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explorator 14.32                            November 27, 2011
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, David Emery, Trevor Ogden, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman,Toke L. Knudsen, 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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On the earliest words hominins might have uttered:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065375/Doh-mans-words--Homer-Sim\
pson-proud.html

Not quite sure where to put this one ... a skull in China shows the
earliest evidence of violence among
early humans:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15823272
http://in.news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-skull-shows-earliest-evidence-human-violenc\
e-101031135.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45392341/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-humans-head-trauma-points-foul-play-200811305.html


More on interbreeding not being a good thing for
the Neanderthal set:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111125-neanderthals-sex-humans-d\
na-science-extinct/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/11/were-neanderthals-victims-of-th\
eir-own-success/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/social-studies/neanderth\
als-just-too-sexy-to-escape-interbreeding/article2241706/

More on using technology to find potential fossil sites:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-human-artificial-intelligence-fossil.html
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AFRICA
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Plenty of coverage of Libya putting on display artifacts which
had been looted by Gaddafi's troops:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52022
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyan-authorities-unveil-ancien\
t-roman-figurines-seized-from-gadhafi-forces/2011/11/26/gIQAZzxEyN_print.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/libyan-authorities-unveil-ancient-roman-figurines-seize\
d-gadhafi-120114831.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8pgaO_GRbBs3L7_YgZqTaJU6zkA?d\
ocId=bb38f170319b42ccb8e9c8eb9d71a7ba
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-11/27/c_131271931.htm
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E7MQ05Z20111126
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/libya-displays-roman-treasures-looted-gaddafi-troops-17\
3348433.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45443893/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Satellite photos of Saharan fortresses:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/17/satellite-photos-show-ancie\
nt-saharan-fortresses-of-a-lost-empire/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting item on a mixed marriage in ancient Egypt:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=246821

Some forgotten ancient Egyptian chariot trappings have been rediscovered:

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-egyptian-chariot-trappings-rediscovered-1.938\
8

Archaeology in Egypt is struggling to restart (as you might have gathered
from the past
few months of Explorator):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=archaeology-research-in-egypt-s\
truggles-to-restart
http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-meets-politics-spring-comes-to-ancient-eg\
ypt-1.9416

Good evidence that Herod didn't complete the Western Wall in his
lifetime (various misleading spins put on this one in headlines):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51951
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/excavations-reveal-king-herod-didn-t-comple\
te-construction-of-jerusalem-s-western-wall-1.397283
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/coins-may-prove-that-herod-didn-t-comp\
lete-kotel-1.397359
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=246679
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-coins-herod-built-temple-walls.html
http://news.yahoo.com/coins-show-herod-built-only-part-second-temple-195327325.h\
tml
http://news.yahoo.com/sheds-light-ancient-jerusalem-092556159.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065254/Coins-Jerusalems-Western-\
Wall-hints-sacred-site-older-Herod.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihnYWJss_AVDaxl_xm7Ep_a18w4Q?\
docId=CNG.91146763155a4a6e176c124b43f78c32.831
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-holy-compound,0,51\
16954.story
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/find-sheds-light-ancient-site-jeru\
salem-15013304

Overviewish thing on the dig at the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148010

The Essenes may have written the DSS:

http://www.livescience.com/17123-dead-sea-scrolls-writers-textiles.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2064679/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-written-\
mysterious-sect.html

Ottoman glass from the Marmaray excavations:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=marmaray-dig-reveals-glasswork-in-ottom\
an-2011-11-24

Scholars aren't happy with proposed changes to the IAA:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/scholars-slam-bill-to-change-makeup-of\
-israel-antiquities-authority-1.397918

Next saga in the making: an illegal mosque is being built on the Mount of
Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149963

In Our Time featured Judas Maccabeus:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cjm8

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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A Roman fort find at Alderney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-15888516
http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/11/26/15467/ (videos)

One I missed last week ... efforts to 'save' the Roman Baths in Bath:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15588490

Feature in Smithsonian Magazine about the return of the
Getty Aphrodite:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Goddess-Goes-Home.html

Latest from the Nea Paphos dig:

http://famagusta-gazette.com/glimpse-into-cyprus-distant-past-p13580-69.htm
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/australian-team-completes-paphos-dig/2011\
1123

Mary Beard on the Oxford interview process:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15888124

What Roger Woodard is up to:

http://www.ubspectrum.com/mobile/life/the-hercules-of-history-1.2708284

Edith Hall resigned from Royal Holloway:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/27/edith-hall-quits-royal-holloway-\
classics-budget-cuts-vanessa-thorpe-daniel-boffey

There was talk that unions would refuse to work weekends at museums
in Greece, but the tune changed later in the week:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/11/25/weekend-strike-at-ancient-sites-and-m\
useums-suspended/

CBC's 'Ideas" was looking at Thucydides this week:

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/11/23/thucydides-the-first-journalist-2/

Folks might be interested in this Iliad translation contest:

http://pages.simonandschuster.com/iliad/translation-contest

Review of *African Athena: New Agendas*:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-interactions-classical-african-middle-easter\
n.html

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 100 000 years b.p. stone axe from Moreton-in-Marsh is causing a
rethink:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-15851081

Stonehenge and its history is a bit more complex than previously thought:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52033
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/secret-history-of-stonehenge-rev\
ealed-6268237.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/secret-history-of-stonehenge-rev\
ealed-by-xrays-6268237.html
A pile of folks buried near the Radcliffe Infirmary are to be dug up as
part of
the site's redevelopment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15889732

Saxon burials under the patio:

http://www.stratford-herald.com/local-news/4658-four-saxon-bodies-found-under-ra\
tley-patio.html
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/11/23/builder-uncovers-\
ancient-burial-ground-under-patio-92746-29826162/2/

A Norman crypt in a Devon church has been excavated and reburied:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-15832238

Interesting arrow-pierced burial from a  Galway village quarry site:

http://www.galwaynews.ie/22865-discovery-skull-pierced-arrowhead-sparks-murder-m\
ystery-1000-years-later

Finds from various periods found in Manston have been declared
treasure:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9384572.Roman_pieces_found_in_Manston_ruled_by_\
Coroner_as_treasure/

Brief item on an Orkney house purchase which will hopefully help local
archaeology efforts at a Neolithic site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-15835449

Efforts to keep the Towton Treasure in Yorkshire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/nov/22/yorkshire-museums
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-15822452

A TV makeover project on an Avebury Manor house is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15805399

Reviewish/interviewish thing on what lies underground in London:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142780601/the-hidden-world-of-underground-london

More on Viking crystal navigation:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/04/low-tech-vikings-may-have-u\
sed-mineral-with-funky-optics-to-reach-new-world/

More on Renaissance acoustics:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/03/acoustical-archaeologists-s\
olve-the-mystery-of-the-doges-stereo-system/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of deep sea fishing from a cave in East Timor dating to 42000
years b.p.:

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeologists-land-world-s-oldest-fish-hook-1.9461
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-prehistoric-mastered-deep-sea-fishing.html
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15024662
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112429043/evidence-found-of-ancient-deep-s\
ea-fishing-by-humans/index.html

Latest on those 18 tonnes of coins found in a temple a while back:

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2011/Nov\
ember/international_November1021.xml

A Warring States era tomb from China's Liaoning province:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-chinese-tomb-020028868.h\
tml
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-114258.html

Interesting item on the Terracotta Warriors 'entourage':

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/3-d-jigsaw-puzzle-assembles-ancient-chinese-army-044006\
594.html
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201111/26/t20111126_22869513.shtml

Trying to find out how ancient India made steel:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111121/jsp/knowhow/story_14777295.jsp

A bone study suggests Harappa might not have been such a happy place:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111121/jsp/nation/story_14778606.jsp

Latest repatriation of bones involves some Torres Strait Islands people:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15822232

A rather strange story of altering archaeological finds out of fear
of not being paid:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/miner-demanded-change-to-survey-2011112\
2-1nszc.html

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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Studying copper use in Alaska:

http://www.jconline.com/article/20111127/NEWS0501/111270311

Evidence that the Salish produced textiles made from dog hair:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-scientists-mystery-tale-shaggy-dogs.html

Interesting item on the Battle Hymn of the Republic and John Brown's
Body:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/the-battle-hymn-of-john-brown/

Interesting essays on what library readers were reading in Muncie, Indiana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/what-muncie-read.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/11/the_wondrous_database_that\
_reveals_what_books_americans_checked_out_of_the_library_a_century_ago_.html
Apparently Albany isn't too excited about the War of  1812 bicentennial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/nyregion/war-of-1812-bicentennial-disorganized\
-in-new-york-state.html

More on megadroughts (without the Roman reference):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-tree-document-ancient-western-megadrought.ht\
ml

Review of a couple of books on the Ku Klux Klan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/the-not-so-invisible-empire.html

Review of three books on the early years of the US:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/21/141937959/presidents-and-pilgrims-3-boundary-pushi\
ng-books
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Another find relating to pre-Inca child sacrifice in Peru:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15813793
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/253174/20111121/ancient-remains-child-sacrifices\
-unearthed-peru.htm

As might be expected, there's quite a bit of coverage to another
Mayan reference to 2012:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52021
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-mexico-acknowledges-2nd-mayan.html
http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-acknowledges-2nd-mayan-reference-2012-232405916.htm\
l
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112429084/mexico-admits-to-second-2012-may\
an-prediction/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/25/2012-mayans-apocalypse_n_1112797.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/6037368/Apocalyptic-2012-reference-reveale\
d
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066110/There-second-Mayan-refere\
nce-apocalypse-2012-Mexico-archaeologists-admit.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142770485/brace-yourself-the-world-could-end-in-20\
12

Rather less for a new reading of a Mayan verb and its implications for
ritual texts:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-ucsb-scholar-hieroglyphic-verb-mayan.html

More on that Maya 'kitchen' find in Kabah:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-year-old-maya-royal-kitchen-mexico.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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Archaeo News podcast 202:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
2

Audio news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20Nov11.mp3

On the cultural history of games (in German):

http://zuspieler.de/zur-kulturgeschichte-des-spiels/

Latest theory says dogs were domesticated in East Asia first:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-genetic-dogs-east-asia.html

On Shakespeare's medical knowledge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8912842/Whats-up-Doc-or-should-I-ask-Shakespea\
re.html
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-doctors-shakespeare-deep-mind-body.html

On  daVinci's geology knowledge:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/nov/23/leonardo-da\
-vinci-earth-geology

The Last Supper is apparently threatened by air pollution now:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-da-vinci-supper-air-pollution.html

We'll have to wait for the results of the Tycho Brahe poking and prodding:

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1457938/tycho-brahe-result-postponed/

I think we mentioned an earlier version of this 'diet of big cats' piece
a few years ago:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/cave-lion-diet/

The 'new' Mass is going into effect this week ... some commentary:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142618277/new-catholic-mass-already-causing-a-stir

For fans of the Kensington Runestone:

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/11/kensington_runestone_fakers_si.\
php?utm_source=nytwidget

More on that Charlotte Bronte manuscript discovery:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/23/142619460/small-book-big-story-bronte-manuscript-d\
iscovered

Review of Robert Massie, *Catherine the Great*:

http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/11/alex_nalbachs_catherine_the_gr.\
html

Review of Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith, *Van Gogh: The Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/van-gogh-the-life-by-steven-naife\
h-and-gregory-white-smith-book-review.html

Review of a couple of books on Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/will-in-the-middle.html

Review of Elizabeth Lev, *The Tigress of Forli*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/the-tigress-of-forli-by-elizabeth\
-lev-book-review.html

Review of Nial Ferguson, *Civilization*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/civilization-the-west-and-the-res\
t-by-niall-ferguson-book-review.html

The New York Times has a list of 100 notable books of 2011:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html

... and gift books about antiques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/arts/design/books-on-antiques-gold-silver-vood\
oo-gems-and-textiles.html

Review(ish) of *The Jewish Annotated New Testament*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/us/a-jewish-edition-of-the-new-testament-belie\
fs.html

More on the Black Death genome (video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZYb2Jl22g

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ibiza:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/spanish_tourist_board/ibiza/8897289/\
experience-ibiza-sant-joan.html
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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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A different (?) sort of art fraud case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/nyregion/defendant-in-corot-art-fraud-case-get\
s-6-year-prison-sentence.html

The US returned some WW2-looted art to Germany:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8905003/US-returns-painting-stol\
en-in-aftermath-of-Second-World-War-to-Germany.html


Apparently meth addicts are heavily involved in looting sites:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/11/survey-meth-add\
icts-looting-us-archeological-sites/1

Review of Anita Venezia, *Crosswinds at Campo Carcasso -- A Journey of a
Thousand Tales*:

http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_19395509

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:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n48.html

... and the one that will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n49.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Modern Antiquity:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/modern-antiquity/87576/

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://citypaper.com/arts/visualart/em-lost-and-found-the-secrets-of-archimedes-\
em-1.1235977

Transition to Christianity:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/11/22/transition-to-christianity-exhibition-at\
-onassis-foundation-in-the-usa/

Eternal Life in Anient Egypt:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/smithsonians-natural-history-museum-now-show\
ing-most-mummies-ever-on-the-national-mall/2011/11/22/gIQAVdVzjN_story.html

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51904

19th Century Photographs of Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51900

Plenty of coverage of the opening of the Ashmolean's new Egyptian and Nubian
galleries:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52023
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/23/ashmolean-returns-ancient-egyptian\
-mummies-public-view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/23/ashmolean-museum-egyptian-gallerie\
s-review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15870812
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9380582.Ancient_Egyptians_get_a_new_home\
/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066425/The-mummy-exhibitions-Another-40\
-000-priceless-exhibits-added-Ashmolean-Museums-Egyptian-treasure-trove.html

Feature on French museums and Colonial history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/design/quai-branly-museum-in-paris-glorif\
ies-the-other.html

Wow ... scalping tickets for the DaVinci exhibit?:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/national-gallery-cracks-down-on-sca\
lped-tickets/?ref=design

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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One Man, Two Guvnors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15825517

Trinity Wall Street:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/music/tenet-at-trinity-wall-street-review\
.html

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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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Diana Wright,Patrick Swan,
Edward Rockstein, Chuck Jones, Time Parking, Terrence Lockyer,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Michael Caputo, 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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Early humans left Africa some 30 000+ years earlier than
previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-trail-stone-breadcrumbs-reveals-identity.htm\
l
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/plos-o112811.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2068430/Tools-point-cavemen-leavi\
ng-Africa-30-000-years-earlier-previously-thought.html
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/uow-researcher-tracki\
ng-human-history-in-africa/2378044.aspx

An interview with Richard Leakey:

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1122-szotek_leakey_interview.html

CT scanning may have an application with 'unrecoverable' fossils:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/30/ct-imaging-allows-an\
alysis-of-hidden-human-fossil/

More on what Australopithecines sounded like:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/28/what-did-australopithecines\
-sound-like-more-duh-than-ugg/

More on Sediba replicas in the Oxford University Museum of Natural
History:

http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/84093641/museum-receives-cast-of-19-million-yea\
r-old-hominid.html

More general Sediba stuff (in anticipation of more to come, apparently):

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/29/is-this-your-long-lo\
st-ancestor/
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AFRICA
================================================================
Paleolithic petroglyphs from Qurta (Egypt) [not sure if this
is a repeat or not]:

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Yale-Art-find-in-Egypt-15-000-years-old-23076\
25.php

The Navy blocked efforts to have human remains from the
USS Intrepid returned:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/1/after-207-years-navy-commandos-wa\
it-continues/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/sailors-buried-in\
-libya-will-stay-in-libya-for-now/2011/11/28/gIQAMxnlDO_blog.html
http://www.pressherald.com/news/repatriation-of-wadsworth-remains-foiled_2011-12\
-01.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Another statue of Amenhotep III has been found near Luxor (this sounds like
the one found back in April ...):

http://www.thestate.com/2011/12/01/2065261/statue-of-egyptian-king-amenhotep.htm\
l
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcclBXk_3O4ui9ESGwmM_X2ZYmtg?d\
ocId=926a216d2d674594b1442c5d5e7e2847

Remains of a 4th century Coptic city in the New Valley governorate:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/528756

The US occupation of Iraq had an effect on Assyrian monuments:

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=83396

Beefed-up security at archaeological sites in Egypt during the election:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/27936/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Securi\
ty-measures-taken-at-archaeological-sites-du.aspx

Using 3d technology to 'flesh out' Egyptian mummies:

http://www.boston.com/Boston/businessupdates/2011/11/sensable-technology-helps-f\
lesh-out-mummies/MfgQeCUYnS4moIwtS39HvI/index.html

A mummy coffin at Torquay museum turns out to be rather more
significant than previously thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15980296

Second thoughts on tearing down the Mugrabi Bridge:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-delays-demolition-of-jerusal\
em-bridge-over-egypt-jordan-warning-1.398111
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-delays-demolition-of-jer\
usalem-bridge-over-arab-spring-warnings-1.398081
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150152
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=247182

More on Herod starting, but not completing the Western Wall:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52168
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/excavations-reveal-king-herod-didn-t-comple\
te-construction-of-jerusalem-s-western-wall-1.397283

More on evidence for the Essenes' writing of the DSS:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/overlooked-relics-may-help-unearth-dead-sea-\
scrolls-authors-1.398126

Review of Ivor Hume, *Belzoni*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/belzoni-the-giant-archaeologists-\
love-to-hate-by-ivor-noel-hume-book-review.html

Reviewish/Interviewish of Jay Rubenstein, *Armies of Heaven*:

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/the-apocalyptic-religious-vision-that-drove\
-the-first-crusade-1.398660

Review of Alic Hoffman, *The Dovekeepers*:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-dovekeepers-by-alice-hoffman/\
article2250248/

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)
================================================================
Remains of  a Roman road near Aleppo:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/11/30/385169.htm

They're blaming 'cowboy builders' for the state of the
Colosseum:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cowboy-builders-blamed-for-romes-\
crumbling-colosseum-6271576.html
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Colosseum-work-pi\
ts-restorers-against-building-firms_312703498913.html

UNESCO will be giving some advice on protecting Pompeii:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-117500.html

It is feared that Italy's financial situation threatens sites:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Experts-Say-Deficit-Threatens-Ancient\
-Italian-Treasures-134627763.html

Another version of the various-things-in-Greek-amphorae story from
a few weeks ago:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/336620/title/Jars_of_Plenty

Not sure if I mentioned Editah Hall's resignation from Royal Holloway:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/nov/27/edith-hall-quits-royal-holloway-\
classics-budget-cuts-vanessa-thorpe-daniel-boffey

Some hype for the BASP:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/583463/
http://www.sciencecodex.com/read/papyrus_research_provides_insight_into_job_trai\
ning_prayer_and_more_in_the_ancient_world-82306

Nice coverage of a conference at the American Academy in Rome:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/12/conference_at_the_american_aca.h\
tml

What Robert Winn is up to:

http://www.nwciowa.edu/news/press/3196/history-professor-writes-book

What John Bodel is up to:

http://www.browndailyherald.com/program-sparks-global-collaboration-1.2676424

A brouhaha over a Classics non-hiring at Pomona:

http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2011/3/24/news/13-popular-professor-lear-denied-t\
enure-track-position-in-classics
http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2011/4/13/news/153-students-to-file-petition-for-\
professor-lear
http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2011/4/27/news/220-students-petition-for-creation\
-of-new-classics-position

cf:

http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2011/10/28/news/614-ancient-philosophy-week-looks\
-back

Silly lawsuit against Focus magazine for 'defaming' the Venus de Milo or
some
such thing:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/magazine-cover-greek-goddess-defamation\
-269032
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10770039&ref=rs\
s
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/historic-brews-being-poured-once-mo\
re/2011/11/23/gIQAEHNA9N_story.html

Comparing St Augustine and the Stones:

http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2011/\
news/stones120111.html

Nice feature on Mary Terrell:

http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2011/11/30/mary-terrell-advocate-women-s-rig\
hts

Review of *The Swerve*:

http://www.bnd.com/2011/11/30/1961102/a-recovery-that-rocked-the-world.html

Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:

http://www.snctimes.com/entertainment/cleopatra-the-epic-life-of-a-goddess-1.271\
7500

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)
================================================================
They're about to examine 7500 years b.p. human remains found
near Varna last summer:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-12-01&article=37830

The ambitious Wallingford dig is at its half-way point:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-16004783

An Anglo Saxon structure in Yorkshire Dales National Park:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-16013307

Evidence of human sacrifice from Iceland:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Archeological_Discovery_In\
dicates_Human_Sacrifice_0_384946.news.aspx

Finds from various periods in a Cambridgeshire fens dig:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/04/bronze-age-archaeology-fenland

Fighting to preserve a leaning church tower at Bad Frankenhausen:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,801038,00.html

Feature on Khazaria:

http://www.historytoday.com/nicolas-soteri/khazaria-forgotten-jewish-empire

A medieval church find (and other things) from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=134314

Archaeological confirmation of the site of Henry VIII's dockyard
in Kent:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-16005781

They're starting the restoration of the HMS Victory:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15985321

Hopton Castle has reopened after restoration:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-15981222

Plans to restore the Catrine water system:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15889055

Some Bronze Age weapons are returning to Ambleside:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9392718.Bronze_Age_swords_set_to_ret\
urn_to_Lake_District/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/nov/28/bronze-age-treasure-ambl\
eside

More on recent finds at Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/30/strange-pits-at-stonehenge-reveals-new\
-clues-to-ancient-worship/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/stonehenge_discoveries/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A 24 000 years b.p. human bone fragment from Ishigaki Island:

http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=11633

UNESCO says a number of Ayutthaya's temples are at risk:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Ancient-Ayutthaya-temples-at-risk-Unesc\
o-warns-30171216.html
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Experts-to-check-sites-at-Ayutthaya-301\
70850.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1112/S00013/assessing-flood-affected-ayutthaya-\
world-heritage-site.htm

Feature on the Mes Aynak site in Afghanistan:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/dec/04/archaeologyin-a-war-zonelocal-wom\
an-braves-a-war/

Interesting item on  'ritual magic' in 19th century Tasmania:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-28/ritual-magic/3698948

More on the antiquity of fishing:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-prehistoric-mastered-deep-sea-fishing.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1111/S00794/gone-fishing-we-have-for-42000-year\
s.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/science/fishhooks-show-the-advanced-maritime-s\
kills-of-another-age.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/archaeologists_find_fish_bones/

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
================================================================
How the Sinagua people responded to a volcanic eruption 1000 years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-volcanic-destruction.html

A 19th-century shipwreck in Lake Michigan:

http://www.wsjm.com/Shipwreck-From-1800s-Found-In-Lake-MI-Off-Berrien-/11591337

They're tying that oldest protestant church find at Jamestown to Pocahontas:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066951/Found-After-nearly-400-years-sit\
e-Pocahontas-married-Englishman-John-Rolfe.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-traces-pocahontas-wedding-104957488.html
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/112011/11282011/667191

A Civil War precursor to the State of the Union address:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/the-state-of-the-union-is-bad/

Review of a book of early photos of California:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/carleton-watkins-complete-mammoth-photographs

Not sure where to put this 'Thanksgiving' piece:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/11/23/happy-mexico-day/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Rethinking the importance of Carriacou to pre-Columbian Carribean
cultures:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-archaeologists-evidence-animals-prehistoric-\
caribbean.html

Plenty of debunking Mayan calendar end-of-the-world stuff:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/01/mayan-tablet-end-world-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/mayans-never-predicted-world-end-2012-145557585.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-118758.html
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20111202/NEWS/112020335/1001
http://news.discovery.com/history/2012-doomsday-is-a-marketing-fallacy-111202.ht\
ml

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeo News Podcast 203:

http://www.stonepages.com/podcast/archaeo-news-2011-11-30.mp3

Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews27nov11.mp3

Interesting implications of DNA studies and all that:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/11/when-trees-turn-into-brambles/

Xrays have revealed a Rembrandt self-portrait:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52146
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/02/rembrandt-self-portrait-disco\
vered-technology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15985943
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-x-ray-techniques-art-historians-rembrandt.ht\
ml

Not sure where to put this one ... a new study of the TransAtlantic slave
trade is
about to commence:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-trans-atlantic-slave.html

I think we've mentioned CyArk's 3d scanning technology for preservation
purposes:

http://www.architectmagazine.com/architect-newswire/using-3-d-scanning-for-prese\
rvation.aspx?rssLink=Using+3-D+scanning+for+preservation

Some criticism of the KJV of the Bible on its 400th anniversary:

http://www.forward.com/articles/146729/?p=all

On rebrewing 'historic' beer:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/historic-brews-being-poured-once-mo\
re/2011/11/23/gIQAEHNA9N_story.html

Blog discussion of the ethics of digging up mummies:

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Mum-and-Mummies#comments

More on environmental threats to the Last Supper:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336675/title/Saving_the_Last_Supper

Latest on the search for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.discovery.com/history/rubens-davinci-111202.html

Feature on Casanova:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/casanova-at-the-national-library-in-franc\
e.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/11/29/arts/design/casanova.html

Feature on Steven Pinker:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/science/human-natures-pathologist.html

Review of Jason Karlawish, *Open Wound*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/health/views/open-wound-book-review-doctor-and\
-patient-bound-together.html

Review of Sylvia Nasar, *Grand Pursuit*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/books/grand-pursuit-by-sylvia-nasar-review.htm\
l

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Bath:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2539375
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/lifestyle/travel-reviews/travel_review_bat\
h_1_4028463

Rome and environs:

http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2011/12/an_intimate_look_at_ancient_r\
o.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Recovery of some items looted by Gaddafi troops:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/uk-libya-artefacts-idUSLNE7AR02A201111\
28

Vandals destroyed a pagan stone circle in Lampeter;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067945/Attack-ancient-pagan-stone-circl\
e-investigated-police-fears-religious-hate-crime.html

Folks are investigating a number of possible modern art forgeries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/arts/design/federal-inquiry-into-possible-forg\
ing-of-modernist-art.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A horde of silver Viking coins from Finland:

http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/12/rare_viking_age_silver_horde_found_307801\
4.html

