https://arkeonews.net/researchers-excavating-the-burial-site-along-caleta-vitor-bay-in-northern-chile-found-an-inka-tunic-or-unku/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11238-230216-chile-inca-tunic
An elite Maya tomb from Chichen Viejo:
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/02/experts-discover-an-ancient-maya-tomb-of-elite-personage-in-yucatan/
... from the same place come remains of a housing complex of some sort:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chichen-itza-chichen-viejo-discovery/index.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/elite-residences-uncovered-at-chichen-itza-in-mexico-1234657637/
Excavations of four Classic Period mounds at El Naranjo:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-731737 https://www.iflscience.com/shell-and-green-quartz-flowers-found-in-1-000-year-old-mexican-burial-site-67596
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/13/mexico-el-naranjo-inah-excavations-archaeological-discoveries
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11233-230214-mexico-mound-earrings
A 16th century cemetery in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/archaeologists-find-16th-century-cemetery-chapultepec-park/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11242-230217-mexico-transition-cemetery
Machu Picchu has reopened to the public:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64648641 https://apnews.com/article/peru-government-caribbean-dina-boluarte-833ba4a8df14f5cfca2ccb62d84db73b
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/02/the-archaeological-site-of-machu-picchu-re-opens-after-one-month/
https://www.travelweekly.com.au/article/machu-picchu-officially-reopens-to-travellers/
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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 item on the Book of Revelation being influenced by curse tablets:
https://www.livescience.com/book-of-revelations-vision-of-the-apocalypse-inspired-by-pagan-curses-researcher-claims
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-02-15/ty-article/new-testaments-book-of-revelation-was-influenced-by-curse-tablets-scholar-deduces/00000186-5466-d603-a7bf-def7deb50000
cf: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/458878862?language=en
Feature on the 'rediscovery' of the site of filming DeMille's 'Ten Commandments' in California's Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230212-a-city-under-the-sand-the-lost-city-of-cecil-b-demille
Feature on artists' attempts to deal with shadows properly:
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-art-of-the-shadow-how-painters-have-gotten-it-wrong-for-centuries/
Feature on Matisse's 'Piano Lesson':
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2023/henri-matisse-piano-lesson/
Copernicus had to deal with censorship:
https://www.wdsu.com/article/clarified-how-copernicus-fought-censorship-over-500-years-ago/42962257
They've figured out what the monkey-mermaid in a Japanese temple is:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzy9m/scientists-finally-found-out-what-a-monkey-mermaid-mummy-really-is
https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-have-tested-the-enjuin-mummy-to-find-out-what-it-really-is-67565
A response to one of the frequent arguments made by pseudoarchaeology fans:
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2023/02/a-response-to-a-strawman-argument-of-pseudoarchaeology/
Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64651007
On the history of condoms (vary degrees of accuracy in this one i think):
https://www.dw.com/en/international-condom-day-a-brief-history-of-rubbers/a-64668190
On how a Scottish missionary started the first Chinese-language magazine:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/february-web-only/milne-scottish-missionary-china-press-journalism.html
On researching historic tsunamis:
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/paleotsunami-detectives-hunt-for-ancient-disasters/
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825222002781
Interview with Robert Ballard about the Titanic:
https://apnews.com/article/titanic-rare-footage-released-c429fad5ff9eae14f7dc110881bf0697
More on the deciphering of Mary, Queen of Scots' letters:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-codebreakers-decipher-lost-letters-mary.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/11234-230214-mary-cipher-letters
More on da Vinci and gravity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/science/leonard-da-vinci-gravity.html https://arkeonews.net/lost-sketches-by-leonardo-da-vinci-show-that-he-understood-gravity-long-before-newton/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Habib-i Neccar Mosque was destroyed in recent earthquake:
https://arkeonews.net/habib-i-neccar-mosque-one-of-the-first-mosques-in-anatolia-was-destroyed-in-the-earthquake/
... as was much of ancient Antioch:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230213-once-home-to-civilisations-fabled-antioch-left-in-ruins
... but Gobekli Tepe survived:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/02/prehistoric-world-heritage-site-gobekli-tepe-survives-turkey-earthquakes
