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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/magazine/wildensteins-inheritance-case-art.html

On efforts to preserve the final notes of Kamikaze pilots:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/japan/2023/08/15/history/museums-struggle-to-preserve-suicide-notes-of-japanese-wwii-pilots/

Feature on Robert M Budd:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/obituaries/overlooked-no-more-robert-m-budd.html

Feature on how Wordsworth dealt with his brother's death:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/27/wordsworth-romantic-poet-brother-death-shipwreck

Feature on the Knights Templar:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/knights-templar-trial-da-vinci-code-temple-church-stafford/

Review of a couple of books relating to George Orwell:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/books/review/orwell-dj-taylor-wifedom-anna-funder.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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In case you want to keep an eye on the latest search for Nessie:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/europe/loch-ness-monster-search-timeline.html

Ongoing concerns for heritage items in Sudan:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-sudan-civil-war-ancient-heritage/

Pondering what should be taken into account regarding slavery reparations:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-slavery-stole-africans-ideas-bodies.html

On the role of 19th century plantations on the fires in Maui:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/maui-wildfire-water-plantations-ecology

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on proto-Indo European:

https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/sj3xbgg6h

Feature on the invention of the alphabet:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/08/who-invented-alphabet

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on Diogenes the Cynic:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/23/greek-philosopher-diogenes-the-cynic-the-first-anarchist/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Joseph Wright:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-66580641

The accounts of thefts from the British Museum continued to develop this week and really dominated heritage news; picking up from where the BM kept the thefts a secret:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12427053/British-Museum-disappearance-artefacts-secret.html

... and that the whistleblower's claims were unfounded:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/22/british-museum-whistleblower-ittai-gradel-two-years-ago/

... and claims that all the missing items were accounted for:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66582935

... and the collection 'safe':

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66592354

The BM was warned of the thefts in 2021:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-officials-were-warned-of-thefts-in-2021-emails-reveal-1234677515/

... but that the extent of what was missing wasn't revealed in 2021:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/23/british-museum-director-says-extent-of-missing-items-was-not-revealed-in-2021

... and that it was 1500-2000 items taken:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/21/british-museum-missing-more-than-1500-priceless-objects/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12430415/British-Museum-serial-thief-stole-destroyed-nearly-2-000-precious-artefacts-worth-millions-pounds-YEARS-without-going-detected.html
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-thefts-artefacts-missing-sold-ebay-thief/
https://www.dw.com/en/british-museum-chair-estimates-2000-artifacts-were-stolen/a-66639060
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-than-1-500-treasures-missing-from-british-museum-hbd3hmzs7
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/internal-investigation-british-museum-ancient-artifacts-stolen-1234677434/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/22/reports-claim-close-to-2000-artefacts-were-stolen-from-british-museum-according-to-internal-investigation

... and items on what was stolen:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/suspected-thief-spent-at-least-20-years-plundering-british-museum-8pflw355n
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/what-was-stolen-theft-british-museum-london-b1101937.html

... and that it had been going on for two decades:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-thief-stealing-artefacts-decades-uk/ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/24/hundreds-of-items-missing-from-british-museum-since-2013

... and the prices on eBay were really low:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artifacts-stolen-british-museum-listed-ebay-1234677363/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/22/british-museum-artifacts-sold-ebay-50/

... and more about Greece renewing calls for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/23/british-museum-thefts-elgin-marbles-greek-archaeologists/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-theft-greece-calls-for-return-of-parthenon-marbles-2352766
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/08/23/news/following-theft-of-1500-artifacts-at-the-british-museum-greece-loudens-calls-for-return-of-parthenon-sculptures/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/23/greek-minister-and-archaeologists-question-british-museum-security-in-wake-of-alleged-thefts

... for which they were accused of 'opportunism':

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/23/tory-mp-accuses-greeks-of-opportunism-over-missing-british-museum-items
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66592354 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/greece-oportunism-british-museum-thefts-b2397934.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12435967/MP-accuses-Greeks-blatant-opportunism-demanding-Elgin-Marbles-returned-thousands-artefacts-British-Museum-lost-stolen.html
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-laughable-for-greeks-to-say-the-elgins-are-at-risk/

... and an opEd:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1414/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1414/pub/1414/page/72/article/NaN

Peter Higg's twitter handle was brought into the fray:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12440181/Sacked-British-museum-curators-Twitter-ebay-seller-flogged-70-items-whistleblower-says-museum-director-idiot-lives-cloud-cloud-cuckoo-land.html

... and it was suggested he was promoted after the warning about the thefts:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sacked-british-museum-curator-was-promoted-to-oversee-elgin-marbles-knkx2vnr5
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12435967/MP-accuses-Greeks-blatant-opportunism-demanding-Elgin-Marbles-returned-thousands-artefacts-British-Museum-lost-stolen.html

