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... while a shipwreck off the coast of Patagonia is identified as an 1850's Rhode Island whaling vessel:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-scientists-shipwreck-patagonia-long-lost-1850s.html
https://gizmodo.com/shipwreck-dolphin-tree-rings-argentina-1849463062

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1125786522000601

19th century photos of the Plaza de Armas in Santiago:

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/guardadas-en-un-album-familiar-desde-1888-revelan-ineditas-fotos-de-plaza-de-armas-de-santiago/ERS5DJBRONAULDCQHA5QXEU22I/

More on drought and the decline of Mayapan:

https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2022-study-collapse-ancient-mayan-capital-linked-drought
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10744-220822-mexico-mayapan-drought

A somewhat bizarre item on the heart of Brazil's first emperor returning to Portugal sore a 'state visit':

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/heart-of-brazils-first-emperor-returns-after-nearly-200-years-for-state-visit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62561928 https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-08-22/el-corazon-del-primer-emperador-regresa-de-portugal-a-brasil-para-servir-a-bolsonaro.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 some 'durable' ancient writing systems:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220818-how-to-write-a-message-to-the-future

Feature on the 'roots' of the Lord of the Rings:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220824-the-ancient-roots-of-the-lord-of-the-rings

Feature on why the Spanish Armada failed:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cwdfy8/the-reason-why-the-spanish-armada-failed

Feature on modern-day 'treasure hunters':

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/treasure-hunters-england-places-to-go-findings-shipwrecks-1808449

Feature on the 'London Monster':

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0ctd635/the-monster-that-terrified-georgian-london

Feature on 'crypto-Jews':

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-715350

A lost Vorticist painting beneath another painting:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lost-vorticist-masterpiece-found-hidden-beneath-another-painting-180980630/

... and some Modigliani sketches beneath one of his paintings:

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/israel-museum-modigliani-painting-sketches-b2122121.html

A study of the paint used in The Night Watch:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/24/rembrandts-night-watch-paint-recipe-offers-clues-to-the-perfect-wall-filler

Remembering the botched 'restoration' of Borja's Ecce Homo:

https://www.latercera.com/culto/2022/08/26/el-ecce-homo-de-borja-historia-de-un-desastre-que-se-volvio-icono/

On the origins of dragon mythology:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/the-origins-of-dragons/144532

... also on the appeal of dragons:

https://theconversation.com/terrifying-dragons-have-long-been-a-part-of-many-religions-and-there-is-a-reason-for-their-appeal-184419

On the history of the swastika:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/28/swastika-hate-symbol-link-dharmic-faiths/10342050002/

On the role of writing in the conquest of the Americas:

https://agencia.fapesp.br/escrita-alfabetica-teve-papel-central-na-colonizacao-da-america/39403/

A study of oyster exploitation in various times and places:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/08/25/when-was-the-world-our-oyster-we-asked-the-anthropologist-investigating-sustainable-oyster-practices-through-history/

On the 'scandalous' origins of Disneyland:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220818-the-surprisingly-scandalous-origins-of-disneyland

Shakespeare's poor acting abilities apparently led to Othello being written:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/27/shakespeare-inspired-to-write-othello-after-being-booed-off-stage

Paywalled, so I'm not sure where to put this item on water being poured on Urartian paintings 'to get better pictures':

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/turkey-ancient-urartian-temple-damage-b2133174.html

On the role of enslaved people in the production of Bourbon:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220824-the-untold-history-of-black-bourbon

More on that Galileo manuscript which is now believed to be a forgery:

https://www.livescience.com/galileo-document-fake/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/galileo-manuscript-fake-university-of-michigan
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/galileo-manuscript-michigan-university-forgery-scn/index.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/historian-discovers-a-prized-galileo-manuscript-was-forged-180980615/

cf: https://www.lib.umich.edu/collections/collecting-areas/special-collections-and-archives/history-astronomy-and-mathematics/galileo-manuscript

More on the digitization of medieval medical manuscripts at Cambridge:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64942 ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on ancient debt relief:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0607

Items on 'gluing' protests:

https://apnews.com/article/germany-painting-climate-and-environment-4173545ff32525e4ee8e77cc4fcb4042
https://www.dw.com/en/iconic-artworks-weaponized-by-climate-activists/a-62927968

