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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/23/peru-wari-ritual-complex-temple-uncovered
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732738 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-wari-ritual-complex-pakaytambo-southern-peru-1234658747/
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex-in-peru/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-unearth-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex/146279

16th/17th century burials from Mexico City's Chapultepec park show a mixture of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures:

https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/02/16/cemetery-from-the-early-viceregal-period-found-by-archaeologists-in-chapultepec-park/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-bodies-found-mexico-city-show-shared-catholic-pre-hispanic-graves-2023-02-21/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11242-230217-mexico-transition-cemetery

More on the elite residences found at Chichen Itza:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-residences-mexico-chichen-itza-180981674/

... although it now appears they were known over a century ago:

https://www.livescience.com/no-archaeologists-havent-found-elite-housing-at-chichen-itza
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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 ============================================================
Early in the week we read of an Australia-based archaeologist and his colleagues being taken hostage in Papua New Guinea:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64671699 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-university-professor-taken-hostage-highlands-papua-new-guinea-sources-2023-02-20/
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732098 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773795/Australian-professor-kidnapped-Papua-New-Guinea-gang-1-4m-ransom.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-police-say-4-being-held-by-criminals/2023/02/20/78765f54-b176-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australian-professor-hostage-papua-new-guinea-rcna71428

... and we read of plans for a 'rescue mission':

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64713695

... and one of the group was freed on Thursday:

https://thepublicsradio.org/article/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-free-woman-still-hold-4-others
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/one-woman-hostage-released-papua-new-guinea-negotiations-continue-police-2023-02-23/

... and today they have all been freed:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64775769 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-release-3-hostages-97471876
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300816840/kiwi-hostage-safely-released-in-papua-new-guinea

In case you want to watch the dissection of a 3500 years bp frozen bear from Siberia:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2175649859504 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-dissect-3500-year-old-bear-discovered-siberian-permafrost-rcna71954

The Met is allowing 3d copies of some 16th century sculptures to be made:

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ny-met-french-3d-16th-century.html

A 16th century drawing has been identified as a 'draft' by Michelangelo for a figure in the Sistine Chapel:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/19/when-we-rotated-it-90-degrees-it-was-obvious-mystery-sketch-is-rare-michelangelo-draft-for-sistine-chapel
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/20/drawing-of-male-nude-is-michelangelos-sketch-for-sistine-chapel-scholar-says

Feature on various ancient surgeries:

https://www.thecollector.com/mindboggling-ancient-surgeries-antiquity/

... and one on 'primitive' brain surgery:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-upsetting-world-of-primitive-brain-surgery

Feature on 20 historic jewels:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230224-the-10-most-iconic-jewels-through-history

Rethinking the portrait of Washington by Charles Peale (maybe):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/arts/george-washington-portrait-charles-peale.html

Seeing how hard it is to paint like Vermeer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/design/the-new-vermeer-tv-show.html

Interesting feature on determining whether a painting was a Dali or not:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/salvador-dali-art-institute-of-chicago-dream-of-venus/index.html

On the implications of ignoring the archaeological evidence for the Armenian genocide:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/armenian-genocide/

Feature on Clara Driscoll:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/obituaries/clara-driscoll-overlooked.html

Pondering the 'creativity' of the US Founding Fathers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/opinion/bouie-newsletter-framers.html

More on the mummified 'mermaid' from a Japanese temple:

https://www.livescience.com/haunting-mermaid-mummy-discovered-in-japan-is-even-weirder-than-scientists-expected
https://arkeonews.net/300-year-old-sacred-mummified-mermaid-from-japans-mystery-solved/

More on Eadburg marking up medieval manuscripts:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-bodleian-uncovers-hidden-inscriptions-by-mysterious-medieval-woman-scribe/

More on Leonardo and gravity:

https://www.thecollector.com/leonardos-arundel-codex-and-the-theory-of-gravity/

Review of Naoise McSweeney, *The West*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/23/the-west-by-naoise-mac-sweeney-review-history-rediscovered

