderland-museum-winter-gardens-4034393
Suggestion that UK museums have too much in storage:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64707488
More on implications for changes to UK treasure laws:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/change-to-uk-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-museums
More on the plans for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/22/david-chipperfield-unveils-design-for-the-national-archaeological-museum-of-athens/
Plans for a Lincoln Museum under the Lincoln Memorial:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158292427/lincoln-memorial-museum-undercroft
https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/undercroft.htm
Feature on renovations to the Tahrir Square Museum:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/50/489515/AlAhram-Weekly/New-life-for-the-Egyptian-Museum.aspx
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-unveils-renovations-venerable-tahrir-square-museum-2023-02-21/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230221-egypt-unveils-renovations-of-venerable-tahrir-square-museum/
The Museum of Migration is moving:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64726006
Plans for a new archaeological museum on Lefkada:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1205299/plans-approved-for-new-archaeological-museum-on-lefkada-island/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/25/ancient-artifacts-excavated-lefkada-island-museum/
Some 'test openings' for the GEM:
https://egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-opens-its-doors-for-visits-before-official-opening/
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genetic study is shedding light on the expansion of the Tubo Empire:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285378.shtml
Feature on using genetics to track movements of ancient Siberians:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/genetics-reveal-movements-of-ancient-siberians
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on LiDAR:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Venice's canals are drying up:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-canal-drought-italy-climate-scli-intl/index.html
Nelanda:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Pondering the tempo of Beethoven's Ninth:
https://apnews.com/article/classical-music-boston-entertainment-21f41fbf948c7d1875d7e926dd142363
More discussion of Ancient Apocalypse and pseudoarchaeology:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/atlantis-and-the-apocalypse-the-world-of-fringe-archaeology-1.6757733
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CRIME BEAT
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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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The US is returning 77 stolen antiquities to Yemen:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/us-attorneys-office-eastern-district-new-york-joins-department-homeland-security
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen
https://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-artifacts-smuggled-brooklyn-antiquities-003200022.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/02/22/us-to-return-77-stolen-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://menafn.com/1105644819/US-Returns-77-Stolen-Antiquities-Back-To-Yemen
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230222-us-to-return-77-looted-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen-181095
... but they'll be at the Smithsonian for a while:
https://hyperallergic.com/803211/smithsonian-to-house-repatriated-yemeni-artifacts/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-yemeni-artifacts-us-repatriation-1234658629/
77 items (hmmm) associated with Latchford were also returned to Cambodia from the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/stolen-trove-of-angkor-crown-jewels-returned-to-cambodia-after-resurfacing-in-london
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64649771
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/arts/cambodia-gold-jewelry-royals-latchford.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/url-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-cambodia-phnom-penh-ll377kplt
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/collection-rare-centuries-jewelry-returns-cambodia-97330566
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/collection-of-rare-centuries-old-jewelry-returns-to-cambodia/2023/02/20/8dbba134-b11d-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3210907/britain-returns-treasure-trove-stolen-angkor-crown-jewels-cambodia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cambodia-douglas-latchford-repatriation-1234658517/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66541
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-jewelry-cambodia-returned-180981677/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11247-230221-cambodia-repatriated-jewelry
The Uppsala University Museum returned a Bronze Age cylinder seal to Greece:
https://greekherald.com.au/news/unique-bronze-age-clay-seal-returned-to-greece-after-100-years/
A BC museum return a totem pole to the Nuxalk Nation:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/americas/nuxalk-nation-totem-pole-royal-bc-museum-reaj/index.html
The Geneva Museum of Ethnography returned a pair of sacred objects to the Haudenosaunee Confederation:
https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local/swiss-museum-returns-two-artifacts-to-the-haudenosaunee-iroquois-confederacy-6589516
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11250-230222-canada-haudenosaunee-repatriation
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of ancient Pamphylia:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-ancient-greek-pamphylia/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n08.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n09.html
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Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Nicholas David:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/nicholas-david-obituary
George Huxley:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/21/professor-george-huxley-classics-scholar-mathematician-who-became/
Don Benson:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/24/don-benson-obituary
Raymond Clark:
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/26680968/raymond-john-clark
Linda King Newell:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/books/linda-king-newell-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/3261-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-12th-through-the-18th-2023
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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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