Honouring Bett with a statue:

https://apnews.com/article/education-massachusetts-slavery-ce2ccde7f1c82b3b0c5b17f85cb47c08

Feature on 21 of the deadliest pandemics:

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html/ ============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Aristotle's thoughts on wealth:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/aristotle-telos-money/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ramses the Great:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ramses-the-great-egypt-exhibit-opens-de-young-museum/
https://el-observador.com/2022/08/26/new-ramses-the-great-exhibit-brings-splendors-of-ancient-egypt-to-san-francisco/

Tutankhamun:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/08/26/beyond-king-tut-national-geographic-marks-100th-anniversary-of-tomb-discovery/

Tota Italia:

https://english.news.cn/20220823/d4494a65d5cd4283bff0393e0cfd9786/c.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-08/23/content_78384495.htm https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1273649.shtml

Matisse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/arts/design/matisse-red-studio-painting-analysis.html

Rembrandt:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-62617897

Lora Webb Nichols photos:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/aug/24/a-new-world-small-town-life-in-early-20th-century-america-in-pictures

Sohag's Forgotten Treasures:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118619/%E2%80%98Sohag-s-Forgotten-Treasures%E2%80%99-Coptic-exhibition-launches-at-Sohag-National

Connections Across the Coral Sea:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/exhibit-shows-voyages-of-ancient-cultures-around-the-coral-sea/101377340

Chroma:

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2022/8/new-research-greek-sphinx

Restored glassware from the Beirut explosion:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/27/ancient-glass-vessels-restored-after-beirut-blast-go-on-display-at-british-museum
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/26/shattered-glass-of-beirut-restored-vessels-once-destroyed-by-port-blast-go-on-display-in-l
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beiruts-shattered-ancient-glass-shines-on-tjflsr2sh
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2147686/lifestyle https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-museum-unveils-reconstructed-ancient-vessels-smashed-in-beirut-blast/

related: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/conserving-beiruts-shattered-glass/

A Tehran museum has closed after an insect was spotted crawling on the artwork:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118612/Tehran-Museum-closed-after-bug-spotted-crawling-through-artwork

New York museums now have to acknowledge if art was Nazi loot:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-museums-required-acknowledge-art-stolen-nazis-rcna44116

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Plenty of excitement over the auction of the contents of a Paris mansion:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/marie-antoinette-candelabras-paris-hotel-lambert-auction

... and Paul Allen is selling off his collection:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62684488 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/arts/design/christies-auction-paul-allen-art-collection.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT ============================================================
Overview coverage of three DNA studies shedding light on IndoEuropean origins, and migrations of ancient Greeks and Romans:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-vast-paleogenetic-reveals-insights-migration.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220825164029.htm https://www.science.org/content/article/phenomenal-ancient-dna-data-set-provides-clues-origin-farming-early-languages

... and with a 'first farmers' focus:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-08-25/ty-article/genetic-study-detects-unexpected-origin-of-worlds-first-farmers/00000182-cf26-d35f-a9ea-cf26bf8b0000

.. and with a Southern Europe/West Asia genetics focus:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq0755

Study on using DNA from lice found on mummies:

https://www.the-scientist.com/sponsored-article/ancient-mummies-lousy-view-of-the-past-70418

DNA reveals a 1000 years bp example of Klinefelter syndrome:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-oldest-case-rare-genetic-condition.html ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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An AI-based method for dating archaeological remains:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-ai-based-method-dating-archaeological.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823162730.htm https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715696 ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Seems like this is the place to gather all the reports (some repeats) of sites exposed by drought in various parts of the world ... from the Danube come WWII warships:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/europe/danube-wwii-nazi-germany-ships-serbia-climate-intl/index.html

... the 'Spanish Stonehenge':

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/19/spanish-stonehenge-dating-back-to-5000-bc-has-emerged-from-a-drought-hit-dam
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/spanish-stonehenge-emerges-from-watery-grave-for-second-time-in-last-3-years/

... Nero's bridge from the Tiber:

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/08/italys-drought-uncovers-ancient-imperial-bridge-photos.html
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Italy-s-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-17397383.php
https://apnews.com/86882350f7a5b79e64b378a8e7235352 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/italys-drought-exposes-ancient-imperial-bridge-over-tiber/J5WF272DQWGISV7V74NPQ64DMM/

... a medieval village in Yorkshire:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-62677584

... the Roman military camp in Spain:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article264947409.html

... sites from the Tigris and Euphrates:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/08/falling-waters-euphrates-tigris-rivers-reveal-submerged-archaeological-sites

... Buddhist statues from the Yangtze:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yangtze-river-buddha-statues-revealed-1234637284/

... hunger stones:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/hunger-stones-europe/

... and the 'overview' pieces:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62619397 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/08/24/artifacts-resurface-drought-affects-water-levels-world-photos/7866053001/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/app-news-section/drought-reveals-votw-082622/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/08/26/drought-dinosaur-tracks-nazi-warship/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/europe-drought-is-revealing-historic-artifacts-180980640/
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119724404/buddhist-statues-and-roman-bridges-droughts-reveal-history-in-the-worlds-waterwa
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-26/buddhist-statues-and-roman-bridges-droughts-reveal-history-in-the-worlds-waterways

... and we might as well mention the 1500 years bp arrow found in melting ice in Norway too:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-viking-age-vikings/the-last-person-who-touched-this-three-bladed-arrowhead-was-a-viking/2069302
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/arrow-from-1-500-years-ago-found-in-melting-ice-kjkz2rnq2
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11133589/1-500-year-old-pre-Viking-arrow-awesome-state-preservation.html
https://www.newsweek.com/arrow-older-vikings-discovered-ice-norway-1735657

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Aphrodisias:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/city-of-aphrodite-takes-visitors-on-historical-journey-in-turkiye/news
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Archaeologists aren't happy about their portrayal in a film about Richard III:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/28/royal-row-erupts-over-steve-coogan-film-about-richard-iii

Oberammergau:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/theater/oberammergau-passion-play.html

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CRIME BEAT
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US agents in Memphis (Tenn.) seized a 3000 years bp (maybe) Egyptian artifact being brought to the US from Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-agents-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient.html https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/memphis-seizes-ancient-egyptian-artifact
https://apnews.com/article/science-memphis-archaeology-8f978ccc03d278e160bb90152607ab92
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/egyptian-artifact-intercepted-in-memphis-customs-border-protection-archaeological-item-cultural-property-canopic-imsety-egypt-archaeology-research/522-d1dad9d0-4225-43d6-89c6-6d7667f56f4b
https://www.nbc29.com/2022/08/26/us-agents-seize-antique-egyptian-artifact-that-could-potentially-be-3000-years-old/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article264947974.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/us/memphis-tennessee-customs-egyptian-artifact-trnd/index.html
https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-715728 https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-agents-seize-potentially-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-shipped-from-europe/

An iconic portrait of Winston Churchill appears to have been stolen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/canada/churchill-portrait-stolen-canada.html

Labourers working on the demolition of a house in Madhya Pradesh allegedly stole 86 gold coins they found in the process:

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2158374-8-labourers-steal-86-gold-coins-of-archaeological-importance-found-while-digging-house-in-mp-arrested
https://theprint.in/india/8-labourers-steal-86-gold-coins-of-archaeological-importance-found-while-digging-house-in-mp-arrested/1104439/
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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 ============================================================
The Museum of the Bible has returned a looted Bible to the Greek Monastery whence it was taken:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/arts/design/museum-of-the-bible-looted-gospel.html
https://politpost.com/2022/08/23/museum-of-the-bible-returns-ancient-gospel-looted-from-greek-monastery/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1191802/museum-of-the-bible-returns-ancient-gospel-looted-from-greek-monastery/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/museum-of-the-bible-returned-looted-gospel-to-greek-monastery-1234637275/

The US is returning a 14th century sculpture to Nepal:

https://observer.com/2022/08/a-looted-14th-century-sculpture-is-returned-to-nepal-by-the-manhattan-district-attorney/
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/united-states-to-return-durga-sculpture-to-nepal

Not sure if we've mentioned these seven items being returned from Scotland to India:

https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/scotlands-national-museum-decides-to-return-seven-antiquities-artefacts-back-to-india/

