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explorator 18.46 March 13, 2016 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Laurel Carey, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as
always hoping I have left no one out).

... one of the slowest weeks in a long time ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Further spins on meat eating, tool development, and human face evolution:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35766760 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/science/evolution-meat-stone-tools-cooking-brains-h
ominins.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://phys.org/news/2016-03-food-key-role-human-evolution.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/science-chewing-idUKKCN0WB2O2 http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/09/469676852/chew-on-this-slicing-meat-hel
ped-shape-modern-humans https://www.sciencenews.org/article/h-erectus-cut-chewed-way-through-evolution http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21694489-early-humans-may-h
ave-pounded-and-sliced-their-food-make-it-easier http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stone-age-development-of-simple-cooking-to
ols-could-have-allowed-humans-to-develop-into-worlds-first-a6921531.html http://www.livescience.com/53994-paleo-diet-helped-humans-evolve-speech.html http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/09/study-chopping-food-eating-meat-helpe
d-ancient-humans-evolve/81530588/

More coverage of those folks reconstructing the environment at Olduvai:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/ru-ehh030916.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160310082608.htm http://phys.org/news/2016-03-early-human-habitat-recreated-life.html

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AFRICA
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More on those 'non human' handprints on those petroglyphs:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nonhuman-hands-found-prehistoric-rock-art-143655301.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Not sure if we've mentioned this find of assorted Egyptian statuary from Daqahliya:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/10/c_135176387.htm

Interesting 18th and 19th century documents turned up:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/190381/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/th-and-th-c
enturies-Egyptian-archaeological-docume.aspx http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=101885

Latest in the Sekhema statue saga:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-35772273 http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/egyptian-embassy-could-buy-sekhemka-s
tatue-and-loan-it-to-british-museum-1-7269958

In case you missed it in all the Ted grant business, Sarah Parcak's work has documented an increase in looting at Egyptian sites:

http://www.livescience.com/53752-egypt-looting-satellite-archaeology.html

Latest on the Grand Egyptian Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/190568/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/-Ancient-Eg
yptian-artefacts-to-bolster-Grand-Museu.aspx

Plenty of coverage of the find of a 2500 years bp seal bearing the name of a woman (and
another seal, too):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4186 http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/rare-2500-year-old-womans-seal-found-1
60307.htm http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/63019/meet-elihana-bat-gael-first-temple-era-woman-
valor-jerusalem/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-2500-year-old-womans-seal-from-First-Temple-pe
riod-unearthed-in-Jerusalem-447113 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.707409 http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=32265 http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/rare-2500-year-old-seal-found-in-excavation-of-ancient-jerus
alem-site/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/07/israeli-archaeologists-find-rare-2500-year-ol
d-seals-in-jerusalem-dated-to-king-solomons-temple/ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209027 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=85631 http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/07/middleeast/ancient-seal-woman-jerusalem http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3480604/ http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=702

More on that 100-tomb mostly Canaanite necropolis near Jerusalem:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/huge-canaanite-burial-ground-found-near-bethlehem/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/ancient-burial-site-with-100-tombs-unearthed-near-beth
lehem/2016/03/06/

Not sure there's anything new in this piece on Tel Khabri:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303094322.htm

Very interesting Iron Age cache of bronze 'weapons' from the Arabian peninsula:

http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2725.htm http://phys.org/news/2016-03-non-utilitarian-weapons-arabian-peninsula.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3487828/Cache-3-000-year-old-weapons-u
nearthed-Arabia-Bronze-quiver-arrows-offered-war-mongering-god.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2016/non-utilitarian-bronze-weapo
ns-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-oman

Feature on women participating in the City of David excavations (and elsewhere):

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/63148/women-make-their-mark-city-david-excavation
s-jewish-world/ http://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/The-women-uncovering-our-past-446772

More criticism of plans for the Kotel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209026

What Robert Cargill is up to:

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/university-of-iowa-k
eying-in-on-clusters-20160307

The director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/this-is-living-antiquity-the-director-of-the-her
mitage-wants-to-rebuild-palmyra/