Review of Joel Warner, *The Curse of the Marquis de Sade*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/books/review/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade-joel-warner.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Arslantepe Mound in Turkiye suffered some damage:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/arslantepe-mound-in-turkiye-partially-damaged-after-strong-quakes/2829553

Feature on the ruins of Antakya:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-22/ruins-of-turkish-city-of-antakya-tell-story-of-a-rich-past
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ruins-turkish-city-antakya-story-rich-past-97348268

... also on Antakya:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1159528587

Assorted items that were damaged in Turkey (and not):

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damaged-artifacts-moved-to-safe-museums-181035
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/12000-year-old-neolithic-artifacts-in-museums-survive-quakes/news

On saving cultural sites in Turkiye and Syria after the earthquakes:

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/how-can-cultural-sites-be-saved-after-the-turkiye-syria-earthquakes

A history of pancakes:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-pancakes-180981667/

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on seven Greek philosophers' explanations of various things in nature:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/7-greek-philosophers-brilliantly-flawed-explanations-nature/

Five philosophers on family values:

https://www.thecollector.com/five-philosophers-on-values-of-families-parenting/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Antonine Wall:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23331390.antonine-wall-exhibition-shine-new-light-roman-history/

Pocklington Shield:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-64733701

Islanders:

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/200-ancient-artefacts-installed-fitzwilliam-26255504
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/islanders-mediterranean-fitzwilliam-museum/ https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/islanders-major-exhibition-opens-at-the-fitzwilliam-museum/

Vermeer:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-every-single-work-sold-out-rijksmuseum-show-2256255

Pompeii:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-museum-of-science-and-industry-travels-back-to-79-ad-with-pompeii-the-exhibition-301755628.html

Shakespeare:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64651007

Return to Country:

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/significant-object-heads-home-to-tasmania-after-230-years-2614191/

Labyrinth:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/24/labyrinth-knossos-myth-and-reality/

Roman cut glass:

https://www.wales247.co.uk/rare-roman-cut-glass-on-display-at-ceredigion-museum

Gathering Light:

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/incredible-3000-year-old-bronze-age-gold-sun-pendant-among-ancient-treasures-coming-to-sunderland-museum-winter-gardens-4034393

Suggestion that UK museums have too much in storage:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64707488

More on implications for changes to UK treasure laws:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/change-to-uk-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-museums

More on the plans for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/22/david-chipperfield-unveils-design-for-the-national-archaeological-museum-of-athens/

Plans for a Lincoln Museum under the Lincoln Memorial:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158292427/lincoln-memorial-museum-undercroft https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/undercroft.htm

Feature on renovations to the Tahrir Square Museum:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/50/489515/AlAhram-Weekly/New-life-for-the-Egyptian-Museum.aspx
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-unveils-renovations-venerable-tahrir-square-museum-2023-02-21/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230221-egypt-unveils-renovations-of-venerable-tahrir-square-museum/

The Museum of Migration is moving:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64726006

Plans for a new archaeological museum on Lefkada:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1205299/plans-approved-for-new-archaeological-museum-on-lefkada-island/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/25/ancient-artifacts-excavated-lefkada-island-museum/

Some 'test openings' for the GEM:

https://egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-opens-its-doors-for-visits-before-official-opening/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genetic study is shedding light on the expansion of the Tubo Empire:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285378.shtml

Feature on using genetics to track movements of ancient Siberians:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/genetics-reveal-movements-of-ancient-siberians
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on LiDAR:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Venice's canals are drying up:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-canal-drought-italy-climate-scli-intl/index.html

Nelanda:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Pondering the tempo of Beethoven's Ninth:

https://apnews.com/article/classical-music-boston-entertainment-21f41fbf948c7d1875d7e926dd142363

More discussion of Ancient Apocalypse and pseudoarchaeology:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/atlantis-and-the-apocalypse-the-world-of-fringe-archaeology-1.6757733

