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A WWII German encryption device turns up on eBay:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/29/479943359/museum-finds-piece-of-w
wii-history-for-sale-on-ebay http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-wwii-coding-machine-found-on-ebay/

… of related interest:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36446422

Podcast on Shakespeare and religion:

http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-49

Latest really ancient beer recreation:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160526-a-beer-older-than-the-bible

Interesting feature on Geneva warehouses and what’s in them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/one-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-collections
-hides-behind-this-fence.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

OpEd on the importance of historians:

http://www.historytoday.com/charles-west/sorry-vice-chancellor-we-need-more-historians
-sixth-century

Big bucks for a Ming cup:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-36419623

What coral can tell us about human history:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-coral-history.html

On ‘death photography’ in Victorian England:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581


Review of Thompson, *Possession*:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/479728899/possession-charts-the-tangled-paths-of-art-and
-antiquities

Using a computer to fake a Rembrandt:

http://www.dw.com/en/computer-fakes-a-work-by-rembrandt/a-19297687

I think we had this Shakespeare and Germaine Greer piece before:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/shakespeare-brought-erotic-poetry-to-house
wives-germaine-greer-s


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Greeks: Alexander to Agamemnon:

http://freebeacon.com/culture/greek-gifts/

Shakespeare Folio:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/400-Year-Old-Shakespeare-Book-on-Displ
ay-in-San-Diego--381685331.html

Pharaoh:

http://wksu.org/post/cleveland-museum-art-reveals-truths-pharaohs

Rembrandt’s Judas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/rembrandts-first-masterwork-on-display-
at-the-morgan-library.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Brothers Le Nain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/arts/design/le-nain-brothers-prescient-work-at-kimbel
l-art-museum.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Sunken Cities:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/the-treasures-of-alexandria-revealed-british-museum
s-sunken-cities-reviewed/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36430779

Latest damage to an artifact by a museum visitor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/36441540

Rievaulx Abbey has a new museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/01/rievaulx-abbey-riches-from-dissolution-
come-to-light-in-new-museum?CMP=twt_gu http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/revealed-the-monastic-treasures-henry-viiis-
men-missed/

Flooding caused the Louvre (and other museums) to close this week:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0603/In-Paris-the-Louvre-closes-as-t
he-Seine-rises http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/world/europe/eerily-empty-louvre-what-its-like-when-f
loods-keep-tourists-away.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36441322


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest piece on LiDAR:

http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/Cannock-Chase-s-hidden-history-unearthed-digg
ing/story-29337835-detail/story.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
I think we’ve had this study of African-American DNA before:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160527190352.htm

More on Phoenician DNA:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0529/Ancient-Phoenician-DNA-suggests-a-new-m
odel-of-human-migration http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-dna-phoenician-carthage-european.html


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Sites associated with Aristotle:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/articles/ greece-on-the-trail-of-aristotle/

Cornish Tunnels:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160531-the-mystery-of-englands-ancient-tunnels


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CRIME BEAT
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Nice feature on one of the US government’s art crime experts:

http://www.wptz.com/politics/the-feds-reallife-indiana-jones/39882218

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/05/culture-crime-news-23-29-may-2016.h
tml


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 recovered some Abbasid era pieces from London:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/218995/Heritage/Islamic/Egypt-retrieves-s
tolen-Abbasid-era-decorative-plaq.aspx

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NUMISMATICA
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An interesting Syracusan coin coming to auction:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/05/spink-auction-offers-hastily-issued-s
iege-coin-from-sicily.html

More on that Offa penny:

https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/lot.php?auction_id=434&lot_id=2046

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n22.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n23.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 ================================================================
Roots:

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/26/479494123/in-its-retelling-roots-is-powerful-must-see-telev
ision?sc=17&f=1008 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/arts/television/review-roots-for-a-black-lives-matter-e
ra.html

Peer Gynt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/theater/review-a-minimalist-version-of-peer-gynt-still
-provokes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

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OBITUARIES
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Eddie O’Hara:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-36418137

Jane Fawcett:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/obituaries/jane-fawcett-british-decoder-who-helped-d
oom-the-bismarck-dies-at-95.html

Yang Jiang:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/yang-jiang-chinese-author-and-translator-dies-
at-104.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica: http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/
audio-news-list/2426-audio-news-from-archaeologica-22-may-2016-28-may-2016

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CONFERENCES
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Marbeh Hokhmah:

http://mass.bgu.ac.il/npdf.php?fn=0-0fc2b8974161634872740.pdf

Conference on Cultural Heritage Media (CFP):

http://archaeologychannel.org/events-guide/tac-conference-on-cultural-heritage-media

6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf ================================================================
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 ================================================================
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The Book and the Spade:

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