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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/science/eske-willerslev-ancient-dna-scientist.html


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Pondering whether Vikings were on Greenland during the Medieval Warm
period:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/agi-edt051616.php

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Remote UK:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/remotest-islands-britain-uk-british-isles-most-remote-st-kilda-scilly-a7022801.html


Top ten landmarks to visit:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/17/travel/tripadvisor-top-world-landmarks/index.html



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CRIME BEAT
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(Oft made) suggestion that collectors are driving plundering activities:

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/19/lust-for-loot-collecting-antiquities-looting-egypt/


A Greek police officer is targeting antiquities thieves:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/208797/article/ekathimerini/community/greek-police-officer-goes-after-antiquities-thieves


An Evansville archaeologist is seeking the return of some stolen
artifacts:

http://www.wave3.com/story/32010710/evansville-archaeologist-wants-stolen-artifacts-returned

http://www.14news.com/story/32010710/evansville-archaeologist-wants-stolen-artifacts-returned


An art heist bust in Somerset:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36345656

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/05/culture-crime-news-9-15-may-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 ================================================================
Some Maori skulls are going to be repatriated:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36277445

How Christie’s was involved in returning a looted item to Afghanistan:

http://www.christies.com/features/A-looted-Safavid-bowl-returned-to-the-National-Museum-of-Afghanistan-7388-1.aspx


A letter of Columbus was returned to Italy:

http://www.livescience.com/54799-stolen-christopher-columbus-letter-returned-to-italy.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/18/478580542/stolen-letter-from-columbus-found-in-the-library-of-congress-and-returned-to-ita

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/18/stolen-christopher-columbus-letter-discovery-new-world-returned-italy-library-congress

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/20/world/europe/ap-eu-italy-columbus-letter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/18/us/ap-us-christopher-columbus-letter.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/world/europe/us-returns-a-stolen-christopher-columbus-letter-but-mystery-remains.html

Israel is returning four sarcophagus lids to Egypt:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-4-years-rare-sarcophagi-smuggled-into-israel-to-be-returned-to-egypt/

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-to-return-stolen-ancient-sarcophagi-to-Egypt-454336


France returned a pile of items to Egypt:

http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/05/17/egypt-repatriates-44-stolen-archaeological-objects-from-france/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on shekels of Tyre:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/05/the-shekels-of-tyre-ancient-today.html


More on that Roman hoard from Spain:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/05/recent-ancient-roman-coin-hoard.html

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n20.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n21.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 ================================================================
A ‘lost’ Hamlet opera turns out to have a couple of happy endings:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/a-lost-hamlet-operas-revival-offers-two-happy-endings/2016/05/15/57655fb4-1aa5-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html


My Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/theater/review-my-paris-a-portrait-of-toulouse-lautrec-in-song-and-dance.html


1599:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/theater/review-1599-a-mini-marathon-devoted-to-shakespeares-work-that-year.html


The forgotten women of Classical music:

http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/05/22/478734604/sounds-and-sweet-airs-remembers-the-forgotten-women-of-classical-music


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OBITIUARIES
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Fritz Stern:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/books/fritz-stern-a-leading-historian-on-modern-germany-dies-at-90.html


Robert W. Gutman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/books/robert-w-gutman-biographer-of-wagner-and-mozart-dies-at-90.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone


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

http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2422-audio-news-from-archaeologica-8-may-2016-14-may-2016
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CONFERENCES
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45th Conference of The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical
Studies (June 1-2)

http://www.israel-classics.org/?page_id=17

6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf

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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

The Book and the Spade:

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