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CRIME BEAT
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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 US is returning 77 stolen antiquities to Yemen:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/us-attorneys-office-eastern-district-new-york-joins-department-homeland-security
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen
https://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-artifacts-smuggled-brooklyn-antiquities-003200022.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/02/22/us-to-return-77-stolen-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://menafn.com/1105644819/US-Returns-77-Stolen-Antiquities-Back-To-Yemen https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230222-us-to-return-77-looted-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen-181095

... but they'll be at the Smithsonian for a while:

https://hyperallergic.com/803211/smithsonian-to-house-repatriated-yemeni-artifacts/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-yemeni-artifacts-us-repatriation-1234658629/

77 items (hmmm) associated with Latchford were also returned to Cambodia from the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/stolen-trove-of-angkor-crown-jewels-returned-to-cambodia-after-resurfacing-in-london
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64649771 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/arts/cambodia-gold-jewelry-royals-latchford.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/url-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-cambodia-phnom-penh-ll377kplt
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/collection-rare-centuries-jewelry-returns-cambodia-97330566
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/collection-of-rare-centuries-old-jewelry-returns-to-cambodia/2023/02/20/8dbba134-b11d-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3210907/britain-returns-treasure-trove-stolen-angkor-crown-jewels-cambodia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cambodia-douglas-latchford-repatriation-1234658517/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66541 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-jewelry-cambodia-returned-180981677/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11247-230221-cambodia-repatriated-jewelry

The Uppsala University Museum returned a Bronze Age cylinder seal to Greece:

https://greekherald.com.au/news/unique-bronze-age-clay-seal-returned-to-greece-after-100-years/

A BC museum return a totem pole to the Nuxalk Nation:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/americas/nuxalk-nation-totem-pole-royal-bc-museum-reaj/index.html

The Geneva Museum of Ethnography returned a pair of sacred objects to the Haudenosaunee Confederation:

https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local/swiss-museum-returns-two-artifacts-to-the-haudenosaunee-iroquois-confederacy-6589516
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11250-230222-canada-haudenosaunee-repatriation ============================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of ancient Pamphylia:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-ancient-greek-pamphylia/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n08.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n09.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Nicholas David:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/nicholas-david-obituary

George Huxley:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/21/professor-george-huxley-classics-scholar-mathematician-who-became/

Don Benson:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/24/don-benson-obituary

Raymond Clark:

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/26680968/raymond-john-clark

Linda King Newell:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/books/linda-king-newell-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3261-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-12th-through-the-18th-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
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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https://phys.org/news/2023-02-flotsam-york-famous-ss-savannah.html https://apnews.com/article/science-new-york-city-bronx-savannah-oceans-dc09efafd9b191d0715a084516527ed5
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ss-savannah-shipwreck-fire-island-new-york/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/flotsam-found-off-new-york-famous-ss-savannah-97436695

Feature on the 1898 Wilmington coup:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wound-healed-activists-recount-1898-wilmington-coup-terrorized/story?id=96955381

Feature on Richard Henry Greene, Yale's first Black graduate:

https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5622-history-found

The unmarked grave of a Black Galveston priest killed in the Great Galveston Flood was found:

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/02/24/galveston-churches-discover-pioneering-black-priests-unmarked-grave/

Feature on the oldest bell in Quebec:

https://www.riposte-catholique.fr/archives/174961

Review of Jon K. Lauck, *The Good Country*:

https://newrepublic.com/article/170700/searching-spirit-midwest-lauck-good-country-review
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Conservation work has revealed assorted architectural features at the royal acropolis at Ek' Balam:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/new-discoveries-at-ek%CA%BC-balam-during-conservation-works/146296

30 Chancay culture burials from Peru:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/peruvian-archaeologists-unearth-30-pre-inca-era-graves-2023-02-25/

A 1200 years bp Wari temple complex from Peru:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/23/peru-wari-ritual-complex-temple-uncovered
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-732738 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-wari-ritual-complex-pakaytambo-southern-peru-1234658747/
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex-in-peru/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-unearth-1200-year-old-wari-temple-complex/146279

