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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220818-how-to-write-a-message-to-the-future

Feature on the 'roots' of the Lord of the Rings:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220824-the-ancient-roots-of-the-lord-of-the-rings

Feature on why the Spanish Armada failed:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cwdfy8/the-reason-why-the-spanish-armada-failed

Feature on modern-day 'treasure hunters':

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/treasure-hunters-england-places-to-go-findings-shipwrecks-1808449

Feature on the 'London Monster':

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0ctd635/the-monster-that-terrified-georgian-london

Feature on 'crypto-Jews':

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-715350

A lost Vorticist painting beneath another painting:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lost-vorticist-masterpiece-found-hidden-beneath-another-painting-180980630/

... and some Modigliani sketches beneath one of his paintings:

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/israel-museum-modigliani-painting-sketches-b2122121.html

A study of the paint used in The Night Watch:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/24/rembrandts-night-watch-paint-recipe-offers-clues-to-the-perfect-wall-filler

Remembering the botched 'restoration' of Borja's Ecce Homo:

https://www.latercera.com/culto/2022/08/26/el-ecce-homo-de-borja-historia-de-un-desastre-que-se-volvio-icono/

On the origins of dragon mythology:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/the-origins-of-dragons/144532

... also on the appeal of dragons:

https://theconversation.com/terrifying-dragons-have-long-been-a-part-of-many-religions-and-there-is-a-reason-for-their-appeal-184419

On the history of the swastika:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/28/swastika-hate-symbol-link-dharmic-faiths/10342050002/

On the role of writing in the conquest of the Americas:

https://agencia.fapesp.br/escrita-alfabetica-teve-papel-central-na-colonizacao-da-america/39403/

A study of oyster exploitation in various times and places:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/08/25/when-was-the-world-our-oyster-we-asked-the-anthropologist-investigating-sustainable-oyster-practices-through-history/

On the 'scandalous' origins of Disneyland:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220818-the-surprisingly-scandalous-origins-of-disneyland

Shakespeare's poor acting abilities apparently led to Othello being written:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/27/shakespeare-inspired-to-write-othello-after-being-booed-off-stage

Paywalled, so I'm not sure where to put this item on water being poured on Urartian paintings 'to get better pictures':

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/turkey-ancient-urartian-temple-damage-b2133174.html

On the role of enslaved people in the production of Bourbon:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220824-the-untold-history-of-black-bourbon

More on that Galileo manuscript which is now believed to be a forgery:

https://www.livescience.com/galileo-document-fake/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/galileo-manuscript-fake-university-of-michigan
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/galileo-manuscript-michigan-university-forgery-scn/index.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/historian-discovers-a-prized-galileo-manuscript-was-forged-180980615/

cf: https://www.lib.umich.edu/collections/collecting-areas/special-collections-and-archives/history-astronomy-and-mathematics/galileo-manuscript

More on the digitization of medieval medical manuscripts at Cambridge:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64942 ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on ancient debt relief:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0607

Items on 'gluing' protests:

https://apnews.com/article/germany-painting-climate-and-environment-4173545ff32525e4ee8e77cc4fcb4042
https://www.dw.com/en/iconic-artworks-weaponized-by-climate-activists/a-62927968

Honouring Bett with a statue:

https://apnews.com/article/education-massachusetts-slavery-ce2ccde7f1c82b3b0c5b17f85cb47c08

Feature on 21 of the deadliest pandemics:

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html/ ============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Aristotle's thoughts on wealth:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/aristotle-telos-money/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ramses the Great:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ramses-the-great-egypt-exhibit-opens-de-young-museum/
https://el-observador.com/2022/08/26/new-ramses-the-great-exhibit-brings-splendors-of-ancient-egypt-to-san-francisco/

Tutankhamun:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/08/26/beyond-king-tut-national-geographic-marks-100th-anniversary-of-tomb-discovery/

Tota Italia:

https://english.news.cn/20220823/d4494a65d5cd4283bff0393e0cfd9786/c.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-08/23/content_78384495.htm https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1273649.shtml

Matisse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/arts/design/matisse-red-studio-painting-analysis.html

Rembrandt:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-62617897

Lora Webb Nichols photos:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/a-new-world-small-town-life-in-early-20th-century-america-in-pictures

