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https://www.archaeology.org/news/11753-230920-england-roman-swords

Electoral graffiti/inscriptions *inside* a house in Pompeii:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-29/electoral-inscriptions-discovered-in-pompeii-reveal-clientelism-and-political-corruption-in-ancient-rome.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/28/pompeii-politician-bakery-bread-for-votes/
https://arkeonews.net/electoral-inscriptions-discovered-in-pompeii-reveal-clientelism-in-ancient-rome/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/electoral-inscriptions-found-in-pompeii-house/148739

A 3rd century CE burial ground with Gallic funerary practices near a Roman fort site in Germany:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68275 https://arkeonews.net/roman-era-total-of-46-early-settler-burials-discovered-in-germany/

A 4th century (maybe) statue/figure of Triton from a housing development site in Kent:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12514211/Stunning-2-000-year-old-Roman-sculpture-son-Neptune-buried-two-feet-deep-A2-Kent.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article279301744.html https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/14/greco-roman-sea-god-triton-england/ https://arkeonews.net/a-roman-statue-of-the-sea-god-triton-discovered-near-a2-london-road/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-find-statue-of-triton-in-roman-mausoleum/148555
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/14/roman-statue-of-triton/

Remains of the forum of an unknown Roman city at the La Cabaneta site in Zaragoza (Spain):

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3qbn/archaeologists-have-unearthed-the-remains-of-a-lost-ancient-roman-city
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-find-forum-from-unknown-roman-city/148518

Evidence of a tumor in a Roman-era skull from Spain:

https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/roman-period-cranial-tumor-case-detected https://phys.org/news/2023-09-roman-period-cranial-tumor-case.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/28/a-roman-period-cranial-tumor-case-is-detected/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11767-230927-spain-skull-tumor

The Domus Tiberiana reopened to the public:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ancient-power-palazzo-rome-palatine.html https://apnews.com/article/ancient-rome-palatine-emperor-domus-6f0edfddb40d30b644a7bc85f55630f8
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ancient-power-palazzo-romes-palatine-hill-reopens-tourists-103376638
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-to-reopen-domus-tiberiana-imperial-palace-on-palatine-hill.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68312

More on the evidence for what actually killed people during the eruption of Vesuvius:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/elemental-analysis-sheds-light-on-pompeii-victims-final-moments/4018044.article

Reviews of Emily Wilson's translation of the *Iliad*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/books/review/iliad-homer-emily-wilson.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/27/the-iliad-by-homer-translated-by-emily-wilson-review-a-bravura-feat
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-iliad-by-homer-translated-by-emily-wilson-review-j23tbswkf
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/emily-wilson-profile https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/21/iliad-translation-emily-wilson-review/
https://yalereview.org/article/emily-greenwood-emily-wilson-the-iliad https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bloody-prequel-a-triumphant-new-translation-of-the-iliad/
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45300595/emily-wilson-iliad-interview/
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/preserving-homers-magic https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-review.html

Interviews with Emily Wilson on same:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/09/the-iliad-may-be-ancient-but-its-not-far-away-emily-wilson-on-homers-blood-soaked-epic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/20/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-terms/

Feature on Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller:

https://lithub.com/enduring-epics-emily-wilson-and-madeline-miller-on-breathing-new-life-into-ancient-classics/

Reviews of Mary Beard, *Emperor of Rome* and related interviews:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/23/were-not-the-first-generation-to-wonder-how-genuine-our-leaders-are-mary-beard-on-politicians-as-performers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/25/mary-beard-emperor-of-rome-interview-the-last-thing-id-want-is-a-world-in-which-we-all-agreed
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/emperor-of-rome-by-mary-beard-review-6pcbz0jmq
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/emperor-of-rome-ruling-the-ancient-roman-world-by-mary-beard-9rnwtb7nd
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-emperor-rome-mary-beard/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/mary-beard-emperor-of-rome/

Interview with Steven Ellis about excavations at Pompeii:

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2023/09/natgeo-turns-to-uc-classics-expert-for-answers-about-pompeii-excavations.html

FSU is marking 50 years of excavating at Cetamura del Chianti:

https://news.fsu.edu/news/fsuglobal/2023/09/07/fsu-department-of-classics-to-celebrate-50-years-of-excavation-at-cetamura-del-chianti/

