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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/day-history-1775-us-postal-system-established-ben-franklin

Feature on the earliest photos of Toronto:

https://www.blogto.com/city/2016/11/the_earliest_known_photographs_of_toronto/ ============================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
New finds from the Nuestra Senora de las Maravillas:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/after-350-years-sea-gives-up-lost-jewels-of-spanish-shipwreck
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-the-race-to-preserve-treasures-from-a-legendary-17th-century-shipwreck-in-the-bahamas-180980492/

More on the drought-related collapse at Mayapan:

https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020684/climate-and-conflict https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=229679 https://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/14150 http://www.archaeology.org/news/10698-220722-mexico-yucatan-mayapan

More on the Late Preclassic Maya chocolate vessel from the Yucatan:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/2000-year-old-mayan-pot-discovered/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/10700-220725-mexico-maya-pottery

The Kuluba site in the Yucatan has been abandoned:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/yucatan-archaeological-site-abandoned-residents-claim/

Feature on the Maya and sustainable agriculture:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-the-ancient-maya-practiced-sustainable-agriculture

Feature on abandoned haciendas in the Yucatan:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220725-yucatans-abandoned-henequen-haciendas
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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 ============================================================
Not sure where to pu this item on Neolithic motherhood:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cn03zv/how-prehistoric-mothers-were-crucial-to-our-survival

... or this one on humans 'homogenizing' mammal communities in North America:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220727110243.htm

... or this study of the evolution of lactose tolerance in Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-famine-disease-drove-evolution-lactose.html https://www.dw.com/en/everything-we-thought-about-the-origins-of-lactose-tolerance-is-wrong-study-says/a-62603291
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/28/lactose-intolerant-europe-study-milk/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-713382 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-07-27/ty-article/evolution-of-lactase-tolerance-wasnt-driven-by-milk-but-famine-disease-scientists-posit/00000182-4012-d35b-a396-c9db338d0000
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/dairy-lactose-intolerance-causes/670966/
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-europeans-farmed-dairy-couldn-t-digest-milk

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05010-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02068-1

Not sure if we've mentioned this 'magic' Han Dynasty mirror recently 'rediscovered' at the Cincinnati MoA:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/magic-mirror-cincinnati-art-museum-scn/index.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/07/25/cincinnati-art-museum-rediscovers-a-national-treasure/

Feature on the Buddha:

https://www.livescience.com/who-was-siddhartha-gautama-the-buddha/

Feature on Gutenberg, sort of:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/25/stanford-linear-accelerator-probes-did-gutenberg-really-invent-printing/

Feature on the origins of chess:

https://www.livescience.com/32431-who-invented-chess.html/

Feature on the collapse of the Scottish clan system:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/07/the-collapse-of-the-scottish-clan-system/144184

Feature on the 'real' William Wallace:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/07/the-real-william-wallace-braveheart/144192

Feature on the search for what God smells like (?):

https://www.noemamag.com/the-centuries-long-quest-for-the-scent-of-god/

... and again on reviving ancient perfumes:

https://english.radio.cz/science-project-reviving-ancient-perfumes-8757218

Feature on leprosy through the ages:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/leprosy-history-disease-perception-treatment/

Feature on art during wartime:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/arts/design/ukraine-war-art-culture.html

Feature on how the Lydney Park excavations influenced J.R.R. Tolkien:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/how-jrr-tolkien-created-lord-7399188

Feature on 14 historical mysteries:

https://www.livescience.com/11361-history-overlooked-mysteries.html

Feature on the origin of zero:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elusive-origin-of-zero/

A 1923 time capsule from 1923:

https://news.yale.edu/2022/07/27/beneath-peabody-time-capsule-1923 ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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A good feature/overview on the 'gender of archaeological remains' thing that's been popping up everywhere lately:

https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2022/07/assigning-gender-to-skeletal-remains/

Another feature on the threat to cultural heritage from the invasion of Ukraine:

https://theconversation.com/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-threatens-a-cultural-heritage-the-two-countries-share-including-saint-sophia-cathedral-187140
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Studying modern day dog bones to gain insight into Indigenous dog-sledding practices:

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-modern-day-dog-bones-deepen-knowledge.html

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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On English spelling:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/opinion/english-spelling.html

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Cemetery of Secrets:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20579829.days-remains-roman-gladiators-head-cotswolds/

Galloway Hoard:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-62321817

Chroma:

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/the-mets-new-show-dispels-the-myth-of-white-greek-sculpture-in-blaze-of-color-1234635075/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/07/26/ancient-greece-color-met/

How the Smithsonian is rethinking its 'problem' collections:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/07/27/smithsonian-collection-policy-update/

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A private collection of Native American artifacts is coming to auction:

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/07/25/dickinson-mans-lifetime-collection-native-american-artifacts-be-auctioned/

Big bucks for Hitler's watch:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/30/hitler-watch-alexander-historical-auctions-nazi/

Items from the 'ship of gold' are going on display prior to auction:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/29/ss-central-america-shipwreck-artifacts-treasure/10153502002/
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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The genome of the 14 000 years bp remains of 'Menzi Ren' (a woman excavated in Yunnan back in the 80s):

https://ukranews.com/en/news/869335-chinese-scientists-sequence-genome-of-14-000-yr-old-human

DNA evidence of plague and typhoid in Bronze Age Crete:

https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/ancient-dna-points-plague-typhoid-pathogens-greek-island-during-bronze-age-transition#.YuZ1WOwXZhE

Using DNA to trace modern herpes back to Bronze Age kissing:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/959525 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/27/modern-herpes-variants-may-be-linked-to-bronze-age-kissing-study-finds
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/27/how-neolithic-smooching-gave-virus-37-billion-us/
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-herpes-dna-points-to-oral-herpes-beginnings-first-kisses-may-have-helped-spread-cold-sore-virus/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/07/prehistoric-roots-of-cold-sore-virus-traced-through-ancient-herpes-dna/144222?amp
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/07/28/prehistoric-roots-of-cold-sore-virus-traced-through-ancient-herpes-dna/

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo4435

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THE TECHY SIDE
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A 'humanoid robot' for exploring shipwrecks:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/tech/oceanone-diving-robot-scn/index.html https://www.albanyherald.com/news/ocean-exploring-robot-could-search-for-lost-cities-and-shipwrecks/article_6f9ae19e-3f5f-5ef3-9e38-b1d2a6df2ada.html

Latest CT scan is a mummy's head:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/07/29/ancient-egyptian-mummified-head-scanned-at-maidstone-hospital/

... and the mummy of Amenhotep I:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1994406/offbeat

More on carbon dating being messed up by rising fossil fuel emissions:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02057-4 ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Fact-checking climate change-related claims about Plymouth Rock:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/07/18/fact-check-plymouth-rock-not-accurate-gauge-sea-level-rise/10010728002/

Connecting climate change and swampland in the US:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/04/swamps-can-protect-against-climate-change-if-we-only-let-them
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Swat:

https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/07/28/archeological-wonders-gandhara-civilizations-remains-attract-foreign-tourists-to-swat/

Upper Franconia:

https://www.dw.com/en/castles-beers-and-bayreuth-a-journey-through-upper-franconia/g-44019967

Machu Picchu is really popular:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/machu-picchu-peru-tickets-sold-out/index.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Oresteia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/theater/oresteia-review-park-avenue-armory.html

Hansan: Rising Dragon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/movies/hansan-rising-dragon-review.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Iraq is freeing that British national who was accused of smuggling potsherds:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/26/briton-jailed-in-iraq-for-smuggling-antiquities-to-be-freed-says-lawyer
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220726-iraq-to-free-briton-jailed-in-antiquities-case-lawyer
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/iraq-to-free-british-national-jailed-in-antiquities-case/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/07/26/british-tourist-james-fitton-iraq-smuggling-overturned
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/james-fitton-prison-sentence-overturned-1234635376/

France has detained a couple of archaeologists (including a Louvre curator) in a major art-trafficking investigation:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-art-trafficking-scandal-2151874 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-questioned-louvre-abu-dhabi-antiquities-investigation-1234635300/

