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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/04/15/titanic-anniversary-photos/7330806001/

The fate of a couple of copies of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57683638

I think we mentioned the idea that Spain had the Holy Grail:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220414-does-spain-have-the-holy-grail

Marking the bicentennial of the birth of Donald Grant Mitchell:

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dgm200

Latest round of NEH grants:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/arts/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-new-grants.html

Review of Lucasta Miller, *Keats*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/books/review/keats-brief-life-lucasta-miller.html

Review of Edna St Vincent Millay's Diaries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/books/review/rapture-and-melancholy-edna-st-vincent-millay.html

Reviewish of a book and graphic novel about Spain's 'philanthrophic vaccine expedition' in the 19th century:

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2022-04-10/la-real-expedicion-filantropica-de-la-vacuna-un-hito-para-la-medicina-espanola-y-universal.html

More on the return of a couple of Darwin's notebooks to Cambridge:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/04/11/two-of-darwins-notebooks-returned-to-cambridge/

More on Shackleton's ship:

https://the-past.com/news/the-search-for-shackletons-ship/ ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on the history of Passover charoset:

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/food/.premium-jesus-demons-and-flatulence-a-brief-history-of-charoset-1.10727366

Suggestion that 'Passover' is a mistranslation:

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/625726dc9277230021b2b821/jewish-passover-translation-2022-history/

Items on the origins of Easter and the Easter bunny (various spins):

https://theconversation.com/sacred-hares-banished-winter-witches-and-pagan-worship-the-roots-of-easter-bunny-traditions-are-ancient-180484
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/14/easter-bunny-eggs-symbols/7280512001/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/16/easter-bunny-ancient-greek-origins/ https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-704295 https://www.npr.org/2015/04/03/397350707/what-you-didn-t-know-about-what-you-already-know-about-easter
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ancient-origins-of-the-easter-bunny-180979915/

A Russian oligarch's painting in an exhibition in France was seized:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/arts/design/morozov-collection-russia-sanctions.html

... while Finland feels seized Russian art should be returned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/arts/design/finland-russia-art-seizure.html

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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
How wild tulips from the Mediterranean made it to northern Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-history-introduction-tulipa-sylvestris-sixteenth-century.html

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICCAL ============================================================
Victor Nuovo on defining the Good:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2022/04/14/victor-nuovo-defining-the-good-itself/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Tut centenary:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tutankhamun-excavating-the-archive-d68s5s8nf https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/revealed-unsung-heroes-excavated-tutankhamuns-tomb/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/945/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/945/pub/945/page/75/article/293081

Hadrian's Wall:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-61042622

Winslow Homer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/arts/design/winslow-homer-painter-metropolitan-museum.html

Horizons: Ancient Greek Journeys:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/15/ancient-greek-artefacts-take-first-trip-abroad-for-show-in-melbourne
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/16/greek-god-zeus-and-never-before-seen-artefacts-headed-for-australia/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/16/ancient-greek-artefacts-australia/

Heroes of the Colosseum:

https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2022/04/13/archeology-heroes-of-the-colosseum-arrives-in-spain_705aa4cc-4da5-4219-a8dd-1f6ec08df31f.html

Santarelli Marbles:

https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2022/04/12/exhibit-showcases-colors-of-ancient-rome-with-marble_7cbd80b9-b3ee-46c3-a558-279e31fab3c0.html
https://www.classicult.it/en/the-colours-of-antiquity-the-santarelli-marbles-at-the-capitoline-museums/

Matisse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/arts/design/matisse-exhibition-philadelphia.html

Pompeii in Color:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pompeii-in-color-the-life-of-roman-wall-painting-institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world-vesuvius-fourth-style-omphale-hercules-dido-dionysus-11650054768
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/mirror-dimension-pompeii-in-color-the-life-of-roman-painting-at-new-york-universitys-institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world/

There's a new archaeological museum in Chania, featuring fhe Mitsotakis Collection:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1182382/pm-mitsotakis-tours-new-cretan-archaeological-museum-housing-parents-collection/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/04/16/museum-in-crete-displays-mitsotakis-family-private-antiquities-collection/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/46962-greek-pm-tours-new-cretan-archaeological-museum-housing-parents-collection.html

A WWII museum ship in Buffalo sank:

https://gcaptain.com/historic-wwii-destroyer-uss-the-sullivans-sinks-at-pier/

Egypt really wants to speed up completion of the GEM:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/114961/PM-Egypt-keen-on-speeding-up-completion-of-GEM-project

What it's like being a museum curator:

https://inews.co.uk/news/real-life/working-museum-curator-once-had-to-count-roman-coins-1552307