Some coins found at a Twinstead metal-detecting event 'disappeared':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15995758

... then were returned:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16003498

Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n49.html

... and the one that will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n50.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Pompeii:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-01/satyrs-pursue-nymphs-in-paris-show-o\
n-life-in-pompeii-review.html

Transition to Christianity:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Transition-to-Christianity:-Art-of-\
Late-Antiquity,-Third-to-Seventh-Century-AD/1122496

Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/11/egyptian-mummification-rit\
uals-uncovered-at-natural-history/

Wonder of the Age:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/26iht-Melikian26.html

Storytelling in Japanese Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/design/storytelling-in-japanese-art-at-th\
e-met-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/02/arts/design/20111202_STORYTELLING.ht\
ml

Scandinavian Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/design/luminous-modernism-at-scandinavia-\
house-review.html

Feature on the Iraq Museum in Baghdad:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45484016/ns/world_news-christian_science_monitor/

Feature on the Frans Hals Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/arts/23iht-Haarlemhals23.html


More on the Ashmolean's Nubian and Egyptian galleries:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/a-new-life-for-egyp\
ts-ancient-treasures-6268727.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8921581/Ashmolean-Ancient-Egy\
pt-in-all-its-glory.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/a-new-life-for-egyp\
ts-ancient-treasures-6268727.html

... and the Ashmolean has more expansion plans:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9393894.Ashmolean_reveals_more_plans_for\
_expansion/

The Penn Museum has put up an online database of its artifacts:

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/12/penn-museum-launches-online-colle\
ctions.html

Istanbul's Archaeology museums are taking earthquake precautions:

http://archive.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=istanbul-archaeology-museums-prepar\
e-for-a-possible-earthquake-2011-11-28

A new director at the Houston Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/design/gary-tinterow-named-director-of-mu\
seum-of-fine-arts-houston.html

Nice donation and a name change for the Miami Art Museum:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/15-million-gift-changes-miami-art-m\
useum-to-jorge-m-perez-art-museum/

A lawsuit against the Dallas Art Museum was dismissed:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/judge-dismisses-suit-against-dallas\
-art-museum/

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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Messiah:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/arts/music/distinguished-concerts-internationa\
l-new-york-in-messiah.html

Moise et Pharaon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/music/moise-et-pharaon-at-carnegie-hall-r\
eview.html

Bombino:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/arts/music/bombino-at-le-poisson-rouge-review.\
html

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
================================================================
Christopher Logue:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/03/poet-christopher-logue-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/03/christopher-logue

Wilfred Lambert:

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2011/12/01/birmingham-born\
-historian-and-archaeologist-wilfred-lambert-dies-65233-29873913/

Christa Wolf:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/01/christa-wolf

Allen Mandelbaum:

http://www.gcadvocate.com/2011/11/in-memoriam-allen-mandelbaum-1926-2011/
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Michael Caputo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Feature on 'hominid hunting' in Smithsonian mag:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/12/the-mystery-of-the-missing-homi\
nid-fossils/
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AFRICA
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77 000 years b.p. bedding with insect-repelling properties from near Durban:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ancient-beds-designed-to-ward-off-ins\
ects-add-to-evidence-modern-man-evolved-in-africa/2011/12/08/gIQAjG0bfO_story.ht\
ml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/african-ancestors-used-insect-repellent-beds-study-2332\
44867.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21258-earliest-human-bedding-didnt-let-the\
-bedbugs-bite.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/earliest-human-beds-found-in-sou.h\
tml
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-year-old-evidence-early-bedding-medicinal.ht\
ml
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-human-bedding-used-pest-control-201452113.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208151220.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2071736/Worlds-oldest-beds--cavem\
en-slept-used-mosquito-repellent.html

More hopes that Libyan archaeology will 'pick up' now:

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Revolution-offers-chance-for-Libyan-archaeo\
logy/883678/

The efforts to repatriate Intrepid remains continues despite last week's
setback:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47909

Review of Tim Jeal, *Explorers of the Nile*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/explorers-of-the-nile-the-triumph\
-and-tragedy-of-a-great-victorian-adventure-by-tim-jeal-book-review.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Some very strange V-shaped markings found in a floor in a dig in
the City of David:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/mysterious-jerusalem-carvings-leaves-israel\
i-archaeologists-baffled-1.400113
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52309
http://news.yahoo.com/experts-stumped-ancient-jerusalem-markings-071348189.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-experts-stumped-ancient-jerusalem.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/archaeologists-stumped-by-ancien\
t-markings-found-under-jerusalem/2011/12/07/gIQAx6rhbO_story.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150492
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5ywdGmDenlbQX3E9j-ACx_pXRjg?d\
ocId=ff39a6554e5d410380422bea95d20310
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/mayans-never-predicted-world-to-end_n_1\
126033.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=248778
http://gizmodo.com/5865946/experts-are-baffled-by-these-mysterious-ancient-marki\
ngs-found-in-jerusalem

... and of course, a political spin has been put on the Herod's Wall/coins
story from the past couple
of weeks:

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpM\
O%2bi1s7n%2bSKYIhG2BLiTcsIXuYMPI15SrgBjoGh%2bBxhuXJZ0EGZilsj4BEXoA1Wfzu2GS%2b5Qz\
3bqtffq7qjLJJbSsWdUZU6HoPXcZ5wDJ%2f6r9AJybI%3d

A survey in Jordan Valley suggests we'll be hearing more from that area:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID\
=51743

Mesolithic sites from Oman:

http://main.omanobserver.om/node/74299

Feature on the Therapeutae:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=248681

LandMinds interviewed Louise Hitchcock about Tel Es-Gafi, among other
things:

http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-06Dec11a.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-06Dec11b.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-06Dec11c.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/LM2011B/files/LM-06Dec11d.mp3


A new head for the Egyptian SCA (lots of attention by el ahram):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/28846/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/SCA-\
appoints-new-ancient-Egypt-dept-head.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/28842/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-\
minister-of-antiquities,-new-strategy.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/29053/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Anti\
quities-minister-eyes-new-policies-for-Egypt-h.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/28785/Egypt/Politics-/Meet-the-mini\
sters-A-thumbnail-guide-.aspx

... which is raising hopes for research into the Great Pyramid's 'secret
doors':

http://news.discovery.com/history/great-pyramid-secret-door-mystery-111209.html

Feature on ten of the Middle East's greatest ancient wonders:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/07/world/meast/middle-east-ancient-wonders/

Another Muslim burial site dispute in Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150533

This week's Mughrabi Bridge stuff:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4158939,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=248638
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150529
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/jerusalem-municipality-orders-clos\
ure-of-bridge-leading-to-temple-mount-1.400337

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Remains of the walls of Philippopolis have been found:

http://sofiaecho.com/2011/12/09/1356383_archaeology-part-of-ancient-fortress-wal\
l-of-philippolis-found-in-bulgarias-plovdiv

A Roman forum find in Butrint:

http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/team-discovers-roman-forum-1.2729304

A Roman ring found near Caerphilly will be going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-15987772
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/2011/12/06/roman-ring-is-to-go-on-disp\
lay-in-wales-91466-29901107/

... as will a pile of Roman artifacts found near/in the River Tees:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070140/British-Museum-takes-deli\
very-Roman-offerings-gods.html
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9401267.Roman_artefacts_found_in_River_Tee\
s_go_on_display/

Some very old Roman wine at the Museum of the Palatinate:

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111209-39405.html

US News slams an oft-made claim about Classicists:

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/articl\
es/2011/12/07/med-schools-disavow-classics-programs-claim-as-road-to-mds

The Guardian tells us what Classics is all about:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/may/01/universityguide.classicseducatio\
n

What Kosta Hadavas is up to:

http://www.beloit.edu/news/?story_id=336634

A Classics student gets a Rhodes scholarship:

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Mass-woman-wins-Rhodes-scholarship-239\
5193.php

They were talking Heracleitus on In Our Time this week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot

Possible photo of interest from a Pompeii exhibit in Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,802587,00.html

Reviewish/interviewish thing with Diane Touliatos-Miles about *Her Art:
Greek Women in the Arts from Antiquity to Modernity* :

http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2011/12/09/greek-arts/

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)
================================================================
Rethinking the "Lion Man" from Stadel Cave:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,802415,00.html

French archaeologists have found a 6000 years b.p. 'earth mother'
figurine by the Somme:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-earth-mother-of-all-neolithic\
-discoveries-6275062.html

Bronze Age boats from a Whittlesey quarry:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16113008
http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/gallery_extraordinary_bronze_age_artefacts_disc\
overed_at_hanson_quarry_in_whittlesey_1_1150410
http://www.heidelbergcement.com/uk/en/hanson/uk_news/excavations_reveal_a_wealth\
_of_archaeology.htm

A Bronze Age hoard from near Maidstone (Kent):

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/december/10/bronze_age_hoard_un\
earthed.aspx

Early Christian burials from Norway:

http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/09/archaeologists-uncover-early-christian-co\
mmunity-in-norway/

A burial believed to be a Swedish king might not be:

http://www.thelocal.se/37846/20111209/#

Plenty of coverage for an apparent 'witch's cottage' find in Lancashire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/08/pendle-witches-water-mummified-cat
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/10/world/europe/mummified-cat-witch-cottage/index.htm\
l
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9408786.Discovery_at_ancient_site_wher\
e_Pendle_Witches_held_their_coven/

Earliest surviving example of a timberframe house in Ireland:

http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/07/oldest-surviving-timber-framed-house-disc\
overed-in-ireland/

Kaiser Wilhelm's chamberpot turns up in a shipwreck:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/kaiser-wilhelm-urinal-shipwreck_n_11392\
66.html

A medieval seal found by a metal detectorist in Surrey has gone on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-16016500

A Stonehenge light show photo:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8946021/Photographer-\
Marc-Bower-Briggs-paints-Stonehenge-with-light.html

A medieval road in Powys is suffering from abuse by off-road vehicles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-16067993

Financial problems for Archaeolink Prehistory Park in Oyne:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-16084688

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Interesting finds from an ancient sculpture workshop site near Bakong:

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120853225/Lifestyle/questions-and-ans\
wers-at-dig.html

Plans to dig at the Kabra-Kala mound:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/excavation-nod-ancient-treasures-221638026.html

More on dogs originating in Asia:

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2011/12/11/jun01.asp

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
================================================================
DNA suggests a population decline among North American natives after the
arrival of Europeans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-dna-evidence-proof-north-american.html

A number of "eskimo" artifacts have been returned to Alaska by Harvard's
Peabody Museum:

http://classifieds.newsminer.com/bookmark/16748701

A mid-19th century shipwreck find in Lake Ontario:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20111208/NEWS03/712089901

Lewis and Clark get mentioned in a dam dispute:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-supreme-court-to-get-lewis-and-clark-l\
esson-in-mont-dams-dispute-with-broad-implications/2011/12/06/gIQASrk4ZO_story.h\
tml

More on adapating after Arizona volcano eruptions:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2011/12/7/volcanic-destruction-not-always\
.html

Review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., *Life Upon These Shores*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/life-upon-these-shores-looking-at\
-african-american-history-1513-2008-by-henry-louis-gates-jr-book-review.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeo News Podcast 203:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
3

Archaeologica/Archaeology Channel audio news:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews4dec11.mp3

Of course, the most important story of the week is about Santa's DNA:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/historic-sites/secret_santa_tracing_a\
_genetic_link_to_lapland_is_one_of_the_many_gifts_in_the_search_for_ancestors_1_\
2001262

Interesting item on the history of board games:

http://news.discovery.com/history/board-games-history-romans-egypt-111206.html

Some 'mistakes' in the Bible:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-joel-hoffman/five-mistakes-bible-translation_b_\
1129620.html

Celebrating the discovery of iodine:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-elemental-paper-celebrates-discovery-iodine.\
html

The National Library of Israel has put a pile of its collection online:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-national-library-puts-collect\
ion-online-1.399377?localLinksEnabled=false

Interesting Dead Sea research:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15938294

National Geographic is highlighting ten of its most noteworthy grants:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ten-grants-that-illuminated-the-world-13\
5245818.html

Latest twist in the the search for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/05/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-scene
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/arts/design/leonardo-fresco-search-in-florence\
-spurs-protest.html
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/arts/design/leonardo-mural-in-florence-may-be-\
revealed.html

Interesting medical records exhibition by the Royal Society:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8934045/Historic-medical-records\
-show-deaths-from-lethargy-and-itch.html

Mental illness and some old preserved brains:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-century-old-brains-future-treatment-mental\
ly.html

On the origins of L'chaim:

http://forward.com/articles/147494/

More on xraying Rembrandts:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-x-ray-techniques-art-historians-rembrandt.ht\
ml
http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2011/12/using_x-rays_to_peel_back_the.php
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-03/museum-identifies-new-rembrandt-painting/3\
710724
http://news.discovery.com/history/rembrandt-self-portrait-111205.html
A previously-unseen portrait of Jane Austen (maybe):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16027710

Review of Michael Adams, *From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented
Languages*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/from-elvish-to-kli\
ngon-exploring-invented-languages-by-michael-adams-6274021.html

Review of a couple of books about Galileo:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/seeking-the-man-behind-sciences-greate\
st-hero-galileo/story-e6frg8nf-1226216489679

Review of Niall Ferguson, *Civilization*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/04/RVOB1LRFRQ.DTL

Review of Rosamund Bartlett, *Tolstoy*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/04/RV911M22MF.DTL

Review of  a translation of Luis de Gongora's *The Solitudes*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/the-solitudes-by-luis-de-gongora-\
book-review.html

Review of David Graeber, *Debt: The First 5000 Years*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/review/anarchist-anthropology.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Slate has an ongoing series about visiting the Vatican:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2011/vatican_inside_the\
_secret_city/vatican_guide_inside_the_world_s_most_secret_city.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2011/vatican_inside_the\
_secret_city/vatican_guide_a_private_tour_of_the_sistine_chapel.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2011/vatican_inside_the\
_secret_city/vatican_guide_inside_the_pope_s_supermarket.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2011/vatican_inside_the\
_secret_city/vatican_guide_the_wonders_inside_the_legendary_secret_archives.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/2011/vatican_inside_the\
_secret_city/vatican_guide_the_pope_s_pornographic_bathroom.html

Timgad:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/wesaidgotravel/item/discovering_algeria_exploring_t\
imgad_20111206/
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BLOGS
================================================================
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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Archaeology Jan/Feb 2012:

http://www.archaeology.org/1201/

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Nice opeddish sort of thing on the market for antiquities:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1a77fbee-1b76-11e1-8b11-00144feabdc0.html

A couple of Greeks were caught with a 6th century BC helmet:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/12/09/2_greeks_caught_with\
_2600_year_old_helmet/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greeks-caught-2600-year-helmet-151\
22692

A band of 'tomb raiders' from Galilee:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/226471

This guy was stealing art from hotels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/nyregion/mark-lugo-pleads-not-guilty-in-thefts\
-of-art-from-hotels.html

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
================================================================
11 Roman coins found near the find site of the Frome Hoard have been
declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-16047870

A janitor in Passau found a forgotten 'hoard' of ancient coins and medals:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-802329.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Forgotten-Treasure-Library-Janitor-Discovers-\
SilverCoin-Cache-32969.html

Big bucks expected for a Greek coin coming to auction:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/us-auction-coins-drachma-idUSTRE7B521J\
20111206

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n50.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n51.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n14.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.northjersey.com/travel/135396958_Archimedes__genius_on_display.html

Renaissance:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52216

Rembrandt, van Dyck, Gainsborough:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/touring-show-of-rembrandt-and-othe\
r-kenwood-house-paintings.html

The War Comes Home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/arts/design/museum-of-the-confederacy-and-othe\
rs-depict-the-lost-cause.html

Johan Joffany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/nyregion/at-yale-redefining-an-observer-of-the\
-british-colonial-empire.html?ref=design

Inventing a Better Mousetrap:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/patent-models-roger-broders-poster\
s-meissen-porcelain.html

Tut:

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/pharaoh-pharaoh-king-tut-s\
how-is-where-the-people-go-20111206-1oh9h.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-06/tutankhamun-exhibition-smashes-box-office-\
records/3714930

Over Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/nyregion/world-war-i-posters-on-display-at-col\
d-spring-harbor-library.html

Osman Hamdi Bey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-265341-academic-jealousy-egos--and-archaeologica\
l-photos.html

Transition to Christianity:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52284

The Met bought a nice head of Zeus Ammon at Sotheby's latest antiquities
auction:

http://www.galleristny.com/2011/12/the-met-buys-a-roman-head/

The National Hellenic Museum in Chicago opened:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-1208-museum-greek-20111208,0,\
6573117.column
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/11/TR001M6ABR.DTL
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/9185354-423/national-hellenic-museum-debuts-w\
ith-plenty-of-greek-heritage.html
http://www.nbcchicago.com/the-scene/events/chicago-greek-national-hellenic-museu\
m-135278363.html

That Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery is a hot ticket:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-blockbuster-at-n\
ational-gallery-in-london.html

The Museum of London has some interesting apps:

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Explore-online/Apps/
cf:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/an-app-to-take-you-deep-into-dicken\
ss-london/

Greece's financial problems are affecting museums and the like:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/51157

Sotheby's Antiquities sale did quite well:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52328

Not really sure where to put this somewhat tragic auction-related story:

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/pensioners-225000-greek-god-sho\
cks-mere-mortals-20111205-1ofj8.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070789/Denis-Warrington-Fry-dies-povert\
y-147k-Renaissance-antique-sits-shelf.html
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/05/500-figurine-sells-for-225000/UPI-9064132\
3136282/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Leonardo Live:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/forget-dicaprio-another-leonardo-wi\
ll-be-a-film-star/

Elliott Carter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/music/elliott-carter-celebrates-103rd-bir\
thday-at-92nd-street-y-review.html

Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/music/vladimir-jurowski-and-london-philha\
rmonic-orchestra-review.html

Chamber Music Society's Baroque Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/music/bach-cantatas-at-alice-tully-hall-r\
eview.html

Cherry Orchard:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/theater/reviews/cherry-orchard-with-turtur\
ro-at-classic-stage-review.html

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
================================================================
Alex Morrison:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/dec/07/alex-morrison-obituary

Christopher Logue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/arts/british-poet-christopher-logue-dies-at-85\
.html

Sultan Khan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/arts/music/sultan-khan-indian-classical-musici\
an-and-sarangi-player-dies-at-71.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Edward Rockstein, Branislav Andelkovic, Rick Heli,
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Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,Rick Pettigrew,
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... kind of a slow week ... please note that, because of the festivities
next Sunday, Explorator likely won't make it to press in time, but
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Neanderthals apparently built homes from mammoth bones:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8963177/Neanderthals-built-homes\
-with-mammoth-bones.html

... and apparently didn't have as good a sense of smell as homo sapiens
sapiens (maybe that
was a good thing):

http://news.discovery.com/earth/neanderthal-noses-poor-sniffers-111216.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214130001.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-good-evolutionary-advantage-neanderthals.htm\
l
http://www.livescience.com/17441-neanderthal-brains-modern-humans.html

On the demise of the elephant and the rise of modern humans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-elephant-modern-years.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212124606.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/a-mammoth-meal-disappearance-of-elepha\
nts-in-the-land-of-israel-may-have-led-to-birth-of-modern-man-1.401093
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=249041
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Interesting feature on Gedi (Kenya):

http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/12/gedi-kenyas-hidden-history-revealed.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
(Too) brief item on groundwater and the Sphinx:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201112141256.html

More hopes that secret doors in the Great Pyramid will be opened
in 2012:

http://news.discovery.com/history/great-pyramid-secret-door-mystery-111209.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2073544/Secret-gates-Great-Pyrami\
d-opened-2012-predicts-British-company.html

A Belgrade mummy gets the facial reconstruction treatment:

http://www.anthroserbia.org/Content/PDF/Articles/a52344c33d504835b5511c5aa633219\
8.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lK3cidVdEg
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2011/12/whats-in-name.html

5000 years b.p. burials from Sohar:

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/5-000-year-old-burial-sites-discovered-in-soh\
ar-1.948807

Preliminary digging at Isos:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-265720-preliminary-work-to-unearth-ancient-city-\
of-isos-begins.html

A Byantine oil jar from a Netanya beach:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=2251

The SCA is setting up an 'antiquities hotline' to take complaints:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/29619/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Antiqu\
ities-hotline-to-launch-in-Egypt-on-Monday-.aspx

Jordan is going to complain to UNESCO about the DSS:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=445886

Some hype for some DSS conferences in Florida in the next few weeks:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/religion/faith-and-values/sfl-fv-religion-b\
log-dead-sea-scrolls-conference,0,6137865.story

The Mugrabi Bridge was closed:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=249062

The Mugrabi Bridge has reopened:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=249382

Review of *The Dovekeepers*:

http://www.vancouversun.com/Ambitious+imagining+Masada+aftermath/5876904/story.h\
tml

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Interesting cockerel figurine from Cirencester:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16198947

Similarly interesting claim that London was built by the blood of British
slaves:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24021618-london-built-with-the-bl\
ood-of-british-slaves.do

Gladiating is on the rise in Trier:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gladiator-craze-gets-germans-blood-up\
/story-e6frg6so-1226220284847

A not bad popular press thing about Saturnalia:

http://www.mytowerhamlets.co.uk/news/17th-december-saturnalia

On income inequality in the Roman Empire:

http://persquaremile.com/2011/12/16/income-inequality-in-the-roman-empire/

Review of James Romm, *The Ghost on the Throne*:

http://www.decaturdaily.com/stories/Ghost-deals-with-end-of-Alexanders-empire,89\
057

Folks might be interested in this online game which ends up at the
Acropolis:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/12/18/online-strategy-game-allows-players-t\
o-fire-the-acropolis/

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)
================================================================
A Neolithic stone ring returns to Jersey after auction (sorry,
I seem to be writing awkward sentences this a.m.):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-16223233

Some 'new' Neolithic finds from Knowth:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Archaeologists-discover-new-ancient-burial-sit\
e-at-Knowth-135650443.html

The Silverdate Viking hoard has been declared treasure:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52424
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16215847
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16178699

... and some articles are suggesting a 'lost' viking king:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/14/viking-king-airdeconut-treasure-la\
ncashire
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24021196-viking-hoard-gives-clue-\
to-an-unknown-ruler.do
http://news.discovery.com/history/silver-viking-king-111215.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/15/amateur-treasure-hunter-unearths-ancie\
nt-viking-king/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2074039/Incredible-Viking-hoard-b\
lanks-murky-period-British-history.html

I think we mentioned this Viking burial from Poland:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111216-warrior-graves-p\
olish-viking-treasure-science/

A pair of medieval church sites from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/history/mediaeval-history-revealed-new-excavations/20\
111215

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the homes Jane Austen
lived in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16002088

Germany has been 'rehabilitating' a pile of folks who had been
executed for their witchcrafty ways:

http://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-804288.html

Funding to help preserve some 15th century paintings found
in a Vale of Glamorgan church during repairs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-16219029

The Glastonbury Grace Cup has returned home (sounds like the
result of a sporting event):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-16161100

Ogle Castle is up for sale:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-16144408

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Remains of a 3600 years b.p. 'palace' from Henan province:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7675375.html

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
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the find of some interesting 8900 years b.p. wood
from the floor of Lake Huron:

http://news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-wood-hints-life-lake-huron-141803486.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45698628/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212221026.htm

Evidence for a 'Traverse Corridor":

http://record-eagle.com/local/x1181957070/Traverse-Corridor-A-prehistoric-crossr\
oads

Pondering the purpose of many of Ohio's earthworks:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2011/12/18/earthworks-created-fo\
r-more-than-farming.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/12/hopewell-astronomy.html

Flood waters reveal an 18th century fort in New York:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700207963/Flood-opens-window-into-NY-forts-hi\
storic-past.html?s_cid=rss-40
http://www.fox23news.com/content/irene/story/Flood-waters-unearth-18th-century-f\
ort/yYJAl-fdI0u69T50S3NqEw.cspx

Bellevue marks 275 years:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/bellevue-marks-275-years-of-taking-\
care/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Archaeologists believe they have found the original ceremonial offering
placed at
the Pyramid of the Sun when they began building it:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52417
http://news.yahoo.com/original-offering-found-teotihuacan-pyramid-033340493.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-teotihuacan-pyramid.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/13/4121018/original-offering-found-at-teotihuacan.\
html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/5411-hallan-ofrenda-or\
iginaria-de-piramide-del-sol(Photos)

More human sacrifices found in Peru (I think this is new):

http://www.latercera.com/iphone/noticia/tendencias/2011/12/659-412870-9-descubre\
n-tumba-con-60-sacrificios-humanos-en-santuario-del-norte-peruano.shtml

Lengthy feature  on lost cities (maybe) in the Amazon jungle:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/02/22/finding_the_lost_cit\
y/

Some Moche artifacts were returned to Peru after one of those legal dispute
type things:

http://www.peruviantimes.com/09/recovering-antiquities-golden-moche-bead-returne\
d-to-peru/14383/

Feature on Yale's return of artifacts to Peru:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143653050/finders-not-keepers-yale-returns-artifac\
ts-to-peru
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16190824

Interesting Guy Carleton comparanda in an OpEd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/in-iraq-abandoning-our-friends.html

More on historical droughts in the southern US and Central America:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-ancient-clues-future-drought.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
================================================================
Video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm

Archaeologica Audio News;

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews11dec11.mp3

The top 'ancient mysteries' of 2011:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9478098-the-top-ancient-mysterie\
s-of-2011

Not sure where to put this one ... political things in regards to shipwreck
salvaging:

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Treasure-hunters-battle-for-500-milli\
on-bounty-2406490.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lobbyists-battle-over-sunken-treasure/201\
1/12/12/gIQAn4nauO_story.html

A hitherto unknown 16th century Latin poem found in the back of a book in
West Virginia:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/16/erotic-poem-written-by-wo_n_1152973.h\
tml
http://www.livescience.com/17472-16th-century-love-poem-discovered.html

On historical 'mercury emissions' over the past 5000 years:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-mercury-atmosphere-ancient-modern.html

