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Criticism of corgi portrayal in Bridgerton (not sure if this is serious)

https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/bridgerton-season-2-kate-sharma-dog-corgi-historical-accuracy.html

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Reviewish of Darrin McMahon, *Happiness: A History*:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/happy-word-etymology/629382/

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICCAL ============================================================
Victor Nuovo is pondering the existence of evil:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2022/03/31/victor-nuovo-how-can-god-allow-evil-to-exist/

Feature on Margaret Cavendish:

https://psyche.co/ideas/margaret-cavendish-and-the-power-of-debating-with-yourself

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ancient Greeks:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/2022/03/30/features/museum-curator-makes-ancient-greece-come-alive-in-canberra/

Islamic Art:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/463740.aspx

Holbein:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hans-holbein-morgan-2073983

More on museums distancing themselves from the Sackler name:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/28/tainted-gifts-museums-rethink-donation-deals

OpEd on the future of museums:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/01/the-guardian-view-on-museums-and-communities-shaping-the-future
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A painting depicting a British defeat in India came to auction this week:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60911182 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/world/asia/tipu-sultan-india-painting.html

A tiny Bronte book is coming to auction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/arts/charlotte-bronte-book-discovery.html

More on the two ancient items pulled from Christie's upcoming antiquities auction:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/artifact-flagged-by-expert-withdrawn-christies-1234623047/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/114235/British-Museum-removes-Sackler-family-name-over-opioid-crisis

Feature on the Winter Show:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/arts/design/winter-show-barneys-antiques-design.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA is shedding light on the origins of the Avars:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-avars-elucidated-ancient-dna.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220401122158.htm https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/study-reveals-origin-of-the-mysterious-avars-who-crushed-rome-1.10711719
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/04/study-sheds-light-on-the-mystery-of-the-avar-elite-origins/143282

cf: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00267-7

Studying a 5000 year span of population history in Xinjiang:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-year-population-history-xinjiang-brought.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/04/5000-year-population-history-of-xinjiang-brought-to-light-in-dna-study/143279
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/5000-year-population-history-of.html

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk1534

More on the genetic survival of the Ohlone people:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/03/31/california-san-francisco-muwekma-ohlone-tribe/7226103001/
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-dna-could-help-california-tribe-get-federal-recognition

More on DNA and migrants bringing maize to Belize:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/30/migrants-from-south-carrying-maize-were-early-maya-ancestors/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-finds-migrants-brought-maize-to-the-maya-180979842
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on assorted Digital Humanities projects using UF's supercomputer:

https://news.ufl.edu/2022/03/ai-symposium/

This seems to be a different study of ancient scents than the one mentioned in the ANE section above:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-ways-reconstruct-scents.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220328112153.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/947697 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/smells-like-ancient-society-scientists.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/29/smells-like-ancient-society-ways-to-study-and-reconstruct-past-scents/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01325-7

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Faversham Stone Chapel:

https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/thats-left-lost-town-hidden-6894174

Hattusha:

https://azertag.az/en/xeber/Hattusha___the_capital_of_the_Hittite_civilization_one_of_must_see_UNESCO_World_Heritage_sites_in_Turkiye-2074799
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
The Northman:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/robert-eggerss-historical-visions-go-mainstream

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CRIME BEAT
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A metal detectorist was arrested at a Roman site in Warwickshire:

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/novice-metal-detectorist-stopped-police-23489900

Egyptian authorities appear to have confiscated contents of a Genizah in Cairo:

https://thejewishvoice.com/2022/03/egyptian-antiquities-authorities-confiscates-new-genizah-found-in-cairo-jewish-cemetery/
https://worldisraelnews.com/egyptian-authorities-confiscate-valuable-jewish-archives-in-cairo/

Concerns for Afghan antiquities appearing on the black market:

https://www.ft.com/content/efbed10d-fce4-40b3-9f42-e835f5f775ac

More Shapoor-related items were seized from Yale (!) this week:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/arts/design/yale-art-looting-investigation.html
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/more-than-1-million-in-stolen-artifacts-recovered-from-ivy-league-school-feds/3623815/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yale-university-subhash-kapoor-looted-antiquities-2093117
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/subhash-kapoor-antiquities-seized-ivy-league-school-1234623591/

Latest on that trial revolving around a recovered hoard of Viking coins from County Durham:

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/20024418.recovered-coins-seized-address-county-durham/

A Qatari sheikh has lost his case against a gallery which sold him 'fakes':

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10668411/Qatari-sheikh-loses-legal-fight-against-Swiss-antique-dealer-paying-4M-fake-statues.html
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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 ============================================================
Some explanation of why Turkey will not be returning the Siloam inscription (or other items from Israel):

https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/03/28/turkey-wont-be-so-quick-to-release-its-archaeological-hostages/

The US returned a pair of smuggled artifacts to Libya:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/arts/design/met-museum-bust-looted.html https://phys.org/news/2022-03-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-libya.html https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/international/532874/looted-libyan-artifacts-returned-by-u-s
https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-two-antiquities-valued-at-over-500000-to-the-people-of-libya/
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/looted-libyan-artifacts-returned-by-us-2022-03-31/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/01/two-looted-ancient-greek-statues-including-one-that-was-on-view-at-the-met-have-been-returned-by-the-u-s-to-libya/
https://www.thenationalherald.com/us-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-to-libya/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-museum-returns-looted-libyan-bust-2092386 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-libya-83790132
https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/libya%E2%80%99s-foreign-ministry-returns-looted-artifact-after-being-retrieved-new-york
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10438-220401-libya-looted-sculptures

... and Libya is also trying to recover an item from Brazil:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/libya-seeks-prove-its-ownership-smuggled-archaeological-statue-brazil

Another Nazi loot lawsuit .... this time involving a Texas museum:

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article259855470.html

More on an Italian court ruling that a Doryphoros statue at the Minneapolis Institute of Art was illegally excavated in the 1970s:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/30/italian-court-restitution-ancient-roman-marble-doryphoros-minneapolis-institute-of-art

More on Seattle returning artifacts to the Upper Skagit people:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/mar/25/ancient-native-american-artifacts-seattle-to-return-items-to-tribe/
https://www.chronline.com/stories/a-deep-inner-meaning-seattle-returns-ancient-artifacts-to-upper-skagit-tribe,286780?
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the coins of Mithridates:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-ancient-coins-of-mithridates/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n13.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n14.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Harm Pinkster:

https://brill.com/view/journals/mnem/75/2/article-p207_1.xml

Klaus Alpers:

https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/igrlatphil/ueber-das-institut/aktuelles/2022-03-25-nachruf-klaus-alpers.html

Ramadan Badri Hussein:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/463751.aspx

Margaret M. McGowan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/books/margaret-mcgowan-dead.html https://politpost.com/2022/04/01/margaret-m-mcgowan-who-expanded-the-field-of-dance-history-dies-at-90/

Nancy Milford:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/books/nancy-milford-dead.html

William Scovil Anderson:

https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/node/1096

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3164-audio-news-from-archaeologica-march-20th-2022-through-march-26th-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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