https://gizmodo.com/gobekli-tepe-turkey-earthquake-undamaged-archaeology-1850107303
... as did the Arslantepe Mound:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-13/Arslantepe-Mound-holds-fast-after-quake-catastrophe-1hone2JHczu/index.html
... a centuries-old scroll of the Book of Esther was found during rescue efforts:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-731913
Damaged cultural assets in Turkiye have been protected:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damaged-cultural-heritages-taken-under-protection-ministry-180905
https://www.siasat.com/damaged-historical-sites-to-be-restored-in-turkeys-earthquake-zone-minister-2-2529753/
Feature on ancient earthquakes in Asia Minor:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/11/ancient-earthquakes-asia-minor/
... and a 12th century one that hit Antakya:
https://theconversation.com/buildings-tumbling-survivors-living-in-tents-medieval-descriptions-of-an-1114-ce-earthquake-in-present-day-turkey-and-syria-feel-eerily-familiar-199866
https://theconversation.com/turkeys-historic-city-of-antakya-known-in-roman-and-medieval-times-as-antioch-has-been-flattened-by-powerful-earthquakes-in-the-past-and-rebuilt-itself-199579
Assorted features on the origins of Valentine's Day:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/valentines-day-facts-history.html https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/02/12/the-history-of-valentines-day/ https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/14/valentines-day-greek-saint-valentine/ https://ca.style.yahoo.com/valentines-day-background-history-120011464.html https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day https://www.news18.com/news/explainers/valentines-day-2023-dark-history-explained-7017931.html
... and the influence of Greek myth:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/14/the-deep-influence-of-greek-mythology-on-valentines-day/
... and Cupid:
https://theconversation.com/dont-underestimate-cupid-hes-not-the-chubby-cherub-you-associate-with-valentines-day-197735
https://www.umass.edu/hfa/news/professor-classics-debbie-felton-explores-origins-cupid-conversation
The Met is 'de-Russifying' Ukrainian artwork:
https://www.dw.com/en/the-de-russification-of-ukrainian-art/a-64731253
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Golden Mummies of Egypt:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/16/mummy-issues-the-ancient-faces-that-open-a-window-to-the-beyond
Gandhara art:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1736870/173-gandhara-art-pieces-from-museums-in-pakistan-loaned-to-china
Natural Histories:
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/natural-histories-yse-scientists-collaborate-new-landscape-art-exhibit
Christopher Wren:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-64667316
Pompeii:
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pompeii-the-exhibition-museum-of-science-and-industry/
Spain and the Hispanic World:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanneshurvell/2023/02/13/new-york-collection-of-spanish-treasures-on-show-in-uk-for-first-time/
Thomas Commeraw:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/15/thomas-commeraw-the-black-19th-century-potter-who-historians-assumed-was-white
cf: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/crafting-freedom-thomas-commeraw1
Islanders (ancient Cyprus):
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64682924
Golden Worlds:
https://www.doaks.org/visit/museum/exhibitions/a-beautiful-dichotomy
Divinity in Maya Art:
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/gods-divinity-maya-art
Labyrinth:
https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/never-before-seen-minoan-artefacts-go-on-display-in-the-uk/
Vermeer:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/12/vermeer-rijksmuseum-amsterdam-review-one-of-the-most-thrilling-exhibitions-ever-conceived
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vermeer-retrospective-sells-out-rijksmuseum-1234657151/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-exhibition-amsterdam-delft-2254119
Last year's finds in Bulgaria:
https://www.bta.bg/en/news/culture/407214-last-year-s-archaeological-discoveries-in-bulgaria-go-on-display-in-sofia
Feature on recent updates to the Manchester Museum:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1248/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1248/pub/1248/page/71/article/NaN
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/arts/design/manchester-museum-reopening-diversity.html
An Iron Age shield found in Yorkshire Wolds has been gifted to East Riding Museums:
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/spectacular-iron-age-shield-found-in-pocklington-donated-back-to-yorkshire-by-housebuilder-whose-land-it-was-discovered-on-4028429
Talk about broadening the definition of 'treasure' in the UK to help museums:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64677364 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/change-to-uk-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-museums
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1250/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1250/pub/1250/page/9/article/NaN
