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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Kris Curry, Donald Whitcomb,
David Critchley, Tim Parkin, Diana Wright, Dorothy Lobel King,
Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Joseph Shaffer,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Richsc, Joanne Conman,
Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest on homo floresiensis:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110808/full/news.2011.466.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333112/title/Taking_the_measure_of_a_\
hobbit

... semi related:

http://www.livescience.com/15523-john-mccain-meet-real-hobbits.html

Feature on the DNA we got from our Neanderthal (and other) forebears:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110809/full/476136a.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/08/the-hunt-for-ancient-dna/

Latest coverage on finds from Georgia challenging the 'out of Africa'
theory:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-08/caveman-zezva-has-1-8-million-year-grin\
-forces-georgia-to-rewrite-history.html

... I"m not sure the previous item is referring to the Denisovans or not
(I'm getting a bit confused):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128254.000-stone-age-toe-could-redraw-hu\
man-family-tree.html
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AFRICA
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More on that palace from the Sudan:

http://news.yahoo.com/remains-ancient-palace-discovered-121203796.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The Tayinat Archaeological Project folks have unearthed the remains of a
monumental
lion gate:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/social-sciences-business-law/u-of-t-archeologists-un\
cover-3000-year-old-lion.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809104309.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uot-au3080911.php
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/08/09/archaeologists.uncover.3000.year.old\
.lion.adorning.citadel.gate.complex.turkey
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-lion-adornin\
g.html

Keep up with the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavations (a lot happened this week):

http://gath.wordpress.com/

The Jericho Mafjar Project has a website:

http://www.jerichomafjarproject.org/

A cartouche of Apries from the Tal Defna area:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/484815

Jomon period (?) artifacts from Damascus:

http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=92604

Interesting items (Roman sword, image of a menorah), possibly dating to the
Jewish Revolt,
from an ancient drainage tunnel in Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146499
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-present-ancient-arti\
facts-found-in-jerusalem-tunnel-1.377614
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Artifacts_destruct\
ion_Temple_8-Aug-2011.htm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49696
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeSSRFveM4
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvWgyWvlYHXUl4Z73GqE32BGNpHw?d\
ocId=417d2e3365f042fa837a593dd201bc1e
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYBkIhHMSqoq9SQxhZBU6boXc-GA?\
docId=CNG.32c732cf1e90321ab700d5c1ff2bb1cd.391
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2011/Aug-12/Archaeologists-link-ancient-\
sword-to-fall-of-Herods-temple.ashx
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-era-sword-110810.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8689595/Jerusalem-tu\
nnel-contains-2000-year-old-sword-pots-and-coins.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/August/Archaeologists-Discover-Roma\
n-Era-Sword/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/08/09/Roman-sword-menorah-engraving-found/U\
PI-29151312889225/?dailybrief
http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalem-tunnel-glimpse-ancient-war-111649346.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4106700,00.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/In-a-Jerusalem-tunnel-a-glimpse-of-an-anci\
ent-war-1764386.php
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=17&id=293564 (images)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/in-an-ancient-jerusalem-drainage\
-tunnel-remains-from-a-2000-year-old-war/2011/08/08/gIQAXqU71I_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/08/israel.artifacts/

Tyre is fighting to keep its World Heritage Status:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Aug-11/Tyre-tries-to-defend-Wor\
ld-Heritage-status.ashx

There is funding for the restoration of Zoser's pyramid:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Travel-and-Tourism/2011/Aug-08/Committee-to-\
fund-Zoser-pyramid-renovation.ashx

The Bible Project is being given different spins (in headlines, at least):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/12/bible-detectives-jerusalem-scholars-tr\
ace-bibles-evolution/
http://www.newser.com/article/d9p2f4s80/in-jerusalem-5-decades-of-detective-work\
-trace-evolution-discover-changes-in-old-testament.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itVOexAUQyzm63cPPJabqJgexpHw?d\
ocId=6af926e599c0480daf772f95786ad395

Another illegal construction site about to get under way in Jerusalem?:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146639

We are told that Jewish archaeologists are 'contesting' Jewish ties to
Jerusalem:

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpM\
O%2bi1s7iPBlfG0HELPl1bLBC3jEHfEfncxWsut8Wiq59wubt82e5pc512RN%2bKKN383fDtiO1eOJ75\
vLXXiNrOxQRkcY4B3aPKLUEYBtns%2b7%2frwEPyY%3d
cf: http://www.forward.com/articles/137273/

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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Five Thracian tombs from northeastern Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131075

A horde of coins from off the shores of Pantelleria:

http://news.discovery.com/history/punic-coins-retrieved-110812.html

A Roman child burial from Dorchester:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9187166.Roman_child_s_remains_dug_up_in_Dorches\
ter/

Not sure if we've mentioned these recent finds from Serdica:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-08-13&article=37011

