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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/cahuachi-the-ceremonial-centre-of-the-nazca/141356

Feature on the Maya City of Oxkintok:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/09/oxkintok-the-maya-city-of-the-three-suns/

Pondering some mysterious 'pecked crosses' carved on stones from Mexico to Guatemala:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexicolife/are-xochimilco-stone-crosses-part-of-unknown-ancient-city/

More on questioning Columbus's claims of Carib cannibalism:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/columbus-cannibalism

More on violent farmers' remains from the Atacama desert:

https://www.livescience.com/farming-violence-atacama-desert.html
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Feature on the final meals of Otzi, Tollund Man, and others:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tollund-man-otzi-the-iceman-what-their-last-meals-reveal

Feature on some 18th century transgender people:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/10/transgender-history-18th-century-female-husbands

An update on the restoration of Big Ben:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-58463439

Interesting followup to that story about Napoleonic-war general bones from Russia being returned thing from a while ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/world/europe/france-russia-general-bones-macron-putin.html

Feature/reviewish of a book on Carrie Nation:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/carry-nation-biography-reasons-for-activism.html

Pondering the effects of having rules for war:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/did-making-the-rules-of-war-better-make-the-world-worse

Feature on an interesting skull in a Naples church:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62166

Feature on five Iron Age innovations:

https://www.history.com/news/iron-age-tools-innovations

Feature on incense:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/t-magazine/incense-loss-smell.html

Item on an arrowhead found in an alligator's somach in Mississippi:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/09/10/prehistoric-native-american-arrowhead-artifact-found-alligator-mississippi/8271061002/

Walt Whitman's German ties:

https://www.dw.com/en/newly-uncovered-walt-whitman-texts-reveal-poets-german-ties/a-59119856

Feature on dying languages:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-are-so-many-languages-dying-out

... and how 'archaeologists' figure out dead languages:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-do-archaeologists-crack-the-code-of-dead-languages

Trying to figure out whether an item in a Dutch museum is a dog collar or a slave collar:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/how-amsterdams-rijksmuseum-is-addressing-its-colonial-past

Trying to connect the Taliban to ancient Israel:

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/are-the-taliban-descendants-of-israel-678995

Feature on Europe's oldest map:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/europes-oldest-map

Feature on Goya's trickery:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/francisco-goya-paintings-fooled-royalty

Feature on Confucius:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-an-introduction-to-confucius-his-ideas-and-their-lasting-relevance-160708

A project to digitize Hebrew books in Italy:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/project-underway-to-digitalize-hebrew-books-from-italian-jewish-history-679230

Feature on children in warfare:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/how-children-used-warfare-fighting-child-soldiers/

Feature/review on the history of riddles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/books/review/anglo-saxon-old-english-riddles-andy-orchard.html

More on the 'hidden cupid' in a Vermeeer:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vermeer-gemaldegalerie-2021-hidden-cupid/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/arts/design/vermeer-cupid-restoration.html https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/found-hidden-painting-johannes-vermeer

More on the Vinland Map being fake:

https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake

More on that Merlin manuscript from Bristol:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/06/fragments-of-medieval-merlin-manuscript-found-in-bristol-library-reveal-chaster-story
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/06/bristol-manuscript-fragments-of-the-famous-merlin-legend/
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CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
Features on the history of vaccinations in the US:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/07/jim-jordan-vaccine-unamerican-washington/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/vaccine-mandates-history.html

Neil MacGregor weighs in on the statue debate:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/neil-macgregor-images-for-the-future https://observer.com/2021/09/uk-statues-british-museum-colonialism/

Virginia removed the statue of Robert E Lee from the state capitol:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/us/robert-e-lee-statue-virginia.html https://apnews.com/article/robert-e-lee-statue-virginia-removed-92955a351d9fda6319f379ddc28df8a0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/robert-e-lee-statue-removal/2021/09/08/1d9564ee-103d-11ec-9cb6-bf9351a25799_story.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/richmond-virginia-removes-major-monument-confederacy-180978619/

... and there are plans for the pedestal:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035085412/robert-e-lee-statue-down-in-virginia-artifacts-time-capsule-richmond

... but they couldn't find a time capsule that was thought to be there:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/us/lee-monument-time-capsule-trnd/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-e-lee-statue-virginia-1887-time-capsule-search-end/

Mexico City is replacing the statue of Columbus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58462071 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/06/christopher-columbus-statue-mexico/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/09/06/mexico-city-removes-christopher-columbus-statue-indigenous-women/5748790001/
https://m.elmostrador.cl/braga/2021/09/07/mexico-estatua-de-mujer-indigena-sustituira-a-la-de-cristobal-colon-en-cdmx/

More on West Point setting up a statue to honour Buffalo Soldiers:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/west-point-buffalo-soldiers-cec/index.html

The Bank of England has removed portraits of folks linked to the slave trade:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bank-of-england-removes-artworks-slave-trade-1234603054/

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Aristotle:

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/events/aristotle-antiquity-modern-era-2021-09-10

Titian:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/10/all-of-titians-poesie-series-to-be-exhibited-in-boston/

Bronze Age Shropshire:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/09/09/museum-to-host-major-new-gallery-showcasing-countys-bronze-age-history/

Kallos:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/archive_events_culture_arts/arthro/kallos_the_ultimate_beauty_at_the_museum_of_cycladic_art_in_athens_opens_sept_29-3215013/

Hogarth:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/05/rich-red-and-rare-hogarths-lady-back-home-after-100-years

cf; https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/hogarth-and-europe

Epic Iran:

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/arts/5-000-years-of-iranian-culture-showcased-309948