Remembering the race to the South Pole:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-epic-south-pole-100th-anniversary.html

The artist behind a 'mystery collection' of paintings at Princeton has been
identified:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-princeton-mystery.html

Cambridge is posting a pile of Isaac Newton's papers:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-watch-cambridge-digital-library-s\
tarts-off-by-posting-newtons-papers/34656
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/newton-manuscript-published-online-000603323.html

Some early Alexander Graham Bell recordings have been recovered:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/13/143674790/early-sound-recordings-\
recovered-from-alexand-played-again

Not sure if we've mentioned the travails of Oscar Wilde's tomb:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/europe/oscar-wildes-tomb-sealed-from-adm\
irers-kisses.html

On the history of the stop sign:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/stop-sign.html

Best historical fiction for 2011:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/15/143465047/a-game-of-holmes-who-stole-sherlocks-moj\
o

... and the best 10 in general:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/10-best-books-of-2011.html

Review of P.D. James, *Death Comes to Pemberley*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/death-comes-to-pemberley-by-p-d-j\
ames-book-review.html

Review of a bunch of books about Dickens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/books/review/getting-to-know-charles-dickens.h\
tml?ref=books

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Some antiquities thieves (apparently) vandalized a site associated with the
Bar
Kokhba revolt:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=2196
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/upload/photos/2011/12/12/132368950791235656a_b.j\
pg

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n51.html

... I *think* the next one has this numbering:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n52.html

The Hispanic Society of America is  auctioning off a pile of coins:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/hispanic-society-enlists-sothebys-t\
o-auction-rare-collection-of-coins/
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=134782&catid=60

More on those coins found in a shoebox by a janitor in Germany:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/11/tanja-hols-janitor-coins_n_1142049.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073028/Library-janitor-finds-unassuming\
-wooden-box-discovers-treasure-hoard-ancient-Roman-coins-worth-millions.html?ito\
=feeds-newsxml


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Anglo-Saxon hoard:

http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/exhibits/2011/10/29/anglo-saxon-hoar\
d/

Royal Manuscripts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/illuminated-manuscripts-dark-ages

Meissen Porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/design/a-jewel-box-for-translucent-treasu\
res.html

Masterpieces of Renaissance Portraiture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/design/sculpture-as-portrait-at-the-metro\
politan-museum-of-art.html

Julien Hudson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/design/a-portraitist-considered-the-titia\
n-of-louisiana.html

Jerusalem Celebration:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/armstrong-international-cultural-foundat\
ion-announces-seals-of-jeremiahs-captors-discovered-135529868.html

Lots of coverage for the 10 Commandments scroll going on display at
that DSS exhibition in New York:

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Ancient_Ten_Commandments_Scroll_To_Be_Shown_I\
n_NYC_135815723.html
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/new-york/news/2011/dec/16/ancient-10-commandment\
s-scrolls-be-shown-nyc
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343983/ten-commandments-scroll-to-be-shown\
-in-nyc/Well-preserved
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/12/15/ancient_10_commandments_sc\
roll_to_be_shown_in_nyc
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ten-commandments-scroll-display-york-city-di\
scovery-times-square-exhibition-space-article-1.992430
http://m.nbcnewyork.com/nbcnewyork/pm_107633/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=EhJfB\
b2g

Some British noses seem out of joint after 'the French' won an auction for
an unpublished Charlotte
Bronte manuscript:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8960073/French-grab-unpublishe\
d-Charlotte-Bronte-manuscript-with-690850-auction-bid.html

I thought the Sackler had cancelled this Tang show ages ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sackler-gallery-cancels-controvers\
ial-exhibit-of-tang-dynasty-treasures-from-shipwreck/2011/12/15/gIQAnlyjwO_story\
.html

... preliminary coverage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-16189404

Assorted Greek/Byzantine items coming to auction in Limassol:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/art/gems-go-under-hammer/20111214

On the Met and Google Goggles:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/metropolitan-museum-provides-a-trov\
e-of-images-for-google-goggles/

Commentary on the Old Masters market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/10iht-melikian10.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
History Repeating:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/arts/music/iestyn-davies-at-carnegie-hall-revi\
ew.html

Canterbury Tales Remixed:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/theater/reviews/the-canterbury-tales-remix\
ed-at-soho-playhouse-review.html

Richard II:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/arts/14iht-LON14.html

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
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Mark Brandes:

http://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/news/obituary.php

George Whitman:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8959555/George-Whitman.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/a-glorious-chapter-en\
ds-on-the-left-bank-6277672.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo,
Patrick Swan, David Perlmutter, Barbara Saylor Rogers,
Feral Boy, Ann Williams, Trevor Ogden, Kurt Theis,
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Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy New Year ... here's a big double issue to keep you occupied
while you recover from last night's fesivities (or just enjoy the day) ...
================================================================
EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Rethinking the 'one species' idea:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16339313

Evidence that early humans lived by rivers and streams:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-couple-evidence-indicating-earliest-humans.h\
tml

Was Sediba polygamous?:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/23/was-australopithecus\
-sediba-polygamous-paleontologist-answers-reader-questions-about-new-early-human\
-fossils/

On hunger and evolution:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/did-hunger-drive-the-evolution-of-homo\
-sapiens/

On the evolution of facial expressions:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-emotion.html

Smithsonian's top ten hominid finds of the year:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/12/top-10-hominid-discoveries-of-2\
011/

A skull study may have implications for evolution studies:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-human-skull-evolutionary-headache.html

A roundup of 2011's human origins news:

http://www.livescience.com/17559-human-origins-2011-discoveries.html

Our brains are bigger than a Neanderthal's, apparently:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45656171/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Review(ish) of Wynn and Coolidge, *How to Think Like a Neandertal*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/books/how-to-think-like-a-neandertal-by-thomas\
-wynn-and-frederick-l-coolidge-review.html

More on Neanderthals building homes from mammoth bones:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-neanderthal-home-mammoth-bones-ukraine.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8963177/Neanderthals-built-homes\
-with-mammoth-bones.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Study on how human-started fires shaped Africa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16247844
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The biggest (and saddest) news of the past couple of weeks had to be
the burning of the Institute of Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52575
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/News/tabid/178/nid/23061/language/en-US/Default.asp\
x
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/12/linstitut-degypte-in-memorium
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=22770&title=A%20black%2\
0Saturday%20for%20Egypt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/19/cairo-institute-burned-during-clashe\
s
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/29641.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/43/29643/Heritage/Islamic/Archaeolog\
ical-committee-to-inspect-burnt-Geograph.aspx
http://chronicle.com/blogs/global/clashes-in-egypt-leave-historical-archive-in-r\
uins/31704

... and there are already plans to restore it:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/43/30267/Heritage/Islamic/Action-tak\
en-to-restore-Egypt-Scientific-Institute.aspx

... and there was a nice feature on the Description de l'Egypte which was
the
focus of many of the 'destruction reports':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/22/napoleon-bo\
naparte-egypt-lost-scrolls

A couple of very old sites on Mount Ararat (that aren't Noah's Ark):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52602

... and they're still wondering about Saudi Arabia's 'Stonehenge':

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/270529/20111221/saudi-arabia-s-stonehenge-myster\
y-remains-unsolved.htm

Oldest obsidian bracelet identified ... from Asikli Hoyuk:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-oldest-obsidian-bracelet-reveals-amazing.htm\
l

Possibly the oldest depiction of the Tower of Babel:

http://news.discovery.com/history/tower-of-babel-111227.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/19/ancient-texts-tell-tales-war-bar-tabs/\
(a
different spin)

Plenty of coverage for a clay "seal" (token, more likely) found in
Jerusalem's
Old City which confirms some ritual practices:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52644
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7bo07o-us-israel-archaeology/
http://www.physorg.com/news244375537.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-ancient-jerusalem-linked-ritual.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/27/ancient-purity-seal-found-near-jerusal\
em-temple/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2078950/Ancient-seal-Jerusalems-s\
econd-temple.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Lifestyle/2011/Dec-27/157984-archaeologists-\
uncover-ancient-seal-in-jerusalems-old-city.ashx
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45791046/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-first-artifa\
ct-confirming-written-record-of-temple-worship-1.403505
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/25/ancient-jewish-rituals-confirmed-by-disc\
overy-of-purity-seal-israeli-archaeologists-say/
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=250844

... on the 'token' theory:

http://withmeagrepowers.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/a-currency-exchange-token/

Jewish scrolls from a cave in Afghanistan?:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=251657
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/228282
http://www.mako.co.il/news-israel/education/Article-1dda3f465509431017.htm

Some looted dishes were returned to Iraq:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/looted-dishes-used-in-art-project-r\
eturned-to-iraq/

A somewhat different mummy DNA study:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-mummy-dna-differentiate-croc-species.html

Tell Halaf has a web presence:

http://www.grabung-halaf.de/

Feature on Gohar Tepe:

http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1288.html

The Avenue of Sphinxes will be opening to the public in a couple months:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/30048/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Avenue\
-of-sphinxes-to-open-to-public-in-March.aspx

A business park threatens the cite of Pasargadae:

http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1314.html

Not sure where to put this 'love pipe' find:

http://news.discovery.com/history/love-pipe-unearthed-111230.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14

... or this item on indexing the Talmud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/nyregion/an-index-for-the-talmud-after-1500-ye\
ars.html

Need some features on the Maccabees:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/on_the_trail_of_the_maccabees_201112\
22/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/this-hannukah-take-a-tour-to-the-real-graves\
-of-the-maccabees-1.402568

... and Channukah:

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/great_miracle_hap\
pened_where

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities is dealing with budget problems:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/30376/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyp\
ts-Ministry-of-Antiquities-tackles-budget-cris.aspx

Review of *The Dovekeepers*:

http://www.ahherald.com/columns-mainmenu-28/bookmarks/12235-review-the-dovekeepe\
rs

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/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Concerns after bits apparently fell from the Colosseum:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-chunk-italy-colosseum.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52719
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16357141
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079103/Heads-Ancient-plaster-falls-Rome\
s-2000-year-old-Colosseum-weeks-start-25-million-euro-renovation.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/italy-denies-the-colosseum-is-crumbling/2011\
/12/28/gIQAjHozMP_video.html
http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201112281254-cro-ren1034-\
no_damage_to_colosseum_yesterday
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4023701/Romes-Colosseum-in-new-fear.ht\
ml
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502927_162-57349383/italy-probes-report-that-colosse\
um-stones-fall/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/27/colosseum-crumbling-claims-news-agen\
cy?newsfeed=true
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chunk-rock-drops-off-italys-colosseum-163640505.html
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/another-chunk-falls-off-colosseum-as\
-restoration-delay-drags-on-20111228-1pc1i.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45796675/ns/travel-destination_travel/
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/27/italy_probes_report_that_colosseum_stones_fall/

... but it's still open:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8984407/Romes-Colosseum-remains-ope\
n-despite-damage-reports.html

Meanwhile, another column fell down in Pompeii:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2011/12/22/visualizza_new.\
html_17444594.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/another-collapse-at-pompeii-renews-\
fears-about-its-fate/

Meanwhile, a Japanese businessman is stepping in to restore the pyramid of
Cestius:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8983766/Japanese-tycoon-s\
teps-in-to-restore-dilapidated-treasure-in-Rome.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jAg7gkjrYhY6y4cE2WsR6jcyDmwg?\
docId=CNG.d633df7f7c7c83bf498110bef8fd0f81.91
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/japanese-investor-restore-ancient-roman-pyramid-1741536\
77.html
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/japanese-investor-to-restore-ancient-roman-py\
ramid/story-e6frfq80-1226233075621

Nice coverage of the second 'dig' season at the Mazotos shipwreck site:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/antiquities-department/hull-ancient-ship-revealed/201\
11224

Nice feature on a curse tablet aimed at a greengrocer:

http://www.livescience.com/17589-ancient-curse-translated-greengrocer.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/deciphered-ancient-tablet-reveals-curse-greengrocer-124\
509227.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57346451/curses-secret-of-ancient-imprecatio\
n-revealed/1,700

Attic vases influenced Cypriote pottery:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133608.htm

Wroxeter Roman Villa needs some maintenance, apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-16356368
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2011/repairing-wroxeters-rom\
an-residence
cf:
http://www.cisionwire.com/english-heritage/r/roman-home-maintenance-at-wroxeter,\
c9202532

... but it's a popular tourist attraction:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/12/28/wroxeter-roman-town-house-drawing-\
in-the-crowds/

Chedworth's Roman mosaics are going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16314704

Nice feature on the dig at Ulpia Traiana:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/large-roman-city-unco\
vered-in-romania
http://presstv.com/detail/218212.html

Mary Beard was comparing Ghaddafi to Elagabalus:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/compelling-book-draws-comparison-between-elagabalus-gad\
dafi-101227878.html

... she was also speaking to the New York Public Library about why folks
should
learn Classics:

http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/mary-beard
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jan/12/do-classics-have-future/

A very interesting Vatican-associated Latin exam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1velGoTCTxg&feature=uploademail
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/ar\
ticolo/latino-latin-latin-10963/

What Verity Platt is up to:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec11/AncientLives.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-verity-platt-uncovering-ancient-artists.html

An OBE for Paul Bidwell:

http://www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com/news/roman_expert_honoured_with_award_1_4\
104790

Criticizing Ben Hur:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/22/ben-hur-reel-history

An ancient Roman bathhouse find from Jerusalem's Old City:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/Nov/24/Ancient-Roman-bathhouse-found-in-\
Jerusalems-Old-City.ashx

... which I think is different from this Byzantine one found in 'the
coastal hills of Judaea':

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150902
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/12/20/Ancient-bathhouse-unearthed-in-Israel\
/UPI-26191324402198/

That proposed landfill site near Hadrian's Villa is still getting press
attention:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57349208/stink-raised-over-landfill-at-an\
cient-rome-site/

A couple of smuggled Roman statues are heading back to Italy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16193942
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/14/us_company_sends_italian_statues_home/

The impending sale of a pile of Classical sculptures from Ince Blundell
Hall is
causing a bit of a brouhaha:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Historic+house+in+danger+of+losing+its+m\
arbles/25329
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8985450/Eminent-art-enthusiasts-demand-pr\
otection-of-Roman-marble.html

Botanists don't have to use Latin any more:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-ave-atque-vale-botany-hail.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2011/12/28/botanists-final\
ly-ditch-latin-and-paper-enter-21st-century/

Parthenon guards were/are on strike again:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_24/12/2011_419923

Review of *The Swerve*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/23/the-swerve-stephen-greenblatt-review

Review of Mitchell's *Iliad* translation:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/an-iliad-for-our-times/article228\
2087/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2282087

Review(ish) of Alice Oswald, *Memorial*:

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/12/30/michael-lista-on-poetry-the-iliad-laid-b\
are/

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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Finds from various stone age periods on Cyprus:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/24673/important-finds

A 25000 years b.c. 'pendant' from the Iberian peninsula:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-irikaitz-archaeological-site-host.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/ef-ias122711.php
http://www.basqueresearch.com/berria_irakurri.asp?Berri_Kod=3671&hizk=I

Not quite sure where to put this discovery of Apollonia's eastern gate (and
other
things):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=135231
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=132804

... or this Iron Age settlement site from Serbia:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/serbia/2011/12/20/visualizza_new\
.html_16462479.html

Looking for Viking evidence in Sherwood Forest:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16206589

A new suggestion for the battle site where St Edmund was killed by Vikings:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-st-edmund-vikings-essex.html

Five medieval shipwrecks from Stockholm:

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/five-ancient-shipwrecks-found-central-stockholm-1714030\
67.html

Medieval artifacts from a site in Estonia:

http://news.err.ee/culture/c3d84f35-c4af-453c-b34a-79468c6e4042

They're (finally) closing the major road near Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-16352307

... and they've located/confirmed the exact source of the stone used to
make the pile:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/8964899/Scientists-locate-exact-sou\
rce-of-Stonehenge-stone.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16245746
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/europe/news/article.cfm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-geologists-exact-source-stonehenge-stones.ht\
ml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2076050/Stonehenge-Has-mystery-st\
ones-origin-solved.html

A wall collapse at Stirling Castle is providing some dig opportunities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-16195566

Flowers threaten he Belgrade fortress:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-heritage-site.html

Feature on Kents Cave:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-heritage-site.html

A call to bury the "Irish Giant" has been rejected:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Royal-College-of-Surgeons-reject-bid-to-bury-sk\
eleton-of-Irish-giant-136253638.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-experts-urge-18th-century-irish-giant.html

Wikipedia is experimenting with a 'Monmouthpedia':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-16359364

Some murals found at Chartres cathedral last year (did we know this?)
are being restored:

http://ceroart.revues.org/2200

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A 'megalithic era' burial urn from Idukki:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2760861.ece

A pile of Chinese heritage sites have "disappeared":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-asia-china-16367488
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-16367488

Plans to make that Mongol shipwreck site off Nagasaki an historic site:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111231a7.html

Funding to restore sites damaged by floods in Ayutthaya:

http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/pols-business-leaders-raise-850-000-baht-fo\
r-ayutthaya-ruins-restoration-9021

More on Asian dog origins:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-modern-dogs-asian-fusions-euro.html
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10096

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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the beneficial effects of breastfeeding in 19th century Montreal:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133809.htm

Identifying an unknown Civil War soldier's ancestry:

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111223/WILLIAMSON10/312230023/Civil-War-sold\
ier-s-teeth-point-ancestry

A preservation-oriented purchase near Fort Edward:

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s2420086.shtml?cat=10114

Plans to look for the remains of the Griffin in Lake Michigan:

http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2011/dec/19/researchers-claim-enough-evidence-to-l\
ook-for-shipwreck-near-ne-wisconsin/
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/researchers_excavation_of_ship.html
http://www.aikenstandard.com/Nation/1219-ap-Researchers--Excavation-of-shipwreck\
-warranted

Canada might purchase back Amundsen's 'Maud':

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-canada-amundsen-maud.html

Historians look at Congress:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/27/144319863/congress-really-is-as-bad-as-you-think-s\
cholars-say

Ontario has apparently laid off its marine archaeologist:

http://www.cottagecountrynow.ca/news/article/1272093--ontario-lays-off-its-marin\
e-archeologist

Hmmm ... Maya in the US? (I don't think so):

http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/massive-1-100-year-old-m\
aya-site-discovered-georgia-s-mountains
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mass grave at a Sican site in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111228-mass-sacrifice-beer-headl\
ess-sican-pyramid-tomb-ancient-science/
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-1204-Mass-pre-Inca-grave-found-in-Lambayeque-Pe\
ru/

DNA evidence for a paleolithic transatlantic migation?:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/12/rare-dna-variant-may-disprove.html

More finds from the Dillard site (Colorado):

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/excavation-providing-\
new-insights-to-the-rise-of-pueblos-of-the-american-southwest

Nice National Geographic piece on the 'golden chiefs' of Panama:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/nata-chiefs/williams-text
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/nata-chiefs/coventry-photography

Interesting study of slave remains in Rio:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/20/rio-cemetery-of-the-new-blacks-brazi\
l

Simon Bolivar got a new coffin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16236105

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica (dec 11th-17th):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews18dec11.mp3

ArchaeoNews podcasts:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
4(last
week)
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
5(this
week)

OK two part podcast on some of the interesting historical finds of the past
year:

http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2011-12-26-symhc-unearthed-\
part-1.mp3
http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2011-12-28-symhc-unearthed-\
part-2.mp3

The year came to an end with a declaration that the Shroud of Turin isn't
fake:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/turin-shroud-created-by-flash-of-\
supernatural-light-1.1202271
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-say-turin-shroud-is-superna\
tural-6279512.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077341/The-Turin-shroud-DOES-miraculous\
-powers--Whether-genuine-not.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shroud-turin-t-a-fake-researchers-scien\
tists-unable-replicate-cloth-christ-like-image-article-1.995661
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/shroud-of-turin-jesus-burial-cloth-auth\
entic_n_1161363.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8966422/Italian-study-claims-Turin-Shro\
ud-is-Christs-authentic-burial-robe.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2076443/Could-Shroud-Turin-real-S\
cientists-try-recreate-iconic-image-using-UV-lasers.html

... and the Vatican weighed in too:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2080304/Vatican-says-Turin-Shroud\
-impossible-falsify--lending-weight-experiment-showed-blinding-flash.html
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/ar\
ticolo/sacra-sindone-holy-shroud-sabana-santa-10738/

... others weren't convinced:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100125247/the-turin-shroud-i\
s-fake-get-over-it/

Getting rather less attention was the latest 'Holy Grail' claim:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/i-ve-cracked-mystery-of-the-holy-grail-1.977410

... and the solving of a 'yeti finger' mystery of long standing:

http://news.discovery.com/history/yeti-finger-mystery-solved-111229.html

The Vatican is also using NASA technology to preserve its library:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-star-images-vatican.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/vatican-uses-nasa-technology-preserve-ancient-tomes-131\
205544.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-215_162-57346198/nasa-tech-helping-preserve-vatican-\
holdings/

Italy's book hospital:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Travel-and-Tourism/2011/Dec-26/157920-a-huma\
n-touch-for-ancient-scripts-at-italys-book-hospital.ashx
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-human-ancient-scripts-italy-hospital.html

The annual what-was-the-star-of-Bethlehem piece:

http://www.space.com/14036-christmas-star-bethlehem-comet-planet-theories.html

... and we might as well have something about frankincense:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16270759

Forming plurals:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-s-plural-marker-foreign-import.html

Leonardo and the mathematics of trees:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144127874/the-wisdom-of-trees-leonardo-da-vinci-kn\
ew-it

In other Leonardo news ... a major brouhaha over restoration of one of his
works:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16353587

Very interesting feature on a man who risked a court martial
to save a Renaissance fresco in WWII:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16306893

Nice feature on incunabula:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/RareBooks/gutenberg-printing-press-incunable/inc\
unabula.shtml

Malaria traced via DNA:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-malaria-parasite-african-slave-south.html

Interesting series on Milton:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/nov/28/milton-paradise-lost-\
epic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/dec/05/john-milton-epic-sacr\
ed-paradise-lost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/dec/12/john-milton-paradise-\
lost-gods-ways
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/dec/19/john-milton-language-\
paradise-lost

Putting a somewhat positive spin on Herman Lundborg's 'eugenics' ideas:

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/12/racist_eugenics_scholar_makes.p\
hp

Figuring out what Elizabeth Barrett Browning's chronic illness was:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-elizabeth-barrett-browning-illness-deciphe\
red.html

Using optical techniques to recover 125 years b.p. sound recordings:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-team-high-tech-optical-technique-year.html

Someone in Wales paid their tax bill with an Iron Age fire guard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-16252711

Back to blaming Columbus for bringing back  syphilis:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-skeletons-columbus-voyage-syphilis.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/eu-spt122011.php

On how deafness shaped Beethoven's music:

http://news.discovery.com/history/beethoven-deaf-compose-affect-music-111222.htm\
l

Another feature on Oxford's multispectral imaging thing:

http://www.economist.com/node/21540390
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-deafness-beethoven-music.html


Review of Joseph Epstein, *Gossip*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/gossip-the-untrivial-pursuit-by-j\
oseph-epstein-book-review.html

Review of P.D. James, *Death Comes to Pemberly*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/books/death-comes-to-pemberley-by-p-d-james-re\
view.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ostia Antica:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/travel/in-ostia-antica-italy-clues-to-past-\
glories.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2017062363_tritaly26.html

Will tourists return to Libya?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16304439
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
African Diaspora Newsletter (Dec. 2011):

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news1211/news1211.html

AJA 116.1:

http://www.ajaonline.org/toc/1161

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Brief item on vandals destroying some First Temple artifacts at Afula:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_ido.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1888\
&module_id=#as
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=250574
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4165627,00.html

Some Greek diggers were arrested in Bulgaria:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/12/19/4-greek-treasure-hunters-arrested-in-bulg\
aria/

A 'relic hunter' was arrested while digging at Lake Travis:

http://dailytrib.com/all-other/12623-woman-is-charged-with-digging-at-indian-sit\
e/

I think we've had this 'Lava Treasure' story before:

http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/461288

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Bonham's is going to be selling a major Greek coin collection:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52619

A pile of Roman coins found at a Somerset water treatment works
have been donated to a museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-16243681

Plenty of eSylums to catch up on:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n52.html
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n53.html

... and possibly:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n54.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/livingtravel/945058-224/frozen-in-time.html
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/299771/the-last-days-of-pompeii

Vermeer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16264461

Dura Europos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/science/dura-europos-a-melting-pot-at-the-inte\
rsection-of-empires.html

Drawings by Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/nyregion/rembrandt-drawings-on-display-at-the-\
bruce-in-greenwich.html

Birds of America:

http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-trinity-rare-book-audubon-1228-20111227\
,0,7746877.story

Invention of the Savage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16277976
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16295827
DSS:

http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/arts/152207/biblical-scrolls-bring-ti\
mes-square-visitors-back-to-ancient-israel

The Greatest Grid:

http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/arts/153080/city-museum-explores-ins-\
-outs-of-manhattan-s-200-year-old-grid

Dickens and London:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-19/dickens-s-london-bustled-with-crowded-p\
ubs-bums-foul-odors-farah-nayeri.html

Tiffany paintings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/nyregion/louis-comfort-tiffanys-paintings-disp\
layed-on-long-island.html

Renaissance Portraits:

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/the-renaissance-portrait-from\
-donatello-to-bellini
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/renaissance-portrait-from-donatell\
o-to-bellini-review.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/12/19/renaissance-portraits-at-metro\
politan-museum-photos.html

Money and Beauty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/arts/24iht-strozzi24.html

Kindred Spirits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/kindred-spirits-at-peter-blum-gall\
ery-in-soho.html

There's a permanent display of Cypriot antiquities in Stockholm:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/cypriot-antiquities-go-display-stockholm/\
20111219

The National Gallery of Scotland acquired a Turner:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16303603

... and it (the Gallery) was the subject of a feature too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/arts/17iht-scotportrait17.html

Christmas at the Acropolis Museum:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/12/17/acropolis-museum-to-host-christmas-ev\
ents/

