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https://www.thedailystar.net/no-evidence-ancient-university-could-be-trade-centre-in-moulvibazar-site-1936989
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2020/07/27/archaeologists-say-no-evidence-of-ancient-university-in-moulvibazar

... related:

https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/archaeologists-find-moulvibazar-man-who-discovered-copperplate-bearing-proof-ancient-university-1937545

The race to preserve Jakarta's 17th century defensive walls:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-jakarta-batavia-17th-century-fortified-walls-ciliwung-12949274

Possible evidence of a 19th century American sealer's camp on Kangaroo Island:

https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/6848675/excavated-log-reveals-clues-of-possible-early-american-camp-on-ki/?cs=1777
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NORTH AMERICA
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Feature on the 14 000 years bp coprolites from the Paisley Caves:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/14000-year-old-poop-among-oldest-traces-humans-north-america-180975426/

A Colonial-era Rappahannock site from Virginia:

https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/hedelt-team-of-archaeologists-from-st-marys-finds-clues-of-native-americans-at-fones-cliffs/article_42f4adf0-7808-5eec-8505-51163dd9de6b.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8887-200728-virginia-rappahannock-ceremonies

Feature on the dig at the Historic Indian Agency House at Fort Winnebago:

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/photos-archaeological-dig-at-the-historic-indian-agency-house-at-fort-winnebago/collection_a917e4c3-6e44-5ee2-b384-fed8a42b5dba.html
https://chippewa.com/news/state-and-regional/from-nails-shards-of-glass-and-bone-a-picture-of-the-past-emerges-in-portage/article_b864888a-0e5c-5940-919c-fd7d6709d480.html

A dig in downtown Albany revealed 130 years bp African American artifacts:

https://www.albanyherald.com/news/albany-history-unearthed-during-excavation-at-construction-site/article_3ea6d9e2-d0fb-11ea-847d-578b19218666.html
https://www.walb.com/2020/07/28/african-american-artifacts-over-years-old-discovered-during-albany-archaeological-excavation/

They opened a 128 years bp 'time capsule' from a Salt Lake LDS Temple:

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/07/29/years-later-salt-lake/ https://www.thechurchnews.com/history-revisited/2020-07-29/salt-lake-temple-time-capsule-angel-moroni-capstone-189787

Protection for the Bennington Battlefield site:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Land-purchase-preserves-key-part-of-Bennington-15433467.php

A campaign to protect Bears Ears artifacts:

https://www.ksl.com/article/50000488/groups-launch-million-dollar-campaign-to-protect-bears-ears-artifacts

Some early maps of Brooklyn have been digitized:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-historical-brooklyn-these-newly-digitized-maps-180975447/

On the Judeo-Christian tradition in the US:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-judeo-christian-tradition-is-over/614812/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
A study of the lead white pigments of Andean qeros:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/dc-lwp072420.php https://phys.org/news/2020-07-white-pigments-andean-vessels-historical.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/lead-white-pigments-on-andean-drinking.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8884-200728-andes-qeros-pigment

An interview with David Carballo on the overthrow of the Aztec Empire (book reviewish):

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/david-carballo-archaeology-and-mesoamerica/614815/

On some pre-hispanic beverage still imbibed in Mexio:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2020/07/27/mexico/1595886593_788090.html

More on possible 33 000 years bp tools from Chiquihuite cave in Mexico:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-stone-tools-suggest-first-people-arrived-america-earlier-thought-n1234578
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200722112726.htm https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/earliest-americans-visited-cave-30000-years-ago

... and the cave has been closed to the public:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-mexico-cave-evidence-early-humans.html

More on pre-Hispanic Zapotec sites at a 'ceremonial site' in central Mexico:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/pre-hispanic-ruins-found-on-mountaintop.html

More on Maya glyphs from Coba:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/decoded-maya-hieroglyphs-reveal-the-name-of-powerful-woman-ruler-lady-yopaat
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8882-200727-coba-maya-glyphs

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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On 'mask resistance' during the 1918 pandemic:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/mask-resistance-during-a-pandemic-isnt-new-in-1918-many-americans-were

