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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo,
John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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'Cave men' loved to sing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080703/sc_livescience/cavemenlovedtosing
http://tinyurl.com/64t4pu

A homo erectus fossil from Morocco:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701141030.htm

Nice piece on the anthropologist who found 'Lucy's daughter':

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/01/BASI11DS1L.DTL
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AFRICA
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An update of sorts on that shipwreck off Namibia:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4814
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An Old Kingdom "burial ground":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080705/sc_afp/egyptarchaeology_080705172109
http://www.physorg.com/news134531709.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLLaGNMZjrz8OQIgjUwg8WRchq6w
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/06/content_8496782.htm
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/07/05/ancient_royal_burial_ground_found_in_\
egypt_report/afp/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295557.htm

Feature on the Tell Edfu dig:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080701-egypt-discovery.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/photogalleries/Edfu-photos/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701121838.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?ref=science

An inscription of Ramses II from (near) Damascus:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9364\
0

A (bizarre) sacrifice-'burial' of an acrobat and horses from
Syria:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=80453

An ancient 'royal structure' from Northern Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=78709

Plans are afoot to excavate the Chehrabad salt mine:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=708534
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=172160

Some 'new' fragments of Leviticus from the Judean desert:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10520219

Very interesting ink-on-stone 'Messiah' tablet (I suspect this will
be getting a ton of press attention):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080705/NEWS/807050615&tc=yahoo
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/453291.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008035408_biblical06.html

They're going to fix up Tell Napoleon:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView.asp?did=1000356221&fid=1124

More on that 'oldest Christian church' in Jordan:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5270738&page=1

Review of Jonathan Wilson, *Ancestral Journeys*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Wilson-t.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Pompeii has been declared a "disaster zone" and/or is under a
'state of emergency':

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/07/05/pompeii-emergency.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_eu/italy_pompeii_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7490735.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=80974
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-04_104236746.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjwFyYLT-xmCK-YkaHGe8Pf8NKBAD91N4A801
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0422602020080704
http://itn.co.uk/news/f6ffa5ad92a2b4bc5c2b5906da94c4fb.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/05/italy
http://www.france24.com/en/20080704-state-emergency-declared-save-pompeii-site-a\
rcheology-italy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/sc_nm/italy_pompeii_dc_3
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Italy-Pompeii.html

Evidence of affluent Roman life at Caerwent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7481869.stm
http://www.topnews.in/archaeological-dig-reveals-stylish-roman-life-250411
http://tinyurl.com/6fsjzc (Telegraph)

A few Elgin/Parthenon Marbles pieces this week:

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/greece/ar\
ticle4268110.ece

Another portrait of Hadrian is on the move:

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=8612945&nav=menu209_1_1

Five Roman burials from Krinides:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2008/08-07-03_1.apeen.html
http://www.express.gr/news/news-in-english/47851oz_2008070347851.php3

A rostrum was found off the coast of Sicily:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212155841.shtml
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/07/01/Rare_Roman_artifact_found_near_Sicily\
/UPI-17071214966114/

Digging the 'Ephesus of the Black Sea':

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108524

Comparing Virgil translations:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0508.xml

Looking for Roman remains at Birnie:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7487985.stm

Studying ancient attire:

http://tinyurl.com/55zagc (Western)

Concerns over plans to privatize archaeological sites in Sicily:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-03_103231149.html

More coverage of the Nemean Games:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5isMsgWswP3nNzLyE7zDqVcrCgcmQ

More on the tourist threat to Greek theatres:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article4264580.ece

Feature on the Antonine Wall:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4276718.ece

Comparing Olympics ancient and modern:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080628162032.htm

More coverage of the redating of Caesar's invasion of Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7483566.stm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25881

... with an interesting related piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7475285.stm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They're looking at the Ring of Brodgar:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Digging--up--the.4243941.jp

They've been brewing beer in Ireland for quite a while, apparently:

http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/June/29-Brewing-tradition-existed-5176\
3.asp

A 13th century necropolis from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=94626
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/13th-century-church-excavated-in-veliko-turnovo\
/id_30261/catid_70

A Jacobean (Elizabethan?) 'Titanic':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2228622/Elizabethan-%27Titanic%27-discovered-by-\
archaeologists.html

Versailles' Golden Gates have been reopened:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080702-versailles-france-gold-gates-louis-iv