Feature on some of the shows at the Park Avenue Armory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/arts/the-park-avenue-armory-indisputably-big.h\
tml

Museums are lining up to get the Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/12/28/american-museums-queui\
ng-up-to-show-staffordshire-hoard-97319-30020103/

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/arts/design/anti-semitic-artifacts-new-york-hi\
story-and-greek-coins.html

A 'Best of 2011' arts feature:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/18/arts/design/20111218-COTTER.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Stile Antico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/arts/music/stile-antico-choir-at-corpus-christ\
i-church-review.html

Messiah (different performances):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/arts/music/oratorio-society-of-new-yorks-messi\
ah-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/arts/music/trinity-wall-street-and-musica-sacr\
a-in-messiah-review.html
Early Music New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/arts/music/early-music-new-york-with-frederick\
-renz-review.html

Enchanted Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/arts/music/the-enchanted-island-a-baroque-mash\
-up-at-the-met.html

Great Expectations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16047263

Amadis de Gaule:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/arts/21iht-LOOMIS21.html?ref=arts

Albert Nobbs (movie):

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/movies/albert-nobbs-movie-review.html

An overview of the past theatre season in London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/28iht-lon28.html

Review of Michael Broyles, *Beethoven in America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/books/beethoven-in-america-by-michael-broyles-\
review.html

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
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Emmett L. Bennett:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/science/emmett-l-bennett-jr-dies-at-93-helped-\
decipher-linear-b.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12001/1200675-115-0.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml

George Whitman:

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/paris_legendary_american_bookseller_dies/
================================================================
HUMOUR
================================================================
Messing with the Cairo Museum:

http://www.creators.com/comics/strange-brew/85530.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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A new German-Israeli center devoted to researching archaeology and
anthropology/early humans:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/01/new-german-israeli-center-will\
.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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As hinted at las week, that 'ancient seal' is starting a bit of a discussion
as to its purpose:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/hebrew-university-pro\
fessor-disputes-claims-about-purpose-of-newly-discovered-jerusalem-temple-artifa\
ct
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/scholars-offer-new-explanation-for-rar\
e-temple-artifact-in-jerusalem-1.405361

Feature on Egyptian animal mummies:

http://news.discovery.com/history/mummified-animals-egypt-120106.html

A bronze age burial from Aleppo:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2011/12/27/390924.htm

Recent finds via the Temple Mount Sifting Project:

http://templemount.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/finds-from-the-first-and-second-temp\
le-period-city-dumps-at-the-eastern-slopes-of-the-temple-mount/

Overview of the past month of archaeology in Israel:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep368006.shtml

Feature on the Tel Dan excavations:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/archaeologists-excava\
te-legendary-city-of-dan

Plenty of digging is about to commence in Sharjah:

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2012/January/th\
euae_January22.xml§ion=theuae&col=

Looking at those on the 'bottom' of Babylonian society:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-slaves-babylonians.html

A review of 2011 in Egyptian antiquities developments (or lack thereof):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1078/heritage.htm

Interesting item on hairstyles in ancient Judaea:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/explainer/2011/12/was_jesus_christ_s_hairstyl\
e_normal_for_his_time_.html

Archaeological sites are threatened by the Red-Dead Water Conveyance
Project:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093469005&src=RSS

Tourism is down in Petra:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093470540&src=RSS

More on that 'love pipe' from Jerusalem:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4169262,00.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52784

More on that Afghan collection of Hebrew documents:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=251913

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Lots of excitement (and hype) about a spintria token found by the Thames:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/8991212/Roman-brothel-token-discovered-in-Thame\
s.html
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/bawdy-token-used-to-pay-for-pleas\
ure-1.1207552
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/293790/The-Roman-Empire-of-sex
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/jan/04/porn-roman-\
brothel-tokens-erotic-art
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083295/Explicit-coin-Thames-X-rated-sto\
ry-Roman-sex-slaves-Britain.html

... Mary Beard brings some balance to the hype:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/01/a-roman-brothel-token.html

Haven't seen English coverage yet of this find of 37 Etruscan tombs near
Viterbo:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=175652

Interesting (maybe ... the photo doesn't match the story) relief from
Stratonikeia:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-267387-2000-year-old-relief-bust-found-in-strato\
nikeia.html

Allison Emmerson's talk at the AIA/APA shindig about Pompeii's trashy tombs
got some press coverage:

http://www.livescience.com/17747-pompeii-trashy-tombs-mystery.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ancient-pompeii-trash-tombs.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120104115049.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-pompeiis-trashy-tombs-explained-130608439.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uoc-iap010412.php

A couple of responses to Mary Beard's comments on the state of classics
last week:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/01/06/greek-wisdom-in-the-21st-century/
http://www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/well_versed/athens_and_jerusalem_case_knowing\
_classics

'Rumblings' over plans to restore the the Colosseum:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/world/europe/rome-colosseum-restoration-plan-p\
rotests/
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/30147879/detail.html
cf:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/colosseum-may-be-a-fixer-upper-but-\
its-not-collapsing-italian-officials-say/?ref=design

... while a Russian billionaire offered to buy the Temple of Zeus in
Agrigento:

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/01/05/visualizza_new.html_4\
0598954.html
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/05/Town-resists-billionaires-Zeus-temple-bid\
/UPI-45331325813873/

... and UNESCO is getting involved with Pompeii:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Italy-allows-Unesco-into-Pompeii/25422

UNESCO is also stepping in at some Roman sites in Tunisia:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201201061054.html

Response (from the nuns) about plans to sell Blundell Hall antiquities:

http://www.crosbyherald.co.uk/news/crosby-news/2012/01/04/augustinian-nuns-react\
-angrily-to-claims-ince-blundell-hall-could-lose-its-marbles-92534-30060498/

... in case you missed the story last week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16393476

Relive the torments of Sisyphus, Tantalus, et al in 8 bit game form:

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishment/LetsPlayAncientGr\
eekPunishment.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/01/05/video-game-based-on-ancient-greek-tor\
ments/

On Gozo as Calypso's island:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120108/life-features/Malta-s-encount\
er-with-Homer-s-greatest-hero.401536

Interesting idea for a floating antiquities museum (haven't we heard this
before?):

http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/172131.html

Studying Greek pottery for space program purposes:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-deciphering-elements-iconic-pottery.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/slac-analysis-of-attic-pottery-could-improve-spa\
ce-shuttle-tiles-111230.html
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/01/04/study-of-ancient-greek-pottery-can-help-\
improve-modern-spacecraft/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081306/Scientists-study-ancient-\
Greek-pottery-improve-spacecraft-tiles.html

Review of Robert Knapp, *Invisible Romans*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/the-99-percent-in-an\
cient-rome--and-america/2011/12/13/gIQAxauWYP_blog.html

Review of the Loeb Boethius and Procopius:

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/when_did_rome_really_fall/

Reviewish/Interviewish of Mitchell's Iliad translation:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/01/02/homers-iliad-retold

More on that 'green grocer curse' tablet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/reaching-back-2000-years-to-unravel-a-\
curse.html
http://mynorthwest.com/11/601769/UW-professor-translates-ancient-curse

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 review of the 'big finds' from Bulgaria this past year:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=135489

Evidence of medieval life in Lyndhurst:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16442870

Feature about the Locating London's Past website:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/01/locating-londons-past-mapping-capital

Feature on the Knights Templar:

http://www.historytoday.com/helen-nicholson/saints-or-sinners-knights-templar-me\
dieval-europe

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Again we hear that Angkor Wat was a victim of drought  (not sure
why this is labelled 'new'):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-explanation-sudden-demise-khmer-empire.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0103/Ancient-City-of-Angkor-may-have-been-\
ruined-by-drought
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/04/drought-led-to-demise-ancient-city-ang\
kor/
http://news.yahoo.com/drought-led-demise-ancient-city-angkor-142407479.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/angkor-seat-of-the-khmer-empire-wilted\
-when-water-ran-low.html

Shang and Zhou dynasty burials from China's Zhejiang province:

http://english.people.com.cn/202936/7698412.html

Interesting bronze drum find from Viet Nam:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/219351/ancient-bronze-drum-found-e\
xcavated-by-local-farmer.html

More on tomb raiders in China:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/01/china-tomb-raiders-destroy-relics
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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More on wood from Lake Huron:

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Divers+find+clue+ancient+civilization/596\
1711/story.html

Not sure if this is the same bronze artifact from Alaska which we mentioned
a few weeks
ago or not:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-unearth-ancient-bronze-artifact-alaska.html

That 'Maya in Georgia' claim mentioned last week is taking a strange turn
(I still don't
buy it):

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mayan-ruins-georgia-archeologist-objects-web-st\
ory-viral/story?id=15291662#.TwmQJno8euI
cf:
http://www.mountainx.com/article/38687/Mayan-ruins-in-Georgia-An-unorthodox-theo\
ry-generates-Internet-buzz

The 'lost city' of Cahokia has apparently been found during bridge
construction in St Louis:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082113/The-lost-city-Cahokia-Archaeolog\
ists-uncover-Native-Americans-sprawling-metropolis.html?ITO=1490
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Some petroglyphs dating back 8000+ years b.p. have been found in Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=0wSJs39TTKo=

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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DNA suggests brucellosis has been around for a while:

http://news.discovery.com/history/bones-modern-disease-ancient-skeletons-120104.\
html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112448672/scientists-crack-medieval-bone-co\
de/
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/04/modern-disease-found-in-ancient-bones-2.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/modern-disease-found-ancient-bones-195035352.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120103135448.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-scientists-medieval-bone-code.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/msu-scm010312.php

Lord Byron as first 'celebrity diet guy':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16351761

Interesting feature on Jeanne Baret:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-jeanne-baret-botanist-female-circumnavigator\
.html

Distinguishing between old and new violins isn't easy:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-professional-musicians-master-violins.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violin\
s-stradivarius-lags.html

Interesting genome-adapations for early African-'Americans':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/genome-research-points-to-adaptation-a\
mong-early-african-americans.html

On the history of snow globes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/the-self-contained-snowstorm.html

Marking Joan of Arc's 'birthday':

http://news.discovery.com/history/joan-of-arc-birthday-010612.html

Back to Columbis finding syphilis in the New World:

http://news.discovery.com/history/columbus-syphilis-010512.html

The NEJM is celebrating its 200th anniversary:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-england-journal-years-medical-history.html

Not sure where to put this item on human rights and archaeology at Catal
Huyuk:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-stanford-archaeologist-role-human-rights.htm\
l

High tech dating of artworks:

http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v65/i1/p58_s1?bypassSSO=1
http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTOAD0000\
65000001000058000001&idtype=cvips&doi=10.1063/PT.3.1408&prog=normal&bypassSSO=1

Next installment of that John Milton series from the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/02/john-milton-devil-par\
adise-lost

http://www.ancientdigger.com/===================================================\
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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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Latest Biblical Archaeology Review (the 'dig' issue):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/

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CRIME BEAT
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Some Turkish smugglers were caught with a statue in their car:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/01/05/turkish-police-arrest-two-men-with-aphrod\
ite-statue-in-their-car/
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-267698-police-find-aphrodite-statue-that-was-mis\
sing-for-years.html
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-267698-missing-aphrodite-statue-found-in-kirsehi\
r.html

"Vandals" have irreparably damaged a Roman mosaic in Burgos:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_33201.shtml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081175/Thieves-chisel-Roman-mosaic--Exc\
eptional-Spanish-archaeological-site-thought-targeted-order.html


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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The Prospero Collection of Greek coins came to auction and brought
in some big bucks:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/652cf2a2-3863-11e1-9f07-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/03/world/europe/prospero-collection-ancient-greek-coi\
ns/index.html(pre
auction hype)

Some ancient Judean coins ar coming to auction:

http://www.kusi.com/story/16454510/ancient-judean-coins-going-to-nyc-auction

Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n01.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n02.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Modern Antiquity:

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/jan/06/how-picasso-and-other-modern-masters-were\
-by/

Working in Archaeology:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9458819.Exhibition_shows_archaeologists_at_work/

The Horse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jan/02/british-museum-equine-history-hors\
es

Lux in Arcana:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52777

Faces Revealed:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52770

Roads of Arabia:

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article556814.ece

John Adams Unbound:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/nyregion/in-a-long-island-library-an-exhibitio\
n-on-john-adamss-books.html

Some video from the DSS exhibition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9VS6ld51g (featuring L. Schiffman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqoYvl2UuA

Feature on the British Museum:

http://www.tampabay.com/features/travel/british-museum-showcases-ages-of-history\
/1209331

... and one on US Museums in general:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-probing-museums.html

Overview of interesting museum purchases this year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/design/intriguing-items-from-a-year-of-au\
ctions.html

The Louvre is the most visited museum:

http://iphone.france24.com/en/20120103-france-paris-louvre-museum-world-most-vis\
ited-mona-lisa-british-museum

Some art critics choose their favourite 'long term' pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/design/some-favorite-things-not-hanging-o\
n-a-wall.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
================================================================
The Enchanted Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/arts/music/the-enchanted-island-at-the-metropo\
litan-opera-review.html

Pirates of Penzance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/arts/music/pirates-of-penzance-at-symphony-spa\
ce-review.html

An overview of assorted things going on on London stages:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/28iht-lon28.html

Bachanalia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/arts/music/bachanalia-at-merkin-concert-hall-r\
eview.html?ref=music

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=%23swordandsanda
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Emmett Bennett:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/science/emmett-l-bennett-jr-dies-at-93-helped-\
decipher-linear-b.html
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Classicist-Emmett-Bennett-93-2435211.php
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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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(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a rather slow week ...
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A 'bread stamp' with an image of a menorah found near Akko:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52948
http://news.discovery.com/history/jewish-kosher-bread-stamp-discovered-120110.ht\
ml
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4174477,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=253004&R=R2
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-menorah-stamp-marked-kosher-bread-152804390.html
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-find-1-500-year-old-\
kosher-bread-stamp-near-acre-1.406452
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45943477/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1895\
&module_id=#as

Interesting item on some of the 'behind the scenes' work at the Leon
Levy Ashkelon dig:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/archaeologists-use-modern-tools-to-rec\
onstruct-ancient-life.html
http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/01/weizmann_and_max_planck_join_f.php

Finds from various periods in Bosra:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2012/01/08/393030.htm

Nice feature on conservation at Harvard's Semitic Museum:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-semitic-museum-thousands-ancient-clay.html

Evidence of the first domesticated camels:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/sharjahs-3-000-year-old-clue-to-the-firs\
t-domesticated-camels

Paleolithic burials from Yemen (the dating seems somewhat vague):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16477111

Those Jewish manuscripts found in Afghanistan include an unknown work
by Saadia Gaon:

http://www.thestar.com/article/1115485--medieval-jewish-manuscripts-discovered-i\
n-afghanistan-include-an-unknown-work-by-saadia-gaon

The efforts to save all those damaged books from the Institute d'Egypte:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16534331

... and politics suggest things might get worse before they get better:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/31511/Egypt/Politics-/Naked-images-\
of-Pharoahs-are-heresy,-says-Salafist.aspx

More on Babylonian slaves being just like us:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-slaves-babylonians.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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the restoration of the Hallaton helmet:

http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/features/helmet_is_coming_home_after_roman_\
restoration_1_3409918
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jan-13/159678-uk-unveils-restored-r\
are-roman-helmet-mistaken-for-bucket.ashx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9005994/Roman-helmet-tu\
rns-history-on-its-head.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16490215
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-16475224
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Rusty-bucket-a-rare-Roman-helmet-20120110
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-16493657
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/1000piece-puzzle-may-unloc\
k-secrets-to-the-roman-conquest-of-britain-6287730.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2084686/Historians-piece-2-000-ye\
ar-old-Roman-cavalry-helmet-shedding-new-light-ancient-Britain.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/10/unique-roman-helmet-pieced-together

Assorted mystery objects from the Roman dig at Caerleon:

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/blog/2012-01-06/Unearthing-more-mystery-objects-\
from-a-soil-block-lifted-during-excavations-at-the-Roman-site-of-Caerleon

A Roman villa find at Peterborough:

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/city_s_past_rewritten_by_roman_dis\
covery_1_3414573

A Roman-era relief from Santorini (that looks awfully clean to me):

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/52193

Interesting Thracian horseman relief from Perperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=135654
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2012/01/12/1743755_archaeology-ancient-image-of-thracia\
n-horseman-found-at-bulgarias-perperikon

On Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/01/medeas-cauldron-of-rejuvenation.html

A classicist's dream home is on the market in Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9002790/Yours-for-26milli\
on-an-Italian-palazzo-built-on-top-of-a-mini-Colosseum.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084555/Palace-resembles-Colosseum-sale-\
Rome-26million.html
http://www.theaustralianeye.com/news/yours-for-26m-the-colosseum-palace-aoi35814\
900.html

A gold phallus for the Lynn Museum:

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-and-leisure-news/lynn_museum_buys_\
gold_phallus_1_3416032

Interesting history of the Parthenon:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/01/14/the-parthenons-ever-changing-veneer/

What Irene de Jong is up to:

http://www.hum.uva.nl/english-news/fgw_news.cfm/5272FEA0-0783-49AE-B8B629A10A7E7\
131

In the wake of that chunk falling off it, the Colosseum has become a saga
... first we
hear of an investigation into the restoration work:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Colosseum-restora\
tion-work-investigated_312848021126.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/11/rome-colosseum-restoration-inquiry?n\
ewsfeed=true
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/01/tods-colosseum-plans-may-have-hit-a-snag.\
html

... and that the damage won't be fixed:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201201091850-cro-ren1081-\
pdl_mp_criticizes_decision_not_to_restore_colosseum

... and there is a suggestion that the damage was deliberate:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201201141449-cro-ren1034-\
alemanno_colosseum_breakage_could_have_been_deliberate

... and the Tod shoe people are thinking of backing out of their
sponsorship:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/01/italys-colosseum-at-center-of-\
battle-over-restoration.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/13/uk-colosseum-italy-restoration-idUSLNE\
80C01E20120113
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Tods-owner-wants-\
to-withdraw-from-Colosseum-restoration-deal_312849242010.html

Meanwhile, a Greek politician is suggesting the renting out of the
Parthenon and other
archaeological sites:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-lawmaker-proposes-renting-acropol\
is-in-athens-bild-says.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/01/09/ex-minister-says-acropolis-could-be-l\
eased/
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/01/10/2021s675401.htm

An illegal plaque on Hadrian's wall is getting attention:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-16467321

Feature on those panoramic views of ancient Rome in Dresden and Berlin:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/world/europe/germany-dresden-panorama-painting\
/index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/world/europe/germany-dresden-panorama-painting\
/?hpt=ieu_t2

Review of *How to Win an Election*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/ancient-advice-liter\
ally-on-how-to-win-an-election/2012/01/11/gIQAHGsmwP_blog.html

On Malta and Odysseus:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120108/life-features/Malta-s-encount\
er-with-Homer-s-greatest-hero.401536

More on trash in the tombs of Pompeii:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ancient-pompeii-trash-tombs.html
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5737382

(P)review of *Nine for the Devil*:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59058-994-6

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)
================================================================
Possible medieval village find on Scotland's Western Islands:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-16514793

Latest 'ship recreation' will be a Bronze Age sewn plank boat:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086712/Oceans-time-Academics-build-repl\
ica-Bronze-Age-boat-using-tools-methods-4-000-years-ago.html

Trying to establish the antiquity of a home at Potamia (Cyprus):

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/heritage/footsteps-queen/20120108

Repairs to a Whitchurch bridge might lead to 'threatened' status (?):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16496168

A tool for dating ancient Irish texts:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0113/1224310195201.html

A good indication of how slow the news is this time of year:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/stylish-bins-archaeological-sites/2012011\
2

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Actually digging a shipwreck site in Bunbury (Australia):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-10/shipwrecks-found-in-carpark-feature/376574\
8/?site=southwestwa§ion=news

Was Australia discovered by the Portuguese?:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8401465/did-the-portuguese-discover-australi\
a

A Buddhist stupa site from Andhra Pradesh:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-144485.html

Chinese interpretations of dinosaur footprints:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/01/chinas-dinosaur-folklore/
http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/01/sacred-birds-lucky-rhinos-and-virgin_07.h\
tml

More on fishing 40 000 years b.p.:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre80d0lk-us-fishing-artefacts/
http://news.yahoo.com/fishy-shows-humans-skilled-anglers-42-000-years-163528249.\
html

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
================================================================
Another candidate for oldest structure in San Antonio:

http://www.apnews.com/ap/db_6407/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=2d2nlZk2&src=cat&\
detailindex=13

Pondering how long humans have lived in southwest Florida:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120109/ARTICLE/120109582

Feature on the Rhode Island furniture archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/rhode-island-americana-mary-tillin\
ghast-and-byrdcliffe-art.html

The 'unveiling' of the Hunley:

http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-004714070\
.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45980970/ns/technology_and_science-science/

A peak inside the Jamestown Archaeology Lab:

http://www.c-span.org/Series/American-History-TV/

... and a feature on Jamestown archaeology in general:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Archaeol

Vague item on a totem pole that washed up on shore in British Columbia:

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Museum+curator+have+answer+Vancouver+Isla\
nd+totem+pole+mystery/5979029/story.html

A Florida metal detectorist doesn't share his finds with archaeologists:

http://www.wdbo.com/ap/ap/florida/metal-detectorist-finds-rare-treasures-under-s\
ands/nGMpM/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Earthworks and other evidence of human habitation in the Amazon
rain forest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/americas/land-carvings-attest-to-amazons\
-lost-world.html

A 2000 years b.p.+ jade necklace from Guatemala:

http://www.guatemala-times.com/archeology/takalik-abaj/2813-unique-discovery-of-\
jade-necklace-from-ancient-mayan-ruler-at-takalik-abaj.html

Plenty of coverage for physical evidence that the Maya used tobacco:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/w-sct011012.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-physical-evidence-tobacco-mayan.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120111113725.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/house-of-tobacco-011112.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/01/12/Tobacco-use-by-ancient-Mayans-confirm\
ed/UPI-57481326417154/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/found-first-solid-evidence-ancient-mayans-tobacco-12362\
9290.html
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=115859&CultureCode=en

... here's the abstract of the paper:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rcm.5339/abstract

... and a followup item on the vessel that was tested:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/584618/?sc=rssn

Something a bit different for us ... the Penn Museum has posted a series of
videos on
YouTube relating to its Tikal project over the years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXMJzLboEDs&feature=uploademail (1957)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuLAuJXmKVk&feature=uploademail (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3Vn9ypZlM&feature=uploademail (1959)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsfiSEOyJ0&feature=uploademail (1959 pt 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIz6GwM7NQ&feature=uploademail (1959 pt 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4eTot-Mf8A&feature=uploademail (1959 pt 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8SuGqWy-M&feature=uploademail (1959 pt 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXgqFst8NII&feature=uploademail (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEjVEIA09S0&feature=uploademail (1960 pt 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2lCRn5J3Gs&feature=uploademail (1960 pt 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO99P2g3bWU&feature=uploademail (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAQ7W_CiZ8&feature=uploademail (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FtEWp7igmc&feature=uploademail (1967)

More on those cave paintings from Guanajuato:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/2000-year-ol\
d-cave-paintings-found-in-guanajuato-mexico/13179/

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
================================================================
Audio news from the Archaeology Channel (I think I've caught up):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews1jan12.mp3
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8jan12.mp3



Interesting series from In Our Time on the development of writing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wfsc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wy46
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xsmd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xw60
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xy22

A letter from Beethoven found in Germany:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16510767
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-808302.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Aparece/Alemania/carta/Beethoven/1823/elp\
epucul/20120111elpepucul_9/Tes

I've seen a couple of reports on this sort of thing ... we'll start sharing
them ... military rehabilitation via archaeology:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/PeopleInDefence/ArchaeologyProject\
AidsInjuredPersonnelRehabilitation.htm

Robert Hooke is getting a bit of a makeover:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-portrait-history.html

JSTOR seems to be becoming more accessible:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/39448/?p1=A2

I think we mentioned this 'michelangelo-under-the-couch-in-Buffalo' story a
few
years ago ... here's the followup:

http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/gusto/art/article704348.ece

More on medieval brucellosis:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=DC10C696-C276-0\
63F-4A93612B04B0101B
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/01/msu_team_identifies_ancient_d\
isease

Nice feature on James Frazer:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/book-reviews/sir_james_george_frazer_an_\
author_of_many_destinies_1_2046957

... and one on Niall Ferguson:

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/niall-ferguson-2011-12/

Something related to Darwin's tortoises:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16467397

Feature on the history of street lighting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/as-streetlights-vanish-a-return\
-to-a-darker-age.html

Arguing about the 'antiquity' of wordprocessing:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/who-word-processed-first-professors\
-history-has-writers-staking-their-claim/

Remembering the Equitable fire disaster:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/consumed-in-fire-cloaked-in-ice-equ\
itables-headquarters-fell-100-years-ago/

Feature on C.P.H. Gilbert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/realestate/brooklyn-streetscapes-c-p-h-gilbert\
-the-wild-years.html

Review of Dava Sobel, *A More Perfect Heaven*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/a-more-perfect-heaven-how-coperni\
cus-revolutionized-the-cosmos-by-dava-sobel-book-review.html

Review of Sara Levine, *Treasure Island*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/treasure-island-by-sara-levine-bo\
ok-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
A medieval burial slab was stolen from a Herefordshire church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-16497632

Some stolen icons are returning to Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/icons/stolen-icons-coming-home/20120112

Picasso (and others) theft from Greece's National Gallery:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52908
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/thieves-steal-picasso-and-mondrian-\
paintings-in-athens/

Istanbul is a hub for Islamic art thefts:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/07012012-turkey-istanbul-a-hub-for-islamic-art-thef\
t/

A couple of 'diggers' destroyed some artifacts in their search for
'treasure' at
Beit Shemesh:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4173467,00.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Nice price for a 4th century B.C. Cypriot coin:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/ancient-cypriot-coin-auctioned-new-york/2\
0120111

