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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/03/great-mayan-aquifer-may-form-interconnections-with-maya-cenotes/146532

A 1400 years bp Moche mural from Panamarca (Peru):

https://www.livescience.com/1400-year-old-mural-of-2-faced-men-unearthed-in-peru-may-allude-to-cosmic-realms
https://www.heritagedaily.com/xmlrpc.php https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/17/unearthing-ancient-peruvian-history/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11292-230317-peru-moche-murals

A serpent sculpture find from Chichen Itza:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/03/guiding-serpent-sculpture-discovered-at-chichen-itza/146572

More on the 4000 years bp temple complex from excavation of mounds outside Barranca (Peru):

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66721

More on the study of the implications of Wari pottery:

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/lasers-and-chemistry-reveal-how-ancient-pottery-was-made-and-how-an-empire-functi
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-lasers-chemistry-reveal-ancient-pottery.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230314110706.htm https://www.eurasiareview.com/15032023-lasers-and-chemistry-reveal-how-ancient-pottery-was-made-and-how-an-empire-functioned/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/15/lasers-and-chemistry-reveal-how-ancient-pottery-was-made/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11291-230317-peru-wari-pottery

More on the Casa Grandes site in Mexico:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/13/ancient-artifacts-reveal-the-roots-of-casas-grandes/

More on the recently found Moai statue:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-on-easter-island-have-discovered-a-previously-unknown-moai-statue-buried-in-a-dried-out-lake-bed-2261978

On the recipe for 'Maya Blue' dye:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/artist-rediscovers-mysterious-recipe-for-ancient-maya-blue-dye/

Feature on the Tulum site:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/where-is-tulum-and-why-was-it-so-important-to-the-ancient-maya
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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 ============================================================
Corpus Christi College has acquired the Nine Roundels:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64965542

On efforts to save a Coleridge poem manuscript about the slave trade:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/17/export-ban-on-samuel-taylor-coleridge-anti-slavery-manuscript-as-british-buyer-sought
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/samuel-taylor-coleridge-plea-to-save-poem-about-slave-trade-3h2nx7mh9

Feature on ancient arab mathematicians:

https://scoopempire.com/mathematics/

Feature on horses in ancient art:

https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2023/03/18/horses-ancient-art-seeking-convey/

Feature on the Hereford Map:

https://aeon.co/videos/the-famed-medieval-map-that-stretched-beyond-earth-to-heaven-history-and-myth

Feature on the 'greatest' archaeological finds:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/worlds-greatest-archaeological-finds-real-troy-shackletons/

Feature on James Hutton and geological deep time:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f7smlm/the-man-who-discovered-the-abyss-of-time-

Feature on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon:

https://aeon.co/videos/jeremy-bentham-was-consumed-by-creating-a-perfect-prison-heres-the-result

Feature on the Wakanda true antecedent of Buganda:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/10/east-african-kingdom-theodore-roosevelt-00085962

On Gaugin's 'child wife':

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/18/gauguins-child-wife-in-search-of-the-muse-that-inspired-a-masterpiece

On the history of whaling:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/11/the-first-great-energy-transition-how-humanity-gave-up-whaling

Dealers are apparently having problems selling looted artifacts from Africa:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7ze5n/looted-artefacts-benin-bronzes

Study suggests people of color are underrepresented as AJA authors:

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-people-largely-underrepresented-authors-published.html

Latest suggestion about DaVinci's maternal heritage:

https://www.livescience.com/da-vincis-mother-was-an-enslaved-teenager-trafficked-to-italy-new-documents-suggest
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/world/europe/leonardo-da-vinci-mother-book.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/leonardo-da-vinci-mother-slave-caucasus-italy-new-research-book-rcna74670
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/new-theory-re-ignites-debate-about-identity-of-leonardo-da-vincis-mother/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Some features on the Ides of March:

https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/beware-the-ides-of-march-what-does-that-mean.html
https://www.abc27.com/digital-originals/its-the-ides-of-march-whats-an-ide-anyway/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/03/15/what-is-the-ides-of-march/70011381007/

Newark replaced a statue of Columbus with a monument to Harriet Tubman:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/newark-new-jersey-unveils-harriet-tubman-monument-shadow-of-a-face

