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https://yucatanmagazine.com/inah-to-open-2-more-archaeological-sites-to-the-public-on-mayan-train-route/

Feature on pyramids in Mexico:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220928-mexicos-ancient-unknown-pyramids

Feature on how pre-Incans may have 'discovered' the equator:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0czff4h/who-discovered-the-equator-the-spanish-or-the-pre-incas-
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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 put this one on the actual 'paleo diet':

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/our-ancestors-ate-a-paleo-diet-it-had-carbs/

On how black became the colour of funerals:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/09/queen-elizabeth-funeral-black-dark-mourning-color/671558/

Feature on very old food remains found in various archaeological contexts:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-discovery-of-7-200-year-old-cheese-and-other-ancient-food-and-drink

Feature on Van Leeuwenhoek and the microscope:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf2402

Studying Vermeer's techniques:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65195 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/09/28/rijksmuseum-reveals-major-discoveries-on-the-milkmaid/

Norway's National Museum has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65250

Feature on T.S. Eliot's *The Waste Land*:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-shock-and-aftershocks-of-the-waste-land

On 'whiteness' and British colonialism:

https://theconversation.com/how-whiteness-was-invented-and-fashioned-in-britains-colonial-age-of-expansion-175027
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/whiteness-invented-fashioned-britain-colonial-100038716.html

On Nikola Tesla's xray:

https://mymodernmet.com/nikola-tesla-x-ray-shadowgraphs/

Grace Ioppolo on preserving manuscripts associated with English professional theatre:

https://theconversation.com/how-i-reunited-the-most-important-documents-in-english-theatre-history-for-the-first-time-in-200-years-189811

Feature on the Art Loss Register and its misuse:

https://observer.com/2022/09/every-art-collector-needs-this-database-but-is-it-being-manipulated-by-thieves/

Feature on a 'prayer duel' in Illinois 115 years ago:

https://apnews.com/article/religion-chicago-prayer-illinois-afefa80b1a479b3a8055a03738cfc517

More on the 700 years bp missal page purchased at an estate sale:

https://aleteia.org/2022/09/27/hunt-for-cake-mixer-yields-13th-century-treasure/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/medieval-manuscript-estate-sale-maine-1234640487/

Review of Scheeres and Gilbert, *Listen, World*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/books/review/listen-world-julia-scheeres-allison-gilbert.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Researching damage to various artworks during the invasion of Ukraine:

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-russian-invasion-ukraine-historic-artworks.html

Cambridge has acknowledged its gains from the slave trade:

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/university-cambridge-says-it-gained-slave-trade-2022-09-22/

A call for Harvard to immediately return the human remains in its possession:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/9/26/call-for-return-human-remains/

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on the Chinese language:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3192686/some-thought-chinese-language-would-die-they

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ritual and Memory:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/09/29/ritual-and-memory-the-ancient-balkans-and-beyond/

Stonehenge:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/29/stonehenge-exhibition-highlights-similarities-between-ancient-british-and-japanese-cultures

From Faliron:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/greek-news/culture/47639-ancient-cemetery-findings-showcased-at-archaeological-museum-of-piraeus.html
https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/26/ancient-greek-cemetery-findings-faliron-exhibited/
https://www.thenationalherald.com/ancient-cemetery-findings-from-snfcc-excavation-shown-at-archaeological-museum-of-piraeus/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/09/28/phalerothen-between-two-worlds/

Painters of Pompeii:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/sep/26/the-painters-of-pompeii-in-pictures
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-were-the-painters-of-pompeii-180980841/

Clara:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-09-30/clara-la-hembra-de-rinoceronte-que-asombro-a-europa-en-el-siglo-xviii-asoma-de-nuevo-en-amsterdam.html

Turner:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/29/jmw-turner-dark-waters-death-despair-prison-arctic-ice-liverpool

cf: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/jmw-turner-with-lamin-fofana-dark-waters

Cezanne:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/30/cezanne-artists-artist-picasso-admired-tate-modern

cf: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ey-exhibition-cezanne

Making an Impression:

https://www.wabe.org/new-exhibit-at-the-carlos-museum-explores-history-of-gemstones-in-classical-antiquity/