The public can voice their opinion about Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7482995.stm

More coverage of Vikings and cod:

http://tinyurl.com/5b77v5 (NS)

More coverage of that Viking burial going on display in Sweden
(with a focus on some amber gaming piece found therein):

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/254653.php/Vikings-believed-that-their-dead-playe\
d-board-games-on-their-way-to-the-afterlife
http://tinyurl.com/4btvhw

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 2000 b.p. bronze drum from Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/07/792016/

Nice feature on Dunhuang's caves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/arts/design/06cott.html

Review of a couple of tomes on 'old Beijing':

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Sekules-t.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating Washington's boyhood home:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/403105.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702180713.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2194821/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/science/03george.html

Looking for evidence of the War of 1812 in Lake Erie:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-oh-underwaterbattlef,0,1544419.story

A Hohokam site is holding up 'park construction' (do you construct
a park?):

http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2008/07/03/news/doc486abf137b1e9574652543.t\
xt

A good interview about those human coprolites found a few months ago:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june08/firstamerican_06-30.html

More evidence of an asteroid wreaking havoc 12,900 years ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702160950.htm

Digging Austin:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/05/0705feit.html

Dating Yankee Doodle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/yankee_doodle250th
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1AgNDunHNM9leVm-rceR57bgK6gD91MT9Q84

Looking at some early drafts of the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/nyregion/05declaration.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/opinion/04widmer.html

The trouble with teardowns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/opinion/01tue3.html

Feature on Poplar Grove:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92190792

Sad stories from Gettysburg:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92126534

What to do about Fort Monroe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fort.html

Quebec City is celebrating its 400th anniversary:

http://www.france24.com/en/20080702-culture-quebec-canada-anniversary-400-years-\
champlain-enigma-french
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/opinion/03fischer.html

Review of Paul Fisher, *House of Wits*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Lee-t.html

Review of Daniel Mark Epstein, *The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/books/03maslin.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plans are afoot to open a sealed cave beneath a Teotihuacan
pyramid:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/04/2294384.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25520043/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Researchers_to_open_sealed_cave/art\
icleshow/3200586.cms
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d4d2a598-14e3-4328-98b8-1b\
805f7282a8&k=77669
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=62567&sectionid=3510212
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/sc_nm/mexico_pyramid_dc_1
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=researchers-open-secret-c

Controversy over a petroglyph from Puerto Rico:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/589011.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/42770.html

A pre-Columbian Moche tomb:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7491827.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/06/2295710.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/05/america/LA-GEN-Peru-Archaeologists.php
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hV4pooo_8f9ohoD5Dxa4-8EX9wvA

Another tourists-are-damaging-Machu-Picchu piece:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6ZAdf3xivpIi65Gn_SXTndpDFvwD91L7FM81
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_sc/machu_picchu_endangered

More on those Aztec 'death whistles':

http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/07/how_an_ancient_1.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5271675
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/684725.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4238688.ece
http://tinyurl.com/56p6uq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/pre_columbian_sounds

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On Frederick II and the rebirth of Roman culture:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/05/arts/conway.php

On the movie portral of Prince Caspian:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/05/do0507.xml

Did Robert Graves plagiarize?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/war-poet-robert-graves-stole-w\
ork-from-his-mistress-859980.html

Trying to save a ship from shipworm:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/02/archaeology

... while elsewhere, they were firing a cannon found in an
Elizabethan shipwreck:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4244535.ece

Interesting item on Keats:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/07/080707crbo_books_kirsch

On the origins of football (maybe) (European):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7486118.stm

Lyme disease originated in Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm

I guess Occam's Razor doesn't apply to the who-wrote-Shakespeare's-plays
set:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236768
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92142217

What makes a Stradivarius so good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/arts/music/05arts-ITSALLINTHEW_BRF.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/solved-the-mystery-of-why-stradivarius\
-violins-are-best-858329.html

Can't remember if we had this King-Arthur-was-French story:

http://tinyurl.com/6yg6s3 (Telegraph)

The mould problem at Lascaux continues:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063002363.\
html

Review of Edward Dolnick,*The Forger's Spell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Julius-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rhodes:

http://www.easier.com/view/Travel/Travel_Guides/article-188292.html

Turkey:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/03/ST2008070303497.ht\
ml