Meanwhile, Hartwig Fischer complained that the dealer/informant didn't tell how many items were missing:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/outgoing-british-museum-director-hartwig-fischer-speaks-out-for-the-first-time-about-the-thefts-that-took-place-under-his-watch-2353791
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-chief-left-frustrated-following-thefts-after-dealer-failed-to-dis/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66596432

... and shortly thereafter he resigned over the affair:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/arts/design/british-museum-director-resigns.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/25/british-museum-director-hartwig-fischer-steps-down-after-suspected-thefts
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66621006 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/25/british-museum-director-hartwig-fischer-quits/
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1196170833/the-director-of-the-british-museum-resigned-after-over-1-500-its-objects-went-mi
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/director-british-museum-steps-amid-controversy-thefts-ancient-102566598
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230825-british-museum-director-resigns-after-spate-of-thefts-1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/25/british-museum-thefts-director-resigns/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-theft-hartwig-fischer-b2399491.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12445895/British-Museum-director-Hartwig-Fischer-quits-apologises-whistleblower-scandal-stolen-artefacts.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/british-museum-director-theft-investigation-intl/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-director-resigns-over-stolen-items-2023-08-25/
https://apnews.com/article/british-museum-thefts-director-resigns-hartwig-fischer-b2de328dc2acb0dd90ef7eceb4897533
https://www.dw.com/en/british-museum-director-resigns-over-stolen-antiquities/a-66635372
https://hyperallergic.com/841066/british-museum-director-resigns-amid-theft-scandal/

... as did deputy director Jonathan Williams:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/george-osborne-london-metropolitan-police-b2399634.html

... and we read of the police interviewing some unnamed man on the matter:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66608285 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-interview-man-over-alleged-artefacts-thefts-at-british-museum-5bwm6fmr0
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-police-interview-man-about-british-museum-thefts-2023-08-24/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-interview-man-british-museum-thefts/ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/24/police-interview-man-in-connection-with-suspected-british-museum-thefts
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-man-interviewed-police-b2398750.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/24/british-museum-thefts-stolen-items-man-interviewed-police/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12441599/Met-Police-interview-man-British-Museum-thefts-revealed-sacked-curators-Twitter-ebay-seller-flogged-70-items-whistleblower.html

... and how it may be difficult to figure out what has been stolen because of poor records at the BM:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/25/artefacts-stolen-from-british-museum-may-be-untraceable-due-to-poor-records

... but that some of the items had been recovered:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66626619 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/british-museum-recovered-stolen-2000-items-102583760
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/british-museum-some-of-the-stolen-2000-items-were-recovered-officials-say/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/british-museum-theft-artefacts-stolen-george-osborne-london-met-police-investigation-director-resign-b1103096.html

There were a handful of items on the whistleblower -- Ittal Gradel -- and his actions in the whole affair:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/arts/design/british-museum-thefts.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/23/ittai-gradel-british-museum-theft-evidence/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/26/british-museum-missing-artefact-1963/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12433883/British-Museum-warned-artefacts-stolen-thief-TWO-YEARS-bosses-no-evidence.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12446821/How-expert-turned-sleuth-unmask-astonishing-extent-British-Museum-thefts-snapping-precious-items-eBay-presenting-bosses-damning-dossier-evidence-claims-DIDNT-want-know.html

... and related items pondering how easy it was to steal from museums:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66535958 https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/08/21/stealing-from-museums-is-easier-than-you-might-think

... and what the thefts mean for the BM's future plans:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/25/the-inside-job-what-the-thefts-mean-for-the-british-museums-refurbishment-and-funding-plans

... and how the reputation of the BM has been damaged (and other oped sort of things):

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/british-museum-reputation-damaged-treasures-loss
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/08/24/british-museum-artifact-theft-colonisation-elgin-marbles/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/the-guardian-view-on-the-british-museum-losses-a-diplomatic-own-goal
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/british-museum-reputation-damaged-treasures-loss
https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2023/08/25/nightmare-at-the-british-museum-why-the-theft-scandal-wont-have-a-hollywood-ending/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-british-museum-thefts-stolen-goods-vf7tf2wt6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66622424

Now George Osborne has been casting blame for the crisis:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-hartwig-fischer-resigns-thefts-stolen-artefacts-statement-2023-r9hdjvw2q
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/26/george-osborne-apologises-british-museum-thefts/

... and that recovery efforts were underway:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/recovery-british-museum-artefacts-under-way-george-osborne
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/british-museum-recovery-intl/index.html https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-seeks-recovery-some-2000-stolen-items-2023-08-26/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-recover-stolen-items-george-osborne/

Now we are reading that there may have been earlier warnings:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/british-museum-theft-security-items-higgs-b2397362.html

Underfunding in the UK was also brought up as a factor:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/24/british-museum-theft-underfunding-of-uk-sector-has-weakened-safeguarding-of-collections-museums-body-says