Suggestion that leprechauns originated in Italy rather than Ireland:

https://www.irishpost.com/news/leprechauns-originated-from-italy-research-190178

Some kelp off the coast of Scotland appears to be 16 000 years old (!):

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53558308

Feature on Bald's eyesalve:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2020/jul/29/saved-by-the-saxons-the-disgusting-10th-century-potion-that-could-beat-superbugs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Outlook

Feature on the 'Vatican' of the Templars:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08m2b9k/was-this-tiny-church-the-vatican-of-the-templars-

Feature on Jeanne Baret and her 18th century circumnavigation:

https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-07-27/jeanne-baret-la-primera-mujer-en-circunnavegar-el-mundo-en-el-siglo-xviii-por-su-amor-a-la-botanica.html

Feature on Santiago Romn y Cajal and his work with hypnosis:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2020/07/27/santiago-ramon-y-cajal-y-la-hipnosis-una-vision-desconocida-del-cientifico-universal/

Feature on six 'iconic' artifacts:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-6-most-iconic-ancient-artifacts-that-continue-to-captivate

A researcher believes the site of Van Gogh's 'Tree Roots' has been found:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/28/location-van-gogh-final-painting-tree-roots-postcard
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/van-gogh-painting-location-intl-scli/index.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-art-historian-discovered-exactly-where-van-gogh-painted-his-final-work-180975438

An improved restoration of Van Eyck's 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb':

https://www.livescience.com/art-restoration-mystic-jesus-lamb.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/new-restoration-reveals-painted-over-original-version-of-van-eyck-lamb-of-god/

What astronomy reveals about Vermeer's 'View of Delft':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomy-offers-fresh-look-vermeers-view-delft-180975413/

The annual (it seems) feature on the origins of the socks-in-sandals thing:

https://www.dw.com/en/germans-socks-and-sandals-an-exploration-of-the-cliche/a-49689654

Feature on Robert Burton's *Anatomy of Melancholy*:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/252Wn8hWCmdvCHkc2p3XVGd/five-things-a-400-year-old-self-help-book-has-taught-us

On Al-Jazari's robots and other inventions:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2020/07-08/ismail-al-jazari-muslim-inventor-called-father-robotics/

A Picasso mural was removed from some Oslo government building facing demolition:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts/design/picasso-fishermen-mural-norway.html

Feature on the real folks behind the Arthur legend:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/king-arthur-legend-ambrosius-aurelianus-cassivellaunus-magnus-maximus/

Latest NEH grants:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/arts/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-grants.html

Feature on cities:

https://aeon.co/essays/cities-are-a-borderland-where-the-wild-and-built-worlds-meet

More on 'photoshopped' 16th century Bible for Henry VIII:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegraph/20200726/281608127757470 https://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium.MAGAZINE-21st-century-tech-uncovers-use-of-16th-century-photoshopped-bible-1.9031362

More on those well-preserved mammoth remains from a Siberian lake:

https://www.dw.com/en/reindeer-herders-find-well-preserved-mammoth-bones-in-siberian-lake/a-54313318
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/305/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/305/pub/305/page/78/article/67051
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mammoth-remains-intact-ligaments-emerge-siberian-lake-180975431/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/well-preserved-mammoth-skeleton-found.html
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CURRENT EVENTS: STATUES AND THEIR LEGACIES ================================================================
Lexington, Kentucky is doing a lot of thinking about its identity:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/us/politics/lexington-va-confederate-generals.html

Pondering what should be done with a Pancho Villa statue in Tucson:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/08/02/should-pancho-villa-statue-tucson-removed/5552822002/

A call for a monument for Anastacia:

https://publicseminar.org/essays/lets-build-a-monument-to-anastacia/

Arguing about a statue of St Damien of the Molokai:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/928666/alexandria-ocasiocortez-picked-wrong-statue-criticize

On Britain's role in US racism:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53603250