Zadar:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/travel/06next.html?ref=travel

Lampedusa:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/travel/06leopard.html

The smallest U.S. National Park:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92035186

others:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91890528

Diving shipwrecks in N. Carolina:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/travel/escapes/04diving.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Journal of Archaeology 112.3 (mostly abstracts):

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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France returned some looted pottery to Italy:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_eu/italy_looted_antiquities_1
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/04/arts/Italy-Looted-Antiquities.php
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_bcmuTOwPCXlYk6aWb_ugCT9RgD91N41M00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/05/DDSS11K7OQ.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Italy-Looted-Antiquities.html

Peruvian officials found some pre-Hispanic textiles for sale in a
Lima market:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/05/america/LA-Peru-Ancient-Textiles.php

That Indonesian museum curator who was involved in theft of some
statuary received his come-uppance:

http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080630/tap-as-gen-indonesia-museum-thefts-64e\
d358.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/02arts-CURATORSENTE_BRF.html

Egypt recovered a looted relief from Bonham's:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080630/egypt_antiquities.html?.v=1
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/30/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Antiquities.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-retrieves-a-2-500-year-old-stone-r674800.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25460568/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=25460568&afid=1
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/904/he3.htm

Syria returned some items to Iraq:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/404843.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_sc/iraq_artifact_returned;_ylt=AqpjrTU\
XIqoVEJkySnAYzv.s0NUE
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/07/03/syria_returns_iraqi_antiquities/5c3f/

... and there are some more Iraqi artifacts in Jordan:

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/kuwaitnews/pagesdetails.asp?nid=19207&ccid=9

... and Iraq has set up a task force to look into the problem:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=239488&s=&i=&t=Iraq_creates_task_force_t\
o_probe_stolen_antiquities

Al-Ahram has a feature on Egypt's National Committee to Return
Smuggled Antiquities:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/904/he1.htm

Yemen police foiled a smuggling operation:

http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10014539.html

Good OpEd piece on the rise in art thefts:

http://tinyurl.com/65js44 (Globe and Mail)

Someone vandalized Hans Christian Andersen's tombstone:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/en_afp/denmarkcrimevandalismcemeteryliterat\
ure
http://jp.dk/uknews/article1384020.ece

A different sort of art theft:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/arts/design/30arts-ARTISTSDAUGH_BRF.html

Documents missing from the National Archives:

http://www.archives.gov/research/recover/missing-documents.html
cf. http://www.archives.gov/research/recover/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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The Millennia Collection was auctioned off:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4824

A hoard of Roman coins from a Wrexham farm:

http://www.wrexhamleader.co.uk/news/Hoard-of-Roman-coins-found.4251334.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Caesar:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-04_104232631.html
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/07/04/Museum_planning_Caesar_exhibiti\
on/UPI-18451215202099/

Hadrian:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/05/bahadrian105.xml

Turner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04turn.html

Goya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/02abroad.html

Jacob Riis photos:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91981589

Radiance from the Rain Forest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/arts/design/05feat.html

Nordic Heritage Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/arts/design/30conn.html

The Terracotta Army exhibit at the BM has been a huge success:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7485736.stm

Neil MacGregor was apparently asked to run the Met:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avli9UL1SisA&refer=home
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28006/british-museum-director-turns-down-met/

China's museums are dealing with some interesting problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04museums.html

The Brooklyn Museum of Art figures that a third of its Coptic
art collection is fake:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-museum-admits-third-of\
-its-coptic-art-is-fake-858345.html

Steven Spielberg has given a major donation to the Jewish
Museum in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/04arts-JEWISHMUSEUM_BRF.html

A terra cotta relief fell off the wall at the Met:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/07/01/met-relief-fall.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/02scul.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/01cnd-sculpture.html

The Israel Museum have restored ownership of some 4th century
medallions:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24979
http://www.pr-inside.com/restitution-of-three-nazi-looted-gold-glass-r676849.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL30343606

When 'antiquing' became popular in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04huds.html
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Phaethon:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=146522&bolum=110
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=238884&s=&i=&t=Izmir_Festival_To_Host_Wo\
rld_Premiere_Of_Euripides'_Tragedy
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=239572

Bacchae:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/theater/reviews/05bacc.html
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Nicolas Coldstream (a bit late):

http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,,2289173,00.html
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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