Plans for an antiquities conservation centre in Jordan:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/projected-centre-aimed-conserving-antiquities


More items from the BBC's 'lost objects' series ... first, the Genie of Nimrud:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35755273

... looted Sumerian seal:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35774900

... Armenian church in Deir al Zour:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35757576

... Mar Elian monastery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35725220

Stepping up the 'war on looting' in Syria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/arts/international/escalating-the-war-on-looting.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A Geometric burial from Lesbos:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/206653/article/ekathimerini/news/geometric-era-tomb-uneart
hed-on-aegean-island-of-lesvos

I think we mentioned this Etruscan 'princess tomb' with artifacts from various cultures:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2016/03/08/etruscan-princess-treasure-fo
und-in-tomb_27253ea7-43c7-4ac1-a9ba-f8d02ba715d6.html http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/03/08/tomb-excavations-uncover-treasures-of-an-et
ruscan-princess_a3ac25e9-3168-4c59-9bbc-8024716011e2.html http://www.thelocal.it/20160309/italian-archaeologists-beat-looters-to-treasure-filled-grav
e-of-etruscan-princess

More coverage of that Roman 'tavern' find in France:

http://www.livescience.com/53993-roman-tavern-discovered-in-ancient-france.html http://www.livescience.com/53990-photos-roman-tavern-discovered-in-france.html http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-roman-tavern-found-littered-patrons-drinking-bowls-12472
1233.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-roman-leisure-complex-
including-bathhouse-and-private-wine-press-found-in-jerusalem-a6909731.html http://pictorial.jezebel.com/ancient-roman-tavern-still-ass-deep-in-drinking-bowls-176404
0980

More on the forma urbis fragment:

http://www.livescience.com/53956-new-piece-added-to-worlds-oldest-jigsaw-puzzle.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3481247/Ancient-Roman-puzzle-gets-new-
piece-Researchers-closer-completing-2-200-year-old-mystery-finishing-60-foot-map-ancie
nt-city.html

Interesting suggestion about concussions and Alexander the Great:

http://www.lewisboroledger.com/33801/head-to-head-with-alexander-the-great/

Parthenon sculpture skullduggery:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/secret-flight-path-of-the-parthenon-statue/

The Classics department at Queen's University (one of my almae matres) is celebrating
its 175th:

http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/classics-take-175th

Reviews etc. of Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI translation:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/11/the-guardian-view-on-seamus-h
eaney-virgilian-farewell http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/08/aeneid-book-vi-review-seamus-heaney-p
oetry-book-six http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/aeneid-book-vi-translated-by-seamus-heaney-r
eview-a3200596.html

Review of Tim Whitmarsh, *Battling the Gods*:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/09/battling-the-gods-atheism-ancient-world-r
eview

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Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A Bronze Age tomb in Denmark has some beads which originally came from Egypt:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.707620 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-egyptian-blue-glass-beads-reached-scandin
avia

Bronze Age burial from Morecambe Bay:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/13/bronze-age-burial-site-undisturbed-mi
llennia-metal-detectors

M74 upgrade work in Scotland reveals remains of a medieval village:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35774707 http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/M74-upgrade-unearths-medieval-settlement-23a5.aspx
http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/1-000-year-old-lost-medieval-village-found-und
er-m74-motorway-1-4052326 http://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/11259/and-finally-m74-upgrade-unearths-rare-10
00-year-old-medieval-settlement/

... and a lost medieval town from Poland:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,408630,scientists-resurrected-lost-medieval
-town.html

A medieval tile find:

http://www.freepressseries.co.uk/news/14332389.Ancient_tile_discovered_in_church_gr
ounds/

Criticism of a castle restoration in Spain:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/matrera-castle-cadiz-spain-restoration-m
ocked http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484505/Historians-furious-Spanish-castle-repair
ed-builders.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2016/03/678-671726-9-restauracion-de-castillo-e
n-espana-recibe-criticas-y-es-comparado-con-ecce-hommo.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/world/europe/matrera-castle-spain-renovation.html