Items stolen from the Palmyra museum were siezed at a camp in Al-Raqqah:

https://www.syriahr.com/en/261683/

Norway seized a pile of Mesopotamian artifacts from a collector:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1922436/world

An antiquities smuggler in Sousse was arrested:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/antiquities-smuggler-arrested-inside-archaeological-area-sousse

A drug raid in Spain turned up antiquities instead:

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16606-in-drug-trafficking-raid-spanish-police-find-antiquities-instead

Strange case where an art thief appears to have lost what they stole:

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/art/germany-art-theft-lost-painting

Some artifacts associated with the Bamiyan Buddhas were stolen:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2357051/artifacts-from-destroyed-bamiyan-buddhas-stolen-amid-afghan-turmoil

A former Egyptian MP has been sent to prison for antiquities smuggling:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2068016/middle-east

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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 New Mexico foundation is returning Indigenous items to Mexico:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/27/ancient-sculptures-storage-box-returned-mexico
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/New-Mexico-foundation-to-return-Indigenous-items-17331382.php
https://www.startribune.com/foundation-returns-indigenous-items-to-mexican-officials/600193386/
https://mexicodailypost.com/2022/07/29/the-government-of-mexico-receives-12-archaeological-pieces-of-mexican-origin-from-the-albuquerque-museum-foundation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-mexico-foundation-to-return-indigenous-items-to-mexico/2022/07/27/c0722664-0da5-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11052549/New-Mexico-foundation-return-Indigenous-items-Mexico.html
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-30/indigenous-items-returned-to-mexico-after-gathering-dust-for-years-in-a-museum-basement.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/albuquerque-museum-returns-relics-mexico-2153141
https://mexicodailypost.com/2022/07/29/the-government-of-mexico-receives-12-archaeological-pieces-of-mexican-origin-from-the-albuquerque-museum-foundation/

Oxford and Cambridge have agreed to return their Benin Bronzes (maybe?):

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cambridge-oxford-benin-british-cambridge-university-b2134339.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-62361946 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/29/britain-agrees-return-looted-benin-bronzes-treasure-africa/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jul/30/oxford-university-may-return-items-looted-from-nigeria-by-britain-in-1897?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Feature on UK law regarding returns:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/tristram-hunt-restitution-uk-museums-law/

Feature on Items returned to India since 2014:

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/229-antiquities-retrieved-since-2014-415697

Feature on more items to be returned to 'Africa':

https://www.startribune.com/africa-sees-some-artifacts-returned-home-but-seeks-far-more/600194500/
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-travel-germany-museums-48fd9d74ead6b4b6f497547596fbef7b

More on US returns to Italy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/arts/design/new-york-italy-looted-artifacts-steinhardt.html
https://greekreporter.com/2022/07/24/billionaire-looted-antiquities-returned-italy-ancient-greek-frescos/

More on Wounded Knee return aspirations:

https://apnews.com/article/travel-education-museums-massachusetts-eb338326dd75fc0b1ab65b2f10d027af

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on ancient Greek coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-the-peak-of-classical-artistry/

Feature on the 'biggest' ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/metal-monsters-biggest-ancient-coins/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n30.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n31.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Kamoya Kimeu:

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2022-07-25-kenyan-who-discovered-turkana-boy-is-dead/

Richard Freund:

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/opinion/va-vg-ed-shatz-0727-20220726-copbcbxdbnaufhdj7w2es2na5e-story.html

Corinne Pache:

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/opinion/va-vg-ed-shatz-0727-20220726-copbcbxdbnaufhdj7w2es2na5e-story.html
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/obituary-corinne-ondine-pache

Deborah Nichols:

https://www.saa.org/quick-nav/saa-media-room/saa-news/2022/07/27/the-saa-mourns-the-loss-of-saa-president-deb-nichols

James Lovelock:

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/james-lovelock-gaia-dorset-earth-science-museum-b2132500.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3196-audio-news-for-july-17th-through-july-23rd-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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