Tanner:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1031027195/henry-tanner-black-artist

Gilded Age:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/The-Gilded-Age-tour-will-show-off-Troy-s-19th-16433906.php

Ramses and the Pharaoh's Gold:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/107618/%E2%80%98Ramses-the-Pharaohs%E2%80%99-Gold%E2%80%99-international-exhibition-to-be-held-in

Pre-Inca Peru:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/07/nasca-moche-wari-british-museum-exhibition-celebrates-perus-ancient-peoples
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/peru-inca-treasures-unmasked-british-museum-b954067.html
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-living-landscapes-of-peru/ https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/719/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/719/pub/719/page/33/article/217009

cf: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/peru-journey-time

Egypt is creating a large open-air museum in Luxor:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/egypt-announce-opening-worlds-largest-open-museum-luxor-governorate

A sundial is the latest item to return to display at Beirut's National Museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/fashion/watches-national-museum-of-beirut-sundial.html

Feature on the Humboldt Forum:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/09/berlin-museum-humboldt-forum ================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
A Tudor overmantel once 'destined for the bonfire' was coming to auction but had an injunction placed on it:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/721/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/721/pub/721/page/32/article/217454

A newly-discovered hat belonging to Napoleon (according to DNA) is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/newly-discovered-napoleon-hat-with-his-dna-up-for-auction

Big bucks for a Song dynasty Ru censer:

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2021/september/2508/news/going-for-a-song-ru-censer-brings-320-000/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA suggests the slave trade may have brought African viruses to the Indigenous populations of North America:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-transatlantic-slave-pathogenic-viruses-americas.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210907110705.htm

cf: https://elifesciences.org/articles/68612

DNA from soldiers involved in the 1652 siege of Barcelona reveals an unknown epidemic:

https://m.elmostrador.cl/braga/2021/09/07/mexico-estatua-de-mujer-indigena-sustituira-a-la-de-cristobal-colon-en-cdmx/

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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A study of ancient Chinese roofs as evidence of climate change:

https://theconversation.com/what-ancient-chinese-roofs-can-tell-us-about-climate-change-167652

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh2601

Climate issues at the Portsmouth Museum:

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2021-09-03/strawberry-banke-museum-climate-change ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
An underwater park off Gallipoli:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/travel/gallipoli-turkey-WWI-park.html

Baden Wurttemberg:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-16-states-baden-w%C3%BCrttemberg/a-45148057

Molise:

https://blog.oup.com/2021/09/molise-the-undiscovered-italian-region/

Valley of the Muses:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/07/a-visit-to-greeces-valley-of-the-muses/

It's getting complicated if you want to visit Venice:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3147812/venice-make-tourists-pre-book-and-charge-day-trippers

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
A Thousand Miles and Counting:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-astonishing-story-couples-escape-slavery-180978525/

Salvator Mundi:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/10/the-lost-leonardo-review-salvator-mundi-da-vinci
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CRIME BEAT
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Italy seized 500 fake works attributed to Francis Bacon:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/italy-seizes-500-fake-francis-bacon-works

A monkey helped foil the attempts of some treasure hunters in Sri Lanka, apparently:

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2021/09/05/monkey-helps-foil-treasure-hunters/

Feature on the role of restorers in art crime:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-restorers-crime-tan/index.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/secrets-and-lies-the-role-of-restorers-in-art-crime

More on the seizure of Iraqi items in Norway:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/norway-police-seize-nearly-100-artifacts-reportedly-missing-iraq
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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 ================================================================
Turkey did not win its attempt to recover the Guennol Stargazer:

https://www.trtworld.com/life/disputed-statuette-the-guennol-stargazer-lost-to-turkey-us-court-says-49806

A stolen Anglo-Saxon brooch was returned to a Rutland Museum:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58517014

Maqdala items looted by British troops were formally returned to Ethiopia:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/maqdala-ethiopia-ambassador https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-foundation-returns-maqdala-treasures-looted-ethiopia-180978622/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ethiopian-artifact-restitution-2007704

More on the Royal Doors returning to Cyprus:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/09/05/religious-artifacts-long-and-winding-road-home/

Feature on the India Pride Project:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88njmb/india-pride-project-bringing-artefacts-back-from-colonisers-art-thieves

Another feature on the Benin Bronzes:

https://www.channel4.com/news/nigerias-battle-to-reclaim-looted-benin-bronzes

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on electrum coinage:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-electrum-coins-the-case-for-manufactured-alloys/

Feature on depiction of Justice on ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/representations-of-justice-on-coins-and-medals/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n36.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n37.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Eugene Borza:

https://awomanscholar.blogspot.com/2021/09/in-memorium-eugene-n-borza-1935-2021.html

Elizabeth A. Clark:

https://sites.duke.edu/clas/elizabeth-a-clark/?fbclid=IwAR0evbzxZXmth_HcqG0S6qJRnCWN6M89bwmTp2VsI7KHV9VFEqsxY4grzcw
https://today.duke.edu/2021/09/duke-flags-lowered-elizabeth-clark-taught-religion-duke-four-decades-dies-age-82

George Bass:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologists-biblical-scholars-works/milestones-george-f-bass-1932-2021/

Julian Ward Jones:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-julian-ward-jones-jr

William St Clair:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/william-st-clair-obituary-x5l575506 https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/11/william-st-clair-campaigner-return-parthenon-marbles/

Gilbert Seltzer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/europe/gilbert-seltzer-dead.html

Nickolas Davatzes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/business/media/nickolas-davatzes-dead.html ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3100-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-29-through-september-4-2021
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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