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Feature on lost Black cemeteries ... with a focus on one recently found in Virginia:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/february/black-church-graveyards-repair-save-fund.html

Feature on five finds made in the past few years in the Yukon:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/five-fascinating-ice-age-finds-discovered-in-yukon-permafrost-180979521/

Feature on Underground Railroad sites in Michigan:

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2022/02/10/michigan-underground-railroad-sites/6718742001/

Another feature on the Clotilda:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220207-the-last-known-ship-of-the-us-slave-trade

Feature on a group of Black divers studying/searching for wrecks of slave ships:

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/12/1080420160/into-the-depths-podcast-follows-black-divers-in-search-for-slave-trade-shipwreck

Another feature on Poverty Point:

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2022/02/10/poverty-point-archaeologists-ancient-discoveries/6690261001/

Feature on Abraham Galloway:

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1077673414/abraham-galloway-civil-war-black-history

Feature on the US Supreme Court:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/opinion/supreme-court-alabama-maps.html

Review of Linda Hirshman, *The Color of Abolition*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/07/wordle-crack-dickens-code-it-worker-california-shorthand-love-deciphering

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Colombia has started the process of recovering the wreck of the San Jose:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-colombia-eyes-tonnes-galleon-gold.html

A study of government and communication in 16th century Mesoamerica:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-complexities-millennia-mesoamerica.html

I think we mentioned Wari use of hallucinogens some 1200 years bp:

https://www.livescience.com/wari-hallucinogen-to-keep-followers-loyal

Tracking climate, demography, and diet change over 7000 years in the Central Andes:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-drove-7000-years-of-dietary.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/10/climate-drove-7000-years-of-dietary-changes/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05774-y

More on Maya sacred cacao groves in the Yucatan:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-now-know-where-the-ancient-maya-planted-their-sacred-cacao-groves-180979535/

Feature on the restoration of some churches in Michoacan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/t-magazine/painted-churches-michoacan-mexico.html
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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/ ============================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
A researcher has used 'deep learning' to develop a Google specifically for archaeologists:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-google-archaeologists.html

Feature on using AI to translate Indus Valley script (maybe):

https://restofworld.org/2022/indus-translation-ai-code-script

Victor Nuovo's latest:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2022/02/10/victor-nuovo-look-to-our-great-moral-teachers/

Feature on five inventors killed by their own inventions:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/five-inventors-killed-by-their-own-creations

Feature on the power of nuns in Baroque Spain (I think):

https://smoda.elpais.com/feminismo/devotas-y-diplomaticas-cuando-las-monjas-del-barroco-fueron-el-poder-en-la-sombra-de-los-palacios-reales/

How archaeology influence Agatha Christie's *Death on the Nile*:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-agatha-christies-love-of-archaeology-influenced-death-on-the-nile-180979544/

On Darwin's theories on the evolution of human expressions:

https://theconversation.com/150-years-ago-charles-darwin-wrote-about-how-expressions-evolved-pre-empting-modern-psychology-by-a-century-170880

Not sure where to put this one ... a Tunisian 'enthusiast' has recreated the purple dye made from snails:

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-02-08/tunisian-enthusiast-recreates-sea-snail-purple-dye-that-defined-ancient-royals
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-695850

Similarly not sure where to put this item on Azerbaijan planning to erase 'Armenian forgery' from its churches:

https://eurasianet.org/azerbaijan-announces-plans-to-erase-armenian-traces-from-churches

Feature on human fascination with portraits:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220204-why-portraits-have-fascinated-us-for-millennia

Research reveals that Marco Polo had a previously-unknown daughter:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/marco-polo-had-previously-unknown-daughter-prior-to-marriage-will-suggests
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63313 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/will-reveals-existence-of-agnese.html

Leonardo seems to have problems drawing a vulva:

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-695885

Latest desecration of a painting appears to have been done by a bored Russian gallery security guard:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60330758

Feature on the search for a 'missing' Paolo Veronese painting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60290162

