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The Panama papers and Modigliani:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36015701

... and Picasso:

http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/kiosko/2016/04/08/los-picassos-secretos-y-los-thysse
n-en-los-papeles-de-panama/

... and what they reveal about the art market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/arts/design/what-the-panama-papers-reveal-about-th
e-art-market.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Pondering whether humans are hardwired for war:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3535393/Are-humans-hardwired-war-Exper
t-discusses-species-violent-achieve-world-peace.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns
_campaign=1490

Feature on Rome's Enlightenment Library:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/the-extremo-files/2016/04/12/inside-italys-enlighten
ment-library/

Feature on 'vision technologies' over the past few hundred years:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/10-bizarre-vision-enhancing-technologies-fro
m-last-1000-years-180958734/

What Jody Joy is up to:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/look-old-stuff-meet-Cambridge-archaeology-curator/
story-29098451-detail/story.html

Some descendents of daVinci:

http://www.livescience.com/54381-leonardo-da-vinci-living-relatives-found.html

On conserving a Pollock:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/international/how-to-clean-a-pollock-masterpiece
-very-carefully.html

That Spanish castle restoration we mentioned a few weeks ago actually won a prize:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/europe/spanish-castles-restoration-called-disa
ster-by-some-wins-prize.html

I think we mentioned Newton's Philosopher's Stone recipe:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/isaac-newton-used-recipe-his-hunt-make-ph
ilosophers-stone-180958709/

The Times seems to have covered the Loch Ness Monster a lot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/design/when-the-loch-ness-monster-wasin-the-ti
mes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Review of Bone, *The Curse of Beauty*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/nyregion/the-tragic-life-of-americas-first-supermodel.
html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Gothic to Goth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/nyregion/gothic-to-goth-exploring-the-impact-of-the-ro
mantic-era-in-fashion.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion

Pergamon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/design/reaching-peak-greek-at-the-met-museum.
html http://www.wsj.com/articles/mass-invasion-of-greek-art-comes-to-the-new-york-met-14605
68224

Picasso:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36015757

Titanic:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/04/12/seven-rare-titanic-artifacts-d
isplay-last-time-luxor-casino-las-vegas/82891936/

Maya art:

http://www.newser.com/article/c11e8d3d9b4e4fd08e0f6d2cc38c7881/the-body-animals-a
nd-deities-mayan-art-on-show-in-berlin.html

Alexandria:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3539616/Secrets-sunken-city-RAF-pilot-anc
ient-metropolis-sea-Egypt-brought-British-Museum-new-blockbuster-exhibition.html?ITO=
1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Language of Beauty:

http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/15/the-language-of-beauty-mayan-art-on-show-in-berli
n/

Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/news/article/3689/discover_the_staffordshire_hoard_exhibiti
on_comes_to_sandwell

Christian History:

http://www.riposte-catholique.fr/riposte-catholique-blog/eglise-en-france-riposte/
agenda-exposition-fourviere-20-siecles-dhistoire-chretienne

Roman Mosaics:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-getty-mosaics-review-20160414-colu
mn.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using high tech to figure out what happened at the Battle of Culloden:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/new-hi-tech-survey-to-uncover-secrets-
of-culloden-battle-1-4100207

Latest on scanning mummies:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-mummies-modern-technology.html

Visiting El Mirador from afar:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2083848-how-to-explore-guatemalas-mayan-ruins-fr
om-4500-kilometres-away/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A project to reconstruct climate in Norse settlements in Greenland:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoma-uag041116.php http://scienmag.com/umass-amherst-geoscientists-to-reconstruct-climate-at-old-norse-set
tlements-in-greenland/

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Ganges:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/travel/ganges-river-boat-trip.html?rref=collection%2F
sectioncollection%2Ftravel

Saint Remy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/t-magazine/travel/travel-saint-remy-provence.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Hill of the Star:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/travel/mexico-city-volcanos-aztec.html

Pyramids (etc.):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2016/04/01/beautiful-photos-world-fam
ous-landmarks/82320498/

Prehistoric sites in Scotland:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/the-20-best-prehistoric-sites-to-visit-in-
scotland-1-4099100

Taormina:

http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2016-4-15/teatro-greco

Heidelberg:

http://www.dw.com/en/10-reasons-to-love-heidelberg/g-19183006

For tall ship fans:

http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2016/04/fleet_of_20_tall_ships_to_race_acr
oss_great_lakes_this_summer.html

Italian railways:

http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2016-4-14/travel-time

Bardsey:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160411-the-tiny-island-of-20000-graves

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CRIME BEAT
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A tomb raider gang leader in China was sentenced to death:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/tomb-raider-gang-leader-sentenced-to-
death-in-china-1.2612247

... more heavy sentences:

http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/04/15/4061s924345.htm

A safe was stolen from one of the Roman catacombs:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160411/safe-stolen-from-one-of-worlds-most-important-catacomb
s

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/04/culture-crime-news-4-10-april-2016.ht
ml

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 ================================================================
Ukraine has recovered some stolen Dutch paintings:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/ukraine-says-stolen-dutch-art-has-been-rec
overed/

Repatriation is increasing interest in Cambodian antiquity:

http://www.voacambodia.com/content/returned-artifacts-stir-new-interest-in-cambodian-an
tiquity/3283937.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Aethelred coins:

https://www.historytoday.com/kate-wiles/coins-%C3%A6thelred-unready

On beards on ancient coins:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/04/a-diversity-of-beards-on-coins-ancie
nt-to-modern

Continuing the collecting of Julio Claudians:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/04/struggle-for-succession-continues-a
ncients-today.html

Horses on ancient coins:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-horses-ancient-coin
s/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n15.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n16.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 ================================================================
Vivaldi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/music/review-an-all-vivaldi-program-with-a-twist-
or-tw.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

Nathan the Wise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/theater/review-nathan-the-wise-brings-a-morality-tale
-to-today.html

Hamilton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/us/politics/success-of-hamilton-may-have-saved-ha
milton-on-the-10-bill.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Richard II will be performed in Parliament:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36048491

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OBITUARIES
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William L. O'Neill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/books/william-l-oneill-a-historian-who-wrote-about-ra
dicals-dies-at-80.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

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http://www.pasthorizons.com/

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