Feature on DePauw's Trasimeno Field School dig:

https://thedepauw.com/depauw-students-unearth-italian-history/

A study of the optical properties of Roman 'wow glass':

https://www.livescience.com/chemistry/roman-glass-keeps-turning-into-photonic-crystals-scientists-finally-know-why
https://now.tufts.edu/2023/09/18/buried-ancient-roman-glass-formed-substance-modern-applications
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230918153207.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001753 https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/ancient-roman-glass-fragment-changed-from-green-to-gold-over-time/4018127.article
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ancient-roman-glass-advanced-optical-tech/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/ancient-roman-wow-glass-has-photonic-crystal-patina-forged-over-centuries/

cf: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311583120

Feature on attitudes toward sex in ancient Rome:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-18/sex-in-ancient-rome-a-violent-approach-to-lovemaking.html

Feature on what Greek tragedies teach us about grief:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/magazine/greek-tragedy.html

Pondering Greek stories of humans being changed into plants:

https://theconversation.com/what-ancient-greek-stories-of-humans-transformed-into-plants-can-teach-us-about-fragility-and-resilience-207462

Feature on past excavations on Delos:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1220522/revisiting-the-first-excavations-on-delos/

In case you missed all the 'men thinking about Rome' things this week:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/09/14/roman-empire-trend-men-tiktok/
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A major 24 000 years bp cave art site from the Cueva Dones near Valencia:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-archaeologists-reveal-largest-paleolithic-cave.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230911141015.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001142 https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2023/09/cave-art.page https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/paleolithic-art-sanctuary-in-spain-contains-more-than-110-prehistoric-cave-paintings
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeologists-valencia-southampton-alicante-animals-b2410530.html
https://www.iflscience.com/unprecedented-24000-year-old-paleolithic-art-sanctuary-found-in-spain-70625
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-09-18/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-accidentally-find-invisible-trove-of-prehistoric-art-in-spain/0000018a-a869-de77-a98f-eeff14c30000
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/cova-dones-paleolithic-cave-art-site-12260.html
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-reveal-largest-paleolithic-cave-art-site-in-eastern-iberia/
https://hyperallergic.com/844345/archaeologists-reveal-110-paleolithic-cave-markings-in-spain/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/12/archaeologists-reveal-largest-palaeolithic-cave-art-site-in-eastern-iberia/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-more-than-100-ancient-drawings-in-spanish-cave-180982898/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11738-230912-spain-cave-art

9500 years bp grass baskets (and more) from the Cueva de los Murcielagos in Spain:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-evidence-oldest-hunter-gatherer-basketry-southern.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66956483 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/science/ancient-woven-baskets-spain.html https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-09-27/ty-article/earliest-baskets-in-europe-from-almost-10-000-years-ago-found-in-spanish-cave/0000018a-d71f-d476-abcf-f7ff5b860000
https://www.newsweek.com/sandals-found-stone-age-burial-site-spain-1830889 https://arkeonews.net/evidence-of-the-oldest-hunter-gatherer-basketry-in-southern-europe-discovered-in-spanish-cave/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68389

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi3055

A 9000 years bp hunting camp site from near Bad Durrenberg:

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-unearth-shaman-campsite-9000-years-ago-1826017
https://www.iflscience.com/archaeologists-unearth-9000-year-old-campsite-near-the-famous-bad-durrenberg-shaman-70672
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-excavate-9000-year-old-mesolithic-hunting-camp/148530

A lakeside village found a couple years ago under the waters of Lake Lucerne is 5400 years bp:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/lucerne-is-2-400-years-older-than-previously-thought/48842254

A possible deliberately-laid 'cobbled surface the Neolithic Dartmoor site:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-66924400 https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/cobble-like-surface-unearthed-at-neolithic-dartmoor-site-640934