16th/17th century burials from Mexico City's Chapultepec park show a mixture of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures:

https://mexicodailypost.com/2023/02/16/cemetery-from-the-early-viceregal-period-found-by-archaeologists-in-chapultepec-park/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-bodies-found-mexico-city-show-shared-catholic-pre-hispanic-graves-2023-02-21/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11242-230217-mexico-transition-cemetery

More on the elite residences found at Chichen Itza:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-residences-mexico-chichen-itza-180981674/

... although it now appears they were known over a century ago:

https://www.livescience.com/no-archaeologists-havent-found-elite-housing-at-chichen-itza
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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 ============================================================
Early in the week we read of an Australia-based archaeologist and his colleagues being taken hostage in Papua New Guinea:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64671699 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-university-professor-taken-hostage-highlands-papua-new-guinea-sources-2023-02-20/
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732098 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773795/Australian-professor-kidnapped-Papua-New-Guinea-gang-1-4m-ransom.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/papua-new-guinea-police-say-4-being-held-by-criminals/2023/02/20/78765f54-b176-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australian-professor-hostage-papua-new-guinea-rcna71428

... and we read of plans for a 'rescue mission':

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64713695

... and one of the group was freed on Thursday:

https://thepublicsradio.org/article/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-free-woman-still-hold-4-others
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/one-woman-hostage-released-papua-new-guinea-negotiations-continue-police-2023-02-23/

... and today they have all been freed:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64775769 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/papua-new-guinea-kidnappers-release-3-hostages-97471876
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300816840/kiwi-hostage-safely-released-in-papua-new-guinea

In case you want to watch the dissection of a 3500 years bp frozen bear from Siberia:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2175649859504 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-dissect-3500-year-old-bear-discovered-siberian-permafrost-rcna71954

The Met is allowing 3d copies of some 16th century sculptures to be made:

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ny-met-french-3d-16th-century.html

A 16th century drawing has been identified as a 'draft' by Michelangelo for a figure in the Sistine Chapel:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/19/when-we-rotated-it-90-degrees-it-was-obvious-mystery-sketch-is-rare-michelangelo-draft-for-sistine-chapel
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/20/drawing-of-male-nude-is-michelangelos-sketch-for-sistine-chapel-scholar-says

Feature on various ancient surgeries:

https://www.thecollector.com/mindboggling-ancient-surgeries-antiquity/

... and one on 'primitive' brain surgery:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-upsetting-world-of-primitive-brain-surgery

Feature on 20 historic jewels:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230224-the-10-most-iconic-jewels-through-history

Rethinking the portrait of Washington by Charles Peale (maybe):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/arts/george-washington-portrait-charles-peale.html

Seeing how hard it is to paint like Vermeer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/design/the-new-vermeer-tv-show.html

Interesting feature on determining whether a painting was a Dali or not:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/salvador-dali-art-institute-of-chicago-dream-of-venus/index.html

On the implications of ignoring the archaeological evidence for the Armenian genocide:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/armenian-genocide/

Feature on Clara Driscoll:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/obituaries/clara-driscoll-overlooked.html

Pondering the 'creativity' of the US Founding Fathers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/opinion/bouie-newsletter-framers.html

More on the mummified 'mermaid' from a Japanese temple:

https://www.livescience.com/haunting-mermaid-mummy-discovered-in-japan-is-even-weirder-than-scientists-expected
https://arkeonews.net/300-year-old-sacred-mummified-mermaid-from-japans-mystery-solved/

More on Eadburg marking up medieval manuscripts:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-bodleian-uncovers-hidden-inscriptions-by-mysterious-medieval-woman-scribe/

More on Leonardo and gravity:

https://www.thecollector.com/leonardos-arundel-codex-and-the-theory-of-gravity/

Review of Naoise McSweeney, *The West*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/23/the-west-by-naoise-mac-sweeney-review-history-rediscovered