Feature on the National Museum of Archaeology of Naples:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/romancing-the-stones-of-naples/

Emory's Michael C Carlos Museum is confonting a looted antiquities problem, sort of:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-little-museums-big-score

The Swedish National Museum has acquired a portrait of Count Fersen:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68090

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Some Franklin Expedition-associated portraits are going on sale:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66620402

A da Vinci treatise is coming to auction:

https://news.artnet.com/market/leonardo-da-vinci-treatise-on-painting-sothebys-auction-2349361

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of the genome of remains in a 3800 years bp family bural site in the Urals:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-bronze-age-family-deciphered-paleogeneticists.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/999192 https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-08-22/dead-by-30-dna-reveals-the-hard-life-of-a-shepherding-family-3800-years-ago.html
https://scitechdaily.com/decoding-the-bronze-age-scientists-unravel-the-secrets-of-an-ancient-family-system/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11705-230825-russia-bronze-age-family

More on Otzi's genetic makeup:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/oetzi-shows-his-true-colors-new-analysis-indicates-that-austrian-iceman-was-anatolian-a-475dfdbe-cdab-4407-8b38-95d927831c4c#ref=rss
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Study suggests teeth might preserve antibodies for centuries:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-successfully-extract-stable-antibodies-from-800-year-old-medieval-human-teeth/?expand_article=1

Stereoscopic imaging has revealed 'missing' Paleolithic petroglyph elements at La Pasiega cave in Cantabria:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-topographical-elements-paleolithic-art-revealed.html

More on the facial reconstruction (from death masks) of Bonnie Prince Charlie:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66533482 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/world/europe/bonnie-prince-charlie-outlander-jacobite.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11696-230822-bonnie-prince-charlie

More on the use of drones at the site of the Battle of Bulge:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drone-scans-reveal-new-information-from-battle-of-the-bulge-180982749/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Latest 'tourists behaving badly' are a pair of German tourists arrested for defacing the Vasari Corridor in Florence:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/vasari-corridor-tourists-arrested-for-spraying-soccer-graffiti-on-460-year-old-italian-landmark/index.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/24/two-german-tourists-arrested-for-defacing-vasari-corridor-in-florence

Palermo:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/17/travel/things-to-do-palermo-italy.html
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Shadow of a Doubt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/theater/edith-wharton-lost-play-debut.html

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CRIME BEAT
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An appeal to recover some portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Mary, Queen of Scots stolen two decades ago:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1436/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1436/pub/1436/page/36/article/NaN

Canada's Vimy Ridge monument in France was vandalized with graffiti this week:

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/canadian-national-vimy-memorial-vandalized-with-graffiti-1.6522151

A medieval cross was stolen from a Lincolnshire church:

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/priceless-medieval-cross-stolen-lincolnshire-8694929

A fire at a historic pub in the UK has led to arson charges:

https://apnews.com/article/crooked-british-pub-suspects-arrested-be62f387eef8750a2548c862c3c81ddc

A British auctioneer is facing charges for selling stolen Greek coins from Gaza:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66594076 https://www.arabnews.com/node/2362341

Feature on the 2001 antiquities theft at TCU:

https://fwtx.com/events/2001-antiquities-heist-tcu/

Feature on the theft of Leonardo's Madonna of the Yarnwinder back in 2003:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66531242

More on the trio convicted of stealing a Ming Dynasty vase from a Swiss museum in 2019:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/london-men-convicted-ming-dyansty-vase-theft-2353344
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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 thousands of Achaemenid tablets from Persepolis to Iran:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/488225/Iran-says-U-S-will-return-thousands-of-ancient-tablets-after

A pre-Columblian incense burner was returned to Mexico by a US citizen:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/pre-columbian-incense-burner-returned-to-mexican-government/

More on desires for the Denver Art Museum to return antiquities to various southeast Asian countries:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/23/denver-museum-return-looted-cambodia-thailand-vietnam
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/culture/vietnam-demands-return-of-stolen-artifacts-from-us-museum-4645084.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on ancient Greek coins of Aiolis:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-greek-coins-of-aiolis-the-minor-cities/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n34.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n35.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Gail T. Smith-Keizer:

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/professor-gail-t-smith-keizer-classicist-who-broke-down-barriers-professoriate-dies-85

Jean-Louis Georgelin:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/21/jean-louis-georgelin-the-general-in-charge-of-the-notre-dame-rebuild-dies-in-hiking-accident

Amnon Ben-Tor:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/leading-archaeologist-who-dug-with-yigael-yadin-at-masada-and-hazor-dies-at-88/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/613544 https://www.jns.org/jns/topic/23/8/26/313595/ https://armstronginstitute.org/942-in-memoriam-prof-amnon-ben-tor-king-of-hazor-1935-ndash-2023
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3307-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-13th-through-the-19th-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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