A Neolithic structure from the Isle of Arran:

https://www.jpost.com/science/article-759332

From the Cueva de los Marmoles near Granada comes evidence (5000-2000 years BCE or so) of human remains being dug up and 'modified' for various purposes:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/cup-crafted-from-prehistoric-human-skull-discovered-in-cave-in-spain
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ancient-human-spanish-caves-subsequently.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/europe/ancient-human-remains-tools-scli-intl-scn/index.html
https://www.popsci.com/science/human-remains-tools/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-human-skull-cup-spain-b2415720.html
https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/09/ancient-human-remains-buried-in-spanish-caves-were-subsequently-manipulated-and-utilized.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11758-230922-spain-modified-bones

A study of the Bronze Age diet based on cauldron residues from the Caucasus:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/03/what-people-ate-bronze-age/

A clay beaker found near Exeter has been dated to 2300 BCE:

https://news.exeter.gov.uk/clay-beaker-found-just-outside-exeter-dates-back-to-2-300-bc/

A new examination of an arrow found in a melting glacier in Norway suggests it might be 4000 years bp:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/climate/arrow-glacier-melting-norway.html https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198032134/archeologists-norway-arrow-stoneage-4000-years-old
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/glacial-archaeologists-have-recovered-a-4-000-year-old-arrow-from-melted-ice
https://hyperallergic.com/846838/melting-glacial-ice-in-norway-reveals-intact-bronze-age-arrow/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68240 https://www.archaeology.org/news/11730-230908-norway-arrow-shaft

... while a 3000 years bp arrow from another glacier site has a quartzite tip:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/very-rare-iron-age-arrow-with-quartzite-tip-uncovered-from-melting-ice-after-3500-years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/learning/ancient-arrow.html

A large 4000 years bp necropolis with monuments and cremation pits from Canaveral de Leon:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-22/a-large-4000-year-old-necropolis-in-southern-spain-reveals-the-true-purpose-of-stelae.html

The Altar Stone at Stonehenge might now come from Wales:

https://news.sky.com/story/stonehenge-new-study-suggests-historic-monuments-altar-stone-may-not-be-welsh-as-previously-thoughtl-12971013

A water worker in Spain came across some 500 BCE (or so) gold torcs:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/landslide-reveals-2500-year-old-richly-decorated-gold-necklaces-in-spain
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/spain-asturias-gold-necklaces-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/waste-worker-discovered-spectacular-2500-year-necklaces-1826281
https://arkeonews.net/spanish-water-worker-discovered-2500-year-old-two-gold-necklaces/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68263 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-torcs-found-in-northwest-spain-could-shed-light-on-celtic-roots-180982964/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11749-230918-spain-gold-torcs

A 2nd century BCE Celtic gold rainbow cup coin from Bavaria:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lost-rainbow-cup-coin-minted-by-celts-2000-years-ago-discovered-in-germany
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68245 https://arkeonews.net/celtic-gold-rainbow-cup-coin-discovered-in-bavaria/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/11734-230911-gold-rainbow-cup

Evidence of Iron Age iron production from Nesscliffe Hill:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-66890049

Iron Age cremation burials with grave goods from a site in northwest Germany:

https://www2.lwl.org/de/LWL/portal/presse/pressemitteilungen/mitteilung/57785/ https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-graves-burnt-human-remains-1827341
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/neolithic-arrowhead-found-in-iron-age-burial/148597
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11754-230920-germany-cremation-pits

A 2200 years bp child's shoe from an Austrian mine:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/outstanding-2200-year-old-childs-shoe-discovered-deep-underground-in-austrian-mine
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/world/archeologists-discover-ancient-child-shoe-intl-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-childs-shoe-with-laces-intact/
https://hyperallergic.com/845848/archeologists-find-remarkably-intact-2000-year-old-childs-shoe/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-childs-shoe-found-in-austria-180982946/

3rd/2nd century 'Celtic dice' (just one) from a site in Poland:

https://arkeonews.net/the-oldest-celtic-dice-ever-discovered-in-poland/

A study of remains of a turtle found in a Roman Iron Age burial in Poland:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-analysis-mystery-turtle-roman-iron.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/11748-230918-poland-turtle-burial

Migration period gold items found by a metal detectorist in Norway:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/norway-ap-denmark-copenhagen-stavanger-b2407370.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68223 https://www.archaeology.wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gullbrakteat-Rennesoy-210x210.jpg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-norways-gold-find-of-the-century-180982883/

A coin of Serbian king Stefan Uros II Milutin from a dig in Bulgaria:

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-digging-fortress-coin-jesus-christ-1826045

Excavations at a pagan temple outside Lillehammer revealed plenty of 1500 years bp votive gold images:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-iron-age/another-gold-treasure-in-norway-1400-year-old-gold-foil-figures-found-in-pagan-temple/2253447
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologist-1500-year-old-treasure-pagan-temple-1827734
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68298 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/votive-gold-hoard-found-in-pagan-temple/148608
https://arkeonews.net/1400-year-old-gold-foil-figures-found-in-pagan-temple/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/11759-230922-norway-gold-foil

The person who carved the runes on the Jelling Stone has been identified:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68379 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-identify-runesmith-who-carved-the-jelling-stone-runes/148744

A family looking for a lost earring found a Viking-era burial in Norway:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66957309 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norway-viking-era-burial-found-by-family-on-metal-detector-hunt-for-earring/

Burials and remains of a Viking-era settlement from Viru-Nigula:

https://news.err.ee/1609117811/archeologists-discover-human-bones-and-viking-era-settlement-in-viru-nigula

A stroll on a beach in Gotland by an eight year-old reveled a Viking belt buckle:

https://www.newsweek.com/boy-finds-viking-artifact-family-beach-vacation-1826381

A Viking-era horse's bridle from melting ice in Norway:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-viking-age/melting-ice-near-norways-highest-mountain-reveals-horse-bridle-that-could-stem-from-the-viking-age/2253519
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11763-230925-norway-horse-bridle

A study of Viking-era combs is revealing much about the extent of their trade connections:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-viking-hundreds-kilometers-arctic.html https://archaeonewsnet.com/viking-trade-connections-stretched-over-hundreds-of-kilometers-to-the-arctic-research-shows/2023/09/news/archaeology/163083/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/22/viking-trade-connections-stretched-over-hundreds-of-kilometres/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/viking-trade-connections-stretched-to-arctic-scandinavia/148695

Excavations at the Govan Old Church have revealed a medieval relief sort of thing being dubbed the 'Govan Warrior':

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1003762_en.html https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/ancient-govan-warrior-sculpture-found-in-glasgow-in-remarkable-discovery-4339834
https://arkeonews.net/an-archaeological-dig-at-govan-old-churchyard-revealed-a-remarkable-new-find-an-early-medieval-govan-warrior-stone/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/20/new-discovery-of-early-medieval-govan-warrior-stone/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/early-medieval-carved-stone-of-a-warrior-figure-found-in-glasgow/148620

The possible birthplace of Henry VII was excavated at Pembroke Castle:

https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/23811928.henry-vii-birthplace-scrutiny-pembroke-castle-dig/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/26/king-henry-vii-born-pembrokeshire-tower-tudor-medieval/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-unearth-possible-birthplace-of-king-henry-vii-at-pembroke-castle/148708

Medieval finds from the Northampton Market Square redevelopment site:

https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/incredible-medieval-finds-discovered-northampton-8736941

A 'battered' 14th century shoe from a construction site in Freiberg:

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-leather-shoe-discovered-germany-1830957

A 14th century bronze cannon from off the coast of Marstrand (Sweden):

https://www.gu.se/en/news/shipboard-cannon-found-off-the-swedish-coast-may-be-the-oldest-in-europe
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-shipboard-cannon-swedish-coast-oldest.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230913122741.htm https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/14th-century-shipboard-cannon-that-fired-stone-shots-may-be-europes-oldest-on-record
https://arkeonews.net/a-shipboard-14th-century-cannon-found-off-the-swedish-coast-may-be-the-oldest-in-europe/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68252 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/14/shipboard-cannon-found-off-the-swedish-coast/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11744-230914-sweden-ship-cannon

Study suggests some whale species may have been wiped out by medieval Europeans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/science/european-whales-extinction.html

A 500 years bp game board slab from a Polish castle:

https://arkeonews.net/500-year-old-board-game-discovered-carved-into-a-stone-slab-in-a-polish-castle/

Overview of excavations at the mand of Court de Wyck:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-are-rediscovering-the-medieval-manor-of-court-de-wyck/148719