More on the Sierra Club and John Muir:

https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club

Archaeologists respond to the BLM movement:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/black-lives-matter-archaeology/ ================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
More on the genetic legacy of the African slave trade:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-reveals-brutal-genetic-legacy-slave-trade-180975423/
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/society/genetic-consequences-of-the-slave-trade/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Feature on Egypt's new Terminal 3 museum at the Cairo Airport:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90139/In-Pics-Final-touches-placed-on-Cairo%E2%80%99s-Airport-Terminal-3

Latest on the hanging obelisk at the GEM:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90147/Egypt%E2%80%99s-GEM-restorers-add-final-touches-to-1st-hanging-obelisk

The Sharm el-Sheikh Museum is "almost ready for partial reopening':

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90246/Sharm-El-Sheikh-Museum-almost-ready-for-partial-opening"

They've turned the Getty Museum Challenge into a book:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-getty-museum-challenge-is-now-a-book/

The British Museum needs help identifying some things:

https://www.cbc.ca/1.5664463

On the colonialism aspect of museum collections:

https://hyperallergic.com/577900/alice-procter-the-whole-picture/ ================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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3d reconstruction of some pre-Columbian crania from the Caribbean and South America:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-unprecedented-d-reconstruction-pre-columbian-crania.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/unprecedented-3d-reconstruction-of-pre.html

Interesting digital restoration of 5 UNESCO sites:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/watch-5-unesco-sites-get-digitally-restored-in-a-matter-of-seconds.html

What ancient teeth reveal about epidemics of the past:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ancient-teeth-show-history-of-epidemics-is-much-older-than-we-thought/2020/07/24/4f18ed94-b641-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Evidence from caves inhabited by Neanderthals in Italy about sea levels is providing climate change information:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-neanderthal-caves-reveal.html

Evidence from a Texas cave is shedding light on Earth's cooling event some 13 000 years bp:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200731180717.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/tau-coe073120.php

Feature on John Tyndall and climate science:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-john-tyndall-forgotten-co-discoverer-climate.html ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Fosse Dionne:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200730-the-fosse-dionne-frances-mysterious-underground-spring

British cities:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/best-british-summer-city-breaks/

Olympus:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/07/27/the-hidden-treasures-of-olympus-the-mountain-of-the-greek-gods/
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
On Bach still being a 'star' 270 years after his death:

https://www.dw.com/en/whybach-is-still-germanys-star-composer270-years-after-his-death/a-54329958

Reconstructing the sound of Byzantine cathedral music:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts/music/hagia-sophia-acoustics-music.html

A couple items on the Salzburg Festival:

https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-salzburg-festival-came-to-salzburg-100-years-ago/a-50229580
https://www.dw.com/en/100-years-of-the-salzburg-festival/g-54381204

On the Greek formula that hit musicals conform with:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hit-musicals-conform-to-the-ancient-greeks-formula-bnx55ngxr

Epidaurus is back in action:

http://m.thecourierexpress.com/news/world/ap-photos-ancient-greek-theaters-return-to-life-in-pandemic/article_be1a81ab-c7ff-5271-8f25-dc71e2c8e1d4.html
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/02/ancient-greek-theaters-return-to-life-in-pandemic/

Some reviews of 'The Persians':

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/26/the-persians-review-a-triumph-of-empathy-for-a-time-of-covid
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/theater/the-persians-review-aeschylus.html https://www.thenationalherald.com/food_travel_travel/arthro/aeschylus_the_persians_live_from_epidaurus_powerful_drama_online-644848/
https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/07/31/a-greek-tragedy-purges-the-plague

They're actually working on a 'Salvator Mundi: The Musical':

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/salvator-mundi-leonardo-da-vinci-musical/index.html
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
A Rubens portrait that was barred from leaving the UK is up for sale again:

https://observer.com/2020/07/rubens-portrait-young-woman-christies-auction-5-million/

A Rembrandt self portrait (maybe) is coming to auction:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-07-27/a-subasta-un-autorretrato-de-rembrandt-valorado-en-17-millones.html

Results from Sotheby's recent art sale:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/arts/design/sothebys-banksy-rembrandt.html