The British Museum's Hieroglyphs exhibition is going on tour:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/02/15/sample-of-british-museums-hieroglyphs-exhibition-to-go-on-uk-tour/
A new law in Greece would make it legal for Greek antiquities to be displayed outside the country:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230213-greece-approves-disputed-museum-law-seen-as-antiquity-export-plan
https://www.rfi.fr/en/people-and-entertainment/20230213-greece-approves-disputed-museum-law-seen-as-antiquity-export-plan
... which resulted in some museums closing in protest:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/13/greek-museums-protest-against-new-law/ https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/14/archaeologists-close-five-most-prominent-museums-in-greece-to-protest-status-change/
https://hyperallergic.com/801464/controversial-new-law-prompts-greek-museums-to-shutter/
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-news-greek-museums-closed-protest/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/greek-museums-closed-protest-government-appointed-boards-2256163
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/greek-archaeologists-strike-law-museums-export-plan-1234657360/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/16/protests-erupt-in-athens-over-fears-of-increasing-privatisation-in-greeces-museum-sector
... and there are plans for a major renovation of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/athens-museum-unveils-design-for-major-renovation
https://en.protothema.gr/national-archaeological-museum-this-is-how-it-will-look-after-reconstruction-impressive-photos-video/
https://apnews.com/article/david-chipperfield-athens-greece-design-62b06f067042d7efbd7726c673597146
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/major-renovation-planned-athens-archaeological-museum-97242689
https://www.wral.com/major-renovation-planned-for-athens-archaeological-museum/20723045/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/48440-national-archaeological-museum-in-athens-the-new-look-after-reconstruction-video.html
Review of Patrick Bringley, *All the Beauty in the World*:
https://apnews.com/article/reviews-book-business-entertainment-c735f3de5a1d4c659666eace1ea12801
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2023/0216/Behind-the-velvet-ropes-Thoughts-from-a-Met-museum-guard
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
High expectations for the Codex Sassoon Hebrew Bible:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/arts/hebrew-bible-auction-sothebys.html https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2023-02-16/ty-article/worlds-oldest-hebrew-bible-could-sell-for-up-to-50-million-at-a-new-york-auction/00000186-593e-db0c-add6-7d7ff0810000
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1248/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1248/pub/1248/page/32/article/NaN
A Nguyen Dynasty imperial seal was acquired by a Vietnamese collector with repatriation in mind:
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/vietnamese-collector-successfully-purchases-royal-seal-2110139.html
A chip off Cleopatra's Needle came to auction:
https://www.itv.com/news/central/2023-02-13/fragments-of-cleopatras-needle-sold-in-birmingham
Feature on the 'big' auctions of January 2023:
https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/here-are-the-15-most-expensive-artworks-sold-around-the-world-in-january-2023-2253427
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THE TECHY SIDE
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A facial 'approximation' of a Brazilian man from 9600 years bp:
https://www.livescience.com/see-the-lifelike-face-of-zuzu-a-man-who-lived-9600-years-ago-in-brazil
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/16/face-man-lived-9600-years-ago/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/11240-230217-brazil-zuzu-reconstruction
... and a 2000 years bp Nabataean woman:
https://www.livescience.com/meet-hinat-a-nabataean-woman-who-lived-2000-years-ago-in-what-is-now-saudi-arabia
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2253626/saudi-arabia
... and the 'lonely boy' from 8300 years bp Norway:
https://www.livescience.com/stunning-reconstruction-reveals-lonely-boy-with-deformed-skull-who-died-in-cave-in-norway-8300-years-ago
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/17/lonely-boy-from-norways-western-coast-reconstructed/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11239-230216-norway-mesolithic-teen
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
A lost composition of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has been found:
https://rackham.umich.edu/discover-rackham/reviving-the-lost-work-of-a-groundbreaking-black-composer/
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Emily:
https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-movies-entertainment-34288303e4373ed1f96baf7748139fe1
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/02/emily-bronte-movie-2022-emma-mackey-review/673071/
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157468414/emily-review-bronte-biopic-wurthering-heights