Indigenous groups in British Columbia are seeking repatriation of various items from various places:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-indigenous-communities-in-bc-join-global-movement-to-repatriate-lost/

Indigenous South American groups are seeking repatriation of Captain Cook-related items in the British Museum:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152533/Indigenous-South-Americans-look-returning-Captain-Cooks-artefacts-stored-n-British-museum.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/descendants-arrive-mission-reclaim-captain-cook-swag-chile-british-museum-jjc3n37tp

Thailand is seeking the return of items from the Denver Art Museum:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2376348/govt-seeks-looted-antiques
https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/thailand-working-to-retrieve-antiquity-objects-from-museums-in-foreign-countries-408079

More on Berlin returning items to Nigeria:

https://apnews.com/07a4bacb2d2820b1518631c69c720a2f https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-transfers-ownership-of-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/a-62930286

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins depicting Zeus:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-zeus-at-olympia/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n34.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n35.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Richard Freund:

https://www.liherald.com/stories/richard-freund-renowned-scholar-and-archeologist-dies,143305

Radovan Kraguly:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/25/radovan-kraguly-obituary

Audrey Stanley:

https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/08/in-memoriam-audrey-stanley.html

John Cooper:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/08/26/john-cooper-renowned-interpreter-ancient-greek-and-roman-philosophy-and-incredibly

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3202-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-14th-through-the-20th-2022

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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 ============================================================
Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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COMPLETE HISTORY OF STONEHENGE EXCAVATIONS

1611. King James VI and I investigated Stonehenge to see "The stone which the builders refused", "The stone which the builders reiected", and "the stone which the builders disallowed". King James Version: 1611

1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail. Long, William, 1876,
Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16

1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (Diary)

1633-52. Inigo Jones conducted the first 'scientific' surveys of Stonehenge. Jones, I, and Webb, J, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain. London: J Flesher for D Pakeman and L Chapman

1640. Sir Lawrence Washington, knight, owner of Stonehenge, fished around Bear's Stone (named after Washington's hound dog). Bear's Stone profile portrait a local 17th century attraction. (G-Diary) The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History
Magazine, Volumes 15-16

1652. Reverend Lawrence Washington, heir of Stonehenge, commissions Doctor Garry Denke to dig below Bear's Stone, reveals lion, calf (ox), face as a man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and hidden relics. Bear's Stone (96) renamed Hele 'to conceal,
cover, hide'. (G-Diary)

1653-6. Doctor Garry Denke auger cored below Hele Stone 'The stone which the builders rejected' on various occasions. Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, concrete discovered at 1-1/3 'yardsticks' (under flying eagle). Elizabeth Washington, heir of
Stonehenge. Denke, G, 1699, G-Diary (German to English by Erodelphian Literary Society of Sigma Chi Fraternity). GDG, 1-666

1666. John Aubrey surveyed Stonehenge and made a 'Review'. Described the Avenue's prehistoric pits. (the 'Aubrey Holes' discovered by Hawley, not Aubrey). Aubrey, J, 1693 (edited by J Fowles 1982), Monumenta Britannica. Sherborne, Dorset: Dorset
Publishing Co

1716. Thomas Hayward, owner of Stonehenge, dug heads of oxen and other beasts. (Diary)

1721-4. William Stukeley surveyed and excavated Stonehenge and its field monuments. Surveyed the Avenue in 1721 extending beyond Stonehenge Bottom to King Barrow Ridge. Surveyed the Cursus in 1723 and excavated. Stukeley, W, 1740, Stonehenge: a temple
restor'd to the British druids. London: W Innys and R Manby

1757. Benjamin Franklin observes the Hele Stone (96) "Seven Heads": lion, calf (ox), face as a man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and sardine; "Ten Horns": Altar of Burnt Offering (4 horns), Altar of Incense (4 horns), and Torah scroll (2 horns);
and all of the other 'hidden' relics buried there. (Diary)

1798. Sir Richard Hoare and William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge under the fallen Slaughter Stone 95 and under fallen Stones 56 and 57. The Ancient History of Wiltshire, Volume 1, 1812

1805-10. William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge on various occasions. Cunnington, W, 1884, Guide to the stones of Stonehenge. Devizes: Bull Printer