Feature on Bog People:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/were-europes-mysterious-bog-peopl
e-human-sacrifices/472839/

Blenheim Palace has Europe's oldest oaks too:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-biggest-collection-ancient-oaks-europ
e-180958364/?no-ist

Cromford Mills factory has a visitors centre:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-35767344

More on scanning Shakespeare's grave:

http://news.discovery.com/history/shakespeares-curse-protected-grave-gets-radar-scan-
160307.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=85629 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12184086/Shakespeares-grave-to-be-radar-scanned-d
espite-famous-curse.html

More on that Anglo Saxon 'island' discovery:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/03/09/archaeologists-discover-ancient-anglo-saxo
n-island-in-uk-countryside.html

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Some recent (it seems) finds from Angkor:

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/digging-where-gods-were-constructed

Feature on a dig at Tilaurakot:

http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-03-11/ancient-infrastructure-found-in-tilau
rakot-dig.html

Feature on eclipses and Thai rulers:

http://www.livescience.com/53986-history-of-solar-eclipses-thailand-kings.html

A gold crown from West Bengal:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Gold-crown-dug-up-at-Moghalmari-in-West
-Bengal/articleshow/51302074.cms

On India's Ellora Caves:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/hemp-walls-saved-indias-ancient-ellora-c
aves-160311.htm

On thefts from sites in India (number seems low to me):

http://www.freepressjournal.in/100-antiquities-stolen-monuments-since-2000/800036
http://www.thestatesman.com/news/india/101-antiquities-stolen-in-india-since-2000/
128785.html

A talk on the latte period in the Marianas:

http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/84389-archaeologist-ancient-people-in-m
arianas-wore-clothes-probably-chewed-betelnut

Hype for the search for an 18th century Dutch trading ship off Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-11/elephant-tusks-provide-clue-to-mid-west-ducth-sh
ipwreck/7238118 https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31057249/wa-search-for-18c-dutch-shipwreck-to-begin/

... and they're still poking around the Batavia:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484839/Divers-explore-wreck-Batavia-Dutch-Ea
st-India-Company-sank-1629.html

More on the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun:

http://www.newschinamag.com/magazine/tomb-of-a-lost-emperor

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of corn beer production in the Southwestern US:

http://westerndigs.org/first-evidence-of-corn-beer-discovered-on-teeth-in-ancient-southwe
stern-burials/

A hiker found a pot/site in a cave in Yuma:

http://www.yumasun.com/news/hiker-finds-ancient-pot-in-area-mountains/article_be623cf
4-e8a1-11e5-9d23-4f0eae6f69a5.html

A Huron/Wendat burial site was bulldozed in Barrie (!):

http://aptn.ca/news/2016/03/09/buried-souls-how-ontario-bulldozed-through-a-rare-huron-
wendat-burial-site-in-barrie/ http://aptn.ca/news/2016/03/11/archaeologist-says-guts-churning-knowing-land-he-cleare
d-for-go-transit-to-bulldoze-is-huron-wendat-burial-site/

Plenty of coverage of a Civil War shipwreck site off North Carolina:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-scientists-closer-civil-war-coast.html http://www.livescience.com/53969-north-carolina-civil-war-shipwreck.html http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/08/shipwreck-found-off-north-carolina-coa
st-probably-dates-to-civil-war http://publicradioeast.org/post/civil-war-era-steamer-near-oak-island http://news.yahoo.com/shipwreck-found-off-north-carolina-believed-civil-war-221226813.h
tml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3480535/Researchers-say-theyve-likely-Confeder
ate-shipwreck.html http://www.reuters.com/article/north-carolina-shipwreck-idUSL1N16F1I3?feedType=RSS&
feedName=industrialsSector http://abcnews.go.com/US/rare-civil-war-shipwreck-discovered-off-north-carolina/
story?id=37487696 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/civil-war-blockade-runner-found-north-caroli
na-waters-180958317/