Feature on Jacques-Louis David:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/jacques-louis-david-radical-draftsman/

Feature on one of the mysterious women painted by Whistler:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whistlers-woman-in-white-joanna-hiffernan-royal-academy-clkwmpfzh

Feature on the 'Vanitas' genre:

https://mymodernmet.com/vanitas-dutch-paintings/

Latest cheap painting might be a van Dyck:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/van-dyck-infanta-portrait-painting

Feature on Dickens' 'archaic shorthand' notes to himself:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/books/charles-dickens-secret-notes.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/07/wordle-crack-dickens-code-it-worker-california-shorthand-love-deciphering
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/decoding-charles-dickens-amateur-sleuths-helped-decipher-1859-letter/

Oxford had 'bought back' a 16th century Euclid translation it had given away in the 18th:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/11/oxford-university-buys-back-first-euclid-translation-300-years/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/879/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/879/pub/879/page/55/article/272579

Something about the development of writing and 'collective computation':

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-uncorked-bottleneck.html

Suggestion that Isaac Newton was the smartest person in the world:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/smartest-person-world-isaac-newton/

Feature on one of Amelia Earhart's aviator helmet mysteries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/nyregion/amelia-earhart-aviator-helmet.html

Feature on chimney sweeps:

https://aeon.co/videos/the-perilous-lives-of-the-climbing-boys-who-swept-chimneys-in-19th-century-london

Feature on the use of star maps to locate Shackleton's Endurance:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60352606

Feature on Syphilis:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/syphilis-name/

A plan to revive aurochs in Europe:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aurochs-rewilding

More on the centennial of Joyce's *Ulysses* ... coverage varies:

https://www.theweek.co.uk/arts-life/culture/books/955712/james-joyces-ulysses-turns-100

More on no offers for the Villa Aurora:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-02-06/la-princesa-texana-el-mural-de-caravaggio-y-las-maravillas-del-palacio-que-nadie-quiere-comprar.html
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-02-11/se-vende-coleccion-de-arte-con-caravaggio-a-condicion-de-no-moverlos.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Plans to install a statue of Chief Tomochichi are raising concerns:

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-arts-and-entertainment-georgia-atlanta-native-americans-e3615afe670d9d6e64c4b0098e44fbf5

Reading Thucydides during a pandemic:

https://theamericanscholar.org/reading-thucydides-in-a-time-of-pandemic/

What Cupid can teach us about love and desire:

https://theconversation.com/what-the-mythical-cupid-can-teach-us-about-the-meaning-of-love-and-desire-176760
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/february/joel-christensen-cupid.html

Feature on assorted Valentine's Day Traditions:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/655143/odd-old-timey-valentines-day-traditions

Some items on the history of Valentine's Day:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/the-history-of-valentines-day-why-do-we-celebrate-it-and-who-was-st-valentine-3564355
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/11/history-valentines-day-saint-valentine/6708885001/
https://therecorddelta.com/article/the-surprisingly-dark-history-of-valentines-day

Review of a book about vintage Valentine's Day cards and the like:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/books/review/vintage-valentines.html

Feature on John Wesley Gilbert, the first Black archaeologist:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/extraordinary-life-john-wesley-gilbert-first-black-archaeologist

Feature on Carter G. Woodson:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/celebrating-black-history-months-founder/

Pondering the origins of racism (in the wake of Whoopi Goldberg's comments):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/opinion/whoopi-goldberg-race-history.html

... and the connection of racism to the slave trade:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/opinion/slave-trade-race-history.html

The Dutch Central Bank has acknowledged its slave trade connections:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2022-02-09/el-banco-central-holandes-reconoce-sus-lazos-con-la-esclavitud-durante-la-era-colonial.html

More on the Super Bowl and Roman numerals:

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/super-bowl-2022-number-roman-numerals/aoszl3nvejlp7krnjlrususg
https://sports.nbcsports.com/2022/02/05/super-bowl-2022-roman-numerals-naming/ https://www.distractify.com/p/why-does-the-super-bowl-use-roman-numerals