Sohag's Forgotten Treasures:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118619/%E2%80%98Sohag-s-Forgotten-Treasures%E2%80%99-Coptic-exhibition-launches-at-Sohag-National

Connections Across the Coral Sea:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/exhibit-shows-voyages-of-ancient-cultures-around-the-coral-sea/101377340

Chroma:

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2022/8/new-research-greek-sphinx

Restored glassware from the Beirut explosion:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/27/ancient-glass-vessels-restored-after-beirut-blast-go-on-display-at-british-museum
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/26/shattered-glass-of-beirut-restored-vessels-once-destroyed-by-port-blast-go-on-display-in-l
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beiruts-shattered-ancient-glass-shines-on-tjflsr2sh
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2147686/lifestyle https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-museum-unveils-reconstructed-ancient-vessels-smashed-in-beirut-blast/

related: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/conserving-beiruts-shattered-glass/

A Tehran museum has closed after an insect was spotted crawling on the artwork:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118612/Tehran-Museum-closed-after-bug-spotted-crawling-through-artwork

New York museums now have to acknowledge if art was Nazi loot:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-museums-required-acknowledge-art-stolen-nazis-rcna44116

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Plenty of excitement over the auction of the contents of a Paris mansion:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/marie-antoinette-candelabras-paris-hotel-lambert-auction

... and Paul Allen is selling off his collection:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62684488 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/arts/design/christies-auction-paul-allen-art-collection.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Overview coverage of three DNA studies shedding light on IndoEuropean origins, and migrations of ancient Greeks and Romans:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-vast-paleogenetic-reveals-insights-migration.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220825164029.htm https://www.science.org/content/article/phenomenal-ancient-dna-data-set-provides-clues-origin-farming-early-languages

... and with a 'first farmers' focus:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-08-25/ty-article/genetic-study-detects-unexpected-origin-of-worlds-first-farmers/00000182-cf26-d35f-a9ea-cf26bf8b0000

.. and with a Southern Europe/West Asia genetics focus:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq0755

Study on using DNA from lice found on mummies:

https://www.the-scientist.com/sponsored-article/ancient-mummies-lousy-view-of-the-past-70418

DNA reveals a 1000 years bp example of Klinefelter syndrome:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-oldest-case-rare-genetic-condition.html ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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An AI-based method for dating archaeological remains:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-ai-based-method-dating-archaeological.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823162730.htm https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715696 ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Seems like this is the place to gather all the reports (some repeats) of sites exposed by drought in various parts of the world ... from the Danube come WWII warships:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/europe/danube-wwii-nazi-germany-ships-serbia-climate-intl/index.html

... the 'Spanish Stonehenge':

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/19/spanish-stonehenge-dating-back-to-5000-bc-has-emerged-from-a-drought-hit-dam
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/spanish-stonehenge-emerges-from-watery-grave-for-second-time-in-last-3-years/

... Nero's bridge from the Tiber:

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/08/italys-drought-uncovers-ancient-imperial-bridge-photos.html
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Italy-s-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-17397383.php
https://apnews.com/86882350f7a5b79e64b378a8e7235352 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/italys-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-over-tiber/J5WF272DQWGISV7V74NPQ64DMM/

... a medieval village in Yorkshire:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-62677584

... the Roman military camp in Spain:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article264947409.html

... sites from the Tigris and Euphrates:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/08/falling-waters-euphrates-tigris-rivers-reveal-submerged-archaeological-sites

... Buddhist statues from the Yangtze:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yangtze-river-buddha-statues-revealed-1234637284/

... hunger stones:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/hunger-stones-europe/

... and the 'overview' pieces:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62619397 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/08/24/artifacts-resurface-drought-affects-water-levels-world-photos/7866053001/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/app-news-section/drought-reveals-votw-082622/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/08/26/drought-dinosaur-tracks-nazi-warship/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/europe-drought-is-revealing-historic-artifacts-180980640/
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119724404/buddhist-statues-and-roman-bridges-droughts-reveal-history-in-the-worlds-waterwa
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-26/buddhist-statues-and-roman-bridges-droughts-reveal-history-in-the-worlds-waterways