Finds from Lincoln's (Nebraska) old capitol buildings:

http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/old-capitol-remains-disco
vered-during-courtyard-excavation/article_eeaa15a5-a057-5f38-a173-63d160a8c2d5.html

Studying the consequences of European overharvesting of oyster beds off New York:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-york-harbor-oyster-beds-severe.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoma-nyh030716.php

... and forest management:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-eastern-forests-vulnerable-drought-1800s.html

More on those bison bones at the bottom of a lake:

http://www.startribune.com/bison-bones-found-at-lake-bottom-tell-few-tales/371006891/

A 19th century campaign button find:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-presidential-race-heats-up-an-interesting-archa
eological-discovery-is-made/2016/03/08/632c0252-e0c2-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.
html


On the Lincoln-Douglas debates:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/opinions/holzer-lincoln-douglas-debates/index.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Searching for buried treasure in Paraguay:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2016/mar/13/riches-tales-stoke-paraguayan-hopes-201/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/world/americas/the-dream-of-treasure-keeps-paragu
ayans-digging.html

In Our Time on the Maya:

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-dow
nload/proto/http/vpid/p03m4k6z.mp3

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On the history of the Nazi salute:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-nazi-salute-became-the-worlds-most-offens
ive-gesture

A bronze cockerel from Nigeria was taken down at Cambridge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35762834 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/cambridge-removes-african-statue-after-protest-2016
0310 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3485000/Bloody-truth-colonialist-cockerel-Cambri
dge-students-want-sent-Africa-s-melted-money-AFRICANS-earned-selling-slaves.html
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/03/09/u-cambridge-moves-controversia
l-cockerel-bronze

Interesting interactive map to track keywords in historical newspapers:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2016/03/07/us_news_map_interactive_lets_you_m
ap_how_historical_newspapers_digitized.html

The British Museum's 'secret' Study Room:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160304-my-date-with-michelangelo

Isaac Newton's Principia almost missed getting published:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12186694/How-Isaac-Newtons-Pri
ncipia-was-almost-scuppered-by-a-book-about-fish.html

A handwritten Shakespeare play is on display:

http://www.livescience.com/54014-william-shakespeare-surviving-handwriting.html

Feature on Erasmus' Greek New Testament:

http://www.brnow.org/News/March-2016/Erasmus-Greek-New-Testament-changed-history-
500-y?feed=blogs

The Beinecke Library is undergoing renovations:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/07/inside-beinecke-library-renovation-qa-director-edwin-sch
roeder
http://news.yale.edu/videos/inside-beinecke-library-renovation

A Walt Whitman letter turns up:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rare-walt-whitman-letter-written-for-a-dying-soldier-
found-in-national-archives/2016/03/09/6b172142-e228-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.h
tml

Another one on humans and dogs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3485496/Ancient-burials-reveal-dogs-man-
s-best-friend-Canines-treated-like-humans-8-000-years-ago.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchanne
l=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Some St Patrick stuff:

http://www.orilliapacket.com/2016/03/11/where-and-when-was-st-patrick-captured

Interesting Edward Thomas photos turn up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-35727382

On what geniuses ate:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/11/469543237/the-gastronomy-of-genius-foo
d-and-drink-that-inspired-great-minds

On the history of the teddy bear:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/11/the-true-tangled-tale-
of-the-teddy-bear-theodore-roosevelt-and-the-resurgence-of-a-threatened-species/

On Fat Men's clubs:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/07/469571114/the-forgotten-history-of-fat-me
n-s-clubs

Controversy over plans to sell a Nazi arms dealer's collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/arts/international/swiss-museum-faces-a-backlash.ht
ml

Review of Bissell, *Apostle*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/books/review/apostle-by-tom-bissell.html?rref=colle
ction%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Crime stories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/arts/design/review-crime-stories-photography-and-fo
ul-play-is-a-rogues-gallery.html http://www.npr.org/2016/03/08/469174753/meet-alphonse-bertillon-the-man-behind-the-m
odern-mug-shot

Pharaoh:

http://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/pharaoh-king-ancient-egypt http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20160312/FEATURES/160319841 http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2016/03/cleveland_museum_of_arts_phara.html