The UK's new Charities Act will allow museums in England and Wales to return items on 'moral grounds':

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/25/museums-england-wales-powers-to-dispose-objects-moral-grounds
https://hyperallergic.com/764549/new-uk-law-allows-museums-to-return-objects-for-moral-reasons/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/charities-act-museums-repatriate-2182298 https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2022/09/charity-law-change-paves-way-for-disposal-on-moral-grounds/#msdynttrid=slsXmb4Nlur_n2JjPVfiM8mPB_AG1oeUGptZrb_8_9g

... and deaccessioning is now 'allowed' to help fund 'direct care' of collections:

https://hyperallergic.com/765507/museums-can-use-deaccessioning-funds-for-collection-care-aamd-says/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/arts/design/museum-leaders-vote-deaccessioning.html

The Prado has compiled a list of artworks confiscated during the Civil War:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/09/26/prado-published-list-of-works-confiscated-during-the-civil-war/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Feature on the use of DNA to track migration of people across Eurasia:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/ancient-dna-history-civilization-language/

More on genomes and Anglo-Saxon migration:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/965522 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-from-skeletons-reveals-large-migration-to-early-medieval-england-180980829/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10856-220926-england-medieval-migration ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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Facial recreation of a 31 000 years bp woman from a Czech Republic site:

https://www.livescience.com/female-skull-facial-reconstruction-czech-republic https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/29/facial-reconstruction-paleolithic-woman/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/10866-220930-paleolithic-facial-reconstruction

Facial recreation of a 700 years bp Scots woman:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1106/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1106/pub/1106/page/30/article/NaN

Feature on various technologies being used for archaeological-type purposes:

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/from-ancient-artefacts-to-slovenian-truffles-revealing-secrets-using-nuclear-techniques
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Feature on how desertification is affecting sites:

https://www.wired.com/story/drought-destroying-ancient-ruins/

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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Mahler's 'Resurrection' manuscript has landed in Cleveland:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/arts/music/mahler-resurrection-symphony-manuscript-cleveland-orchestra.html
https://politpost.com/2022/09/27/mahlers-resurrection-manuscript-settles-in-cleveland/

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
On Napoleon's love letters:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0d2zlky/the-secret-love-letters-of-napoleon-bonaparte
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CRIME BEAT
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Hundreds of items seized from a former dealer's home in Israel:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-718502

A Qatari sheik is accusing a dealer of selling him forgeries:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11271129/Qatari-sheik-accuses-art-dealer-duping-4-5m-forgeries.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 ============================================================
Egypt recovered a figurine of Isis from Switzerland:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/476828/Antiquities/Egypt-repatriates-ancient-artefact-from-Switzerlan.aspx
https://egyptindependent.com/egypt-retrieves-smuggled-isis-statue-from-switzerland/
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2022/09/28/egypt-repatriates-goddess-isis-bronze-from-switzerland/
https://see.news/egypt-ancient-statue-switzerland-artifacts/

The Museum of Houston returned a wooden sarcophagus cover to Egypt:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/476990/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-recovers-ancient-wooden-coffin-cover-from-Ho.aspx
https://egyptindependent.com/ancient-wooden-coffin-cover-retrieved-from-museum-of-houston/

The Buxton Museum and Art Gallery returned a number of Haida artifacts:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/haida-nation-artifacts-repatriated-uk-1.6602014
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the Athenian tetracrachm:

https://news.coinupdate.com/the-amazing-athenian-tetradrachm/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n39.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n40.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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R. Ross Holloway:

https://www.brown.edu/academics/archaeology/news/2022/09/r-ross-holloway-1934-2022

Joseph L. Malone:

https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/ber110609

Joe Brussard:

https://pitchfork.com/news/joe-bussard-record-collector-who-preserved-early-american-blues-and-more-dies-at-86/

Joyce Reynolds:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/29/joyce-reynolds-obituary

BB Lal:

https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/b-b-lal-first-archaeologist-who-showed-proof-that-ayodhya-was-no-mythology/1124337/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3209-audio-news-from-archaeologica-september-18th-through-september-24th-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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