... and we might as well mention the 1500 years bp arrow found in melting ice in Norway too:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-viking-age-vikings/the-last-person-who-touched-this-three-bladed-arrowhead-was-a-viking/2069302
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arrow-from-1-500-years-ago-found-in-melting-ice-kjkz2rnq2
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11133589/1-500-year-old-pre-Viking-arrow-awesome-state-preservation.html
https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Aphrodisias:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/city-of-aphrodite-takes-visitors-on-historical-journey-in-turkiye/news
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Archaeologists aren't happy about their portrayal in a film about Richard III:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/28/royal-row-erupts-over-steve-coogan-film-about-richard-iii

Oberammergau:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/theater/oberammergau-passion-play.html

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CRIME BEAT
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US agents in Memphis (Tenn.) seized a 3000 years bp (maybe) Egyptian artifact being brought to the US from Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-agents-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient.html https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/memphis-seizes-ancient-egyptian-artifact
https://apnews.com/article/science-memphis-archaeology-8f978ccc03d278e160bb90152607ab92
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/egyptian-artifact-intercepted-in-memphis-customs-border-protection-archaeological-item-cultural-property-canopic-imsety-egypt-archaeology-research/522-d1dad9d0-4225-43d6-89c6-6d7667f56f4b
https://www.nbc29.com/2022/08/26/us-agents-seize-antique-egyptian-artifact-that-could-potentially-be-3000-years-old/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article264947974.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/us/memphis-tennessee-customs-egyptian-artifact-trnd/index.html
https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-715728 https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-agents-seize-potentially-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-shipped-from-europe/

An iconic portrait of Winston Churchill appears to have been stolen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/canada/churchill-portrait-stolen-canada.html

Labourers working on the demolition of a house in Madhya Pradesh allegedly stole 86 gold coins they found in the process:

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2158374-8-labourers-steal-86-gold-coins-of-archaeological-importance-found-while-digging-house-in-mp-arrested
https://theprint.in/india/8-labourers-steal-86-gold-coins-of-archaeological-importance-found-while-digging-house-in-mp-arrested/1104439/
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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 Museum of the Bible has returned a looted Bible to the Greek Monastery whence it was taken:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/arts/design/museum-of-the-bible-looted-gospel.html
https://politpost.com/2022/08/23/museum-of-the-bible-returns-ancient-gospel-looted-from-greek-monastery/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1191802/museum-of-the-bible-returns-ancient-gospel-looted-from-greek-monastery/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/museum-of-the-bible-returned-looted-gospel-to-greek-monastery-1234637275/

The US is returning a 14th century sculpture to Nepal:

https://observer.com/2022/08/a-looted-14th-century-sculpture-is-returned-to-nepal-by-the-manhattan-district-attorney/
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/united-states-to-return-durga-sculpture-to-nepal

Not sure if we've mentioned these seven items being returned from Scotland to India:

https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/scotlands-national-museum-decides-to-return-seven-antiquities-artefacts-back-to-india/

Indigenous groups in British Columbia are seeking repatriation of various items from various places:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-indigenous-communities-in-bc-join-global-movement-to-repatriate-lost/

Indigenous South American groups are seeking repatriation of Captain Cook-related items in the British Museum:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152533/Indigenous-South-Americans-look-returning-Captain-Cooks-artefacts-stored-n-British-museum.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/descendants-arrive-mission-reclaim-captain-cook-swag-chile-british-museum-jjc3n37tp

Thailand is seeking the return of items from the Denver Art Museum:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2376348/govt-seeks-looted-antiques https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/thailand-working-to-retrieve-antiquity-objects-from-museums-in-foreign-countries-408079

More on Berlin returning items to Nigeria:

https://apnews.com/07a4bacb2d2820b1518631c69c720a2f https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-transfers-ownership-of-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/a-62930286

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins depicting Zeus:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-zeus-at-olympia/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n34.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n35.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Richard Freund:

https://www.liherald.com/stories/richard-freund-renowned-scholar-and-archeologist-dies,143305

Radovan Kraguly:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/25/radovan-kraguly-obituary

Audrey Stanley:

https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/08/in-memoriam-audrey-stanley.html

John Cooper:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/08/26/john-cooper-renowned-interpreter-ancient-greek-and-roman-philosophy-and-incredibly

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3202-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-14th-through-the-20th-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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