A Swiss court has ruled on a coin smuggled out of Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_12/01/2012_422360
http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2012/01/greece-wins-swiss-court-ruli\
ng-over-ancient-coin/2089381
http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/court-allows-ancient-greek-coin-seizure.sh\
tml?28551

... and Greek coins was seized from a New York auction too:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=24602

Latest edition of the eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n02.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n03.html

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n14.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
DaVinci drawings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-16528450

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/still-devastating-2000-years-later/

The Multitool:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/the-beauty-of-the-multitoo\
l-swiss-army-knives-from-ancient-rome-to-the-consumer-electronics-show/251313/

The Renaissance Portrait:

http://calitreview.com/22943

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/goddess-of-love-and-beauty-takes-center-stage/

Emma Lazarus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/arts/design/emma-lazarus-at-museum-of-jewish-h\
eritage-review.html

Divided Light and Color:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/nyregion/american-impressionists-finding-beaut\
y-in-land-review.html


The British Museum has put one of the oldest copies of the Quran on display:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/13/one-of-world-s-oldest-copies\
-of-the-koran-goes-on-show-at-british-museum-115875-23697590/

I'm not sure if this is an official exhibition or not ... history of
Ireland in 100 objects:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0114/1224310228113.html

Curators narrate an interactive tour of the renovated galleries at the met:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/06/arts/design/20120106-met-american-\
panos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/30/arts/design/20111230-FAVORITES.html

cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-completes-amer\
ican-wing-renovation.html

Feature on the Museum of Jurassics Technology:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/design/museum-of-jurrasic-technology-show\
s-its-wild-side-review.html

Nice endowment for the Smithosnian Galleries:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/sacklers-widow-gives-smithsonian-ga\
lleries-5-million-endowment/


Review of *A History of the World in 100 Objects*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/11/DDMG1MMSE6.DTL

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
================================================================
Windscape/Orion String Quartet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/music/windscape-and-orion-string-quartet-\
at-town-hall-review.html

Suggestion for a Stratford 'flatpack' theatre in London:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9004196/Royal-Shakespeare-Company\
-could-build-flatpack-Stratford-replica-in-London.html

Selling a 300 year-old cello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/magazine/bernard-greenhouse-cello.html

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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Wilfred Lambert:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9005899/Professor-Wilfred-Lambert.htm\
l

John McWhinnie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/books/john-mcwhinnie-an-expert-in-rare-books-d\
ies-at-43.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein,Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,Bob Heuman,
Rick Pettigrew,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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Pondering the Neanderthal personality:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/19/cracking-open-the-neanderth\
al-personality/comment-page-1/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328470.400-into-the-mind-of-a-neandertha\
l.html

... and whether Neanderthals had languages:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/01/neanderthal-liv\
es-led-to-language/1

... and another study on why Neanderthals apparently disappeared:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-archaeologists-clues-neanderthal-extinction.\
html

On primate and human faces:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-evolution-written.html

... and toenails:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/primate-fossil-adds-to-claw-toenail-de\
bate.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a singer's tomb in the Valley of
the Kings (some dating problems in early coverage):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16576265
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-year-old-tomb-female-singer-egypt.html
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/31799/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-ar\
chaeological-discovery-at-the-Valley-of-the-.aspx
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jan-20/160457-rare-tomb-of-woman-fo\
und-in-egypts-valley-of-kings.ashx
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/01/singing-mummy-found-\
in-valley.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-to\
mb-of-female-singer-in-valley-of-the-kings-6290273.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087568/Scientists-discover-1-100-year-o\
ld-Egyptian-tomb-female-singer.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10779108&ref=rs\
s
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/jan/16/tomb-is-rare-discovery/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/12610907/archaeologists\
-discover-ancient-egyptian-singer/
http://news.yahoo.com/almost-3-000-old-tomb-female-singer-found-202332639.html

On the discovery of tomb K64 "in" the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.egyptological.com/2012/01/tomb-k64-in-the-valley-of-the-kings-the-sto\
ry-as-it-broke-7134

Trying to decide whether that stuff the Sumerians drank actually was beer:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-fermented-cereal-beverage-sumerians-beer.htm\
l
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112457360/did-sumerians-really-produce-bee\
r/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46044929/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/17996-sumerian-beer-alcohol-free.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/m-tfc011712.php

An update of/by Zahi Hawass:

http://www.drhawass.com/blog/good-italian-family-and-update-what-i-have-been-doi\
ng-lately

... and we hear that digging is going on in Egypt:

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=198836

... and scholars are fighting to protect Egypt's heritage:

http://chronicle.com/article/Egyptian-Scholars-Struggle-to/130338/

Nice feature on 'microarchaeology' at Tel es-Safi and other sites:

http://israel21c.org/social-action/smarter-digs-with-an-archaeology-lab

What Ron Tappy is up to:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_776135.html
cf: http://www.zeitah.net/2011%20Brochure%20-%20Final%201.2.pdf

More coverage of challenges to the identification of a 'seal' from the
Temple:

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=\
5361&Itemid=53

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
World's oldest 'astrology board' found in a cave in Croatia:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088308/Worlds-oldest-astrology-board-di\
scovered-cave-sealed-2-000-years.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/18/good-heavens-oldest-known-astrologers-\
board-discovered/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57360078/worlds-oldest-astrologers-board-dis\
covered/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46026840/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/astrology-board-found-120117.html
http://www.livescience.com/17943-oldest-astrologer-board-zodiac.html

Roman (?) site from Nibal Peak (Syria):

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2012/01/16/394641.htm

Bronze Age finds from Kissonerga-Skalia:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/excavations/new-finds-kissonerga-skalia/20120121

Another spintria find:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/887932-amateur-archaeologist-unearths-roman-prostitu\
tes-pendant

Greece's top ten list of important archaeological discoveries of the past
year:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2012/01/19/visualizza_n\
ew.html_46971068.html

... while we're hearing of the effects of the economic crisis at
archaeological sites:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/11/20/economic-crisis-hits-archaeological-s\
ites/

... including the possibility of renting out sites like the Acropolis:

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/17/ancient-greek-sites-could-soon-be-available-for-r\
ent.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/20/greek-ancient-sites-for-rent
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/greece-may-rent-acropolis-and-sell-islands-to\
-pay-debts/story-e6frfq80-1226249191990
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2088788/Greece-set-rent-ancient-ruins-\
help-pay-upkeep.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/01/18/greece-offers-ancient-sites-including\
-acropolis-for-rent/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeUrA6jll-SsuqVTVwl6nmZRk4LA?\
docId=CNG.f8db7d69218339b9285abcf6567bb20c.471
Domitilla's head has returned to Tripoli:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201201211605-pol-ren1043-\
monti_brings_ancient_roman_sculpture_back_to_tripoli

Glasgow has regained its Chair of Greek:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/cartoon/leader_professor_leaves_modern_legacy_to_re\
vive_classic_1_2062064
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/professors-bequest-revives-gree\
k-at-glasgow/story-e6frgcjx-1226247398900

Hmmm ... earliest manuscript of Romans found?:

http://earliestchristianity.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/discovered-earliest-manuscr\
ipt-of-romans/

What William Stull is up to:

http://blogs.colgate.edu/2012/01/classics-professor-honored-for.html

What Mary Beard is up to:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/beard-write-rome-profile.html

What Ryan Boehm is up to:

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/01/17/news/classics

What Tony Wilmott is up to:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/archaeologist-aiming-to-find-an-award-f\
or-maryport-dig-1.916545?referrerPath=/t-s-news-feed-1.17079

Feature on Ostia:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/imperial-rome-s-great\
-ancient-seaport-city


Feature on the mausoleum of Constantina:

http://www.3pipe.net/2012/01/mausoleum-of-constantina.html

... and one on Aelia Capitolina:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/archaeologists-uncove\
ring-the-heart-of-ancient-aelia-capitolina

Ten words from Greek myth:

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/12_at_12_86.html

On lead as an artifical sweetener:

http://io9.com/5877587/the-first-artificial-sweetener-poisoned-lots-of-romans/

Review of a pile of Iliad translations:

http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381/

Review(ish) of *The Swerve*:

http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7997-scandalous-ideas-lost-and-the-modern-wo\
rld

More on DNA analysis of amphorae:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2012/01/16/state_police_dna_te\
st_methods_help_scientists_identify_contents_of_ancient_greek_pots
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1896198/WAMC.Ne\
w.England.News/Researchers.Use.Police.Forensic.Techniques.To.Discover.Aegean.His\
tory

I think we've mentioned this 'return of Mithras temple' story before:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/roman-temple-mithras

More on the Hallaton Helmet:

http://www.inloughborough.com/news/100622/The%20mystery%20of%20the%20Hallaton%20\
Helmet%20%20Was%20it%20a%20trophy%20gift%20or%20prized%20possession

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)
================================================================
Oldest traces of ploughing in Czech langs:

http://praguemonitor.com/2012/01/17/archaeologists-uncover-oldest-evidence-ploug\
hing-czech-lands

Plans to raise the first HMS Victory:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/22/first-hms-victory-raise-us

... and plans to excavate St Ann's Well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16654628

Nice feature on a medieval (more or less) dig in the heart of Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/science-journal/science-journal-2012-01-21

Continued interest in the 16th century Jewish convert, Maria Lopez:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=254308

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Plenty of coverage for the suggestion that Hang Tuah was not a
myth:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/20/nation/20120120191329&sec=n\
ation
http://my.news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-defends-hang-tuahs-existence-105611589.ht\
ml

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
================================================================
Digging at an Underground Railroad 'stop' in Maywood:

http://www.depauliaonline.com/news/archeology-students-dig-in-maywood-for-house-\
of-underground-railroader-1.2743751

Plans to excavate a Provo tabernacle:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/state-and-regional/utah/archaeology-team-to-unea\
rth-old-provo-tabernacle/article_58a6c667-6743-56fc-a7f9-8fb3a9c1725b.html
http://universe.byu.edu/index.php/2012/01/17/archaeology-team-unearthing-old-pro\
vo-tabernacle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=archaeology-team-unear\
thing-old-provo-tabernacle

On use of technology at various Ohio sites:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/01/22/technology-offers-pee\
k-into-past.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/01/remote-sensing-discoveries-at-ohs-s\
ites.html

Marking the bicentennial of the War of 1812:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/central_new_york_key_to_the_fi.ht\
ml

Feature on repatriation of human remains:

http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-tribes-clash-over-native-bones-160144542.html

A personal check written by Abraham Lincoln:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/abraham-lincoln-check_n_1206269.html

More on the Hunley going on display:

http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-004714070\
.html

Review of Richard Bailey, *Speaking American*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/speaking-american-a-history-of-en\
glish-in-the-united-states-by-richard-w-bailey-book-review.html

Review of John Matteson, *The Lives of MArgaret Fuller*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/the-lives-of-margaret-fuller-a-bi\
ography-by-john-matteson-book-review.html

Review of Teresa Carpenter (ed.), *New York Diaries*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/books/new-york-diaries-1609-to-2000-review.htm\
l
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of evidence the ancient Peruvians had popcorn a thousand
years earlier than previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news246122559.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ancient-popcorn-peru.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16623473
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53107
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/evidence-oldest-popcorn-south-america-discovered-004407\
125.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46076352/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120119-national-popcorn-day-corn\
-peru-archaeology-food-science/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/stri-apd011812.php

A 1300 years b.p. pottery kiln from Oaxaca:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/247-historia/5545-descubren-horno-zap\
oteca-usado-hace-un-milenio

More on Mayan tobacco use:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=1300-year-old-flask-hol\
ds-mayan-tob-12-01-17

More on geoglyphs in Amazonia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/americas/land-carvings-attest-to-amazons\
-lost-world.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeo News Podcast 206:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
6

Audio news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews15jan12.mp3

... and the January installment of the Video News therefrom:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Some letters of Voltaire have been discovered:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-voltaire-english-alter-ego-unmasked-letters.\
html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/20/letters-voltaire-exposure-english-em\
piricism

Marking Edith Wharton's 150th birthday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/books/heiresses-of-whartons-era-in-fashion-on-\
her-150th-birthday.html

A bunch of specimens collected by Darwin have been rediscovered:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16578330
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0117/Scientists-find-lost-Darwin-fossils-i\
n-gloomy-corner-of-British-Geological-Survey
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318035
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-scientists-lost-darwin-fossils-060025391.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-lost-darwin-fossils-rediscovered.html

... and Darwin supposedly foresaw some of our new social networks:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-social-network-charles-dickens-wrote.html

A real-life Dickensian tale:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-historian-uncovers-real-life-dickensian-tale\
.html

... and a feature on Dickens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-whirling-sound-of-planet-di\
ckens.html

Poe's 'mystery admirer' is apparently nevermore:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/edgar-allan-poe-fans-say-nevermore-\
to-vigil-for-mystery-admirer/



Coverage of the AIA's Site Preservation workshop:

http://www.archaeological.org/news/sitepreservation/7553

Review of assorted tomes on Islam and the West:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article858507.ece

... and nothing really to do with us, but an interesting item on lizards on
the verge
of evolving:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1308772/Evolution-action-Scientis\
ts-discover-lizards-verge-leap-egg-laying-live-births.html?fb_ref=LikeButtonBott\
om&fb_source=home_oneline

... and an item on human-animal relationships:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-guilt-gender-roles-human-animal.html

France is planning a Napoleonland:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9027394/France-plans-Nap\
oleonland.html

More on brucellosis:

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201201150400/NEWS0\
1/201150465

Feature on prostitution guidebooks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/guidebooks-to-babylon.html

Arguing about the history of conservatism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/books/corey-robins-reactionary-mind-stirs-inte\
rnet-debate.html


Review of Michael Erard, *Babel No More*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/babel-no-more-the-search-for-the-\
worlds-most-extraordinary-language-learners-by-michael-erard-book-review.html

Review of Benoit Peeters, *Herge, Son of Tintin*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/herge-son-of-tintin-by-benoit-pee\
ters-translated-by-tina-a-kover-book-review.html

Review of Cullen Murphy, *God's Jury*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/books/gods-jury-by-cullen-murphy-review.html

Review of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, *American Nietzsche*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/american-nietzsche-by-jennifer-ra\
tner-rosenhagen-book-review.html

Review of Patricia Cohen, *In Our Prime*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/in-our-prime-the-invention-of-mid\
dle-age-by-patricia-cohen-book-review.html

John Noble Wilford revisits Scott's expedition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/scotts-south-pole-times-penguins-hocke\
y-and-serious-stuff-too.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vague item on thefts from sites near Tekoa in the Judean Desert:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/229500

An illegal antiquities dealer was caught on Rhodes:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_20/01/2012_423459

The Robert Hecht trial has finally expired:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-cm-italian-antiquities-robe\
rt-hecht-case-ends-jan19-sl,0,1089253.storylink
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/italian-trial-of-american-antiquiti\
es-dealer-comes-to-an-end/

A purloined piece of the the cross has been returned:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfidauojcwey/rss2/

A collection of blogs which cover the antiquities trade/looting subject:

http://dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/17-great-archaeology-blogs-on-t\
he-antiquities-trade-and-looting-that-you-should-read/

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
================================================================
Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n03.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n04.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Renaissance Statuettes:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53148

Hajj:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/20/189478.html
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/british-museum-set-launch-hajj-exhibition-441624.\
html

Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53149

Mythological Wildlife:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-01-15/centaur-\
tymfi-science/52553880/1

Rembrandt's World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/arts/design/rembrandts-world-at-the-morgan-lib\
rary-museum-review.html

Bellotto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/arts/14iht-bellotto14.html

Cleopatra:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/18/4196851/cleopatra-exhibition-to-open-may.html

Return of the Gods:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53050

On the need for cooperation between curators and collectors:

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/01/16/are-collectors-more-important-than-museums\
-one-curators-take/

What the major auction houses leave behind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/arts/design/new-auctioneers-take-over-for-tepp\
er-long-ago-spokesmodels.html

Feature on the Met's New American galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/06/arts/design/20120106-met-american-\
panos.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
================================================================
Red Tails:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/movies/red-tails-george-lucass-tale-of-tusk\
egee-airmen-review.html

Richard III:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/theater/reviews/kevin-spaceys-richard-iii-\
staged-by-sam-mendes-review.html

Miranda:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/arts/music/miranda-an-opera-by-kamala-sankaram\
-review.html

The London Merchant:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/theater/reviews/the-london-merchant-an-18t\
h-century-gem-review.html

These Seven Sicknesses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/theater/sean-graneys-these-seven-sicknesses-so\
phocles-at-flea.html

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
================================================================
Elizabeth Brumfiel:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-elizabeth-brumfiel-20120117,0,45197\
0.story

Gustav Leonhardt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/arts/music/gustav-leonhardt-harpsichordist-die\
s-at-83.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Trevor Ogden,
Edward Rockstein, Joan Griffith, Rick Heli, Kurt Theis, Arne Smith,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Don Buck,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,
Rochelle Altman,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... on which note, last week I neglected to acknowledge the
contributions of Trevor Ogden, Adrienne Mayor, and Patrick Swan ...
apologies accrue!
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Studying Jersey Neanderthal hunting methods:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-16726900

Evidence of earlier use of red ochre by Neanderthals than previously
thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-team-evidence-red-ochre-neanderthals.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090718/Neanderthals-using-paint-\
250-000-years-ago--thousands-years-earlier-previously-thought.html

Genetic analysis suggests first modern humans settled in Arabia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126123705.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/cp-ftf012012.php

Reverse engineering flint axes used by various hominins:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-neanderthals-contemporaries-stone-tools.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091066/Modern-flint-expert-rever\
se-engineers-Neanderthal-stone-axes--says-ancestors-clever-elegant-engineers.htm\
l

Feature on Mitochondrial Eve:
http://io9.com/5878996/how-mitochondrial-eve-connected-all-humanity-and-rewrote-\
human-evolution
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AFRICA
================================================================
Czech archaeologists have located a long-lost Meroe-era temple in the
Sudan:

http://praguemonitor.com/2012/01/27/czech-archaeologists-discover-long-lost-temp\
le-sudan
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the translation of a cuneiforum tablet with some
bad jokes/riddles:

http://www.livescience.com/18147-ancient-riddles-decoded-mesopotamia.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-mesopotamians-enjoyed-riddles-sex-beer-politics\
-101226303.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092775/Tablet-crude-jokes-riddle\
s-beer--dating-time-biblical-Exodus.html

Interesting study of animal mummies suggests the animals were 'fed' prior to
mummification:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egyptians-animal-mummies-120127.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46164406/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.canada.com/technology/Egyptian+birds+were+prior+mummification+study/6\
050746/story.html

Pondering whether the Merneptah Stele mentions Israel:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/ancient-israel/does-the\
-merneptah-stele-contain-the-first-mention-of-israel/

Recent finds from Istanbul (various periods):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/istanbul-yields-a-treasure-trove-in-an\
cient-bathonea.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12025/1205819-115-0.stm

Feature on ancient wine:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/FoodAndWine/Article.aspx?id=255308

LandMinds interviews Steve Weiner:

http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-15Jan12a.mp3

Feature on Masada:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=254663

Nice feature on Fayum mummy portraits:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Oldest-Modernist-Paintings\
.html

OpEd on who should be looking after Egypt's archives:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/2012121132641226409.html

More on that female singer tomb from the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53079

More on those Jewish scrolls from Afghanistan:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/01/24/3091330/mystery-swirls-around-judaic-\
manuscripts-discovered-in-afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-jewish-scrolls-found-north-afghanistan-144850424.h\
tml
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-afghanistan-jewish-scrolls-idUSTRE8\
0M18W20120123
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jan-26/161077-ancient-jewish-scroll\
s-found-in-afghanistan.ashx

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A mysterious Roman structure from Venta Icenorum:

http://www.livescience.com/18055-mysterious-winged-structure-ancient-rome.html
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/latest_building_found_at_roman_town_near_norwich_loo\
ks_like_a_spaceship_1_1187593
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-winged-structure-ancient-rome-discovered-143605\
645.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091204/Bizarre-winged-structure-\
Norfolk-Roman-ruins.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46102508/ns/technology_and_science-science/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-16739777

Latest in the search for Cleopatra's tomb:

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/world/2012/1/27/42463/Arab-leaders-boost-Domini\
can-archaeologists-quest-for-Cleopatra

Latest in the fight to restore the Colosseum:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/01/27/Rome-fighting-to-restore-Colos\
seum/UPI-99641327668136/

Feature on Pheidippides:

http://www.stridenation.com/2012/1/25/2723397/pheidippides-the-man-who-ran-the-f\
irst-marathon

What Simeon Ehrlich is up to:

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2012/January/ehrlich_takes_cla\
ssics_honours.html

Robert Cowan comments on a Thyestes production:

http://asiancorrespondent.com/74764/sydney-festival-thyestes/

The Hallaton Helmet has officially gone on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-16772026
http://www.inloughborough.com/news/100639/2,000%20Year%20Old%20Leicestershire%20\
Treasure%20Comes%20Home

Feature on the search for Aegean (and hopefully, Minoan) shipwrecks:

http://www.nature.com/news/underwater-archaeology-hunt-for-the-ancient-mariner-1\
.9880

Vandals hit some Samnite tombs in (old) Capua:

http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/arte_e_cultura/2012/26-\
gennaio-2012/devastate-tombe-sannitichedi-santa-maria-capua-vetere-1903023202580\
.shtml

What Robert Garland is up to:

http://blogs.colgate.edu/2012/01/preaching-the-humanities-onlin.html

Philip Freeman on matters electoral:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-freeman-rome-20120126,0,7765464.story?\
track=lat-email-topofthetimes-12612

Robert Graves turned down a CBE:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/an-honour-no-thanks-the-reluctant-\
dame-the-artist-who-couldnt-be-bothered-and-the-novelist-who-hoped-for-more-6295\
375.html

That illegal plaque on Hadrian's wall was removed without damage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-16701305

Review of Colin McEvedy, *Cities of the Classical World*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/cities-classical-world-colin-mcevedy\
-review

Review of Andrew Feldherr, *Playing Gods*:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article861914.ece

Review of Robin Waterfield, *The Greek Myths*:

http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/book_review_the_greek_my\
ths_by_robin_waterfield_1_4163604

Review of all those recent Iliad translations:

http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381/

Review of Jo Marchant, *Decoding the Heavens*:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/12/decoding-the-heavens/

More on sites in Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/world/europe/debt-ridden-greece-turns-to-sacre\
d-sites-for-cash.html

More on the return of that Domitilla head to Libya:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53170

More on botanists dumping Latin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/opinion/plants-in-plain-english.html

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)
================================================================
Some 7500 years b.p. fish traps from Russia:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-year-old-fish-russia.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/ccsd-mt7012412.php

Archaeological time capsuals (sic) from the Outer Hebrides:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5i9Ch-qrsirXxKzallg90pvq4k\
0uQ?docId=N0064161327250498262A

Remember that mass Viking grave from Dorset a few years back? Latest
theory suggests they were mercenaries:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9035958/Mass-grave-belonged-to-Viking-mercenarie\
s.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-16708401
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-viking-mass-grave-linked-elite.html

Some Royal portraits are going on display:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9025046/Royals\
-own-set-of-kings-and-queens-paintings-revealed.html

Feature on York University's archaeology program:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/ancient_secrets_unearthed_by_top_te\
am_digging_deep_into_remains_of_the_past_1_4175931

The original statue of Our Lady of Lepanto is undergoing restoration in
Spain:

http://www.abc.es/20120125/cultura/abcp-virgen-lepanto-20120125.html
cf:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/01/statue-of-our-lady-at-1571-battle-of-lepanto-come\
s-to-light/

More hype about the HMS Victoria:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/9046344/Explorers-r\
aise-hope-of-Nelson-treasure-trove-on-Victorian-shipwreck.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/22/first-hms-victory-raise-us
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/888110-hms-victory-to-be-raised-from-the-sea-more-th\
an-250-years-after-it-sank
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24029874-hms-victory-to-be-raised\
-from-sea.do
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-16686628

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Pondering the origin of a jade tool found in New Guinea:

http://www.livescience.com/18153-ancient-jade-tool-mystery.html

Plans to excavate Chandraketugarh:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/archaeologists-to-exc\
avate-great-ancient-center-in-bengal

Possible clarification of the link between Asians and early Native
Americans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-genetic-footprints-africa.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uop-pac011912.php
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/new-genetic-research-\
suggests-link-between-earliest-native-americans-and-southern-siberia

They keep telling us about drought and Ankor Wat for some reason:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ancient-lessons-modern.html

The remains of the Royal Charlotte has been found off the Gladstone Coast:

http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2012/01/royal-charlotte-shipwreck-found-off-g\
ladstone-coast.html

France has returned a number of Maori heads to New Zealand:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9033\
102/France-returns-20-Maori-heads-to-New-Zealand.html

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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
The Huntington Library has acquired a pile of Lincoln-related documents:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-huntington-lincoln-20120126,0,61\
5291.story

Bones found during house construction in Delray Beach (Fla) may be remains
some members
of the Jeaga people:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/01/24/Archaeologist-Bones-up-to-3000-years-o\
ld/UPI-32711327426419/

A 4000 years b.p. spear point turns up in a 'school dig' in Redding (Conn.):

http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/thereddingpilot/news/localnews/112911-at-ga\
llows-hill-dig-4000-year-old-artifact-is-found.html

Plans to use genotyping to figure out what happened to Lost Colony settlers:

http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/01/lost-colony-dna/

Feature on the La Brea Tar Pits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/at-la-brea-tar-pits-relics-from-long-b\
efore-freeways.html

More on the effect of European conquest on the Native American population:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-european-conquest-affected-native-americans.\
html

Review of Matthew Bowman, *The Mormon People*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/books/the-mormon-people-matthew-bowmans-timely\
-church-history-review.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Zapotec kiln from Oaxaca:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53258

Maya artifacts turn up during street repairs in Belize:

http://belizean.com/construction-workers-find-maya-artiefacts-under-street-in-be\
lize-1001/

Some recent finds from Teotihuacan:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/5579-entierros-teotihu\
acanos-revelan-clases-sociales

A stalagmite study suggests climate change affected ancient Mesoamericans:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/25/4213455/blame-it-on-the-rain-scientists.html

