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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lost-pieces-19th-century-steamboat-wreck-found-vermont-180975787/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================

More on plenty of mammoth bones from a Mexico City airport site:

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-mammoth-graveyard-unearthed-mexico-airport.html https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/features/story/2020/sep/08/watch-mammoth-central-found-mexico-airport-number-skeletons-rises-least-200/840569/
https://theunionjournal.com/hundreds-of-mammoth-bones-have-been-found-under-the-site-of-a-future-mexican-airport/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/09/at-least-200-mammoth-skeletons-found-at.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9006-200908-mexico-mammoth-skeletons
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Feature on the Codex Zacynthius:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2020/09/recovering_the_text_of_the_earliest_greek_new_testament_commentary_manuscript.aspx
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/347/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/347/pub/347/page/38/article/80499

Latest Columbus and syphilis thing:

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-columbus-syphilis-europe.html

Pondering the 'weirdness' of the West (book reviewish):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-joseph-henrich.html

The real story of the Pied Piper:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200902-the-grim-truth-behind-the-pied-piper

Bristol University has acquired a Glastonbury Bible leaf:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-54085132

The Notre Dame crypt has reopened:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/notre-dame-crypt-reopens-for-first-time-since-fire-180975753/

A 'hidden detail' in the 'School of Athens':

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200910-the-school-of-athens-a-detail-hidden-in-a-masterpiece

A postcard sent in 1920 finally was delivered:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/halloween-postcard.html

Debating Beethoven's background:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/07/beethoven-was-black-why-the-radical-idea-still-has-power-today

They've apparently clone a Przewalski's horse:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/cloned-przewalskis-horse-trnd/index.html

On the contributions of Islam to Europe:

https://www.ft.com/content/3d97df4b-4994-4609-96c5-8fb957565588

On the history of poison use:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/global-reporting/article-the-history-of-poison-as-a-means-to-kill-and-threaten/

Why brides wear white:

https://theconversation.com/why-do-brides-wear-white-144395

Another philosophy and COVID piece:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/youth-in-the-time-of-covid-19-is-a-moral-obstacle-course/2020/09/08/07393d6a-f1fd-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html

Feature on efforts to preserve Japanese shamisen music:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/13/japans-young-musicians-rally-to-save-dying-art-of-shamisen-music

Feature on assorted botched art restorations:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/blunders-of-art-restoration-5a0ad54b9215

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Egyptian Women:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/15/90483/Vienna-Showcasing-Egyptian-Women-in-Antiquity

Cadbury photos:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-54062970

Havering Hoard:

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/havering-hoard-exhibition-review-museum-london-docklands-a4544526.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/havering-hoard-museum-london-docklands-review-eerie-marvel/

From Luther to Twitter:

https://www.dw.com/en/what-donald-trump-and-reformer-martin-luther-have-in-common/a-54876691
https://www.dhm.de/en/ausstellungen/from-luther-to-twitter.html#/

Roman Worcestershire:

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18716429.roman-hoard-show-online-worcestershire-museum/

Emperors and the Pillars of their Power:

https://www.dw.com/en/how-medieval-emperors-secured-their-power/a-54892312

Feature on the 'loot' at the Louvre:

https://smarthistory.org/loot-louvre/

T.S. Eliot's estate has donated to the Bronte Museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/arts/design/ts-eliot-cats-royalties-bronte-museum.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/07/ts-eliot-estate-steps-in-to-help-bronte-parsonage-museum-rescue-appeal

... related:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-54103373

More on the British Museum's Hokusai acquisition:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/hokusai-lost-artwork-found-paris-british-museum-b404960.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Some Napoleonic war medals are coming to auction:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-54107655

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
A new DNA recovery technique looks promising:

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-reveal-richer-picture-dna-recovery.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/09/researchers-reveal-much-richer-picture.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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A VR treatment is being put together for Santorini:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/09/09/ancient-greek-history-revived-through-pioneering-virtual-reality-project/

Latest facial reconstruction is a medieval monk:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/07/back-to-the-roo-ture-reconstructed-face-of-medieval-monk-looks-familiar
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-facial-reconstruction-reveals-medieval-monks-impish-features-180975757/

Using fingerprints to identify petroglyph painters:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/fingerprints-help-identify-prehistoric-painters

More on technology to examine food remains in clay pots:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200911141651.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uoc--tra091120.php https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/09/archaeologists-find-that-unglazed-ceramic-cookware-absorbs-the-chemical-residue-of-present-and-past-meals/135037

More on ice cores revealing 'black swan' evens over time:

https://theconversation.com/video-how-ancient-ice-cores-show-black-swan-events-in-history-even-pandemics-144784

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Knidos:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-city-where-aegean-mediterranean-meets-knidos-158042
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/knidos-ancient-city-where-aegean-mediterranean-meet/news

Crimea:

https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/crimea-the-crown-jewel-of-black-sea-coast/images

Oretan:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-09-09/la-ciudad-oretana-congelada-en-el-tiempo.html

Asklepion:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/travel/hidden-gems-of-anatolia-asklepion-the-health-and-wellness-retreat-of-ancient-greece-and-rome

Concerns for tourism in Italy:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-tourism-economy-catastrophe-covid/index.html

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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Persians:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/greece/article/National-Theatre-of-Greece-Presents-THE-PERSIANS-20200911

Gaza Mon Amour might be of interest:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-hidden-gem-romance-hamas-and-ancient-greek-penises-in-gaza-mon-amour

In case you've missed the fallout from Mulan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/business/media/disney-mulan-china.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Italian police recovered a pair of sarcophagi stolen from Eloro a while ago (Italian):

https://www.siracusanews.it/due-sarcofagi-trafugati-a-eloro-e-recuperati-a-noto-dai-carabinieri-erano-in-un-casolare/

Holocaust survivors are speaking about their stolen property:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/holocaust-survivors-and-heirs-tell-stolen-property-stories-on-social-media-641337

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2020/09/culture-crime-news-31-august-6-september-2020.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 ================================================================
A Benin bronze protest at a London museum led to an arrest:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/london-museum-benin-bronzes

... related 'opportunity' for Nigeria to recover the Benin Bronzes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54117905

On the 'rematriation' of Native American seeds:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/native-seed-rematriation

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Rome's secular games:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-the-ludi-saeculares-and-romes-millennial-games/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n36.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n37.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Marguerite Harl:

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/09/03/la-mort-de-l-helleniste-marguerite-harl_6050818_3382.html

George Frison:

https://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2020/09/famed-uw-archaeologist-george-frison-dies-at-95.html
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2020/09/09/internationally-recognized-archaeologist-frison-dies-at-95/

Andrea Tschemplik:

http://dailynous.com/2020/09/08/andrea-tschemplik-1961-2020/

Forrest Fenn:

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/art-dealer-treasure-hunters-scouring-us-west-dies-72884153
https://www.koat.com/article/forrest-fenn-reported-dead-at-90-years-old/33957457
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-09-08/forrest-fenn-hidden-treasure-dies
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2020/09/09/Forrest-Fenn-an-art-dealer-whose-treasure-sent-hunters-scouring-U-S-West-dies-at-90/stories/202009090167

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2989-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-30-through-september-5-2020

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

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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