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    From rogueclassicist@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 27 20:00:00 2018
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    arrested-for-illegal-possession-of-antiquities-in-northwestern-greece

    A long-running stolen book scam:

    https://phys.org/news/2018-07-newton-principia-items-alleged-8m.html https://www.timesunion.com/news/science/article/Archivist-bookseller-cha rged-in-8M-rare-book-13091517.php

    A podcast series on the Gardner Museum heist:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/arts/the-gardner-museum-heist-still-a -mystery-now-a-podcast.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

    Latest Culture Crime News:

    http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2018/07/culture-crime-news-9-15-j uly-2018.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/

    ================================================================
    REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
    I guess expropriating a German castle from its Russian owner is
    repatriation (?):

    https://www.dw.com/en/german-castle-expropriated-from-russian-owner/
    a-44701607

    Germany returned a Maori head to New Zealand:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-museum-returns-preserve d-maori-head-new-zealand-180969634/

    Egypt recovered 116 items from smuggling failures:

    https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54110/Antiquities-ministry-receives -116-archaeological-pieces http://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-ministry-of-antiquities-receives- 116-antiques-after-failure-to-smuggle-them-abroad/

    (this one's confuising) Libya recovered some items from the US:

    https://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libya-recovers-antiquities-united-s
    tates

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    NUMISMATICA
    ================================================================
    Feature on the Tyrants Collection:

    https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/best-in-show-ancients-of-the-tyrant-c ollection/

    On Icenian coinage:

    https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/the-die-is-cast-investigating-ice nian-coinage.htm

    Latest e-Sylum:

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n28.html

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

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n29.html

    ------------------------
    Ancient Coin Collecting:

    http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

    Ancient Coins:

    http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

    Coin Week:

    http://www.coinweek.com/

    ================================================================
    OBITUARIES
    ================================================================
    James R. McCredie:

    http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/ in-memoriam-james-r.-mccredie

    Anne Olivier Bell:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/19/ anne-olivier-bell-obituary

    Wesley D. Smith:

    http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/dr-wesley-d-smith-88-former-clas sics-professor-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania-20180720.html

    ================================================================
    AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
    Audio News from Archaeologica:

    http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2759-audio-news-from-archaeologica-8-july-14-july-2018

    ================================================================
    CONFERENCES
    ================================================================
    CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

    http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

    Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

    https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-ame ricas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

    ================================================================
    GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
    Archaeology Magazine News Page:

    http://www.archaeology.org/news/

    About.com Archaeology:

    http://archaeology.about.com/

    Ancient Digger:

    http://www.ancientdigger.com/

    Archaeology Briefs:

    http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

    Past Horizons:

    http://www.pasthorizons.com/

    Stonepages:

    http://www.stonepages.com/news/

    Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

    http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

    Time Machine:

    http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
    Archaeosoup:

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

    Archaeology Podcast Network:

    http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

    The Book and the Spade:

    http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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