Study sugests students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-oxford-capital-late-medieval.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/28/medieval-murder-maps-of-three-english-cities-london-oxford-york
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1472/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1472/pub/1472/page/30/article/NaN
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-66925696

A metal detectorist found an impressive Tudor hooked tag:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-66925655

Some playing cards used by Charles II turned up in an attic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-66925655

A 17th century 'child vampire burial' from Poland:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12552055/Child-vampire-body-Poland-17th-century-feared-body-archaeologists.html

A study of the wreck of the Santa Maria Magdalena (sank in 1810):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shipwreck-santa-maria-magdalena-buried-secrets-spanish-warship-sank-1810-killing-hundreds/

Feature on concerns for 'treasure hunters' working underwater sites:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-treasure-hunters-pose-problem-underwater.html

More reaction to the Stonehenge tunnel plan:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-66843922 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-66864254

Restoration of Salisbury Cathedral is now complete:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66753871
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Archaeology in Europe News:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

Medievalists.net:

https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/

Viking Archaeology Blog:

http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ============================================================
A study of the diet of Middle-Late Neolithic Shangzhai people:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ancient-shangzhai-people-consumed-broomcorn.html

Evidence of a 3600 years bp water system from Henan:

https://english.news.cn/20230913/dd457412f486466e8f007fa275fe36ec/c.html http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0913/c90000-20071601.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-09/14/content_116677760.htm

The tomb of the first emperor of the Northern Zhou dynasty was found in Xianyang:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1400-year-old-tomb-of-emperor-in-china-reveals-evidence-of-royal-power-struggle-among-brothers-and-a-warlord
https://english.news.cn/20230919/9b9a034e460a4f809aa2bf22af309499/c.html http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0920/c90000-20073916.html http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_r18e1QPn.html https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-1500-year-old-tomb-ancient-emperor-china-1830421
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68355 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-uncover-tomb-of-emperor-xiaomin-of-northern-zhou/148701
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11772-230929-china-duke-tomb

... as was the tomb of Qin Er Shi, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/tomb-of-qin-er-shi-the-second-emperor-of-china/148689

Tombs with a wide range of dates in Shaanxi are shedding light on the location of 'Pingyang':

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-09-19/Ancient-tombs-shed-light-on-location-of-Pingyang-in-Shanxi-1ne4WziD7IQ/index.html

A late 6th century elite burial from a parking lot in Nara:

https://arkeonews.net/ancient-tomb-discovered-under-parking-lot-greenery-in-japan/

A 2500-1800 BCE burial of a woman in Kazakhstan:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/bronze-age-burial-found-in-kazakhstan/148492

A Bronze Age hexagonal based pyramid from Kazakhstan:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/bronze-age-hexagonal-pyramid-not-like-anything-found-before-in-the-eurasian-steppe

A Bronze Age burial of a girl surrounded by assorted grave goods (including plenty of astragaloi) from Kazakhstan:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/bronze-age-girl-buried-with-more-than-150-animal-ankle-bones-potentially-to-help-her-to-the-next-world

Thailand's Si Thep site has been added to UNESCO's Heritage list:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-thailand-ancient-town-si-thep.html https://archaeonewsnet.com/thailands-ancient-town-of-si-thep-added-to-world-heritage-list/2023/09/news/archaeology/163081/

... as has Cambodia's Koh Ker site:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-09/21/content_116699590.htm https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-s-koh-ker-archaeological-site-inscribed-on-unesco-world-heritage-list

Terracotta figurines from a megalithic dolmen site need Moodbidri:

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/terracotta-figurines-found-in-a-megalithic-dolmen-site-at-mudukonaje-near-moodbidri-2682542

700 BCE terracotta figures from a site in Karnataka:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/unique-terracotta-figurines-dating-back-to-700-bce-found-in-dakshina-kannada-101694591409122.html
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2023/sep/13/terracotta-figurines-dating-back-to-700-bce-found-in-karnatakas-dakshina-kannada-district-2614337.html
https://www.outlookindia.com/national/archaeologists-discover-700-bce-terracotta-figurines-in-karnataka-s-dakshina-kannada-news-317432
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2023/sep/13/terracotta-figurines-dating-back-to-700-bce-found-in-karnatakas-dakshina-kannada-district-2614337.html