Review of Joel Warner, *The Curse of the Marquis de Sade*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/books/review/the-curse-of-the-marquis-de-sade-joel-warner.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Arslantepe Mound in Turkiye suffered some damage:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/arslantepe-mound-in-turkiye-partially-damaged-after-strong-quakes/2829553

Feature on the ruins of Antakya:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-22/ruins-of-turkish-city-of-antakya-tell-story-of-a-rich-past
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ruins-turkish-city-antakya-story-rich-past-97348268

... also on Antakya:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1159528587

Assorted items that were damaged in Turkey (and not):

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damaged-artifacts-moved-to-safe-museums-181035
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/12000-year-old-neolithic-artifacts-in-museums-survive-quakes/news

On saving cultural sites in Turkiye and Syria after the earthquakes:

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/02/21/how-can-cultural-sites-be-saved-after-the-turkiye-syria-earthquakes

A history of pancakes:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-pancakes-180981667/

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on seven Greek philosophers' explanations of various things in nature:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/7-greek-philosophers-brilliantly-flawed-explanations-nature/

Five philosophers on family values:

https://www.thecollector.com/five-philosophers-on-values-of-families-parenting/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Antonine Wall:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23331390.antonine-wall-exhibition-shine-new-light-roman-history/

Pocklington Shield:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-64733701

Islanders:

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/200-ancient-artefacts-installed-fitzwilliam-26255504
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/islanders-mediterranean-fitzwilliam-museum/ https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/20/islanders-major-exhibition-opens-at-the-fitzwilliam-museum/

Vermeer:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-every-single-work-sold-out-rijksmuseum-show-2256255

Pompeii:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-museum-of-science-and-industry-travels-back-to-79-ad-with-pompeii-the-exhibition-301755628.html

Shakespeare:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64651007

Return to Country:

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/significant-object-heads-home-to-tasmania-after-230-years-2614191/

Labyrinth:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/24/labyrinth-knossos-myth-and-reality/

Roman cut glass:

https://www.wales247.co.uk/rare-roman-cut-glass-on-display-at-ceredigion-museum

Gathering Light:

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/incredible-3000-year-old-bronze-age-gold-sun-pendant-among-ancient-treasures-coming-to-sunderland-museum-winter-gardens-4034393

Suggestion that UK museums have too much in storage:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64707488

More on implications for changes to UK treasure laws:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/change-to-uk-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-museums

More on the plans for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/02/22/david-chipperfield-unveils-design-for-the-national-archaeological-museum-of-athens/

Plans for a Lincoln Museum under the Lincoln Memorial:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158292427/lincoln-memorial-museum-undercroft https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/undercroft.htm

Feature on renovations to the Tahrir Square Museum:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/50/489515/AlAhram-Weekly/New-life-for-the-Egyptian-Museum.aspx
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-unveils-renovations-venerable-tahrir-square-museum-2023-02-21/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230221-egypt-unveils-renovations-of-venerable-tahrir-square-museum/

The Museum of Migration is moving:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64726006

Plans for a new archaeological museum on Lefkada:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1205299/plans-approved-for-new-archaeological-museum-on-lefkada-island/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/25/ancient-artifacts-excavated-lefkada-island-museum/

Some 'test openings' for the GEM:

https://egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-opens-its-doors-for-visits-before-official-opening/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ============================================================
A genetic study is shedding light on the expansion of the Tubo Empire:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285378.shtml

Feature on using genetics to track movements of ancient Siberians:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/genetics-reveal-movements-of-ancient-siberians
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on LiDAR:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Venice's canals are drying up:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-canal-drought-italy-climate-scli-intl/index.html

Nelanda:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Pondering the tempo of Beethoven's Ninth:

https://apnews.com/article/classical-music-boston-entertainment-21f41fbf948c7d1875d7e926dd142363

More discussion of Ancient Apocalypse and pseudoarchaeology:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/atlantis-and-the-apocalypse-the-world-of-fringe-archaeology-1.6757733