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CRIME BEAT
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A stolen Capitoline Wolf sculpture was recovered in Libya:
https://libyaobserver.ly/news/capitoline-wolf-artifact-recovered-libyan-stability-support-apparatus
... but there seems to be some confusion about it:
https://libyaobserver.ly/news/antiquities-authority-says-seized-capitoline-wolf-not-same-one-tripoli
... and it's possibly part of a larger bust/recovery:
https://libyaobserver.ly/news/300-artifacts-seized-mans-possession-east-libya
A couple in Drama were arrested in possession of ancient coins:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1205048/couple-arrested-for-illegal-possession-of-ancient-coins/
A group in Egypt apparently created a fake tomb/necropolis to defraud antiquities dealers:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/488283/Egypt/Arrest-warrant-issued-for-suspects-who-created-fak.aspx
https://www.egyptindependent.com/authorities-identify-scammers-in-ancient-egyptian-tomb-fraud/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/122610/Photos-Prosecution-orders-arresting-suspects-who-created-fake-pharaonic-tomb
https://egyptindependent.com/fugitive-suspects-create-fake-ancient-cemetery-to-defraud-antiquities-dealers/
https://globeecho.com/politics/the-monument-in-the-name-of-the-pharaohs-in-egypt-a-completely-fake-underground-cemetery/
A 61-year-old in Spoleto was arrested with a number of ancient items:
https://www.perugiatoday.it/cronaca/spoleto-carabinieri-reperti-archeologici.html
https://www.virgilio.it/italia/spoleto/notizielocali/spoleto_carabinieri_sequestrano_18_reperti_archeologici_in_una_casa_privata-70586225.html
The Manhattan DA seems to be focusing on Shelby White:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-antiquities-trafficking-unit-focuses-on-us-patron-of-israeli-archaeology/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-731948
Egypt reduced the sentences imposed on some antiquities smugglers:
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1233/488236/Egypt/Courts--Law/Egypt-court-reduces-prison-sentence-for-antiquitie.aspx
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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 ============================================================
Sweden returned a fragment of a 4000 years bp seal to Greece:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/16/sweden-returns-greece-4000-year-old-seal/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/greek-news/culture/48454-4-000-year-old-seal-returned-to-greece-by-the-swedish-embassy-in-athens.html
Hopes the US will return a major 'cache' of stolen antiquities to India:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157468414/emily-review-bronte-biopic-wurthering-heights
Feature on the return of a large number of Native American artifacts seized by the FBI:
https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/it-was-surreal
Swiss museums are apparently open to repatriation of art now:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/looted-colonial-art---there-is-no-limit-to-restitution-/48282022
The Musee D'Orsay has been ordered to return some Nazi-looted items:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/16/paris-court-orders-musee-dorsay-to-return-four-nazi-looted-masterpieces-by-renoir-cezanne-and-gauguin
Feature on Michael Steinhardt's 'exile':
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/michael-steinhardt-antiquities-stolen-artifacts.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of ancient Greek Troas:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-ancient-greek-troas-troad-part-4/
Coins of the Cairo Geniza:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragments/posts/exhibition-coins-cairo-geniza
Coins of Khirbet el-Aqd:
https://cris.iucc.ac.il/iw/publications/the-coins-of-khirbet-el-aqd-a-hellenistic-roman-stronghold-in-wes
Concerns for the ongoing survival of ancient coin collecting:
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2023/2/18/23604528/ancient-coin-collecting-us-import-restrictions
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n07.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n08.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Mario Vitti:
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/48448-leading-italian-greek-literature-historian-and-translator-mario-vitti-has-passed-away.html
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1204795/leading-italian-hellenist-dies/
Andrew Stewart:
https://www.archaeological.org/in-memoriam-andrew-f-stewart/
John Ellis Jones:
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/john-ellis-jones ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ============================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3260-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-4th-through-the-11th-2023
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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 ============================================================
Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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