[continued from previous message]

https://www.archaeology.org/news/10586-220602-palenque-maya-sculpture

More on the 1000 years bp Aztatlan burials from Mazatlan:

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/11217-descubren-nuevo-sitio-arqueologico-de-la-cultura-aztatlan-en-la-zona-urbana-del-puerto-de-mazatlan-sinaloa
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10591-220606-mexico-aztatlan-burials

More on Incan drugging child sacrifice victims:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-708952 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/06/inca-children-drugged-with-cocaine-to.html

More on passageways beneath the Chavin de Huantar temple in Peru:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/archaeologists-discover-passageways-3000-year-old-peruvian-temple-2022-05-30/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10590-220606-peru-temple-passages

Plans to restore a 1500 years bp looted Maya temple facade:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/looted-1500-year-old-maya-temple-facade-to-be-fully-restored-1234631519/

Feature on what we're learning from ancient Maya toilets:

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-ancient-toilets-maya-life-tamales.html
-----
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 ============================================================
Feature on when people were eating Egyptian mummies:

https://theconversation.com/why-did-people-start-eating-egyptian-mummies-the-weird-and-wild-ways-mummy-fever-swept-through-europe-177551
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-people-egyptian-mummies-weird-wild.html https://www.livescience.com/eating-egyptian-mummies/

... similar:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/medical-practitioners-once-used-egyptian-mummy-remains-to-treat-ailments

Questioning the accuracy of death scenes in Shakespeare:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/10/shakespeare-dead-wrong-asp-did-not-kill-cleopatra/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10903947/Science-expert-brands-Shakespeares-death-scenes-unrealistic-poison-killed-Cleopatra-fast.html

The Duke of Rutland's plans to sell a Poussin were thwarted:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nicolas-poussin-painting-worth-19-million-at-risk-of-leaving-uk
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1001/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1001/pub/1001/page/30/article/NaN

The Vatican has loan an unfinished DaVinci to the French chateau where he died:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/11/unfinished-work-by-leonardo-da-vinci-heads-home-to-french-chateau-where-he-died

On why Munch's The Scream isn't screaming:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/munchs-scream-isnt-actually-screaming/

A Renaissance masterpiece found in a 90 year-old's bedroom:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/renaissance-masterpiece-found-london-bedroom-321000-180980225/?

Feature on the smile in art:

https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-smile-through-art-culture-and-etiquette

Using tree rings to shed light on Stradivarius' craft:

https://politpost.com/2022/06/08/tree-rings-shed-light-on-a-stradivarius-mystery/

Pondering why the Industrial Revolution happened:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/6/1/23138463/how-the-world-became-rich-industrial-revolution-koyama-rubin

Feature on George Bass:

https://www.archaeological.org/archaeologists-you-should-know-bass/ ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
============================================================
Blaming a Neanderthal gene for a million COVID deaths:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/09/neanderthal-gene-probably-caused-million-covid-deaths/

The El Rocio pilgrimage is resuming in Spain in the wake of COVID:

https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-cordoba-spain-d4f0ca0132ad5617ac724b775956f51d

A different sort of response to Civil War monument omissions:

https://www.reformer.com/business/correcting-history-new-plaque-recognizes-soldiers-omitted-from-civil-war-monument/article_378636cc-e741-11ec-8981-8b4c93bbdf27.html

... while arguing about Stonewall Jackson continues:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/us/stonewall-jackson-shenandoah-county-virginia.html

I think we mentioned these seized antiquities from Ukraine going on display at the British Museum:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/31/seized-antiquities-sent-from-ukraine-to-go-on-show-at-british-museum
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-will-return-looted-artefacts-to-ukraine-after-exhibition-vd6808pxz
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/art/uk-thwarts-sell-ukrainian-antiquities-online
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-museum-ukraine-medieval-vadym-prystaiko-b1003498.html

Report suggests Russians are targeting specific Ukrainian artefacts:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/12/specialist-gang-targeting-ukrainian-treasures-for-removal-to-russia

Ukraine is accusing Russia of destroying an Orthodox monastery:

https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/internacional/europa/2022/06/04/ucrania-acusa-a-rusia-de-destruir-historico-monasterio-ortodoxo-moscu-nego-bombardeo-al-recinto.shtml

Putin is drawing inspiration from Peter the Great, it seems:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61767191 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares-himself-to-peter-the-great-in-quest-to-take-back-russian-lands
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/world/europe/putin-peter-the-great.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/europe/russia-putin-empire-restoration-endgame-intl-cmd/index.html

A story of 'duelling statues' related to the conflict:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1101918984/volodymyr-vs-vladimir-how-rival-statues-explain-the-russia-ukraine-conflict