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CRIME BEAT
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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 US is returning 77 stolen antiquities to Yemen:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/us-attorneys-office-eastern-district-new-york-joins-department-homeland-security
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen
https://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-artifacts-smuggled-brooklyn-antiquities-003200022.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/02/22/us-to-return-77-stolen-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://menafn.com/1105644819/US-Returns-77-Stolen-Antiquities-Back-To-Yemen https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230222-us-to-return-77-looted-antiquities-to-yemen/
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-returns-77-stolen-antiquities-back-to-yemen-181095

... but they'll be at the Smithsonian for a while:

https://hyperallergic.com/803211/smithsonian-to-house-repatriated-yemeni-artifacts/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-yemeni-artifacts-us-repatriation-1234658629/

77 items (hmmm) associated with Latchford were also returned to Cambodia from the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/stolen-trove-of-angkor-crown-jewels-returned-to-cambodia-after-resurfacing-in-london
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64649771 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/arts/cambodia-gold-jewelry-royals-latchford.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/url-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-cambodia-phnom-penh-ll377kplt
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/collection-rare-centuries-jewelry-returns-cambodia-97330566
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-stolen-crown-jewels-returned-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/collection-of-rare-centuries-old-jewelry-returns-to-cambodia/2023/02/20/8dbba134-b11d-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3210907/britain-returns-treasure-trove-stolen-angkor-crown-jewels-cambodia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cambodia-douglas-latchford-repatriation-1234658517/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66541 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-jewelry-cambodia-returned-180981677/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11247-230221-cambodia-repatriated-jewelry

The Uppsala University Museum returned a Bronze Age cylinder seal to Greece:

https://greekherald.com.au/news/unique-bronze-age-clay-seal-returned-to-greece-after-100-years/

A BC museum return a totem pole to the Nuxalk Nation:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/americas/nuxalk-nation-totem-pole-royal-bc-museum-reaj/index.html

The Geneva Museum of Ethnography returned a pair of sacred objects to the Haudenosaunee Confederation:

https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local/swiss-museum-returns-two-artifacts-to-the-haudenosaunee-iroquois-confederacy-6589516
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11250-230222-canada-haudenosaunee-repatriation
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of ancient Pamphylia:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-ancient-greek-pamphylia/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n08.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n09.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Nicholas David:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/nicholas-david-obituary

George Huxley:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/21/professor-george-huxley-classics-scholar-mathematician-who-became/

Don Benson:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/24/don-benson-obituary

Raymond Clark:

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/26680968/raymond-john-clark

Linda King Newell:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/books/linda-king-newell-dead.html

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3261-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-12th-through-the-18th-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:

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Mishkan being Crushed by Heel Stone in Wiltshire

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Our Mishkan (tabernacle) Gold & Brass Relics are being crushed by 30 tonne (33 ton) Heel Stone in Wiltshire, Stonehenge, GB. The 2,623 year old pozzolanic Bluestone Concrete housing Our Mishkan is deteriorated (see coring map; 7 cores drilled). We are
short $1,000 to Our $11,000 raised for moving Our Mishkan from under Heel Stone to the Alamo, a Texas temple. English Heritage says $12,000 are Our Mishkan shipping costs; from Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire to Natchitoches, (Caddo Nation), Nacogdoches,
Texas. We will hold the $12,000 of funds (Our $11,000; Your $1,000) in DI's National Trust fund until Our Mishkan is delivered. If you tire of waiting on English Heritage to ship Our Mishkan (due to their Government red tape) at any time, DI will
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(PHASE I is now Fully Funded)

The last leg of Our Mishkan (tabernacle) Gold & Brass Relics' journey is along the historic El Camino Real de los Tejas, Old San Antonio Road, and Lower Road (Goliad-Laredo), from the Louisiana-Texas' oldest towns Natchitoches-Nacogdoches (of Caddo
Nation) to the Catholic "Misión San Antonio de Valero" sacristy & monks' rooms (The Alamo), their final resting place. Should You be interested in Helping with such Historic Route journey's transport costs of Our Mishkan (tabernacle) Gold & Brass Relics,
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