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AT THE AUCTIONS ================================================================
Early New York maps:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/arts/design/new-york-maps-exhibition. html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

An Assyrian relief sold at Christies for a huge price:

https://hyperallergic.com/469108/31-million-sale-of-3000-year-old-assyri an-relief/ https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/assyrian-sculpture-claimed-by-iraq -sells-for-31-million-in-new-york-1.786676 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/30/3000-year-old-assyrian-palac e-artifact-goes-sale-auction-new/
http://www.aina.org/news/20181030182213.htm

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THE TECHY SIDE
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An interview with Sarah Parcak:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/ars-lunch-break-spying-out-ancie nt-ruins-on-earth-from-space/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/ars-on-your-lunch-break-finding- pharoah-and-spotting-looters-from-orbit/

Scanning Civil War-era skeletons:

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-lab-d-scans-human-skeletal.html

I think we mentioned this facial reconstruction of the 'real'
Elizabeth:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/hidden-histories?vpid=p06npby7

... and this AI-assisted reading of medieval texts:

https://www.euronews.com/2018/10/29/transkribus-system-makes-breakthroug h-in-understanding-ancient-texts ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Looking to archaeology for responses to climate change in the past:

https://news.wsu.edu/2018/10/31/history-offers-insights-into-climate-cha nge-strategies/
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-climate.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uoc--whi103018.php

Some coverage of Venice's latest challenge:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/10/31/italy-flooding-clim ate-change-venice/1831116002/ https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/multimedia/2018/10/30/venecia-se-inu nda-por-marea-alta/ ================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Salamanca:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/26/inenglish/1540554903_326526.html

Olympia:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/11/02/exploring-ancient-olympia-one-of-t he-worlds-most-well-known-historical-sites/

Southern Germany:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/travel/family-road-trip-in-germany.ht
ml

Sherlock Holmes' London:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-london-sherlock-holmes-20181030-stor
y.html

Hedeby and Danevirke:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-viking-age-sites-hedeby-and-danevirke/
av-44443360

Azerbaijan:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yanar-dag-azerbaijan-land-of-fire/ index.html

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PERFORMANCES
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Feature on Claude Debussy:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-velvet-revolution-of-c laude-debussy

Midsummer Night's Dream:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/theater/midsummer-nights-dream-review
.html

In favour of Classical music:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/arts/music/anthony-tommasini-classica l-music.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Fixtures were stolen from the door of a Fayoum mosque:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/315303/Heritage/Islamic/ Bronze-decorations-stolen-from-Fayoum-mosque-door-.aspx

Egyptian police foiled an attempt to sell a stolen sarcophagus:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/315362/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/Egypt-police-foil-attempt-to-sell-stolen-sarcophag.aspx http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/59690/Saqqara-police-arrests-4-peopl e-attempting-to-sell-ancient-coffin https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-arrests-4-attempting-to-sell-an-a ntique-casket-in-saqqara/

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 ================================================================
Feature on the OI's role in returning a stolen relief from Persepolis:

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/oriental-institute-helps-return-stolen-p ersepolis-artifact-iran

A call for the 'West' to repatriate looted antiquities:

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/the-west-must-repatriate-th e-looted-treasures-of-antiquity-1.786628

Remember that Buddha with a monk inside? China wants it back:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/01/our-spiritual-leader-chine se-villagers-appeal-for-return-of-1000-year-old-monk

Egypt wants an obelisk in London back:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/will-the-london-obelisk-return-to-egypt
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NUMISMATICA
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An Ottoman/European hoard from Ahtopol:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/10/28/hoard-of-18th-century-ottoma n-western-european-coins-found-in-treasure-pot-in-bulgarias-black-sea-to wn-ahtopol/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n43.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n44.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/


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OBITUARIES
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Milton Gendel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/milton-gendel-dead.html?rr ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2787-audio-news-from-archaeologica-21-october-27-october-2018 ================================================================
CONFERENCES
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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-ame ricas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

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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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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