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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/02/new-exhibition-looks-at-how-the-west-created-the-fantasy-of-ancient-egypt
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118720/British-exhibition-reveals-impact-of-ancient-Egyptian-arts-on-creativity

Cuerdale Hoard:

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2022/08/the-cuerdale-hoard-vikings-rule-in-preston/

Roman Glass:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/08/29/british-museum-displays-newly-restored-ancient-glass-vessels-damaged-in-beirut-explosion/

Dickens Letters:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/30/unseen-charles-dickens-letters-to-go-on-display-for-first-time

Donatello:

https://www.dw.com/en/donatello-italian-renaissance-star-gets-solo-exhibition/a-62994243

cf: https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/donatello/

Cartier and Islamic Art:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220831-how-islamic-art-and-design-conquered-the-world

cf: https://dma.org/art/exhibitions/cartier-and-islamic-art-search-modernity

Feature on the use of VR at the Mosul Heritage House Museum:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-virtual-reality-revives-iraq-war-ravaged.html

An archaeological museum has opened in Isfahan:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/476273/Archaeological-museum-opened-to-public-in-Isfahan

I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this collection of early Chinese porcelain and jade bequeathed to the British Museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/29/british-museum-joseph-hotung-bequest-chinese-porcelain-jades
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-treasures-left-to-british-museum-drp9htl3g

Latest Nazi-era case revolves around the Guelph Treasure:

https://apnews.com/article/travel-lawsuits-museums-ddeec59b4186e059e0b0be29d9864b36

The National Museum in Rio continues to try to recover from that fire back in 2018:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-09-02/el-museo-nacional-de-rio-lucha-por-recomponer-su-coleccion-tras-el-catastrofico-incendio-de-2018.html
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A cache of 17th/18th century gold coins found during kitchen renovations bay in 2019 is coming to auction:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gold-coins-england-kitchen-intl-scli/index.html
https://www.cbs58.com/news/coins-worth-up-to-290-000-found-under-kitchen-floorboards
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118877/Home-renovation-in-northern-England-reveals-rare-set-of-gold

Joseph Hotung's (huge) art collection is coming to auction:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/29/hong-kong-collector-joseph-hotung-auction-sothebys

An Adirondack guideboat:

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2022/09/ausable-river-association-to-auction-adirondack-guideboat.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA from a mass burial of apparent medieval pogrom victims have Asheknazi connections:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-medieval-mass-burial-centuries-earlier-ashkenazi.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bodies-uk-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220830131610.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/30/jewish-remains-found-in-norwich-well-were-medieval-pogrom-victims-study
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/europe/medieval-well-mystery-bodies-scn/index.html
https://www.dw.com/en/17-bodies-found-at-shopping-mall-construction-site-were-medieval-ashkenazi-jews/a-62969497
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715841 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02356-w

cf: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01355-0

A study of 10 000 years of 'natural selection' in Europe seen via DNA:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.24.505188v1

More on medieval evidence of Klinefelter syndrome:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-30/dna-medieval-skeleton-genetic-condition-trisomy-klinefelter/101376444
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715869

More on DNA and IndoEuropean origins:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-european-language-spread-by-word-not-sword-8ssm38qt3
https://scitechdaily.com/the-southern-arc-vast-genetic-study-reveals-insights-into-migration-patterns-and-language-development/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/28/dna-indo-european-proto-greek/

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial recreation is of 'Penang Woman':

https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-facial-reconstruction-woman-malaysia/ ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Not sure if we mentioned this sunken medieval village emerging from the Scar House Reservoir:

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

Plenty of things are emerging from melting Swiss glaciers:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/archaeology_swiss-glaciers-surrender-secrets-of-the-past/44466602

Drought has revealed a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River over a century ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drought-reveals-steamboat-north-alabama-missouri-river/

More on sites revealed by drought in Spain:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/historic-monuments-resurface-as-severe-drought-shrinks-spains-reservoirs

More on sites revealed by low waters on the Tigris and Euphrates:

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

... and more on the 1st century CE Roman fort revealed in Spain:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161091/Roman-settlement-flooded-create-reservoir-visible-entirety-drought-Spain.html
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/08/30/spain-roman-military-camp-drought/4691661855391/

More on the Viking-era arrowhead from a melting Norwegian glacier:

https://www.livescience.com/viking-three-sided-arrowhead-norway https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-viking-age-vikings/the-last-person-who-touched-this-three-bladed-arrowhead-was-a-viking/2069302
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article265075029.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/10794-220829-norway-iron-arrowhead ============================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
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Aphrodisias:

https://www.dailysabah.com/ds-tv/city-of-aphrodite-takes-visitors-on-historical-journey-in-turkiye/news
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Joan of Arc:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/joan-of-arc-nonbinary-globe/671321/

