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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Activists in Melbourne glued themselves to a Picasso:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/picasso-extinction-rebellion-intl/index.html

... while some in London threw tomato soup at a Van Gogh and glued themselve to the wall:

https://apnews.com/article/london-painting-climate-and-environment-b15e0092560b290c04920620b2d7c061
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63254878 https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-719699 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/van-gogh-sunflowers-attacked-2192303

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
On the ancient idea of virtue:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/the-ancient-concept-of-virtue-is-all-but-dead-its-time-to-revive-it/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Hieroglyphs:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/10/ancient-egypt-gods-sphinx-pharaohs-monsters-hieroglyphs-rosetta-stone-british-museum
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/rosetta-stone-british-museum-200-year-anniversary-scn/index.html
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2181156/world https://www.apollo-magazine.com/hieroglyphs-british-museum-london/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/hieroglyphs-british-museum-review-2022-fierce-rivalry-vicious/
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/477713.aspx https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/11/british-museums-cracking-tale-of-ancient-egyptian-code-scholarly-rivalry-sex-and-a-magic-bath
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hieroglyphs-at-the-british-museum-review-a-mesmerising-show-worth-deciphering-n5q9cmh27
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/waldemar-januszczak-decodes-the-british-museums-hieroglyphics-show-k78vcdlf7
https://www.standard.co.uk/esrewards/exhibitions/hieroglyphs-unlocking-ancient-egypt-british-museum-review-rosetta-stone-b1031655.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/10/the-rosetta-stone-has-a-prominent-place-in-british-museum-exhibition/

Writing and Storytelling:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/477636.aspx

Execution:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/londons-execution-economy-grisly-exhibition-charts-5000-public-deaths?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Treasures of Crimea:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/10/the-treasures-of-crimea-review-ukraine-and-russias-war-over-ancient-gold

Tutankhamun:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/talks-and-events/a-century-of-tutankhamun.html

Enheduanna:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/morgan-library-enheduanna-first-author-mesopotamia-1234642189/

Roman Frescoes:

https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/10/14/what-can-be-learned-from-ancient-roman-frescoes

Back to Aleppo:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/cultural-heritage/aleppo-synagogue-exhibit/

Proust:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/10/in-search-of-lost-toast-paris-show-reveals-origins-of-prousts-madeleines

Temple Offerings:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-temple-offerings-on-display-for-the-first-time-177531

The Tudors:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-art-was-such-a-powerful-tool-for-englands-tudor-monarchs-180980909/

Celtic Coins:

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/ancient-celtic-coins-unearthed-in-new-forest-go-on-display-9278407/

Herculaneum Furniture:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/archaeologists-prepare-for-unusual-furniture-show-at-ancient-roman-city-of-herculaneum-jwmwrlc2k

Cezanne:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/09/cezanne-tate-modern-london-review-a-mesmerising-master-of-mystery

Not sure where to put this item which has the Uffizi suing Jean Paul Gaultier:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/14/the-uffizi-gallery-sues-jean-paul-gaultier/

How the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is protected from climate change:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-10-11/amsterdam-se-hunde-por-la-sequia-pero-el-rijksmuseum-se-salva.html

Feature on Mexico City's Museo Kaluz:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/design/mexico-city-museo-kaluz.html

On the Smithsonian and slavery:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/smithsonian-museum-slavery-history.html

The Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar has reopened:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/design/qatar-museum-islamic-art.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Plenty of Anglo-Saxon artifacts from Ramsgate are coming to auction:

https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/10/10/anglo-saxon-artefact-collection-from-cemetery-site-in-ramsgate-to-go-to-auction/

Big bucks for some 19th century Levi's jeans found in a mine shaft:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/19th-century-levis-jeans-intl-scli/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/oct/15/vintage-denim-jeans-chinese-exclusion-white-labor
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/13/19th-century-levis-jeans-found-in-mine-shaft-sell-for-more-than-87000/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/theres-gold-in-them-thar-denim-jeans-levis-left-in-a-mine-fetch-87-000-at-auction-mv6w6rfqv
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1128843922/vintage-levis-jeans-1880s-sold-thousands-racist-anti-chinese
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeans-vintage-levis-1880s-auction-buyer-11665444076
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oldest-pair-of-levi-jeans-auction-b2201880.html

Fallout from that 'bidding frenzy' Chinese vase auction from last week:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-expert-fired-after-underestimating-a-9m-chinese-vase-france-1234642787/

More on the sale of the Ellerby Hoard:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65408

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Facial reconstruction of a 31 000 years bp woman from what is now the Czech Republic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-facial-reconstruction-project-shows-what-a-stone-age-woman-may-have-looked-like-180980904/

More on the facial reconstructions of 12th-14th century Wigstownshire residents:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/10/face-to-face-with-our-medieval-ancestors/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Explaining the tourists-behaving-badly phenomenon:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-tourists-bad-behavior/index.html

Gobekli Tepe:

https://www.afar.com/magazine/visiting-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-archeological-sites-in-turkiye

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Colosseum:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-10-10/the-truth-behind-nero-the-colosseum-the-christians-and-the-lions.html
https://elpais.com/television/2022-10-10/neron-no-dio-de-comer-nunca-cristianos-a-los-leones-del-coliseo.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Increased security in the wake of nighthawking at Richboorough Roman fort:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/nighthawk-metal-detectorists-target-roman-fort-274933/

... and arrests for illegal metal detecting in Suffolk:

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/suffolk-arrests-at-ancient-monument-9329876

Overview of the al-Thani/Eskanzi fake antiquities lawsuit:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11307329/Art-dealer-admits-2-000-year-old-Afghan-bracelet-sold-super-rich-Qatari-sheikh-fake.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 ============================================================
Nigeria continues to seek Benin bronzes from the British Museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/nigeria-benin-repatriate-bronzes-smithsonian
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/12/nigeria-tells-london-when-not-benin-bronzes-will-returned/

A man in Dallas is seeking a quilt created by enslaved Texans which is currently in the British Museum:

https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/dallas-man-seeks-quilt-created-enslaved-east-texans-currently-housed-in-british-museum/501-c47afbc8-ecf7-481d-ac70-f8eabd7b9be3

More on the Smithsonian returning 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/10/11/smithsonian-benin-bronzes-nigeria/
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/benin-bronzes-us-museums-tan/index.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/12/us-returns-african-bronzes-stolen-by-british-colonial-forces

More on India wanting the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond:

https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-10-15/india-claims-the-koh-i-noor-diamond-the-jewel-of-queen-elizabeths-crown.html

More on the agreement between the Met and Greece regarding Leonard Stern's Cycladic collection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/arts/design/stern-cycladic-antiquities-met-museum-greece.html
https://nypost.com/2022/10/12/critics-angry-over-greeces-art-deal-with-leonard-stern/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on 'money before coinage':

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-money-before-coinage/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n41.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n42.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Kevin Locke:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/arts/dance/kevin-locke-dead.html

Robert Skelton:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/13/robert-skelton-obituary

David B. O'Connor:

https://nyunews.com/news/2022/10/12/nyu-egyptologist-david-oconnor/

T. Leslie Shear Jr:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/10/07/t-leslie-shear-jr-classical-archaeologist-rigorous-scholar-and-inspiring-teacher

Bruno Latour:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/books/bruno-latour-dead.html ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3212-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-2nd-through-the-8th-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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