Somewhat vague item on an exhibition associated with the Aztec
Calmecac:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Mexican-archaeologists-reveal-ancient-Aztec-school/tabid/\
1160/articleID/240949/Default.aspx

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
ArchaeoNews podcast:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11606578/archaeo-news-2012-01-20.mp3

Audio news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22jan12.mp3

Not sure where to put this thing on 'stone age social networks' that's
making the rounds:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-hunter-gatherers-social-networks-evolution-c\
ooperation.html
http://www.physorg.com/news246709685.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/stone-age-social-networking/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125132610.htm
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/27028

On the domestication-of-the-dog front, the latest find suggests modern dogs
may be
descended from multiple ancestors:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-dog-skull-dates-years.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9037270/Dogs-were-mans-best-friend-33000-year\
s-ago.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091192/Dog-skull-Siberia-33-000-\
years-old--hints-mans-best-friend-didnt-come-single-ancestor.html
http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/ancient-dog-skull-suggests-weve-lived-with-dogs\
-for-33000-years

Alan Strahler talks remote sensing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoe-p-strassfield/mapping-the-forest-and-th_b_1220\
311.html

On dating silk:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-Old-is-That-Silk-Artifact.html

Feature on ASU's Center for Digital Antiquity:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/asu-ace012612.php

Feature on the inspiration for Indiana Jones (maybe):

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/01/26/roy-chapman-an\
drews-and-the-kingdom-of-the-cretaceous-skulls/

Interesting feature on poetry editors:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9025194/The-mystery-of-poetry-editing-f\
rom-TS-Eliot-to-John-Burnside.html

I think we mentioned these Voltaire letters:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-voltaire-english-alter-ego-unmasked-letters.\
html

Review of a couple of books relating to Gertrude Stein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/reconsidering-the-genius-of-gertr\
ude-stein.html

Review of Cullen Murphy, *God's Jury*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/gods-jury-the-inquisition-and-the\
-making-of-the-modern-world-by-cullen-murphy-book-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ptolemais:

http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/the-ancient-city-of-ptolemais.html(slideshow)

Egypt:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Cruising+royal+route+pharaohs/938311/s\
tory.html

Istanbul/Aegean Coast:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/istanbul-and-aegean-coast_0_n_1237041.h\
tml

Segovia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/9032496/Segovia-Spai\
n-A-cultural-city-guide.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
A somewhat vague item on the arrest of a Greek priest who was
caught treasure hunting in his own church:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-27/greek-police-arrest-priest-for-treasure\
-hunting-in-own-church.html

A routine pullover near Ankara turned up some antiquities in the process of
being
smuggled:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-269334-authorities-discover-stolen-artifacts-dur\
ing-routine-pullover.html

Fraud charges for a New York art dealer:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/madison-avenue-art-dealer-indicted-\
on-fraud-charges/

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
================================================================
The Wrexham Hoard is on display in its home town:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-16689099

The Maundown Hoard is now at the British Museum:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=24669

The PAS Roman coins guide:

http://finds.org.uk/romancoins

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n04.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n05.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Hajj:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/29/hajj-heart-islam-british-muse\
um-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/hajj-exhibition-saudi-cultur\
al-vandalism
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/hajj-journey-to-the-\
heart-of-islam-british-museum-london-6296070.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9045068/Hajj-at-British-Museu\
m-Seven-magazine-review.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/01/26/british-museum-haj-show-seeks-to-\
explain-islamic-ritual-to-both-non-muslims-and-muslims/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16750633
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092056/British-Museum-Hajj-Exhibition-M\
ysteries-Muslim-pilgrimage-Mecca-revealed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Gold of the Incas:

http://www.smvk.se/smvk/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=266&l=en_US

Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/smithsonian-and-monticello-exhibit\
ions-on-jeffersons-slaves.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/smithsonian-jefferson-slave_n_1231138.h\
tml
http://hnn.us/articles/new-exhibit-explores-jefferson%E2%80%99s-slave-ownership

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/fu-baoshi-chinas-master-modernist-\
at-metropolitan-museum.html

Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/portraits-from-16th-century-and-sc\
ulpture-at-sperone-westwater.html

Jubilation/Rumination:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/jubilation-rumination-at-american-\
folk-art-museum.html

Roads of Arabia:

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article568270.ece

A private Kurdish archaeological museum:

http://www.kurdishglobe.net/display-article.html?id=2A60BDA9C8E50ED74E610674DE95\
2DC1

Princeton University Art Museum is returning items to Italy:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/75/13K74/index.xml
http://planetprinceton.com/2012/princeton-university-returns-art-to-italy/
http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2012/01/26/news/doc4f21b8662663c521673580.txt

Girl With a Pearl Earring is going on tour:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring\
-to-visit-frick-in-2013.html


Feature on the Naples National Archaeological Museum:

http://www.stripes.com/travel/europe-travel/quick-trips/naples-national-archaeol\
ogical-museum-a-trove-of-ancient-artifacts-1.166571

The Seaport Museum has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/arts/design/south-street-seaport-museum-reopen\
s-after-a-makeover.html

Heritage Lottery cash to help the construction of the BM's world
conservation
and exhibitions centre:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jan/27/lottery-british-museum-conservatio\
n-centre


Abu Dhabi has big museum plans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/world/middleeast/abu-dhabi-reaffirms-its-grand\
-plan-for-museums.html

Some auctions at Christie's this week with an Asian focus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/arts/28iht-melikian28.html

... and their Old Masters sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/27iht-melikian27.html

Feature on all those auction type shows on television:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/antiques-auction-shows-on-televisi\
on.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Spartacus: Vengeance (TV):

http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/television/spartacus-vengeance-returns-to-\
starz-channel.html

Verdi's Attila:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/music/bernard-uzan-director-adds-context-\
to-seattles-attila.html

A couple of John Ford plays:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/theater/john-fords-broken-heart-and-tis-pity-s\
hes-a-whore.html

Canterbury Tales:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/theater/reviews/the-canterbury-tales-remix\
ed-at-soho-playhouse-review.html

History of the World:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/theater/reviews/history-of-the-world-at-th\
e-living-theater.html

Leakey's Ladies (!):

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/theater/reviews/leakeys-ladies-about-3-pri\
matologists-at-dixon-place.html

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
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Helen North:

http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2012/01/27/media_town_talk/news/doc4f21\
889a02a5f768476304.txt
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/138175209.html

Ronald Butler:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9497110.Tributes_paid_to_York_historian/r/

Emmet Bennett:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/9034011/Emmett-Ben\
nett.html

James Arnold:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/23/tp-ucsd-chemist-was-moon-expert-helpe\
d-develop/

Mary Henderson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/theater/mary-c-henderson-scholar-of-the-theate\
r-dies-at-83.html

Elizabeth Brumfiel:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12023/1205386-122.stm
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,David Critchley,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Joan Griffith,
Rick Heli, Kurt Theis, Jeff Emanuel, Antony Cowey,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,
Rochelle Altman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

... kind of a slow week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Feature on Piltdown Man:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/05/piltdown-man-archaeologys-greatest\
-hoax

Sort of a 'state-of-the-question' piece on DNA and human
migrations, the Denisovans and all that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/gains-in-dna-are-speeding-research-int\
o-human-origins.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The Ramat Rachel dig has found the earliest evidence for the
cultivation of etrogs:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-dig-uncovers-earliest-eviden\
ce-of-local-cultivation-of-etrogs-1.410505

Controversy over plans (maybe) to rebuild Herod's tomb:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/top-archeologists-condemn-israeli-plan-to-r\
ebuild-ancient-tomb-1.409779
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-slam-plan-to-rebuild-he\
rod-s-tomb-1.409916

Nice feature on Aren Maeir:

http://israel21c.org/people/constant-surprises-keep-professor-digging-for-more

Abstract of an AJA article (with photo gallery) about the Umm  El-
Marra Project:

http://www.ajaonline.org/node/1065

Ongoing concerns for archaeological sites in Iraq:

http://local.cincinnati.com/community/Story.aspx?c=100057&url=http://news.commun\
itypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20120129/SPT01/301290032/

Not sure why, but that mummy with evidence of prostate cancer is
making the news rounds again (I don't think this is a different
one):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-cancer-ancient-egyptian-mummy.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/researchers-find-cancer-in-mummy_n_1240\
756.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093675/2-200-year-old-Egyptian-m\
ummy-prostate-cancer.html
http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-cancer-ancient-egyptian-mummy-150628424.html
http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_19849430

More on that index to the Talmud:

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145985303/a-lawyer-not-a-sage-creates-talmud-index

More on Bathonea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/istanbul-yields-a-treasure-trove-in-an\
cient-bathonea.html

More on Babylonian humour in written form:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/babylonian-yo-mama-joke_n_1242617.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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Greg Crane was on WAMC's 'Academic Minute':

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1\
898239

Interesting spin on Roman numerals, Super Bowl style:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204652904577197312698087518.html

Might as well put this Atlantis/Santorini thing here:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-atlantis-volcano-mega-eruptions.html

More on that 'mysterious winged structure' in Norfolk:

http://www.physorg.com/news247393325.html

More on the Hallaton Helmet:

http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/the_romans_return_1_3479517
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-16870763

Review of *The Swerve*:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/turning-point_620941.html

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/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Is a cow shed the oldest house in Wales?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16851385

Plans to turn a 16th century estate in Denbighshire into a
'care village':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-16795922

A Yorkshire museum raised enough money to keep a gold torq:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-16831708

Pondering the historic significance of the Brodgar complex:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/jan/31/archaeologists-pagans\
-brodgar-complex

English Heritage has purchased a medieval barn in Harmondsworth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16776801
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093598/Medieval-barn-described-cathedra\
l-Middlesex-joins-Stonehenge-national-collection-historical-sites.html

Interesting sediment study from a lake in Spain:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/f-sf-sft020312.php

The US National Archives has restored its copy of the Magna Carta:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-archives-unveils-magna-carta-repairs-183756050.html

More hype for raising that other Nelson shipwreck:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/9046344/Explorers-r\
aise-hope-of-Nelson-treasure-trove-on-Victorian-shipwreck.html

Reliving Iron Age Estonia:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/estonian-students-iron-age-life-smoky-cold-175721047.ht\
ml

Vikings returned to Shetland this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2012/feb/01/vikings-shetland-pictures

... and they may have been growing grain in Greenland (!):

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/01/28/evidence-suggests-vikings-grew-grain-\
in-south-greenland/

I'm starting to think of bumping the cutoff date for this newsletter
to the end of WWII ... here's a significant shipwreck find, e.g.:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095042/Archaeologist-discovers-sunken-W\
WI-fighters-containing-bullion-worth-160MILLION.html
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/NATL-Treasure-Hunter-Claims-Hes-Found-3B-S\
hipwreck--138554474.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Coffins of indeterminate age from central Laos:

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ancient-coffins-discovered-cental-laos-073007516.html

Bones found in Napier (NZ) are at least a couple hundred years
old, apparently:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/indigenous-peoples/news/article.cfm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6360327/Unearthed-bones-from-1800s

A 12th century 'ogre pot' from Nara Prefecture:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/202936/7719196.html

Researching past earthquakes around Tokyo:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-geological-evidence-earthquakes-tokyo-region\
.html

More on the Asian origins of North Americans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-genetic-footprints-africa.html
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-anthropologists-clarify-link-between-asi\
ans-and-early-native-americans

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
================================================================
A 140 years b.p. shipwreck is exposed on the shores of Lake
Michigan:

http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=715186#.Ty5_p4E8euI
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-shipwreckfragment,0,5939932.story

Feature on Castle Rock/Canyons of the Ancients:

http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120205/NEWS01/702059922/-1/news01&source=\
RSS

More on the Hunley:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/pictures/120131-hunley-civil-war\
-first-submarine-science-nation/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A trio of Aztatlan urns from Sinaloa:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/247-historia/5616-cultura-aztatlan-ha\
bito-en-navolato-revela-hallazgo

Not really within our purview, but here's info on the latest
'uncontacted tribe' ... this time, from Peru:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16816816

Video report on that Calmecac exhibition in Mexico City:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16762217

More on Maya tobacco use:

http://www.buffalonews.com/life/article722949.ece

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Archaeo News Podcast 207:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
7

Archaeology Channel Audio News (Jan 22-28)

Thomas Edison's recordings of Otto von Bismarck have been
brought 'back to life':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/bismarcks-voice-among-restored-edison-\
recordings.html
http://io9.com/5881146/the-only-known-recording-of-otto-von-bismarcks-voice-has-\
been-discovered
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/a-look-at-history-thomas-edisons-\
1889-recording-of-otto-von-bismarck/

Some British papers are commenting on the Seven Wonders:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096657/Britons-blunders-Seven-Wonders--\
-say-theyve-places-longer-exist.html

Dickens' character names were apparently derived from real people:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/01/charles-dickens-real-character-names

Shakespeare's talent was more in the grammar he used than the
words, we are told:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-shakespeare-skill-grammar-words.html

Latest on the Odyssey Marine dispute with Spain over the Black
Swan:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/01/treasure-trove-galleon-returned-spai\
n
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095279/Sunken-treasure-trove-worth-500m\
illion-returned-Spain.html

Funding for a 'DNA data matrix' of ancient domestic animals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/tcd-gre020312.php

... while all modern horses trace back, apparently, to a single
ancestor:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-mtdna-modern-horses-ancestor-years.html

A volcanic origin for the Little Ice Age:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16797075
http://www.livescience.com/18205-ice-age-volcanoes-sea-ice.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-enigmatic-ice-age.html


... and how climate change has affected cultures in history:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/01/30/climate-change-has-h\
elped-bring-down-cultures/

A copy of the Mona Lisa in Spain turns out to be possibly the
earliest copy therof:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16847737
http://news.yahoo.com/real-time-copy-mona-lisa-reveals-leonardo-185500837.html
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Earliest-copy-of-Mona-Lisa-found-in-Prad\
o/25514
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/01/new-mona-lisa-prado
http://news.discovery.com/history/copy-mona-lisa-prado-120202.htmlj

Review of Toby Lester, *DaVinci's Ghost*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/da-vincis-ghost-examines-one-of-t\
he-artists-most-famous-images.html


... which has led to news reports about the Vitruvian Man, of
course:

http://news.yahoo.com/did-leonardo-da-vinci-copy-famous-vitruvian-man-145205550.\
html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094647/Da-Vincis-iconic-Vitruvian-Man-c\
opied-fellow-Renaissance-architect.html

Review of *Kama Sutra*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/books/the-kama-sutra-newly-translated.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Sicily:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/aito/9054103/ancient-sicily-offers-g\
lorious-guide-to-classical-Europe.html

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/travel/aito/9054125/bring-Rome-to-life-with\
-cultural-city-break.html

Acrocorinth:

http://www.gadling.com/2012/02/01/athens-day-trip-acrocorinth-one-of-greeces-gre\
atest-castles/

Qingdao:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fathom/chinas-bavarian-beach-tow_b_1231003.html

Benin:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/travel/on-the-vodun-trail-in-benin.html

Neve Tzedek:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/03/travel/05forage.html

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BLOGS
================================================================
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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Latest CSA Newsletter:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter12
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Treasure hunters have plundered a couple of Byzantine sites
in Istanbul:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-270002-treasure-hunters-plunder-byzantine-cemete\
ry-in-istanbul.html

The Hope Cross capstone disappeared a few weeks ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-16782092

A 16th century tome was stolen from a Buckland church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16790769

The self-styled 'Jewish Indiana Jones' has admitted fraud in
regards to his rescuing Torahs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16866019
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/nyregion/rabbi-menachem-youlus-says-he-lied-ab\
out-saving-torahs.html

Religious strife in Macedonia threatened some icons:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gFwFrDCwOnJRpzNFRakRO4QP6\
b4Q?docId=N0241471328012725291A

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
================================================================
A metal detectorist finds a horde of medieval coins in Caithness:

http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Ancient-coins-find-in-Caithness-0202201\
2.htm

Latest eSylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n05.html

... and the one which should show up later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n06.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Roads of Arabia:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/31/191704.html
http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/6152.html

Van Gogh Up Close:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/design/van-gogh-up-close-at-philadelphia-\
museum-of-art.html

Eye Miniatures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/arts/design/loving-lovers-eyes-and-loving-cere\
al.html

Tiepolo:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=53347

Fu Baoshi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/fu-baoshi-chinas-master-modernist-\
at-metropolitan-museum.html

St Vitus Treasures:

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/st-vitus-treasures-now-in-brillian\
t-display-at-prague-castle/

Germany returned a looted pre-Islamic sculpture to Afghanistan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16811062
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-afghanistan-antiquity-idUSTRE80U0BN\
20120131

Plans for an English Civil War museum in Newark proceed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16808781

Cuts to museums in Finland:

http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2012/02/museums_to_be_shut_staff_facing_layoffs_3\
223947.html

Feature on the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/world/middleeast/02iht-m02-egypt-museum.html

The Girl With a Pearl Earring is coming to the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring\
-to-visit-frick-in-2013.html

Coverage of Christie's Old Masters sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/04iht-melikian04.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
================================================================
Oberto:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/29/oberto-verdi-opera_n_1239940.html

Rienzi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/arts/music/wagners-rienzi-from-opera-orchestra\
-at-avery-fisher-hall.html

These Seven Sicknesses:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/theater/reviews/these-seven-sicknesses-at-\
flea-theater.html

Europa Galante:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/arts/music/europa-galante-at-zankel-hall.html

Richard II:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/london-theater-journal-porcelain-po\
rtrayal-of-a-fragile-king/

Review of three books relating to the *Downtown Abbey* series:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/books/review/three-books-explore-the-reality-b\
ehind-the-world-of-downton-abbey.html

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
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Tim Parkin,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Anne B. Hurley, Patrick Swan, 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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Cave paintings in Spain may have been made by Neanderthals:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21458-first-neanderthal-cave-paintings-dis\
covered-in-spain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2097869/The-oldest-work-art-42-00\
0-year-old-paintings-seals-Spanish-cave.html

On the Denisovan genome:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-entire-genome-extinct-human-decoded.html
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/high-resolution-denisovan-genome-sequ\
ence-online-414335/
http://scienceblog.com/52000/entire-genome-of-close-human-relative-decoded-from-\
fossil/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/genome-of-denisovan-mapped_n_1262985.ht\
ml

... and Neanderthals' genetic legacy:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/08/Study-Neanderthals-left-a-genetic-leg\
acy/UPI-83181328744289/

The latest theory on Neanderthal demise:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-neanderthal-demise-due-cultural.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/asu-rnd020612.php

Another feature on Peking Man:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328502.500-lost-treasures-peking-mans-bo\
nes.html

Penn Museum posted a video of Thomas Tartaron's talk on Otzi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZJpRTrYDeI&feature=uploademail

Learning from Laetoli footprints:

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/features/story.aspx?id=1095
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
A possible clue to the Queen of Sheba's gold wealth:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba\
-goldmines

Leptis Magna is apparently a 'ghost town':

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2012/02/20122105011366224.html

On humans' role in the decline of African rainforests some
3000 years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-humans-decline-african-rainforests-years.htm\
l
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/ancient-farmers-had-i\
mpact-on-disappearance-of-african-rainforests
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage that the 'Hill of Jonah' was inhabited some
3000 years b.p.:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53483
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Archaeology_verifi\
es_life_time_Jonah_6-Feb-2012.htm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=256717
http://www.livescience.com/18327-fortress-hill-jonah-prophet.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2097616/Fortress-hill-Israel-Bibl\
es-Jonah-supposedly-buried-dates-800BC.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46294237/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Mount Scopus National Park seems to be the latest site of archaeological
controversy in
Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/watch-israel-nature-authority-destroys-caves-in-new-natio\
nal-park-1.411431

Feature on a dig at the acropolis of Kinik Hoyuk (and environs):

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/turkey/2012/02/10/visualizza_new\
.html_77413658.html

What Irving Finkel is up to:

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120206/NEWS/202060333

A new approach to the Nag Hammadi codices:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/nag-hammadi-codices-a-n\
ew-interpretive-approach

The Spanish mission has returned to dig in Egypt:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/egypt/2012/02/06/visualizza_new.\
html_75538782.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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Some mosaics are BGSU appear to have questionable origins:

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/02/07/Origin-of-ancient-mosaics-at-BGSU-su\
spect.html

A hurricane in Bulgaria revealed a hitherto unknown Roman/Byzantine village:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2012-02-10&article=38388
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=136503

... and a sarcophagus:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2012-02-11&article=38398

More Roman remains turn up in Potters Bar:

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/ancient_roman_ruins_unearthed_in_potters_bar_1_120\
5886

Some 2000 years b.p. cremations from Cawston ... described as 'Iron Age'
(but there
seems to be something Roman going on too?):

http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/2012/02/08/news-Ancient-cremated-bodies-found-\
in-field--29456.html

Evidence of the Romans using camels ... in Belgium:

http://www.newser.com/story/139357/romans-beasts-of-burden-camels.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/02/roman-army-ran-\
on-camel-power/1?csp=34news

Those pills from that Greek shipwreck are in the news again for some reason:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/02/05/ancient-greek-pills-found-in-greek-shipw\
reck/

... as is the UMinn's involvement in the Ancient Lives project:

http://www.mndaily.com/2012/02/09/excavators-find-treasure-egyptian-trash-heap


The Pergamon Altar is closed for three years for renovations:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/02/08/pergamon-altar-closed-to-visitors-for-thr\
ee-years-due-to-renovations/

A Classics prof comments on (modern) Greek matters:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/10/professor-of-greek-history-worries-abo\
ut-his-homelands-future/

International Mother Language Day is coming:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6176702&s_cid=tesmagazinehome

A 'Gladiator Latin' program sounds interesting:

http://www.wanderer.com/?p=1379

... as does Retelling the Ancient Story:

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/arts-entertainment/promiscuous-prometheus-powers-up\
-intersession-1.2766721#.TzesMFE8euI

A team working at Pavlopetri have earned honours in an Extreme Imaging
competition:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-images-life-submerged-city.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/student-takes-awa\
rd-for-revealing-submerged-citys-secrets/2450647.aspx

Michael Scott talks about life in ancient Greece:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-life-ancient-world.html

Interview with Philip Freeman about his electioneering book:

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/07/146541242/ancient-roman-text-offers-tips-on-winnin\
g-elections

Review of Dorothea Wender's translation of *Theognis*:

http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Poetry-Review-Elegies-by-\
Theognis-translated-3084188.php

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)
================================================================
A 13th century Jewish tombstone from Effurt:

http://www.vosizneias.com/100623/2012/02/08/effurt-germany-oldest-jewish-tombsto\
ne-found-intact-in-germany/

A WWI trench turns up 21 German soldiers 'perfectly preserved' a la Pompeii,
supposedly:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099187/Bodies-21-German-soldiers-buried\
-alive-WW1-trench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

The gardens at Dalapre Abbey have been restored:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-16944043

A Viking axe head is likely an 18th century woodworking tool:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16907224

Feature on the good side of Attila the Hun:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/02/nice-things-to-say-about-attila-\
the-hun/

Pondering Napoleon's failure in Russia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16929522

Latest theory on the origin of Robin Hood:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Robin-Hood-really-Kent/story-15097152-detail/s\
tory.html

Interesting application of Google Earth and Stonehenge:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/feb/06/stonehenge-models-google-softwar\
e

More on those Viking mercenaries in the guise of tv hype:

http://scienceblog.com/51992/viking-apocalypse-linked-to-elite-killers-of-the-me\
dieval-world/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
House construction in Dharmapuri turned up some idols of Lord
Ranganathar and Hanuman:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/Idols-found-from-housing-plot\
-near-Dharmapuri/articleshow/11855059.cms

Excavation of a stupa in Bihar is about to commence:

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-157494.html

An Indus seal from Cholistan:

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/07/rare-indus-seal-discovered-in-cholistan.html

Sunet is apparently an archaeological goldmine, but the ASI isn't doing
anything
about it:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sunet-sits-on-archaeological-goldmine-asi-slum\
bers-on/910176/
http://www.ludhianadistrict.com/landmarks/sunet-village-ludhiana.php

More on Hue antiquities becoming national treasures:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/arts-entertainment/18590/hue-antiquities-to-beco\
me-national-treasures.html

WWII archaeology in Malaysia:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gi_dH2t3uY6Tw30JrmtjaT2Ge8Hw?\
docId=CNG.ea0c57f059882514e7abda316c4b8389.531

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
================================================================
An archaeological 'treasure trove' in a ditch near San Gabriel Mission
in/near Los Angeles:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-artifacts-found-20120206,0,1801757.sto\
ry

Hopes of confirming a shipwreck off Rhode Island is the USS Revenge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9071959/USS-Revenge-M\
ystery-of-200-year-old-shipwreck-found-off-US-coast.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-probe-year-old-shipwreck-ri.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/science/researchers-probe--year-old-shipwreck-off-r\
i/article_f5c17c46-8819-55e3-9a2c-1b0a32155bb5.html
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0220026MAKWE

Hmmm ... Fort William Henry's skeletons weren't buried after all:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53471
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/skeletons_from_last_of_the_moh.ht\
ml

Honouring Yale's earliest women PhDs:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phd\
s.html

More on that Magna Carta restoration completion:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-charter-encasing-magna-carta.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of pre-Aztec housing from Amecameca:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-mexican-experts-ancient-home.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53534
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10086922
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2012/02/09/mexican-expert\
s-excited-to-find-ancient-ruins.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/08/2632353/mexican-experts-excited-to-find.ht\
ml

cf: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-mexico-road.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Time Team appears to be falling apart:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2097965/Veteran-quits-Cambridge-bea\
uty-joins-TVs-Time-Team.html
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a365015/time-team-mick-aston-mary-ann-ochota\
-leave-show.html

Marking Dickens' 200th birthday:

http://news.discovery.com/history/dickens-anniversary-bigpic-120207.html

... and we might as well mention this Dickens theme park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dickens-world.html

Interesting 'monastical' class at UPenn:

http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/11/2149091/penn-class-teaches-students-how.html