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CRIME BEAT
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Big news this week is investigators seizing 27 looted antiquities from the Met:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/arts/design/met-museum-looting.html https://politpost.com/2022/09/02/investigators-citing-looting-have-seized-27-antiquities-from-the-met/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/met-museum-looted-art-new-york-b2158733.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/met-museum-artifacts-seized-new-york-looting/index.html
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/02/new-york-investigators-artifacts-met-13-million
https://news.yahoo.com/investigators-seize-27-looted-antiquities-195100118.html https://www.art-insider.com/manhattan-da-raids-the-met-seizes-antiquities-for-repatriation/4064
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/09/03/new-york-greek-antiquities-met/

... including a Hindu artifact:

https://hyperallergic.com/757491/manhattan-da-to-seize-looted-hindu-artifact-from-met-museum/
https://observer.com/2022/09/another-antiquity-suspected-of-being-looted-will-be-seized-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/

... a sort of preliminary piece:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/hidden-treasures/flurry-of-seizures-intensify-pressure-on-the-met-over-artifacts-linked-to-accused-traffickers/

Meanwhile, several German museums are implicated in an Egyptian trafficking investigation:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/30/german-museums-latest-to-be-implicated-in-far-reaching-criminal-investigation-into-antiquities-trafficking
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antiquities-trafficking-investigation-expands-1234637874/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/simonian-german-museums-2168971

French dealer Didier Wormser is standing trial for looted Egyptian antiquities:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/02/french-art-dealer-didier-wormser-stands-trial-for-trafficking-looted-egyptian-antiquities
https://menafn.com/1104802360/French-Art-Dealer-Didier-Wormser-Stands-Trial-For-Trafficking-Looted-Egyptian-Antiquities

More on the seizure of that 3000 years bp Egyptian artifact in Memphis (Tenn.):

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-agents-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/31/ancient-egyptian-lid-mummy-customs-border-protections-seized
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/us-authorities-seize-3000-year-old-egyptian-artefact
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/u-s-customs-has-seized-a-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-in-memphis-1234637655/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-customs-seizes-a-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-in-tennessee-180980673/

Feature on Stefan Guericke and his past smuggling activities in Greece:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/01/antiquities-smuggler-greece/
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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 FBI is returning a number of mosaics to Italy:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-returns-2000-year-old-italian-art-that-languished-in-a-storage-facility-090122
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/09/03/fbi-returns-ancient-roman-mosaic-medusa-2000-years-old-italy/6881662254277/
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/fbi-returns-italian-art-los-angeles/index.html

Nice backgrounder on the looting of artifacts in Cambodia and their ending up in western collections:

https://www.eurasiareview.com/02092022-a-looting-matter-cambodias-stolen-antiquities-oped/

A pile of Panamanian artifacts returned from the Netherlands:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/over-300-panamanian-artifacts-returned-netherlands-ministry-2022-08-30/

Native American human remains and cultural items were fond in storage at the University of North Dakota (and will be returned):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/01/north-dakota-university-native-american-ancestral-remains/7960032001/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/north-dakota-native-american-bones-artifacts-repatriation-reaj/index.html

Greece is happy with a deal returning 161 items (mostly from the Met):

https://apnews.com/bfe272b17395914295561461d1e684a4 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/01/greek-artefacts-leonard-stern-returned-metropolitan-museum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-heralds-deal-to-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-from-us/2022/08/30/ce4e16d4-28ae-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1192181/greece-heralds-deal-to-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-from-us/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greece-heralds-deal-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-us-89071936
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-trove-of-161-ancient-artifacts-greece-2168681

Seems to be a deal being discussed to return items to Thailand from the US:

https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/u-s-negotiates-with-museum-for-return-of-thailands-historical-artifacts-408646

Iraq has repatriated over 200 more items:

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/29386-Iraq%27s-culture-ministry-receives-over-200-antiquity-pieces:-Ministry

Seems to be a potential Nepali repatriation story here:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/nepali-ritual-altar-in-berlin/

Hong Kong's Palace Museum supports repatriation efforts:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3188648/hong-kong-palace-museum-support-repatriating-cultural

More on the Getty orpheus and the sirens returns:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64992

More on the Museum of the Bible returning a Gospel manuscript to Greece:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-of-the-bible-returns-centuries-old-gospel-manuscript-to-greece-180980670/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Celtiberian coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-coins-of-the-celtiberians/

Feature on coins of Akragas:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-eagles-akragas/

Latest e-Sylum:

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

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n36.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Richard Taruskin:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-monumental-musicology-of-richard-taruskin

Peter Davison:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-davison-obituary-lcnzwlfh0

Trudy Harrington-Becker:

https://www.mccoyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Gertrude-Becker-3/#!/Obituary

Mario Benzi:

https://www.cittadellaspezia.com/2022/09/01/addio-al-professor-mario-benzi-grande-studioso-delle-civilta-antiche-nel-mediterraneo-460578/
https://www.cfs.unipi.it/2022/08/31/dipartimento-in-lutto-per-la-scomparsa-di-mario-benzi/

Stanley Turkel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/nyregion/stanley-turkel-dead.html

Vera Menchik (archived):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/obituaries/vera-menchik-overlooked.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3203-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-21st-through-the-27th-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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