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What we can learn about unsolved murders by digging up bodies:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-year-old-bodies-unsolved.html


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA and Machu Picchu:

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ancient-dna-unravel-mystery-machu.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/gwu-uad092915.php

Plans for DNA testing on some Dena'ina remains:

http://www.alaskajournal.com/2015-09-30/kenaitze-tribe-allows-dna-testing-dena%E2%80
%99ina-remains

DNA has been used to identify the remains of Thomas Kent:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-dna-analysis-long-lost-rebel-thomas.html

On using DNA to track human migrations:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/dna-genetics-migration-study/
405955/

... in a similar vein (I think):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/cp-cde091015.php

More on ancient horse DNA:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-years-captivity-world-wild-horses.html

More on Basque DNA:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-ancient-genomes-link-early-farmers.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Dunhuang:

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34276009

Athens:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2015/10/03/athens-not-ignored/jejul0yHj9Kg
Ke9kjNixbJ/story.html

Volterra:

http://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Volterra-Hill-town-rises-above-being-a-tourist-654413
9.php

Assorted ancient sites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/11896249/Ancient-sites-readers-ti
ps-advice-and-recommendations.html

Nineveh, Antioch, Lepcis Magna:

http://theconversation.com/three-ancient-cities-to-rival-london-paris-and-new-york-48107

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CRIME BEAT
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Very interesting (maybe) murder of an art thief story:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arcablog/~3/M7Wo93x8W3A/mystery-surrounding-murder-
of-art-thief.html

More on the first person brought to the Hague Court on heritage crime charges:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/islamic-militant-becomes-first-person-ev
er-charged-with-destruction-of-heritage-sites-a6674931.html http://www.jpost.com/International/Suspected-Islamist-rebel-faces-ICC-for-destruction-of-T
imbuktu-Muslim-heritage-sites-419490

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/09/culture-crime-news-21-27-september-
2015.html

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 ================================================================
Egypt has recovered a stolen Seti I relief from London:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/152042/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-reco
vers-Stolen-relief-of-King-Seti-I-from-L.aspx

... and an item from France:

http://www.thecairopost.com/news/169727/topnews/looted-egyptian-figurine-arrives-from-
france

The Toledo MoA is returning a bunch of items to India:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-us-museum-will-return-over-100-stolen-antiques-to-i
ndia-2130848
http://artforum.com/news/id=55176

Another Nazi war loot return:

http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/09/polish_painting_looted_nazis_foun
d_ohio.html

Some stolen Picassos are being returned ... with a backstory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/arts/design/the-billionaire-the-picassos-and-a-30-mill
ion-gift-to-shame-a-middleman.html

Not sure if this is a repatriation issue (yet):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/getty-museum-and-armenian-church-reach-
agreement-over-13th-century-manuscript/


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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n39.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n40.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Binoche in Antigone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/theater/in-performance-juliette-binoche-of-antigone.ht
ml

The Daughter of Dawn:

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/10/02/442317667/rare-film-is-glimpse-
of-a-distant-america

Review of a tome on the greatest plays:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-101-greatest-plays-fr
om-antiquity-to-the-present-by-michael-billington-book-review-a6675456.html

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OBITUARIES
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Yuri Afanasyev:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/world/europe/yuri-n-afanasyev-historian-who-repudia
ted-communism-dies-at-81.html

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