Vladimir Putin went diving at Phanagoria and brought up
a couple of broken amphorae (!) ... such an archaeologist!:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/putin-scuba-diving-russia-atlantis-_n_9\
24300.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/12/vladimir-putin-greek-urns-ridicule
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8695956/Vladimir-Putin-g\
oes-diving-in-the-Black-Sea.html
http://en.rian.ru/video/20110811/165707271.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBLQxkmJApzgc6aTsZj8J9oc5JBw?\
docId=CNG.89b3c13baf8dcf2c4895a7fb620f18d0.6d1
http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-russian-pm-must-be-putin-it-on-with-this-stunt-2\
0110813-1is27.html

Big crackdown on phoney gladiators -- er, centurions -- outside the
Colosseum:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzyOb6dP4Etmq-b53adOjOGIC0CA?d\
ocId=149a23dcca5f49898b7a6aac7221ff18
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/12/general-eu-odd-italy-gladiators-busted\
_8620497.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117037/ns/world_news-europe/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-14503878
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/police-in-italy-unleash-hell-on-fake-\
gladiators/story-e6frg6so-1226113674328
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/news/italian-police-pose-as-gladiators-to\
-catch-criminals/story-e6frg8ro-1226113608837
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/roman-gladiators-arrested-swordfight\
-colosseum
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iKeYgVIVmDuh8or5ar3LdtD3l45w?\
docId=CNG.bcc175a221e675aba87f38e758d9b014.481
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15314290,00.html

... there was a bomb scare there as well; no one seems to be connecting the
above to that:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/07/us-italy-colosseum-bomb-idUSTRE7761PA2\
0110807
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Report-Colosseum-evacuated-after-device-fo\
und-1752061.php
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/07/general-eu-italy-colosseum-suspicious-\
package_8606861.html

Someone got the date (year) of the 2500th anniversary of Marathon right:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/127602348.html

Latest in the search for Cleo's tomb (such as it is):

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2011/8/10/40538/Dominican-archaeologist-c\
ontinues-attracting-glances-of-the-worlds

They're poking around the wreck of the Mentor (which carried the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles):

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/08/10/research-on-the-shipwreck-mentor-whic\
h-carried-elgin-marbles/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-08/team-explores-19th-century-parthenon-ma\
rble-shipwreck-in-greece.html

Feature on the role of rivers in ancient Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_15999_14/08/2011_370823

They're hoping to find more fragments of the Severan Marble Plan during
metro
contstruction:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-roman-map-puzzle-may-get-new-pieces.ht\
ml

On the Ars Amatoria:

http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/601-the_longest_banned_book.html

... and a feature on Diane Middlebrook, who was working on a bio of Ovid
when
she passed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/narrative-magazine-friday_n_924924.html

On Socrates as Islamic prophet:

http://www.ibna.ir/vdcb0fb8wrhb8fp.4eur.html

Review of Gregory McNamee's translation of Aelian:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-on-the-nature-of-a\
nimals-by-aelian/2011/08/01/gIQADt4Q9I_story.html

Review of Aloys Winterling, *Caligula*:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110811/BLOG5201/110809967

Reivew of Anneliese Freisenbruch, *First Ladies of Rome*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-first-ladies-o\
f-rome-the-women-behind-the-caesars-by-anneliese-freisenbruch-2337180.html

More on the Yewden 'brothel':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14401305

Latest reviews from Scholia:

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

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 25 000 years b.p. 'pendant' from Spain's Basque region:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/08/10/archaeologists-uncover\
-25000-year-old-pendant-in-spain/

Remains of a 2600 years b.p. wall from Saxony-Anhalt:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110808-36825.html

A bog body from a County Laois bog in Ireland:

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/earth-science/archaeology/2000-yr-old-bog\
-body-discovered-in-ireland/31582.html

From Salme comes evidence of the oldest use (ca 750) of sails in the Baltic
region:

http://news.err.ee/culture/00225c4a-581e-4ee0-b87c-6fda799a5476

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a burial cist on the Isle of Skye:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14509160

Remains of St Eburg found beneath a block of flats?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025127/Patron-saint-flats-Remains-St-Eb\
urg-discovered-apartment-block.html

Remains of English Civil War 'casualties' from the grounds of the Pontefract
General Infirmary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14476817

Finds from various periods at the Ribat de Arrifana (Portugal):

http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1125-31

I think we had this Viking massacre stuff last year ... now it's tv hype
masquerading
as 'news':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14476039

The Uley Long Barrow site in Gloucestershire is open after restoration work:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-14442631

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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I think this item on finds from Dikranagerd (Armenia) should be in
this category (please correct me if I'm wrong ... it seems we'll be
hearing more from this one):

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/08/10/excavations-in-artsakh/

Tombs from assorted dynasties found in Suzhou:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7568198.html

A massive Tang Dynasty sarcophagus from Hebei:

http://www.f-paper.com/?i720565-Giant-sarcophagus-found-in-the-Tang-Dynasty-Hebe\
i-weighing-5-tons-buried-a-3-%28Figure%29

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\
itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