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ancient Greek Theatre:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1177165/forthcoming-exhibition-on-ancient-theater-at-the-museum-of-cycladic-art/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/10/athens-museum-of-cycladic-art-hosts-ancient-theatre-exhibition/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/08/cycladic-museums-next-exhibition-will-be-about-the-ancient-greek-theater/

Stonehenge:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-world-of-stonehenge/ https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/ancient-orkney-artefacts-show-how-happening-islands-influenced-stonehenge-3564541
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/seahenge-in-exhibition-at-british-museum-in-london-8674748

Evil Eye:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/artifacts-protecting-against-evil-eye-host-visitors-in-izmir/news

Karl Marx:

https://www.dw.com/en/karl-marx-five-reasons-why-the-thinker-was-ahead-of-his-time/a-60716738

Holbein:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/arts/design/holbein-morgan-portraits-renaissance.html

In Pursuit of Venus:

https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-02-09/venus

The Grand Egyptian Museum is boasting having 4700 Tut artifacts:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/112759/4-700-relics-of-Tutankhamun-successfully-exhibited-in-Grand-Egyptian

... and a general update on progress:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2022/02/10/gem-received-and-restored-56000-artefacts-so-far-tourism-ministry/

The Troy Museum is adding an online component:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/turkeys-troy-museum-to-be-introduced-in-digital-environment/news

The Met is renovating its Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/arts/design/met-galleries-renovations.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Big bucks for a 'forgotten' Strigel work:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/11/e2-8-million-for-a-forgotten-painting-of-1520/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests a large scale Bronze Age migration to Orkney, which replaced much of the local population:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-bronze-age-women-genetic-landscape.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220207155634.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942423 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10485783/Archaeology-Orkney-saw-mass-migration-Europe-rest-UK-4-500-years-ago.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/bronze-age-women-altered-genetic-landscape-of-orkney/142705
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/bronze-age-women-altered-genetic.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/08/bronze-age-women-altered-genetic-landscape-of-orkney/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10328-220209-orkney-bronze-age

cf: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2108001119

Reviewish of Jennifer Raff, *Origins: A Genetic History of the Americas*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/books/review/origin-genetic-history-americas-jennifer-raff.html

... and a piece by Raff herself:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ancient-dna-native-americans/ ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on some child mummy scans at the British Museum:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63304

Feature on using the Google Ngram Viewer:

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/the-digital-tool-that-helps-robert-shiller-understand-the-past

Latest facial reconstructions of assorted historical figures:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/arist-ai-historical-figures ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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A number of coastal sites in Africa are threatened by climate change:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307915-over-190-african-heritage-sites-threatened-by-rising-seas-this-century/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/heritage-sites-in-africa-threatened-by-climate-change/142745
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/african-heritage-sites-threatened-by.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/11/african-heritage-sites-threatened-by-coastal-flooding-and-erosion/

Climate change concerns for Hadrian's Wall:

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-climate-threatens-hadrian-wall-treasures.html https://www.rfi.fr/en/climate-change-threatens-hadrian-s-wall-treasures-in-england
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220208-hadrian-s-wall-climate-change-threatens-ancient-roman-structure
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/how-climate-change-is-washing-away.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Naples:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-naples-whats-2000-years-old-is-new-again

Medieval European castles:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/frederic-chaubin-stone-age-castles/index.html

Hillforts in Britain:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/feb/10/uk-ancient-forts-stanwick-st-john-north-yorkshire-five-hill-forts

Sardinia:

https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/regions/sardinia/2022/02/10/archaeology-sardinia-island-of-megaliths-in-thessaloniki_84e9a625-8d13-4892-a477-f292b8fb6487.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Pondering Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer':

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/02/07/1078314203/reconsidering-scott-joplins-the-entertainer