Some background to Pi Day:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/03/14/pi-day-math/ https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2023/march/pi-day-sebastian-cioaba-mathematical-sciences-math-circles/f

Features on St Patrick's Day:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35831743 https://www.livescience.com/27957-st-patricks-day-5-facts.html https://thedaily.case.edu/heres-what-you-should-know-about-st-patrick/

Assorted museums are recategorizing works from Russian to Ukrainian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/metropolitan-museum-art-reclassifies-russian-art-ukrainian
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/arts/design/museums-relabel-art-ukraine-russian.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ukrainian-art-reclassification/index.html ============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Using genetics to figure out the origins of the donkey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/science/donkeys-genetics-archaeology.html https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donkeys-domesticated-only-once-in-5-000bc-qsjtpdtnq

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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The Oscars apparently raised interest in the Irish language:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/oscar-success-puts-endangered-irish-language-centre-stage-2023-03-12/

Feature on Persian:

https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-lost-with-persianate-modernity

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Pondering ancient conceptions of 'the good life':

https://psyche.co/ideas/whats-a-life-worth-living-for-the-ancients-it-depends

Review of Regan Penaluna, *How to Think Like a Woman*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/books/review/how-to-think-like-a-woman-regan-penaluna.html
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Mosaics from the Capitoline Collections:

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2023/03/14/roman-mosaics-exhibit-enriched-with-16-newly-restored-works_33d43da7-dab4-4983-82f4-078d70959551.html

Roman Landscapes:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/roman-landscapes-visions-of-nature-and-myth-from-rome-and-pompeii-review-idylls-of-ancient-italy-b7b7f7d7

New Light from Pompeii:

https://the-past.com/news/new-light-from-pompeii-exhibition-explores-artificial-light-in-the-roman-world/

Lives of the God: Divinity in Maya Art:

https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2023-03-14/maya-art-exhibition-co-curated-by-yale-archaeologist-explores-lives-of-ancient-gods

Leon Monet:

https://apnews.com/article/claude-monet-brother-leon-impressionism-paris-exhibit-278777074d0c9dc1fc593dac08183d28

Botticelli:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287460.shtml

The Ugly Duchess:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/15/mona-lisa-monstrous-grotesque-leonardo-da-vinci-national-gallery-ugly-duchess

cf: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-ugly-duchess-beauty-and-satire-in-the-renaissance#

Roman Cut Glass:

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/entertainment/rare-roman-cut-glass-on-show-at-ceredigion-museum-601199

Portraits of Dogs:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/18/rather-fetching-classic-portraits-of-dogs-in-pictures

cf: https://www.wallacecollection.org/art/exhibitions-displays/portraits-of-dogs-from-gainsborough-to-hockney/

Codex Sassoon:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-734037

The Met still has a number of antiquities connected to Subhash Kapoor:

https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/antiquities-abroad-the-full-list-8495035/
https://observer.com/2023/03/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-owns-77-works-linked-to-trafficker-subhash-kapoor/
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20230314-india-s-stolen-heritage-authorities-push-for-restitution-of-religious-artefacts
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/metropolitan-museum-of-art-subhash-kapoor-investigation-1234661322/

... similarly:

https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/full-list-antiquities-linked-to-jammu-kashmir-8497519/

Review of a collection of essays about plaster cast collections in assorted museums:

https://as.cornell.edu/news/destroy-copy-essay-collection-rethinks-history-plaster-casts

Plans for an archaeological museum in Quzhou:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_Rdy8zM22.html http://www.china.org.cn/china/2023-03/14/content_85166808.htm

Feature on the Silk Road:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/what-was-the-silk-road-and-what-happened-to-it

On the implications of 'privacy' in the art market:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/privacy-in-art-collecting-does-not-mean-dirty-money-3pxwf3ntp
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A Bible associated with a priest who helped Charles II to flee to France is coming to auction:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-65006425

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Studying the pre-colonial DNA of the Ashaninka people of Peru:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230316113957.htm ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is of an 8000 years bp Norwegian lad:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-museums-stone-age/this-is-what-a-norwegian-boy-looked-like-8000-years-ago/2170180