1839. Captain Beamish excavated within Stonehenge. (Diary)

1874-7. Professor Flinders Petrie produced a plan of Stonehenge and numbered the stones. Petrie, W M F, 1880, Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories. London: Edward Stanford

1877. Charles Darwin digs at Stonehenge to study 'Sinking of great Stones through the Action of Worms'. Darwin, Charles, 1881, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray

1886. Kaiser Wilhelm Society founder 33° mason Friedrich Wilhelm Denke confirmed with his auger drilled core samples (under bear, leopard and calf) Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone and concrete 4 feet (1.2 meter) beneath Stonehenge Hele Stone base.
(FW-Diary)

1901. Professor William Gowland meticulously recorded and excavated around stone number 56 at Stonehenge. Gowland, W, 1902, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Archaeologia, 58, 37-82

1919-26. Colonel William Hawley extensively excavated in advance of restoration programmes at Stonehenge for the Office of Works and later for the Society of Antiquaries. Hawley excavated ditch sections of the Avenue, conducted an investigation of the
Slaughter Stone and other stones at Stonehenge, and discovered the 'Aubrey Holes' (misnamed) through excavation. Hawley, W, 1921, Stonehenge: interim report on the exploration. Antiquaries Journal, 1, 19-41 Hawley, W, 1922, Second report on the
excavations at Stonehenge. Antiquaries Journal, 2, 36-52 Hawley, W, 1923, Third report on the excavations at Stonehenge. Antiquaries Journal, 3, 13-20 Hawley, W, 1924, Fourth report on the excavations at Stonehenge, 1922. Antiquaries Journal, 4, 30-39
Hawley, W, 1925, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923. Antiquaries Journal, 5, 21-50 Hawley, W, 1926, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1924. Antiquaries Journal, 6, 1-25 Hawley, W, 1928, Report on
the excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926. Antiquaries Journal, 8, 149-76 (Diary) Pitts, M, Bayliss, A, McKinley, J, Boylston, A, Budd, P, Evans, J, Chenery, C, Reynolds, A, and Semple, S, 2002, An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at
Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 95, 131-46

1929. Robert Newall excavated Stone 36. Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge. Antiquity, 3, 75-88 Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge, the recent excavations. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 44, 348-59

1935. Young, W E V, The Stonehenge car park excavation. (Diary)

1942. Company 'C', 63rd Signal Battalion, U.S. Army Signal Corps, WWII confirmed Tabernacle of G-D beneath Heel Stone in 1942 whilst at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, U.K., on All Hallows' Eve of '42, before Shipping-out to Operation Torch invasion at Algiers (
Eastern) in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, during WWII. On the 31st day October of '42 (a Saturday) it was G-D of "C" Company, the 63rd Signal Battalion, caught Witching, and Core drilling; Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, Bluestone
concrete (volcanic ash and tuff) at 3 to 4 'yardsticks' from GL beneath Slick-side Heel Stone (the Northeast face), and Bluestone sandstone ("micaceous stump") at 4 'yardsticks' from GL underneath Hele Stone; the Sun of righteousness Helios Stone. (see
redacted "Top Secret" Arrest Report expunged '42)

1950. Robert Newall excavated Stone 66. Newall, R S, 1952, Stonehenge stone no. 66. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 65-7

1952. Robert Newall excavated Stones 71 and 72. (Diary)

1950-64. A major campaign of excavations by Richard Atkinson, Stuart Piggott, and Marcus Stone involving the re-excavation of some of Hawley’s trenches as well as previously undisturbed areas within Stonehenge. Atkinson, R J C, Piggott, S, and Stone, J
F S, 1952, The excavations of two additional holes at Stonehenge, and new evidence for the date of the monument. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 14-20 Atkinson, R J C, 1956, Stonehenge. London. Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton. (second revised
edition 1979: Penguin Books)

1966. Faith and Lance Vatcher excavated 3 Mesolithic Stonehenge postholes. Vatcher, F de M and Vatcher, H L, 1973, Excavation of three postholes in Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 68, 57-63

1968. Faith and Lance Vatcher dug geophone and floodlight cable trenches. (Diary)


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