Criticizing Hollywood's 'lost treasure' movies:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/11/booty-calls-hollywoods-problem-with-lost-treasure-yarns
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CRIME BEAT
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Vague item on vandalism at a site in Shahhat (Libya):

https://en.libyan-cna.net/tourism-and-archaeology/act-of-sabotage-in-an-archaeological-site-in-shahhat/

Thousands of antiquities (lots of coins) recovered in a pre-dawn raid in the Nablus area:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-695963 https://www.timesofisrael.com/suspected-antiquities-looter-arrested-in-west-bank-with-thousands-of-coins/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2022/02/israel-arrests-an-antiquities-thief-and-recovers-thousands-of-precious-relics/

A major antiquities smuggling case revolving around a prominent Egyptian businessman has resumed:

https://www.foreignbrief.com/daily-news/egypt-antiquities-trafficking-case-resumes-proceedings/
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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 ============================================================
A Belgian museum returned some Nazi-looted art to heirs:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/10/justice-can-triumph-painting-looted-by-nazis-returned-to-owners-after-80-years
https://www.dw.com/en/belgian-museum-returns-nazi-looted-painting-to-jewish-family/a-60735664
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/belgium-museum-nazi-looted/index.html

The US returned an ancient helmet to Bulgaria:

https://bg.usembassy.gov/us-embassy-announces-the-return-of-an-ancient-helmet-along-with-a-new-program-to-protect-bulgarian-antiquities-02-11-2022/

The Boston MFA returned a couple of pieces to Mali:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/02/08/mfa-returns-looted-objects-to-mali

The US returned items to Chile that were on the auction block in Philadelphia:

https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/estados-unidos-devuelve-objetos-historicos-del-norte-de-chile-que-iban-a-ser-subastados-en-filadelfia/L4XELZCNSVFLLAUWTOB4M5RGC4/

Hawaii is receiving ancestral remains from assorted European museums:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/arts/design/hawaii-remains-europe.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/11/germany-returns-ancestral-human-remains-in-berlin-museum-collection-to-hawaii
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/11/sacred-remains-ancestors-return-home/

A stolen Buddha that turned up in Italy will be returned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/arts/design/stolen-buddha-statue-india.html

More on a Lebanon museum returning 300+ items to Iraq:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2019366/middle-east https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/lebanon-returns-337-artifacts-of-different-eras-to-iraq/2022/02/06/fc681cfc-8752-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Lebanon-returns-337-artifacts-of-different-eras-16835581.php
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanon-returns-337-artifacts-eras-iraq-82706461
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20220207-lebanese-museum-returns-millennia-old-antiquities-to-iraq
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220207-lebanese-museum-returns-millennia-old-antiquities-to-iraq
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/02/07/hundreds-of-artifacts-of-different-eras-returned-to-iraq-from-lebanon/
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/2022/02/08/iraqs-heritage-faces-organised-sabotage-as-returned-antiquities-go-on-display/
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/lebanon-returns-337-artifacts-of-different-eras-to-iraq-171341
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10329-220210-iraq-artifacts-repatriated

Feature on Nazi-looted art:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/02/08/nazi-looted-art-is-under-the-spotlight-thanks-to-musee-du-louvre-and-sothebys/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Roman emperors who had very brief rules:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/short-timers-on-ancient-coins-the-briefest-reigns-of-roman-emperors/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n06.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n07.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Neil Faulkner:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/02/07/neil-faulkner-archaeologist-historian-revolutionary-socialist/
https://www.archaeologyworldwide.com/post/neil-faulkner-obituary

Martha Sharp Joukowsky:

https://www.brown.edu/academics/archaeology/news/msj

Hamid Khatib-Shahidi:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/470066/Prominent-Iranian-archaeologist-Hamid-Khatib-Shahidi-dies-at

Norma Waterson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/arts/music/norma-waterson-dead.html

John Rice Irwin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/us/john-rice-irwin-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/3135-audio-news-from-archaeologica-january-30th-through-february-5th-2022

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ============================================================
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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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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