All about paleofeces:

http://io9.com/5883873/paleofeces-inside-the-archaeology-of-poop

I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't know the 'Ponytail Shape Equation'
was
a 'thing':

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre81918v-us-hair-rapunzel/

Germany has returned to Prague a Gregor Mendel manuscript:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-prague-modern-genetics-founder-mendel.html

A seventeenth century pastoral novel:

http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2012/02/17th_century_pastoral_novel.php

Interesting potential for poking around Antarctica (read last paragraph):

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-08/science/31037082_1_lake-v\
ostok-antarctic-lake-subglacial-lake

Some 'historical' Barbies:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2098756/Jocelyne-Grivaud-recreates-ico\
nic-images-Barbie-dolls.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Vandals did a pile of damage at Aztec Ruins:

http://www.daily-times.com/farmington-news/ci_19934608

Brief notice of a 'red list' of stolen antiquities (Egyptian? ) being
published:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201202060331.html

A wine steward has admitted some art thefts in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/nyregion/wine-steward-admits-to-new-york-art-t\
heft.html

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
================================================================
Can't remember if we mentioned this huge hoard of bronze Roman coins found
by
a metal detectorist:

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/metal-detectorist-makes-find-of-lifetime-with/

Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n06.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n07.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Fascinating  Mummies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16990344

Renoir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/renoirs-full-length-paintings-at-t\
he-frick-collection.html

Migrations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/feb/06/welcome-to-\
pleasure-dome-peter-lely

Carambolo:

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/02/04/a-golden-exhibit-for-spain/

DSS:

http://www.njherald.com/story/16685706/nycs-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-has-10-new-\
scrolls

The Bison:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/feb/02/story-of-survival/

The Milwaukee Public Museum isn't making money from that Cleopatra
exhibition:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/cleopatra-doesnt-bring-riches-for-milwauk\
ee-public-museum-oc43oka-138904724.html

Russia returned a pile of Byzantine artifacts to Germany:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iRb0hDL3U13R_qzBTxVj4p_igqQA?\
docId=CNG.956cc047c755305c8ad4580183554bcc.271
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/lost-antique-treasures-berlin-museum-detectiv\
e-717/

UNESCO isn't happy about the closure of the Wedgewood Museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/feb/05/wedgwood-museum-closure-condemned-\
unesco

More plans for the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/arts/design/olin-designs-metropolitan-museum-a\
-new-fifth-avenue-plaza.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
================================================================
The Convert:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/theater/reviews/pascale-armand-in-the-conv\
ert-by-danai-gurira.html

Some early Rossini Operas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/arts/music/rossini-double-bill-by-julliard-ope\
ra-at-lincoln-center.html

Refracted Bach:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/arts/music/dessoff-choirs-at-church-of-st-paul\
-the-apostle.html

Armide:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/arts/music/tellings-of-armidas-story-including\
-glucks-at-juilliard.html

The Changeling:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/london-theater-journal-revenge-serv\
ed-sticky-and-cleanly-staged-comedy/

Macbeth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/nyregion/macbeth-1969-at-the-long-wharf-theate\
r-review.html

Seven Sicknesses:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/theater/reviews/these-seven-sicknesses-at-\
flea-theater.html

The Philanderer:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/theater/reviews/the-philanderer-from-the-p\
earl-theater-company.html

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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ON THE WEB
================================================================
The AIA has a page with resources for students:

http://www.ajaonline.org/students
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
William Danker:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/obituaries/rev-frederick-william-danker-dies-\
renowned-bible-scholar-taught-and/article_09364329-9b28-549c-aa6d-be43d44cacde.h\
tml

Robert Hecht:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/907\
5390/Robert-Hecht.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/robert-hecht-antiquities-dealer-di\
es-at-92.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-robert-hecht-20120209,0,3127431.sto\
ry
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/robert-e-hecht-jr-figure-\
in-antiquities-case-involving-the-getty-is-dead.html
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/robert-e-hecht-jr-antiquities-dealer-accused-\
of-trafficking-looted-objects-is-dead-at-92/
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3418199/robert-hecht-jr-controversial.html
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/08/2145959/robert-hecht-jr-controversial.html

================================================================
HUMOUR
================================================================
Mayan 'calendar' worries?

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2012/02/07
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Kurt Theis, Wendy van Duivenvoorde,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths,Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew,
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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Linking human evolution and climate change:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/sfu-2am_2021712.php
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AFRICA
================================================================
Some backstepping in a theory from last year that languages can be
traced to West Africa:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-africa-language.html

More on the Queen of Sheba's gold:

http://news.discovery.com/history/sheba-queen-gold-121502.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/queen-shebas-lost-gold-mines-discovere\
d-archaeologist-claims/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba\
-goldmines
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A wooden sarcophagus finde from Qubbet el-Hawa (finally we're getting some
real news from Egypt!):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2102035/Wooden-sarcophagus-dug-As\
wan-tombs-Qubbet-el-Hawa.html

They're still working on that second Khufu solar boat:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/34691/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/nd-pha\
se-of-Khufu-solar-boat-project-to-begin-Mond.aspx

Feature on animal mummies and other things from Abydos apparently
recently-found:

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt-animal-mummy-abydos-burial-site-\
120214.html
http://www.livescience.com/18462-animal-mummies-ancient-egypt.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/14/animal-mummies-discovered-ancient-egyp\
tian-site/
Studying pollen from Ramat Rahel:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120216134112.htm

Interesting feature on a Judeo-Arabic translation of Maimonides:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=258141

A small model of Temple Mount has returned to Jerusalem, after being
in Switzerland for quite a while:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/1.412909

Latest in the search for an IAA chair:

http://www.haaretz.com/academics-bow-out-of-search-for-antiquities-authority-lea\
dership-1.412056

Jerusalem has approved construction of a visitors' centre in Sliwan:

http://www.haaretz.com/1.412700

Feature on Himyar:

http://www.hs.ias.edu/files/Bowersock_RiseAndFall.pdf
http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter/articles/2011-fall/jewish-arabi\
a-bowersock

More on that fortress from the Hill of Jonah:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=53483
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/diggers-have-whale-of-a-time-in-ashdod\
-1.412740

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A pile of Sardinian 'stone guardians' found almost a decade ago
have been pretty much restored:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-cybermen-sardi\
nias-lost-warriors-rise-from-the-dust-6988952.html

A Bronze Age hut from Lipari:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/17/Bronze-Age-hut-found-on-Italian-islan\
d/UPI-29761329502118/

A Roman necropolis from Tunisia:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201202151008.html
http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/02/14/discovery-of-a-roman-cemetery-in-djerba/

Possible Roman human remains from a Dorset garden:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17016523

Roman pottery from a site near Plymouth:

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Roman-pottery-dig-site-near-Plymouth/story-15213\
707-detail/story.html

Penn Museum has put up a video of Felix Pirson's talk on the DAI's
excavations at Pergamon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PR4cyLrZA&feature=uploademail

On ancient dog food:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/02/ancient-puppy-chow-dog-food-in-classica\
l-greece.html

Feature on Greek Fire and Damascus Steel:

http://io9.com/5881149/technologies-that-weve-lost-+-and-the-quest-to-find-them-\
again

Snow has apparently damaged the Colosseum (and other monuments in Italy):

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/15/world/europe/italy-snow-damage-colosseum-monuments\
/
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Snow-damages-Colosseum-20120214
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101889/C-C-Colosseum-snow-harsh-winter-\
weather-puts-crumbling-ancient-monument-strain.html

Barbara Gold on love in ancient Rome:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1\
903141

Classics threatened at Oxford?:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/oxford-seeks-donors-to-save-top\
-posts/story-e6frgcjx-1226269649667

What Diane Rayor is up to:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/02/gvsu_professor_to_host_\
lecture.html

What Hilary Becker is up to:

http://thedmonline.com/article/professor-shares-knowledge-power-kinship-and-warf\
are

Birds in the Iliad:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uog-tbi021312.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/the-birds-in-the-iliad-\
strengthened-warriors

Glossing 'Age of Bronze':

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/feb/15/newly-digitized-comics-teach-troja\
n-war/

I think we mentioned that the Altar of Pergamon is closed for renovations:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120207-berlins-pergamon-altar-close-renovations

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)
================================================================
The latest theory about Stonehenge ... sound inspiration?:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-effects-stonehenge-scientist.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17073206
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/16/stonehenge-based-magical-auditory-\
illusion
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/24737/sound-effects-inspired-stonehenge-us-sc\
ientist
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/stonehenge-inspired-by-sound-illusion_n\
_1283464.html

A  Neolithic 'High Street' found by underwater archaeologists near Bouldnor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17060174

A number of sites have been found prior to construction of Bulgaria's
Nabucco gas pipeline project:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=136619

Pondering the origins of the Buxton Mermaid:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17038668

Nottingham's City of Caves has reopened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16984845

Fiddler's Hill has been taken over by the Norfolk
Archaeological Trust:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-17079072

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Earliest (?) image of a mother goddess in Andhra Pradesh (I'm
greatly abbreviating the location):

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2897216.ece

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
================================================================
Petroglyphs from a possible paleo-Indian solstice site in Virginia:

http://www.clarkedailynews.com/archaeologist-says-rockart-found-at-local-paleoin\
dian-site/29289

They're still digging at Monticello:

http://www.nbc29.com/story/16964715/excavating-what-jefferson-left-off-his-maps

A project to locate and identify 13 British transport ships that sank in
Newport Harbor
in the 18th century:

http://www.jamestownpress.com/news/2012-02-16/Front_Page/Sunken_British_ships_ar\
e_focus_of_Newport_archaeol.html

They're restoring/restored the Bluenose II:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-lunenburg-a-new-bluenose-gets-se\
t-for-sea/article2338710/

More on that 'rich' WWII shipwreck (S.S. Port Nicholson) off Boston:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/08/modern-treasure-hunters-claim-theyve-found-\
billions-in-sunken-ship-off-boston
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Acoustic studies aren't confined to Stonehenge this week ... Chavin de
Huantar is
also in the news therefor:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/magic-sounds-of-peru-\
s-ancient-chavin-de-huantar
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/16/10426123-scientists-revive-sacre\
d-sounds

Aztec tablets found near the Templo Mayor:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/02/14/big-find-made-at-aztec-tem\
ple-in-mexico/
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/5650-revelan-texto-en-\
piedra-hallado-frente-a-templo-mayor

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Archaeo News Podcast 208:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
8

A pile of Newton's theological texts are going online:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-israeli-library-uploads-newton-theological.h\
tml
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-library-uploads-newtons-theological-texts-18145886\
1.html

... as have letters from Elizabeth Barrett-Browning:

http://web.wellesley.edu/web/Dept/LT/Collections/SpecColl/Browning

National Geographic has a lengthy feature on the Apostles:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/apostles/todhunter-text

A Mary Lincoln painting turns out to be a fake:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/design/portrait-of-mary-todd-lincoln-is-d\
eemed-a-hoax.html

Scientists unlock the ancient secrets of Chang Shan:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-scientists-molecular-secrets-year-old-chines\
e.html

More on Leonardo and his Vitruvian Man:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-lester/vitruvian-man-history_b_1273707.html#s\
683898&title=Zodiac_man

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mycenae:

http://www.qt.com.au/story/2012/02/17/fortress-steeped-ancient-horrors/

Voyage to Antiquity:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2102738/Aegean-Odyssey-Bringing-Classi\
cs-life-voyage-history.html

Roman London:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/in-the-know/london-cultural-attractions/902\
3143/london-history-walking-tours-of-roman-london.html

Skara Brae:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-17013307
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Tons of coverage of a robbery at one of the museums at Olympia; for a
synopsis:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/02/18/theft-at-olympia/

... otherwise:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17071934
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9088221/Armed-robbers-ra\
id-Ancient-Olympia-museum.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/theft-of-olympic-treasures-piles-\
on-misery-for-greeks-7079783.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/02/2012217185116930823.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_7_17/02/2012_428579
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/world/europe/greece-museum-robbery/index.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/armed-robbers-loot-ancient-greek-museum
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102623/Robbery-Ancient-Olympia-Museum-A\
rmed-robbers-steal-priceless-Greek-antiques.html
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/17/10432276-armed-robbers-steal-70-\
relics-from-museum-in-olympia-greece
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/gunmen-steal-dozens-of-antiquities-\
in-greeces-second-big-museum-theft-this-year/
http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/greek_crisis_austerity_cutbacks_blame\
d_as_olympics_museum_is_raided_1_2124656
http://www.itv.com/news/greek-relics-raid43071/
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120218/NEWS02/702189925
http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/673298--armed-robbers-snatch-priceless\
-antiquities-from-greek-museum
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/armed-robbers-hit-archaeology-muse\
um-ancient-olympia/48831/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/02/17/greece-museum-robbery.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/ancient-olympia-antiquities-museum_n_12\
84130.html
http://news.yahoo.com/greek-culture-minister-quits-over-ancient-olympia-theft-08\
4708203.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/robbers-steal-dozens-of-pricel\
ess-artifacts-from-greek-museum.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/ancient-olympia-museum-robbed-of-antiqu\
ities-early-today-greek-police-say.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/thieves-raid-ancient-olympia-museum

A Faberge egg was stolen:

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9535124.Faberge_egg_stolen_from_Worceste\
r_Park/

Muslim rioters at the Maldives' National Museum smashed some Buddhist
statuary:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gpQRnwpootZot3dABRpS168QzLbg?\
docId=CNG.b7b84d73ae0e2b3179e9deb594bd393e.481
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/world/asia/political-turmoil-threatens-archaeo\
logical-treasures-in-maldives.html

Not sure where to classify this one ... a major grant to study the illegal
antiquities
trade:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland-blog/2012/feb/13/glasgow-team-gets-1m-gran\
t-to-study-illegal-trade-in-antiquities

More on that theft from the Montreal MoFA:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53647
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/two-valuable-antiquities-stolen-from-mo\
ntreal-museum/article2338297/

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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Those Roman coins found in Suffolk a few months ago have been
declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17030532

A William the Conqueror penny from Gloucester:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-17027300
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Rare-coin-fills-gap-Gloucester-s-history/\
story-15254747-detail/story.html

Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n07.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n08.html

More on the court-ordered return of a pile of Spanish coins by Odyssey
Marine:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-usa-spain-shipwreck-idUSTRE81H00I20\
120218

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Rembrandt in America:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53692

Opening the Vaults: Mummies:

http://www.suntimes.com/10663478-418/from-the-vaults-field-musuem-bringing-out-t\
he-mummies.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53658
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/15/field-museum-to-offer-rare-look-at-mummie\
s/

Fascinating Mummies:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2102193/Edinburghs-mummies-exhibi\
tion-CT-scans-reveal-jewellery-stashed-bindings-Egyptian-corpses.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/uk-exhibition-mummies-edinburgh-idUSLN\
E81E03P20120215
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/299219/20120215/egypt-s-mummies-divulge-secrets-\
modern-scotland.htm
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre81e1gg-us-exhibition-mummies-edinburgh/

Mystery of the Mayan Medallion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/nyregion/the-mystery-of-the-mayan-medallion-at\
-the-long-island-childrens-museum.html

Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas:

http://www.kwes.com/story/16938134/art-of-the-ancient-americas-on-display

Hajj:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/marium-abdulsattar/the-british-museums-hajj-_b_1\
272904.html

Delphic Letters:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/greece/2012/01/30/visualizza_new\
.html_71875540.html

Romance of the Middle Ages:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-romantic-lessons-middle-ages.html

There's a new director at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty-museum-director-20120\
215,0,3180266.story
http://baytownsun.com/texas_ap/article_6e6479f2-1e7e-55bd-a591-cc144f7670f6.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gxErVPja4hEOek9pf56Q_gfks19g?d\
ocId=5534d9a791b745d18d71b4fc50b1ec1c


The next repatriation issue for the British Museum appears to be a bronze
head of Anahit:

http://news.am/eng/news/93338.html

More on Princeton returns to Italy:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/02/16/29976/

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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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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Tristram P. Coffin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/books/tristram-p-coffin-folklorist-dies-at-89.\
html

David Switzer:

http://www.mayhewfuneralhomes.com/?menuitem=330&siteid=50&action=1&value=12&obit\
uaries_action=2&obituaryid=115111

Berhard Kapitan:

http://wedigboats.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/obituary-for-gerhard-kapitan-in-engli\
sh/

Robert Hecht:

http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/139196319.html
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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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EARLY HUMANS
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European Neanderthals were in trouble even before modern
humans arrived, apparently:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120225110942.htm

Nice feature on the impact of the discovery of homo floresiensis:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/9094411/The-Hobbit-who-helped-us-fi\
nd-our-origins.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
MSU students are studying Nubian bone material:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-bones.html
http://news.msu.edu/story/10361/
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120224/MSU-students-analyze-bones-for-clues-i\
nto-Nubians-diets-health-histories-and-lifestyles.aspx

More on language origin and Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215143001.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A 12th Dynasty tomb from Qubbet el-Hawa:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/spain/91428-spanish-archaeologists-make-egypt\
ian-discovery

A different sort of mummy scan looks promising:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mummys-secrets-no-longer-under-170100181.html

Jordan's earliest buildings:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/archaeologists-discover-jordans-earliest-buil\
dings/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-archaeologists-jordan-earliest.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338646/title/Shelters_date_to_Stone_A\
ge

Evidence of a massacre in Bronze Age Titris Hoyuk:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/evidence-of-massacre-in\
-bronze-age-turkey

Feature on archaeology in Aelia Capitolina:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/archaeologists-bringing-jerusalem-\
s-ancient-roman-city-back-to-life-1.413874

LandMinds interview with Tom Levy about Hirbet
en-Nahas and other things:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-31Jan12a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-31Jan12b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-31Jan12c.mp3



The next phase of the Khufu solar boat project is about to begin (I think we
mentioned this last week):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/34691/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/nd-pha\
se-of-Khufu-solar-boat-project-to-begin-Mond.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/egypt-begins-the-restoration-of-\
a-4500-year-old-boat-found-near-pyramids/2012/02/20/gIQADhmUPR_stor%20y.html
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-begins-restoring-ancient-boat-near-pyramids-13410124\
8.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53744

The Israeli version of Wikipedia is arguing with the Israel Museum about
photographs:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/wikipedia-s-archaeology-editor-slams-i\
srael-museum-for-prohibiting-photography-1.412739

Funding to preserve Tel Shiloh:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/1.413665

A history of Persian carpets:

http://www.payvand.com/news/12/feb/1229.html

Egypt has recovered a pile of artifacts from Israel:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201202211274.html

Neil MacGregor did a TED talk on the Cyrus Cylinder:

http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_macgregor_2600_years_of_history_in_one_object.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpmsftF2We4

Latest in the Temple Mount saga (these vary in main topic):

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4194585,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153101

Reviewish of Shmuley Boteach, *Kosher Jesus*:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/books/article/is_jesus_really_kosher_20120224/

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Four shipwrecks off the Bay of Irakleio:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/41/53466

Alepotrypa Cave keeps popping up in the news:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-02-25/Alepotry\
pa-Cave-Hades/53237894/1

Feature on the digs going on at Sussita:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/archaeologists-excava\
te-magnificent-monumental-city-of-the-decapolis

Feature on Dryden's translation of Lucretius:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7662333/discovering-poetry-drydens-earthy-\
translation-of-lucretius.thtml

The Google Ancient Places/Pelasgios project is very interesting:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-google-funds-geography-ancient-world.html

Plans to 'upgrade' Paphos archaeological sites:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/paphos/paphos-archaeological-sites-be-upgraded/201202\
24

What M.D. Usher is up to:

http://www.7dvt.com/2012uvm-prof-revises-golden-ass-new-age

What Eric Adler is up to:

http://www.conncoll.edu/news/7712.cfm

How the USC Trojans got their name:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-0224-plaschke-usc-trojans-201202\
24,0,6997305.column

AIRC has a nice series of videos on Ostia:

http://romanculture.org/page/ostia-antica-videos

George O'Connor, *Olympians: Hades, Lord of the Dead*:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/graphic-books-best-sellers-george-o\
connor-on-greek-myths/

More on those shipwrecks off Zannone:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2010/Jul-27/119677-humans-long-gone-but-\
ancient-ghost-ships-still-protect-cargo.ashx

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)
================================================================
A shipwreck dating to 900 years B.C. of the coast of Devon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/7238663/3000-year-old-s\
hipwreck-shows-European-trade-was-thriving-in-Bronze-Age.html

A 500 years b.p. locket from Wragby is garnering interest:

http://www.marketrasenmail.co.uk/news/local/brigg/museum_interest_in_locket_trea\
sure_find_1_3550861

A Bronze Age hoard from near Kidwelly has been declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17156629

Plans/agreement to restore the Apostolos Andreas Monastery in Cyprus:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/26019/monastery-agreement
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archbishop-chrysostomos/archbishop-pledges-go-it-alon\
e-and-fix-apostolos-andreas/20120221

Pondering the sinking of the Vasa:

http://www.pri.org/stories/science/swedish-preservationists-document-likely-caus\
e-of-sinking-of-ancient-sailing-ship-8606.html

What we can learn from the Vikings about climate change:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-vikings-global.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/norse-settlement-may-he\
lp-us-adapt-to-global-changes

Queen Victoria's Faberge notebook is going on display:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/23/queen-victoria-faberge-notebook

Questions about the Coventry Charterhouse sale:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-17111188

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Studying the social structure of ancient Eurasian nomads:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-rethinking-social-ancient-eurasian-nomads.ht\
ml
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uocp-rts022412.php

Excavating China's 'Atlantis':

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-02/23/c_131426806.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/23/Chinas-lost-Atlantis-unearthed/UPI-82\
561330039594/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-02/22/content_14662968.htm

Assorted shipwrecks found beneath the carpar on Koombana Bay (Australia):

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/301708/20120221/shipwreck-ship.htm

Somewhat bizarre 'treasure hunt' story from India:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2913783.ece

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
================================================================
Latest from that Provo Tabernacle dig:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=19257263&autostart=y

What the Mimbres culture can teach us about climate change:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-southwest-pueblo-dwellers-key-modern-climate\
.html

They've finally finished the Dictionary of American Regional English:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/books/dictionary-of-american-regional-english-\
reaches-last-volume.html

What $650 000 buys you these days, heritage house-wise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/greathomesanddestinations/real-estate-for-6500\
00.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Oldest petroglyph in the Americas found in Brazil  (10 000 years b.p.):

http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9100690/Rock-art-d\
iscovery-could-shed-light-on-when-New-World-was-settled.html
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_770228.ht\
ml
http://news.discovery.com/history/little-horny-man-carving-phallus-sex-fertility\
-120223.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46488427/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-ancient-art-brazil.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/plos-ara022112.php

Drought as the cause of the collapse of the Maya again in
the news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17149812
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223142455.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-maya-civilization-collapse-modest-rainfall.h\
tml
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/24/collapse-mayan-civilization-traced-to-\
dry-spells/
http://news.discovery.com/history/mayan-civilazation-drought-122402.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6071/956
... and some apparently unrelated (?) water management/climate change/Maya
studies:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uoc-rrw022112.php

Reviving a new species of yeast from a pre-Incan tomb:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-species-resurrected-ancient\
-andean-tomb

A Patolli game board find from Dzibilnocac:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/16-antropologia/5685-hallan-qpasatiem\
poq-prehispanico-en-el-area-maya

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica (a couple weeks' worth):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews12feb12.mp3
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews19feb12.mp3

Nice oped on why the world has to save the cultural assets of Egypt and
Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/feb/20/ancient-ass\
ets-greece-egypt-eurozone

Folks might be interested in signing an online petition aimed at protesting
Spike TV's 'American Diggers' program, which pretty much glorifies the
looting of sites:

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-spike-tv-from-looting-our-collective-past

Caravaggio's Medusa is definitely by Caravaggio:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120224-x-ray-scientists-authenticate-caravaggio-pai\
nting

... the reasons for which authentication are somewhat confusing considering
the Prado's copy of the Mona Lisa seems to have the 'same' technique(?):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mona-Lisas-secrets-revealed/25699

Quite a bit of coverage of the transfer of gold from Odyssey Marine to
Spain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17158436
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-25/spain-florida-treasure/5324\
4192/1
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbODUlRv-8dS4xFdqmArCx44aYtQ?d\
ocId=3b555c461e21443d83c7960018379ea8
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/spain-send-military-planes-florida-collect\
-a-a-billion-dollars-worth-treasure-article-1.1025824
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9097535/Spanish-swoop-on-\
US-to-collect-17-tons-of-shipwreck-treasure.html

Feature on dendrochronology:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tree-ring-science-modern-age.html

Latest (interesting) art forgery case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/design/authenticity-of-trove-of-pollocks-\
and-rothkos-goes-to-court.html

The Ghent Altarpiece is now the subject of an interactive website:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/restored-ghent-altarpiece-gets-own-\
interactive-web-site/

Interesting essay on fact checking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/the-lifespan-of-a-fact-by-john-da\
gata-and-jim-fingal.html


Folks might want a heads up on this claim of a 1st century  fragment of the
Gospel of Mark (much skepticism amongst scholars, but you know how the
press loves these things):

http://global.christianpost.com/news/bible-scholars-skeptical-of-1st-century-gos\
pel-fragment-discovery-70231/

Some coverage of International Mother Language Day:

http://www.aina.org/ata/20120221140507.htm
http://www.bianet.org/konu/anadil-gunu-2012

A history of organ transplants:

http://www.history.com/news/2012/02/21/organ-transplants-a-brief-history/

Russian scientists have grown an arctic plant from a 32 000 years b.p.
fruit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/new-life-from-an-arctic-flower-that-di\
ed-32000-years-ago.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-russians-revive-ice-age-frozen.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100138648/resurrecting-the-d\
ead-what-an-ice-age-plants-revival-means-and-doesnt-mean/

Another mathematical explanation for something not immediately thought of
as mathematical:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-classical-musical-compositions-adhere-power.\
html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Petra:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120226/LIVING03/202260326/Petra-Lost-City-Midd\
le-East-quite-find