The UK press was concerned about trigger warnings about human remains in an archaeology class:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/07/university-warns-archaeology-students-exposure-images-human/
============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Study suggests chickens were domesticated much later than previously thought (1500 BCE ... in Asia):

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-evidence-chickens-domesticated.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220606181159.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/954776 https://www.livescience.com/chicken-domestication/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/science/chicken-domestication-origin.html https://politpost.com/2022/06/07/before-chickens-were-nuggets-they-were-revered/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/06/chickens-were-first-tempted-down-from-trees-by-rice-research-suggests
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/06/chickens-pets-burial-companions-romans-had-dinner/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/996/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/996/pub/996/page/26/article/NaN
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-06-06/ty-article/the-true-history-of-the-chickens-late-arrival/00000181-3967-dfa1-abeb-b97fbd180000
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-wild-jungle-fowl-became-chicken https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121978119 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322932-we-may-now-know-when-chickens-were-domesticated-but-not-why/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/09/when-where-and-how-were-chickens-domesticated/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10593-220607-southeast-asia-chickens

On the spread of millet from East Asia to Central Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-millet-east-asia-central-europe.html

============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICCAL ============================================================
On talking to your children to understand philosophy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/06/understanding-philosophy-through-kids-hershovitz-book-nasty-brutish-and-short/661225/
============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
============================================================
Erotic art of Pompeii:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/sex-in-the-shadow-of-vesuvius-exhibition-in-pompeii/

Ancient Greeks:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/ancient-greeks-exhibition-is-finally-open-at-auckland-war-memorial-museum/M743DOTJ3ZDRGYUJWWREJYFL2Q/

Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/king-tut-exhibit-oxford https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01021-2/fulltext

Extraordinary Exporation: The Edwardian Discovery of Coria:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/anonymous-hadrians-wall-excavators-celebrated-in-new-exhibition/

Funding threat for the Viking Age Museum in Oslo:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-science-policy-viking-age/new-report-budget-cuts-put-1200-year-old-viking-ships-at-risk-of-being-destroyed/2038328

Feature on some museums in Berlin:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2022/06/a-walking-tour-of-berlins-best-museums

Van Gogh:

https://www.timesunion.com/kristi/article/van-gogh-immersive-experience-video-17222906.php

English Heritage has launched a Roman face pot gallery:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/roman-face-pot-gallery-launched/

Concerns relating to fakes in the National Museum of Slovenia:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/national-museum-of-slovenia-cancels-art-exhibition-over-alleged-fakes

Feature on the Makah Museum:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220605-ozette-the-us-lost-2000-year-old-village

============================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
============================================================
A DNA study of hunter-gatherer folks in Thaliland:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/genetic-analysis-reveals-the-origin-of-a-hunter-gatherer-society-in-southern

A DNA study of inhabitants of the Wallacean islands:

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/ancient-dna-unearths-cultural-%E2%80%9Cexplosion-in-the-pacific
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-pre-historic-wallacea-pot-human-genetic.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220609131924.htm https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/10/ancient-dna-unearths-cultural-explosion-in-the-pacific/
============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
============================================================
Feature on the facial reconstruction (done ages ago) on Avgi:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/07/avgi-the-mesolithic-teenager-makes-her-debut-at-the-acropolis-museum/

============================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
============================================================
Archaeological sites near Athens:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/08/five-lesser-known-archaeological-sites-in-attica-greece/

Roman sites in Switzerland:

https://www.thetravel.com/where-to-see-roman-ruins-in-switzerland/

Abu Dhabi:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/abu-dhabi-archaeology/index.html

Madaba:

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-709170

Channel Islands National Park:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/explore-13000-years-of-human-history-on-this-remote-california-island
============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Cesar Franck:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/arts/music/review-paul-jacobs-franck-organ.html

============================================================
TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Becoming Elizabeth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/arts/television/becoming-elizabeth.html ============================================================
CRIME BEAT
============================================================
That British geologist accused of smuggling antiquities in Iraq was sentenced to 15 years:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/british-geologist-jailed-iraq-smuggling-artefacts-jim-fitton
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-iraq-british-baghdad-b2094715.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/british-geologist-not-sure-when-will-speak-to-family-again-as-he-is-moved-to-iraq-jail-b2098132.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jim-fitton-iraq-death-penalty-b2079596.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/family-geologist-jim-fitton-jailed-iraq-help-kjjwg9gr3
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-61705370 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-61718262 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220606-briton-jailed-15-years-german-freed-in-iraq-antiquities-case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/07/british-tourist-iraqi-jail-sentence-artifacts/
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/uk-tourist-sentenced-iraq/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iraq-british-man-15-years-smuggling-artifacts-85208527
https://www.dw.com/en/iraq-court-jails-briton-for-trying-to-smuggle-ancient-shards/a-62043866
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/briton-jailed-15-years-german-freed-iraq-antiquities-case
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-708723 https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/621441/World/Mena/British-geologist-jailed-in-Iraq-after-taking-artifacts