Feature on carbon dating:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/carbon-dating-how-scientists-hack-radiation-to-age-ancient-artefacts/
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Latest sites emerging as a result of drought in Spain:

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/church-tower-reemerges-parched-reservoir-drought-hit-spain-2023-03-17/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Pompeii:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/new-discoveries-pompeii-ruins-archeological-site

The Pantheon will soon be charging admission:

https://www.thelocal.it/20230316/romes-pantheon-to-start-charging-visitors-for-entry/
https://apnews.com/article/pantheon-rome-ticket-tourism-ancient-monument-italy-371b2a4c8dd2cee451a2f21fc6eb4336
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/300832691/tourists-will-soon-be-charged-to-enter-italys-mostvisited-cultural-site
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/03/17/pantheon-you-will-soon-have-to-pay-to-enter-romes-best-preserved-ancient-monument
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on Bronislava Nijinska:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/arts/dance/bronislava-nijinska-les-noces-ballet-west.html

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CRIME BEAT
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The dealer who sold that 'ides of March' coin a while back has been arrested for falsifying the provenance:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roma-numismatics-coin-dealer-richard-beale-arrested-fake-provenance-2269635
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/crime/record-setting-ancient-coin-false-documents

... and a Naxos coin from Sicily was recovered:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/03/14/sicily-naxos-coin-british-auction/

A bust of a West Bank antiquities smuggling ring:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734451

An Italian was arrested in Nepal for taking archaeological relics from their place of origin:

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/world/2023/03/13/italian-detained-in-nepal-over-archaeological-relics_7893180b-83f8-4419-ad43-6ee968f9e885.html

Feature on the Gardner Museum heist:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/metro/thirty-three-years-after-gardner-heist-where-are-paintings/?
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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 returned swords and a stone axe to Ukraine:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/us/us-customs-border-patrol-ukrainian-artifacts-returned-trnd/index.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/10/ukraine-weapons-sword-embassy-russia/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/11286-230315-ukraine-repatriation-artifacts

The Netherlands returned indigenous human remains to Sint Eustatius:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/16/netherlands-returns-indigenous-remains-caribbean-island

Cambodia is celebrating the return of a pile of Khmer antiquities:

https://apnews.com/article/art-artifacts-sculpture-stolen-art-cambodia-culture-looted-antiquities-c903a41f82c8363f36027ab771839ebf
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/cambodia-celebrates-return-priceless-stolen-artifacts-97938457
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/17/WS64141a64a31057c47ebb51ab.html https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287498.shtml https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/cambodia-celebrates-return-of-priceless-stolen-centuries-old-artifacts

On hopes of returns to Wounded Knee:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/arts/repatriation-native-american-cultural-heritage.html

More on Turkiye waiting too long to seek repatriation of the 'Stargazer':

https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-cannot-recover-ancient-stargazer-idol-christies-us-court-2023-03-08/

More on the Denver Art Museum and donations from an associate of Douglas Latchford:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/15/denver-museum-art-removes-emma-bunker-name-cambodian-loot

More on Iraq's recovery of an item looted from the Baghdad Museum back in 2003:

https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iraq-recovers-a-2700-year-old-artifact-stolen-during-u-s-invasion/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/15/2700-year-old-antiquity-repatriated-to-iraqi-government/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Carthage during Hannibal's war with Rome:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-coins-of-carthage-during-hannibals-war-with-rome/

A coin with the oldest image of the Temple menorah is on display for the first time:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/coin-with-oldest-depiction-of-temple-menorah-displayed-for-first-time/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n11.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n12.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Katie Demakopoulou:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/14/sad-news-for-katie-demakopoulou/

Charles H. Kahn:

https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/charles-h-kahn-philosophy

John Bramble:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/14/john-bramble-obituary

Robert Harris:

https://flagpole.com/news/pub-notes/2023/03/15/professor-robert-pete-harris-was-another-loss-for-athens-and-uga/

Jane Gardner:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-jane-gardner-88-translator-of-caesar-and-authority-on-women-in-ancient-rome-dxtxk20rx

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3265-audio-news-from-archaeologica-march-5th-through-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
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Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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