Big bucks for an Alexander the Great decadrachm:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/rare-alexander-the-great-silver-decadrachm-gets-27-600-dollars-in-auction

Leicester has purchased an Egyptian statue:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/3000-year-old-statue-acquired-for.html

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CRIME BEAT
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A metal detectorist in Spain was arrested in possession of Phoenician jewellery:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/spanish-police-recover-treasure-haul-from-alleged-looter-metal-detector

A guy in Stara Zagora was arrested for making fake antiquities:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/205459/Bulgaria%3A+Man+from+Stara+Zagora+Making+Forgeries+of+Archeological+Objects+was+Detained

Feature on some forged Persian antiquities:

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2020/07/31/298473.htm

The Nantes Cathedral fire was the result of arson:

https://www.dw.com/en/france-suspect-in-nantes-cathedral-arson-attack-confesses-lawyer-says/a-54322665

Facebook is apparently making moves to prevent sales of antiquities:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896088032/facebook-moves-to-prevent-antiquities-looting-critics-say-its-not-enough

... related:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/archaeologists-defied-isis-then-they-took-facebook/614674/

Study suggests extent of trade in looted antiquities has been exaggerated:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/report-challenges-thinking-on-illicit-trade-in-antiquities
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-july-28-2020-1897693

More on that US citizen accused of smuggling a mosaic from Syria:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-man-charged-smuggling-ancient-roman-mosaic
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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 ================================================================
The UK will be returning a 9th century (stolen) statue of Shiva to India:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/travel-news/the-uk-to-return-9th-century-stolen-shiva-statue-to-india/as77284160.cms
https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/ninth-century-lord-shiva-statue-to-be-returned-to-india-3/
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/ninth-century-lord-shiva-statue-to-be-returned-to-india/1905520
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/stolen-9th-century-shiva-statue-returns.html

The Museum of the Bible is returning items to Iraq:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/897836720

Some petroglyphs in Grant House near Fort Vancouver are being returned:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/jul/31/two-petroglyphs-to-leave-grant-house-near-fort-vancouver-to-be-closer-to-place-of-origin/

This seems to be the category for an OpEd on 'Who Owns the Past':

https://aeon.co/essays/why-cultural-heritage-benefits-the-rich-and-powerful-above-all

... and one on whether it is time to repatriate Africa's looted art:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/28/time-repatriate-africa-looted-art-artifacts-cultural-heritage-benin-bronzes-nigeria-ghana-europe-british-museum/

Searching for Nazi-looted instruments:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/812891442/where-are-the-thousands-of-nazi-looted-musical-instruments
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Herod the Great:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-herod-the-great-coinweek-ancient-coin-series/

Feature on bronze coins of Roman Termessos:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-coin-profiles-the-indepedent-bronze-coinage-of-roman-termessos/

OpEd on rethinking the laws affecting the sale of coins in the US:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/collecting-ancient-coins-time-to-consider-a-new-paradigm-that-facilitates-lawful-trade/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n30.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n31.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Martha Nierenberg:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts/martha-nierenberg-entrepreneur-who-sought-arts-return-dies-at-96.html

Philip J. King:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/in-memorium-philip-j-king-1925-2019-2/

Massoud Golzari:

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/07/27/2315458/well-known-iranian-archaeologist-passes-away
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/450654/Veteran-Iranologist-archaeologist-Golzari-laid-to-rest

Duncan Cloud (pdf)

https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2020/07/SHIPLEY-MILLETT-Duncan-Cloud-obituary-2.pdf

Anton Powell (pdf)

https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2020/07/MITCHELL-CARTLEDGE-Anton-Powell-1947-2020.pdf

Lawrence E Gaichas:

http://caas-cw.org/wp/2020/07/28/laurentius-me-fecit-in-memoriam-caas-leader-dr-lawrence-e-gaichas-emeritus-duquesne-university/

Kevin Newman:

https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/kevin-newman/article_78ce6816-d127-11ea-b756-5cb9017bff17.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2981-audio-news-from-archaeologica-july-19-through-july-25-2020
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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/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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