... and he plans to appeal:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/british-geologist-jailed-iraq-smuggling-artefacts-jim-fitton

A violent robbery at the Andean Museum:

https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/el-avaluo-es-incalculable-encapuchados-robaron-mas-de-cien-piezas-de-oro-desde-museo-andino-y-dispararon-a-minibus-de-pasajeros/QFOXDESTGVCVXODDWU7IJH73UY/
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-metropolitana/2022/06/05/violento-atraco-en-buin-delincuentes-armados-roban-articulos-de-oro-desde-museo-andino.shtml

A report from the Clooney Foundation suggests the trade in stolen antiquities funds conflict in the Middle East and antiquities dealers should be prosecuted for war crimes:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/12/1103777253/activists-take-aim-at-the-buyers-of-looted-antiquities
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220608-prosecute-looted-antiquities-dealers-for-war-crimes-clooney-foundation
https://www.rfi.fr/en/prosecute-looted-antiquities-dealers-for-war-crimes-clooney-foundation
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stolen-antiquities-fund-terrorism-warns-clooney-foundation-9tqgwln9g
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/middle-east-stolen-antiquities-trade-fuelling-conflict

Another case of a tourist damaging the Spanish Steps:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/us-tourist-scooter-damage-rome-spanish-steps
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/06/10/rome-s-spanish-steps-damaged-by-tourists-for-the-second-time-in-a-month

More countries are joining the civil case against the Lovre:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/10/antiquities-trafficking-case-escalates-as-louvre-abu-dhabi-joins-civil-action-and-swiss-collector-files-criminal-complaint

More on the destruction of artifacts at the Dallas MoA by some guy who was mad at his girlfriend:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/dallas-artefacts-destroyed-museum-girlfriend-b2093620.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-hernandez-destroys-more-than-dollar5-million-of-ancient-art-at-dallas-museum-of-art-cops-say
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2022/06/06/what-happened-minute-by-minute-in-the-dma-break-in/

More on the 'smearing' of the Mona Lisa:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/06/targeted-attack-on-the-gioconda/

----------
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/

============================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ============================================================
In the wake of accusations against the Louvre's former director, Egypt is demanding the return of assorted items:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/egypt-demands-return-king-tut-artifact-amid-former-louvre-director-scandal
https://abcnews.go.com/International/egypt-seek-recover-antiquities-seized-met-york-official/story?id=85256705
https://www.indonewyork.com/breaking/official-statements-indicate-that-egypt-will-pursue-the-recovery-of-antiquities-h36616.html
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/467460.aspx

... while Egypt recovered over 5000 items last year, apparently:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/116560/Egypt-succeeds-in-retrieving-5-151-artifacts-in-2021

Not sure if this is repatriation or not, but the city of Drummondville has 'entrusted' a number of items associated with the Waban-Aki Nation to a historical society:

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/780-archaeological-objects-and-fragments-given-to-a-historical-society-in-drummondville-quebec-1.5934263

Harvard is being encouraged to return a pile of human remains in its possession:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/harvard-urged-return-remains-enslaved-people-thousands-native-american-rcna32551

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe is returning some human remains to local groups:

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/ancient-remains-to-be-returned-to-local-tribes/article_f5b5472e-e812-11ec-beea-3f3fec8ccbe2.html

Some recovered items in India were returned to temples:

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2022/jun/10/thanjavur-three-recovered-antiquities-handed-over-to-temples-2463852.html

More on the US and Australia returning items to Tamil Nadu:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/tamil-nadu-sculptures-australia-us-7955935/

More on Sweden's return of a Mycenean ring to Greece:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1186361/the-return-of-a-mycenaean-treasure/

============================================================
NUMISMATICA
============================================================
Feature on some ancient coins recently at auctions:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/a-look-at-the-ancient-coin-market-through-recent-auction-results/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n23.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n24.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

============================================================
OBITUARIES
============================================================
John Merriman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/books/john-merriman-dead.html

Jim Murphy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/books/jim-murphy-dead.html

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3186-audio-news-for-may-29th-through-june-4th-2022

============================================================
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
============================================================
Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest
news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.
Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of
the 'ancient world' (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
============================================================
Useful Addresses
============================================================
You can read Explorator online at:

https://exploratornews.wordpress.com/

Past issues of Explorator are also available on the web via our
groups.io page:

https://groups.io/g/explorator

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

explorator+subscribe@groups.io

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Unsubscribe: explorator+unsubscribe@groups.io

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons:

rogueclassicist@gmail.com ===========================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2022 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks! ===========================================================

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)