Pharaoh in Canaan:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-canaanites-who-loved-pharaoh-on-display-at-the-israel-
museum/

Van Dyck:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/arts/design/van-dyck-at-the-frick-documenting-aristoc
racy.html

Celts:

https://www.sundaypost.com/in10/chat/celtsnational-museum-of-scotland/

Sicily:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/sicily-culture-and-conquest-
at-the-british-museum-how-a-little-kingdom-made-a-huge-multicultural-a6919581.html
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/sicily.aspx?spMailingID=50824250
&spUserID=MTM5NzkwNTQzNDIS1&spJobID=880242021&spReportId=ODgwMjQyMDIx
S0

Nile in Pompeii:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/03/07/exhibitions-the-
nile-in-pompei-at-the-egyptian-museum_2a3fe6a9-403a-4735-9fca-45ba4777dd51.html

Shakespeare First Folio:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-35776026

A lost Rembrandt:

http://m.france24.com/en/20160309-missing-rembrandt-go-show-global-art-fair-reports

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using satellites to find shipwrecks:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-satellites-shipwrecks-landsat-satellite-foundered.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/nsfc-sas031116.php http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/how-satellites-find-shipwrecks-from-spac
e-160312.htm http://www.freepressjournal.in/new-way-to-detect-shipwrecks-using-satellites-found/
802516

Questioning that 'covert' Nefertiti scan:

http://boingboing.net/2016/03/08/covert-scan-of-museums-nefer.html

Scanning some illuminated documents at the Fitzwilliam:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Technology-helps-reveal-secrets-Fitzwilliam/ story-28884409-detail/story.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A different sort of climate story: using Spanish shipwrecks to gather hurricane data:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-shipwrecks-tree-reveal-caribbean-hurricanes.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoa-str030216.php http://www.livescience.com/54028-tree-rings-reveal-hurricane-history.html http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/shipwrecks-shed-light-on-hurric
ane-history-160307.htm http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0307/Are-500-years-of-shipwrecks-the-key-to-for
ecasting-hurricanes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3481986/Using-SHIPWRECKS-predict-hurri
canes-500-year-old-timber-reveals-clues-past-future-climate-change.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-shipwrecks-offer-clues-history-hurri
canes-180958313/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
San Antonio Missions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/san-antonio-missions-preserve-native-a
merican-history-at-the-nations-newest-world-heritage-site/2016/03/10/69356002-deed-11
e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Venice's Jewish Ghetto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/travel/venice-italy-jewish-ghetto.html

Athens:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11601325

Italy plans to limit tourist traffic in Cinque Terre:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/italy-limit-tourists-cinque-terre-180958230/

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CRIME BEAT
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A bunch of Indian artifacts were seized from Christie's:

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/federal-agents-raid-christies-in-n
ew-york-20160313-gnhnsf.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indian-statues-seized-before-auction-in-New-Yor
k/articleshow/51377426.cms http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/11/470149364/feds-recover-stolen-india
n-antiquities-from-major-new-york-auction-house http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Investigators-seize-2-Indian-statues-fro
m-10th-6884974.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3488445/1-000-year-old-Indian-statues-seized
-NYC-auction-house.html http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/mar/11/feds-recover-stolen-indian-antiquities-from-major/

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/03/culture-crime-news-29-february-06-ma
rch-2016.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 ================================================================
A call for repatriation of all sorts of things:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/07/from-the-elgin-marbles-to-t
he-cambridge-cockerel-its-time-to-return-stolen-goods


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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n10.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n11.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 ================================================================
King Lear:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-production-king-lear-features-18th-cent
ury-special-effects-180958380/

The women behind Bach's music:

http://www.dw.com/en/the-8-women-behind-js-bachs-music/a-19102418

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OBITUARIES
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Robert Palladino:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/design/rev-robert-palladino-83-scribe-who-shap
ed-apples-fonts.html

Thomas W Africa:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/thomas-w-africa


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http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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