The Uffizi was Italy's most-visited museum in 2021:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/04/12/uffizi-gallery-the-most-visited-museum-in-2021/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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An overviewish thing on the DNA side of 'Out of Africa':

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/adna-africa-later-stone-age/

What DNA reveals about life in Africa 20 000 years bp:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/adna-africa-later-stone-age/

Feature on how they identified the remains of the Romanovs:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-scientists-identified-the-remains-of-the-romanovs

More on the DNA evidence for the genetic continuation of the Ohlone people in California:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/science/muwekma-ohlone-tribe-california-dna.html
https://www.sfexaminer.com/findings/dna-evidence-shows-ancient-roots-of-californias-unrecognized-indigenous-tribe/

More on Avar origins:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/04/study-sheds-light-on-the-mystery-of-the-avar-elite-origins/143282
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstructions are based on some medieval bones found 100 years ago near the Poland-Germany border:

https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C91882%2Cresearchers-recreate-appearance-inhabitants-upper-lusatia-400-years-ago.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/04/13/%CE%B1ppearance-of-inhabitants-of-upper-lusatia-from-400-years-ago-recreated/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10453-220411-upper-lusatia-burials

Feature on new methods for visualizing small objects and artifacts:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-diy-digital-archaeology-methods-visualizing.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220415163803.htm

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TOURISTY THINGS
============================================================ Hierapolis-Pamukkale:

https://azertag.az/en/xeber/Hierapolis_Pamukkale__remains_of_ancient_city_recognized_as_UNESCO_World_Heritage_site-2092943

Alabanda:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/alabanda-the-las-vegas-of-ancient-world-172985

Aigai:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/discovery-of-artifacts-ancient-roads-in-aigai-drawing-visitors-172961

My Son Sanctuary (Viet Nam):

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/discovering-my-son-sanctuary-in-quang-nam/224811.vnp

Florence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/travel/florence-italy-mary-mccarthy.html

Submerged Greek cities:

https://www.travelawaits.com/2747872/ancient-sunken-cities-to-explore-in-greece/
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
The Northman:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/11/the-northman-review-robert-eggers-hamlet-outrageous-violence
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220411-the-northman-review-not-weird-or-violent-enough

On the politics of Classical music:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/arts/music/classical-music-nazi-world-war-ii.html

How Beethoven contributed to 50 years of cultural exchange between the US and China:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/beethoven-in-beijing-concert-50-years-us-china-cultural-exchange
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Benjamin Franklin:

https://news.yale.edu/2022/04/08/how-yales-benjamin-franklin-project-influenced-latest-ken-burns-doc
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CRIME BEAT
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Mexico seized some items being shipped from the Tijuana Post Office:

https://hypebeast.com/2022/4/mexico-seizes-tijuana-package-pre-hispanic-artifacts

Feature on the illegal art trade:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/04/13/art-and-crime-the-dark-side-of-the-antiquities-trade

OpEddish on dealing with idol theft in India:

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-idols-theft-asi-monuments-7868290/
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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 Peabody Museum is returning a tomahawk:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/12/peabody-repatriate-ponca-tomahawk/

More on the return of Gweagal spears:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captain-cook-stole-spears-finally-back-in-australia-180979902/

More on Glasgow museums returning items to India:

https://www.gg2.net/glasgow-to-return-seven-stolen-artefacts-to-india/

... and iBenin Bronzes:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/glasgow-returns-benin-bronzes-1234625355/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/glasgow-benin-bronze-restitution-2099220

The former Archbishop of Canterbury is encouraging the British Museum to return items to Ethiopia:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-museum-ethiopian-treasures-archbishop-of-canterbury-b994134.html
https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/04/13/former-archbishop-of-canterbury-urges-british-museum-to-return-african-treasures/

OpEddish on repatriation:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/repatriation-african-american-remains/

Reviewish of Benedicte Savoy, *Africa's Struggle for Its Art*:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-forgotten-movement-to-reclaim-africas-stolen-art
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the coins of the Kingdom of Sophene:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-coins-of-the-kingdom-of-sophene/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n15.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n16.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Mary Lou Larson:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/trib/name/mary-larson-obituary?id=34233496

John Edward Atkinson:

https://casa-kvsa.org.za/2022/04/in-memoriam-john-edward-atkinson/

Christopher Moore:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/nyregion/christopher-moore-dead.html

Audrey Henshall:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20073617.obituary-audrey-henshall-expert-neolithic-chambered-cairns/

Christopher Coover:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/chris-coover-dead.html ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3168-audio-news-from-archaeologica-april-3rd-2022-through-april-9th-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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