A pair of 2000 years bp (maybe) urns from the Vembakottai site:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/two-urns-unearthed-from-village-near-vembakottai-excavation-site/article67299433.ece

A 2000 years bp (maybe) burial urn found during roadwork in Tiruppur:

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2023/sep/15/ancient-burial-urn-containing-skeletal-remains-unearthed-while-digging-road-in-tns-tiruppur-city-2614931.html

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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of when the Vikings reached North America (this might be old news by now):

https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/viking-arrived-north-america-year/

The search for burials relating to the Tulsa Race Massacre revealed seven sets of human remains of interest this season (more to come?):

https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-massacre-mass-graves-457d6522f630bf0740659a1dfccb0af8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/09/30/tulsa-race-massacre-mass-graves/08a4b286-5fa2-11ee-b961-94e18b27be28_story.html
http://www.newson6.com/story/651776089203650662e20ce6/excavation-complete:-archaeologists-study-remains-found-at-oaklawn-cemetery
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11762-230925-tulsa-crate-burial

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
Feature on different ideas about beauty in the ancient world:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-09-11/ty-article/the-ancient-rules-of-beauty-creating-a-female-identity-in-a-mans-world/0000018a-84c0-d16e-a78f-ced0b9840000

An identification of a 'lost' Artemisia Gentileschi painting:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1435/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1435/pub/1435/page/32/article/NaN

Recreating Celtic beer using analysis of pollen from a burial site:

https://arkeonews.net/czech-scientists-make-celtic-beer-using-analysis-of-pollen-from-burial-site/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The floods in Libya were raising concerns for ancient Cyrene:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-12540133/Fears-ancient-Cyrene-Libya-floods.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/libya-floods-ancient-greek-archaeology-uncovered-1234680783/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/22/deadly-libya-floods-unearth-archaeological-remains-but-leave-key-sites-in-peril
https://thearabweekly.com/experts-fear-ancient-cyrene-ruins-could-collapse-after-libya-floods

... but the floods also revealed some 'new' ancient structures near Derna:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/09/27/floods-reveal-new-parts-of-ancient-greek-city-in-libya/

The earthquakes in Morocco damaged some cultural sites:

https://www.dw.com/en/moroccos-deadly-earthquake-destroys-cultural-sites/a-66797784

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Rubens and Women:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1435/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1435/pub/1435/page/33/article/NaN

The British Museum is accused of buying a shabti back in 2017 from a convicted smuggler without the proper checks:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1472/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1472/pub/1472/page/24/article/NaN

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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6000 years bp DNA extracted from remains in China:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-09/18/content_116693459.htm http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0919/c90000-20073525.html

DNA suggests an African origin for cattle in the Americas:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/the-1st-american-cowboys-may-have-been-enslaved-africans-dna-evidence-suggests
https://new.nsf.gov/news/ancient-dna-reveals-early-african-origin-cattle

A study of the DNA of folks in the Angolan Namib:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-deep-genetic-africa-reveals-unique.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230922141244.htm

On the Neanderthal DNA we're still carrying around:

https://apnews.com/article/neanderthals-denisovans-genetics-dna-disease-e49cb7d939cfe5d583e7ed0af8751784

DNA suggests the first cowboys may have been enslaved Africans:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/the-1st-american-cowboys-may-have-been-enslaved-africans-dna-evidence-suggests

On how DNA has transformed archaeology:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/ancient-dna-neanderthals-plague-genome-archaeology

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CRIME BEAT
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A 62 year-old man in Drama (Greece) was arrested in possession of assorted antiquities:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1219887/treasures-of-antiquity-found-in-mans-garden-in-drama/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/13/ancient-treasure-found-mans-yard-drama-greece/
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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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OBITUARIES
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Damian Evans:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/14/damian-evans-death-archaeologist-dies-discovered-medieval-cities-near-angkor-wat
https://sarahparcak.substack.com/p/a-tribute-to-dr-damian-evans-1979

Kurt Raaflaub:

https://www.providencejournal.com/obituaries/ppvp0572473

Karen D. Vitelli:

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/09/20/obituarykaren-d-vitelli/

Elizabeth Jeffreys:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prof-elizabeth-jeffreys-obituary-8gr2m0q3c

Paul Woodruff:


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