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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A 10 000 years b.p. village from Calvert Island (British Columbia) ...
maybe:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/anthropologist-bel\
ieves-he-has-found-bc-village-that-may-be-10000-years-old/article2122298/

Possible remains of slave quarters at William and Mary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/possible-slave-quarter-found-at-wi\
lliam-and-mary/2011/08/09/gIQANhUP5I_story.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-archaeologists-brick-foundations-wren.html

Civil War bullets from a Gettysburg Oak:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49738

Last week we mentioned Ken Tankersley's thoughts about the Mariemont
Serpent Mound ... here's another view:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/03/prof-claims-hes-found-e\
ven-greater-serpent-mound.html

What's happening with the USS Monitor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09monitor.html

Finds from various periods prior to road construction in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52313490-78/sites-hansen-area-pit.html.csp

UConn is going to digitize a pile of Puerto Rico historic records:

http://www.wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=9013

Edgar Allan Poe house is having financial problems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another Olmec (style) monument from Chalcatzngo:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5174-descubren-altar-pre\
colombino-en-morelos

More on that 'Captain Morgan' shipwreck:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8\
689215/Captain-Morgan-shipwreck-found.html

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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This thing about Marco Polo not making it to Asia seems like old news:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024221/Marco-Polo-reached-China-picked-\
tales-Orient-Italians-claim.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193741.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/marco-polos-exploration-may-have-pulled-up-short-201\
10810-1imqg.html

More libraries are joining Proquest's Early European Books digitization
program:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8712947.htm

A sort of previewish/hypish thing about Paul Holberton, *Caravaggio's Eye*:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49766

A nice castle-at-night APOD:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110813.html

Feature on 'Peter the Wild Boy':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14215171

Maybe Heraclitus was right?:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/08/08/139006531/the-end-of-a-physics-worldvie\
w-heraclitus-and-the-watershed-of-life


Reviewish of Charles Mann, *1493*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/138924127/in-1493-columbus-shaped-a-world-to-be

Review of Michael Holroyd, *A Book of Secrets*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html

Review of Sharon McGrayne, *The Theory That Would Not Die*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-\
closing.html

Review of Brook Wilensky-Lanford, *Paradise Lust*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/paradise-lust-by-brook-wilensky-l\
anford-book-review.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caesarea:

http://www.thespec.com/living/travel/article/577924--ancient-caesarea-may-have-b\
een-home-to-pontius-pilate

Asine:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_27731_11/08/2011_371568

Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/features/rediscovering-cyprus-ancient-heritage/201108\
08
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Eight thefts from monuments in India:

http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/articles/story94059.htm

Probation for a Colorado antiquities dealer:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/35dcce02a47e4906ae48a13129c3e371/UT--Artif\
acts-Looting/

They're recovering an awful lot of smuggled artifacts in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkish-museums8217-storage-crowded-wit\
h-smuggled-artifacts-2011-08-08

A bell was stolen from St James' Church in Bix during restorations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14447105

Donna D'Errico has had to call off her plans to search for Noah's Ark:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/aug/11/donna-derrico-h\
unts-noahs-ark

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest eSylum newsletter (the first one is a special ANA issue):

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n33.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n32.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Link:

http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20110808/LIFESTYLE/108080301
http://www.citypaper.net/arts/2011-08-11-rembrandt-face-of-jesus-philadelphia-mu\
seum-of-art.html
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/8863/rembrandt-and-the-face-of-jesus-in-philadelph\
ia/

Caravaggio and his Followers in Rome:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/26298/major-caravaggio-exhibition-at-kimbell-ar\
t-museum/
http://www.dallasartnews.com/2011/08/major-caravaggio-exhibition-opening-at-the-\
kimbell-art-museum-in-october/

Faberge:

http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Va-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-displays-\
Faberge-treasures-1771813.php

Tut is setting records in Melbourne:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mummys-boy-tutankhamun-sets-new-record-20110\
810-1ilry.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/tutankhamun-smashes-attendance-re\
cord/story-e6frf7jx-1226111620480

I think we've heard about the Brisith Museum and Wikipedia getting cozy
before:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/aug/08/british-museu\
m-wikipedia

Looks like the Shellal Mosaic might be the next repatriation focus:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/questions-raised-over-looted-mosaic-20110813-1irr\
a.html

... and the Ankhhaf bust in Boston's MFA isn't going to be returned:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/08/14/egypts_request_for_ret\
urn_of_ankhhaf_bust_rebuffed_by_mfa/

A review of the North Carolina History Center:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/arts/design/north-carolina-history-center-at-t\
ryon-palace.html

Tony Curtis' art collection is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/09/arts/AP-US-Tony-Curtis-Auction.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Emperor and Galilean:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/emperor-an\
d-galilean-national-theatre-london-2298752.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/8579898/Emperor-and-G\
alilean-National-Theatre-review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/15/review-emperor-and-galilean-olivier

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
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Simon Price:

http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/News/Sermon-at-the-funeral-of-Simon-Price.aspx
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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