Bruges:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/travel/a-weekend-in-bruges-beyond-cobbled-l\
anes-and-medieval-canals.html
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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/

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Biblical Archaeology Review March/April 2012:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/

Atiqot 55:

http://www.atiqot.org.il/ArticleList.aspx?id=14

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Greek police have detained someone in connection with the robbery at
Olympia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_24/02/2012_429679

... while reports were coming that more was stolen than initially thought:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/ancient-olympia-museum-theft_n_1289565.\
html

... and an official list of what was taken was posted (click on the second
'word' icon):

http://www.yppo.gr/2/g22.jsp?obj_id=49452


... and perhaps not surprisingly, Greek museums plan to increase security
now:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53802
http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-23/news/31092117_1_museums-artifacts-review-s\
ecurity
The Vatican has asked to look at a Bible that Turkish police recovered
from smugglers some 12 years ago:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/vatican-eyes-1500-year-old-bible-held-in-turkis\
h-capital.aspx
http://euronews.net.feedsportal.com/c/32800/f/536661/s/1ce596c6/l/0L0Seuronews0B\
net0C20A120C0A20C240Cantique0Ebible0Eturns0Eup0Ein0Eturkey0C/story01.htm

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
================================================================
Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n08.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n09.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Pharoah: King of Egypt:

http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/walk_like_an_egyptian_1_4283400

Shakespeare's Sisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/design/shakespeares-sisters-at-the-folger\
-shakespeare-library.html

A Passion for Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/design/a-passion-for-drawings-charles-rys\
kamps-bequest-at-frick.html

Rembrandt and Degas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/design/rembrandt-and-degas-at-the-metropo\
litan-museum-of-art.html

Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53819

A Day in Pompeii:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120225/ENT07/302250026/Museum-hosts-day-Pom\
peii-
http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/local_news/new-exhibit-brings-ancient-rome-to-th\
e-tri-state_7225689

Gods, Myths, and Mortals:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/gods-myths-and-mortals_n_1297268.html

Genghis Khan:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53836

The Renaissance Portrait:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/arts/25iht-melikian25.html

Armenia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/24iht-conway24.html

Playing House:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/design/antiques-playing-house-exhibition-\
at-brooklyn-museum.html


Prado Mona Lisa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17114645
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/21/world/europe/spain-mona-lisa/index.html

The copy of 'The Scream' in Munich is going on sale:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17114751

Pondering the Getty's ancient acquisitions policies from different
perspectives:

http://www.canada.com/travel/Getty+leaders+ancient+issues/6199082/story.html

The latest 'repatriation issue' seems to be a head of Anahit in the BM:

http://hetq.am/eng/news/10924/california-armenian-launches-drive-demanding-briti\
sh-museum-hand-over-anahit-bust-to-armenia.html
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/02/incoming_getty_director_n.php

Coverage of the opening of the Asia Society's Hong King Centre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/arts/23iht-asiasociety23.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
================================================================
Muzsikas/Bartok:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/music/andras-schiff-and-muzsikas-at-carne\
gie-hall.html

Galileo:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/theater/reviews/f-murray-abraham-in-galile\
o-at-classic-stage-company.html


An anonymous donor has given a big cheque to the Globe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17154354

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
================================================================
A. Trevor Hodge:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Carleton+professor+Trevor+Hodge+combined+drama\
+brilliance/6210371/story.html

Brian Shefton:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/22/brian-shefton-obituary
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Mitch Allen,
Patrick Swan, A. Landreau,Kurt Theis, Wendy van Duivenvoorde,
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
================================================================
Interesting info from Oetzi's genome (interesting how different media
sources
stress different aspects of the same study):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-genetic-analysis-reveals-otzi-iceman.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/iceman_genome/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17191398
http://news.yahoo.com/dna-data-helps-flesh-otzi-alpine-iceman-161516817.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/iceman-mummy-lyme-disease-120228.html

A hominin-human timeline sort of thing:

http://thevarsity.ca/2012/02/27/hominins-to-humans/

On the origins of blue eyes (not sure where to put this one):

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/do-blue-eyes-ste\
m-from-a-black-sea-resident-8000-years-ago/

Neanderthals were apparently using boats long before modern humans:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-evidence-neanderthals-boats-modern-humans.ht\
ml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108651/Neanderthals-beat-modern-\
humans-seas-50-000-years-say-scientists.html
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/231282/neanderthals-used-boats-much-modern.h\
tml
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328544.800

More on Neanderthals being on the verge of extinction before
humans arrived:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17179608
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-european-neanderthals-verge-extinction-moder\
n.html
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=224326
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
More on Nubian skeletons:

http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/02/nubian_skeletons_reveal_secre\
ts_of_ancient_times
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Garbage dumping and archaeological looting at Abu Sir:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/681041

The Patio Tomb coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tomb-exploration-reveals-archaeological-evid\
ence.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uonc-ter022712.php
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10534008-doubts-about-the-jesus-\
discovery
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/naked-archaeologist-finds-signs-jerusa\
lem-cave-was-used-to-bury-jesus-disciples-1.415231
http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/finding-a-new-image-profe\
ssor-s-discovery-resurrects-debate-over/article_ee21c51e-63f7-11e1-bfce-0019bb29\
63f4.html
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10521007-new-find-revives-jesus-\
tomb-flap
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/28/tomb-jonah-discovered-finder-lost-tomb\
-jesus-claims/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/02/archeologists-p\
eer-into-jesus-tomb-ossuary/1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9111834/Christs-disc\
iples-remains-discovered.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/investigators-may-discovered-earliest-evide\
nce-christian-iconography-jerusalem-231736336.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2107591/Will-discovery-ancient-co\
ffin-lead-resting-place-Jesus.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tomb-exploration-reveals-archaeological-evid\
ence.html

... folks genuinely interested in this should read the various discussions
at the ASOR blog (there are
quite a few reactions in the blogosphere in general):

http://asorblog.org/

... if you want a classicist's perspective (i.e. mine):

http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/02/29/the-patio-tomb-evidence-of-early-christian\
ity-i-hae-me-doots-a-classics-perspective/

James Tabor's article on same is up at Bible and Interpretation:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/tab368028.shtml

cf the original (especially the 'fish'):

http://www.bobcargill.com/Docs/Tabor2_ORIGINAL_VERSION.pdf


... but we should note that recently some of the photos have been
changed (hmmm):

Recent finds from Tel Megiddo:

https://sites.google.com/site/megiddoexpedition/additional-information/area_h_ho\
ard

A Phoenician fortress from Cyprus:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Jun/24/Remains-of-Phoenician-fortress-u\
ncovered-in-Cyprus.ashx


Finds from Horbat Midras:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00200.html


Gospel of Mark fragments:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2012/02/27/fragments-of-marks-gospel-may\
-date-to-1st-century/
http://global.christianpost.com/news/bible-scholars-skeptical-of-1st-century-gos\
pel-fragment-discovery-70231/

Feature on that mummy of Nehemes-Bastet:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Mummy_discovery_reveals_ancient_secrets_.htm\
l?cid=32194158

Latest on Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153152

More on the solar boat:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1086/eg72.htm
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/35047/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Japane\
seEgyptian-team-starts-restoring-King-Khufus.aspx

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of Greek reburial of sites due to lack of funds:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/02/greek-antiquities-reburied-for-lack-o\
f-funds/
http://www.france24.com/en/20120302-greek-antiquities-reburied-lack-funds
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gy3GQeW3LPeIZEzU1rebXmnrRByg?\
docId=CNG.fe1245d46ab71882e956e375ece52394.561
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Greek+antiquities+reburied+lack+funds+report/624\
0554/story.html

Water works near Kirkton have revealed assorted Roman remains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-17237825

A very nice gilt bronze Greek helmet from Haifa Bay:

http://world.greekreporter.com/2012/03/02/mysterious-ancient-greek-bronze-helmet\
-found-in-haifa-bay/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46574945/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-greek-helmet-120229.html
http://news.yahoo.com/found-ancient-warriors-helmet-owner-unknown-141401836.html
http://www.livescience.com/18700-ancient-helmet-greek-warrior.html

Feature on Alepotrypa Cave:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-02-25/Alepotry\
pa-Cave-Hades/53237894/1

Traces of paint on the Medici Venus:

http://news.discovery.com/history/medici-venus-120203.html

That 'Julius Caesar' bust found at Arles is going on display at the Louvre:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Arles:-the-Excavations-in-Rhone/112\
2243

Baylor's Latin Day:

http://baylorlariat.com/2012/03/02/roman-resurrection-classics-become-cool/

Latin is 'lingering' in Rochester:

http://www.campustimes.org/2012/03/01/latin-lingers-on/

Nice feature on chariot racing:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-by\
zantine-empire/

The Classics Confidential people were chatting with Edith Hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_q7hClO1-A&feature=uploademail

There was an Ovid Marathon reading at St Olaf:

http://www.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=5253

What Donald McGuire is up to:

http://www.ubspectrum.com/life/mcguire-scoots-to-recovery-1.2797172#.T1NlOHnN2uI

Feature about Heron of Alexandria:

http://jalopnik.com/5888188/the-greeks-had-the-technology-to-build-a-car-in-60-a\
d

Interesting Julius Caesar page:

http://www.biography.com/people/julius-caesar-9192504

Roman advice for political candidates (semi-reviewish?):

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/03/ancient_roman_advice_for_the_20\
12_candidates_.html

Review(ish) of the Swerve:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/02/27/loss-and-recovery-stephen-greenblatt%E2%80%\
99s-%E2%80%9Cthe-swerve%E2%80%9D/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/26/f-vp-handler-swerve.html

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)
================================================================
The refurbishment of Roch Castle is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17238208

... as is Kinver Rock House:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-17208140

The public is helping to dig at Flag Fen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17211285

A Charles II 'wanted' poster fetched an okay price at auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-17244677

Thomas Hobbes appears to have had a cunning plan in regards
to the English Civil War:

http://www.livescience.com/18648-thomas-hobbes-letter-england-civil-war.html

There's a new railway archive online in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/28/railway-archive-engineering-giants

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Feature on those Jewish manuscripts found in Afghanistan (not sure if
there's
anything new here):

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/92443/war-papers/

Arguing over a Khmer statue saved from auction in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/sothebys-caught-in-dispute-over-pr\
ized-cambodian-statue.html

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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Solutrean discovery of America (definitely have to watch this one):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-european-style-stone-tools-age.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age\
-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9110838/Stone-age-Europe\
ans-were-the-first-to-set-foot-on-North-America.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-am\
ericans-places-stone-age-europeans-in-delmarva-20000-years-ago/2012/02/28/gIQA4m\
riiR_print.html

Very semi-related ... fwiw and mixed in with some Elmer material:

http://borderzine.com/2012/03/did-europeans-settle-in-the-arizona-desert-thousan\
ds-of-years-before-columbus-sailed-to-america/

Feature on Jefferson's slaves at Poplar Forest:

http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2012/feb/26/slavery-research-poplar-forest-show\
s-contradiction-ar-1713406/

On ancient American pilgrimage centres:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/03/04/study-pilgrimage-a-co\
stly-signal.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/ancient-american-pilgrimage-communi\
tas.html

The site of the Battle of Medina may have been found:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Battle-of-Medina-site-found-\
geologist-says-3374995.php

Humans in Ohio were scavenging/hunting earlier that previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-reveals-evidence-prehistoric-ohioans.html
http://news.yahoo.com/research-reveals-first-evidence-hunting-prehistoric-ohioan\
s-162015355.html

Haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while ... this time, its sailors
from the Monitor:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/faces-of-civil-war-sailors-from-sunken-us\
s-monitor-reconstructed-in-hopes-of-identifying-them/2012/03/03/gIQAAldxoR_story\
.html

What Whitney Battle-Baptiste is up to:

http://www.truth-out.org/archaeologist-author-black-feminist-unearths-contributi\
ons-african-diaspora-everyday-people/13304412
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
The tomb of Atahualpa has possibly been found:

http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Clue-to-Inca-emperor-tomb-found-20120229
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/ecuador/9112505/Ecuador-l\
ocates-final-resting-place-of-last-Inca-emperors-tomb.html

Women were important in pre-colonial Maya society:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-women-central-pre-colonial-maya-society.html
http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/3632

A 16th century shipwreck off Brazil:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/03/01/sixteenth-century-shipwrec\
k-discovered-by-brazil-team/

Interesting photo from Chichen Itza which, of course, is being given all
sorts of spins:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/02/mayan-light-beam-photo-message-from-go\
ds-or-iphone-glitch/

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews26feb12.mp3

The Herschel family papers are now available for research purposes:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-newly-science-materials.html

Some Spain v Odyssey marine aftermath:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/sunken_treasure_washed_up_in_spain_1_\
2141830
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/9108879/Spain-rejects-Per\
uvian-claim-to-shipwreck-treasure.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/spain-rejects-peruvian-claim-to-shipw\
reck-treasure/2012/02/27/gIQAFFcfdR_story.html

and:

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=24195

Video report on the Vatican's 'other' Secret Archives:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VJOqjL0pU&feature=uploademail

On climate change as seen through Arabic manuscripts:

http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=7wc8369beu2zmtjdtss7&u=18736418&f=h
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-ancient-arabic-scientists-piece-climate.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/27/ancient-iraqi-meteorologists-speak-to-the-\
present-on-climate/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-arabic-writings-help-scientists-reconstruct-pas\
t-climate-060306808.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120226225956.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/w-aaw022312.php

An interesting application of 3d printing technology:

http://mashable.com/2012/02/24/smithsonian-uses-3d-printing/

Foot bones can be used to identify the sex of skeletons:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-foot-bones-sex-skeletal.html

Some coverage of the American Digger thing:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/archaeologists-protest-glamori\
zan.html

One of the nuttiest claims I've seen in ages:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/dargaville-districts/649794\
3/Greeks-got-here-first

... and coming a close second are claims that that Bible in Turkey we
mentioned last week includes mention
that Jesus foretold the coming of Mohammed:

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/jesus-foresaw-prophet-mohammads-arrival-hid\
den-ancient-bible-414563
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105714/Secret-14million-Bible-Jesus-pre\
dicts-coming-Prophet-Muhammad-unearthed-Turkey.html

... and stories of Victoria's 'secret daughter' is probably in the same
category:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2106204/Victorias-secret-According-tan\
talising-new-evidence-Queen-Victoria-married-Scottish-groom-bore-secret-daughter\
-spirited-America.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted 'guided walks':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/feb/27/readers-travel-tips-guided-walks
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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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Thieves stole St Laurence O'Toole's heart from Dublin's
Christ Church Cathedral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17248394
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Saint-s-ancient-heart-stolen-from-Dublin-\
cathedral-3380594.php

Another antiquities bust in Thessaloniki:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17248637
http://www.nbc29.com/story/17071944/35-arrested-in-greece-with-stolen-antiquitie\
s
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n272372
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/03/4308655/35-arrested-in-greece-with-stolen.html

A pair of British tourists were arrested on suspicion of smuggling artifacts
from Egypt, but it turned to they were imitations:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9110760/British-tourists-arrested-f\
or-smuggling-artefacts-out-of-Egypt.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/british-couple-released-as-pricel\
ess-artifacts-they-were-smuggling-out-of-egypt-turn-out-to-be-cheap-market-fakes\
-7447085.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120226/ml-egypt-antiquities/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ioxhVKqn60e1M6AsvY9cDTzBPwDQ?\
docId=CNG.f93648e502555ea3e976efe113d96c98.9c1

On the scope of antiquities theft in Israel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-antiquity-thefts-per-year-in-israel/

More on those thieves who were using the Copper Scroll as a treasure map:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_ido.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1901\
&module_id=#as
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-antiquities-officials-apprehend-thieves-in-\
ancient-cave/

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
================================================================
Today's issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n10.htmlA

Some Syracusan dekadrachms are coming to auction:

http://www.coinweek.com/news/auctions-news/morton-eden-announce-sale-of-four-ico\
nic-greek-coins-dating-from-the-5th-century-bc/

... as is the Shoshana collection of ancient Judean coins:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53917
http://coins.ha.com/common/auction/catalog.php?SaleNo=3003&ic=leftcol-shoshana-a\
lthome4-021412
http://www.ha.com/c/press-release.zx?releaseId=2166

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lux in Arcana:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54002
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9111168/V\
atican-Secret-Archives-reveal-abdication-letter-of-hermaphrodite-Swedish-queen.h\
tml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWn1otXr_Ks&feature=uploademail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIg9ydN87Zo&feature=uploademail

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/arts/news/article_1693392.php/Aphrodite-and-th\
e-Gods-of-Love-open-March-28-at-The-Getty-Villa

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-pompeian-life-vesuvius-wrath.html

Becoming the Volunteer State:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/26d64f853a7e431a96cc6369644c7a74/TN--Museu\
m-War-of-1812/

Genghis Khan:

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120226/entlife/702269993/

Titian's Diana and Callisto will remain in the UK:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/British-galleries-buy-Renaissance-masterpi\
ece-3373131.php

The Andhra Pradesh Archeological Museum is set to reopen:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ap-archaeological-museum-to-reopen-soon/233975-62-131\
.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
================================================================
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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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Edward Rockstein,
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on Otzi's genetics:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-tyrolean-iceman-cometh/article2360\
955/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/science/iceman-had-brown-eyes-and-hair-and-was\
-lactose-intolerant.html
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AFRICA
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Interesting feature about a slave burial ground on St Helena:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologists-unearth-slave-burial-ground.h\
tml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/08/slave-mass-graves-st-helena-island
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/slave-burial-ground-exc\
avated-on-st-helena
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Archaeologists have discovered the name of a previously-unknown
17th dynasty pharaoh:

http://news.discovery.com/history/new-king-120307.html
http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/694016

We're starting to get hype for that Chinese dentists' plans to
send a robot into the Great pyramid (and Zahi Hawass is involved):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-hongkong-dentist-egypt-idUSBRE82707\
K20120308
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre82707k-us-hongkong-dentist-egypt/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2112027/Hong-Kong-dentist-help-ch\
eck-pharaohs-cavity-inside-Great-Pyramid.html

Feature on the folks illegally digging up antiquities in Egypt:

http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=23395&title=Deluded%20d\
iggers%20defy%20death

The Penn Museum put up a nice video of Josef Wegner's talk abot
his work at Abydos this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAij2KQimk&feature=uploademail

... and another Wegner was giving a talk about love in the ancient
world (along with Ralph Rosen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5vwzusf-o&feature=uploademail

Feature on Alexandria:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he2.htm

Nice feature on the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae
project:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16117
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-ancient-graffiti-life-common.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131640.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/1.417504
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/afot-au030612.php

There was a report this week that the Syrian army was attacking
Palmyra's Roman (Nabatean) ruins:

http://globalheritagefund.org/onthewire/blog/palmyras_ruins

A verdict in the James Ossuary case will be coming this week:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/date-set-for-james-ossuary-verdict/?mqsc=E3066328
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The Getty returned some items to Greece:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54098
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2017707764_apeugreecegettyan\
tiquities.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GREECE_GETTY_ANTIQUITIES?SITE=AP&SECTI\
ON=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/09/4324381/las-getty-museum-returns-antiquities.ht\
ml
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_09/03/2012_432138
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/j-paul-getty-museum-returns-5th-centu\
ry-bc-ancient-fragments-to-greece/2012/03/09/gIQAoAFE1R_story.html

A section of the Via Egnatia was uncovered in Thessaloniki:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/ancient-road-unearthed-in-greece-\
1.1248617

I doubt anyone is surprised to hear that the Medici Venus once had
colour:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9124246/Chemical-analysis-shows-Medici-Ve\
nus-was-once-far-gaudier.html

Feature on recent research about Alexander in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1087/he1.htm

A new (to me) podcast worth checking out ... this installment is
onthe Fasces:

http://www.ancientartpodcast.org/SCARABsolutions/Resources/Entries/2012/2/9_Epis\
ode_47__Roman_Fasces.html

Another piece on cutbacks in Greece and the threat to antiquities:

http://keranews.org/post/cutbacks-greeks-say-antiquities-are-risk

I think we had mention of this Ladino translation of the Iliad a
while ago:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/holocaust-survivor-revives-jewish-dial\
ect-by-translating-greek-epic-1.417423

There was a report this week that the Syrian army was attacking
Palmyra's Roman (Nabatean) ruins:

http://globalheritagefund.org/onthewire/blog/palmyras_ruins
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/syrian-army-attacks-palm\
yras-roman-ruins

Brief item on the Meduproject:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/09/greece-and-italy-join-forces-to-study-mar\
ine-antiquities/

Interesting feature on recreating Caerleon's Roman amphitheatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17231530

What Anne Carson is up to:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/72354-classicist-deliver-byrne-lecture

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-odysseus-lies-here.html

Some guy goes to Cephalonia, so he writes an OpEd on the Bittlestone
theory about Ithaca:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/kristof-odysseus-lies-here.html

Feature on walking tours of Roman sites in London:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/in-the-know/london-cultural-attractions/913\
3362/London-Roman-history-guide.html

Marking International Women's Day in the Colosseum:

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/romes-colosseum-reveals-secret-histo\
ry-of-women/503447
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IlKu3YWNgM

Review of Song of Achilles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeli\
ne-miller/2011/12/12/gIQAW7satR_story.html

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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I think we've mention this Dover Bronze Age Boat project before:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2110578/Worlds-oldest-sea-going-b\
oat-sail-scientists-rebuild-Dover-Bronze-Age-Boat-ancient-tools-understand-peopl\
e-crossed-channel-1500BC.html?ITO=1490

A Bronze Age gold ring from Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/bronze-age-golden-ring-unearthed-in-furness-1.9313\
35?referrerPath=home

... while another Bronze Age ring was declared treasure:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17289513

Latest CT scan treatment goes to Worsley Man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17300084
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2112499/Very-cold-case-2-000-year\
-old-murder-solved-CT-scan-reveals-Iron-Age-man-bludgeoned-strangled-beheaded-hu\
man-sacrifice.html

Scots and English universities are going to be talking Vikings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17277318

A letter of Henry VIII was found at Dunham Massey:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17258508

Hunting down some seventeenth century regicides:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16303861

Here's a followup to a story we reported some fifteen years ago (!)
... that warrior (with horse, sword, and shield) burial found on
the RAF Lakenheath site in 1997 is going to the Mildenhall Museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17269289

Doing the DNA thing to find Basque roots:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306181210.htm

Inn Stowe visitor centre reconstruction is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-17312410

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some 2000 (!) Buddha statues turn up in a dig in China's Hebei
province:

http://malaysiandigest.com/world/40915-thousands-of-buddha-statues-found-in-nort\
h-china.html

Big bucks expected for a Northern Song Dynasty bowl coming to
auction:

http://my.news.yahoo.com/ancient-chinese-bowl-auction-h-k-220531099.html

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
================================================================
Digging up the Modern Greece:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/08/3078449/civil-war-shipwreck-yields-i\
ts.html
http://www.stripes.com/news/artifact-recoveries-on-civil-war-shipwreck-in-time-f\
or-anniversary-1.171094

Honours for William Kelso:

http://hamptonroads.com/node/632551

Tracking Hopewell people migration through dental clues:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/03/insights-into-hopewell-population.h\
tml

Not sure if this is a review of a book, an auction preview, or
what but it's all about William Scagel's knife making activities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/knives-of-william-scagel-storied-b\
lacksmith-for-sale.html

More on the facial reconstruction of USS Monitor folks:

http://news.discovery.com/history/uss-monitor-faces-reconstruction-120306.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/uss-monitor-faces-reconstruction-photos-120306\
.html(photos)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/03/02/this_week_in_the_civil_war\
/

Review of Natalie Dykstra, *Clover Adams*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/natalie-dykstras-biography-of-clo\
ver-adams.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
On Maya women leaders:

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=202656
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242682-New-research-shows-ancient-Maya-women-w\
ere-powerful-leaders

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Feature on the use of LiDAR in archaeology:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/indiana-jones-goes-geek-laser-mappin\
g-lidar-revolutionizes-archaeology.ars

Comparing human and gorilla genomes:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-gorilla-genome-sheds-new-light-huma\
n-idUSTRE8261VA20120307
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/wtsi-whw030512.php

... and I guess we'll mention what appears to be our earliest
ancestor (?):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-human-worm-fossil-canada.html

The oldest film based on Dickens has been located:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre82800k-us-dickens-film/

Darwin is off the hook for 'deceiving' Alfred Wallace:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-darwin-wallace-mystery.html

They've mapped the full site of the Titanic:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-full-titanic-site-1st.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17273596
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-full-titanic-mapped-1st-time-174336818.html

... and supposedly the moon played a role in her demise:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre82519n-us-titanic-research-moon/
http://news.discovery.com/space/moon-titanic-120306.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-icebergs-accomplice-moon-titanic.html

An asteroid is now being blamed for the death of assorted megafauna
in the Americas:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/evidence_for_mammoth_asteroid/

... but both man and climate change are being blamed for megafauna
demise elsewhere:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-demise-large-animals-climate.html

Slideshow on the history of prosthetics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16599006

Potentially useful: an aerial archaeology archive:

http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/aerial-archaeology

Pondering the subject of Picasso's 'Woman Ironing':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/learning-the-identity-of-a-phantom\
-picasso-subject.html

More on the origins of blue eyes:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/do-blue-eyes-ste\
m-from-a-black-sea-resident-8000-years-ago/1#.T1PcwXmR4TY

Review of Kwasi Kwarteng, *Ghosts of Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/ghosts-of-empire-by-kwasi-kwarten\
g.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Another antiquities bust in Greece, this time in Athens (I think):

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/greek-police-arrest-suspected-smugglers-seize-treasures\
-031130190.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Mar-06/165624-44-arrested-in-greece\
-for-antiquities-trafficking.ashx
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/44-arrested-in-greece-1372361.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9122719/Greek-police-arr\
est-44-over-illegal-antiquities-trafficking.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?t\
ype=Photo&output_format=PARA&query=Stolen+Antiquities&SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgBT9mbqT9YsunwS5OfP0RXS1ZSA?d\
ocId=d8cdd9d39f054f1fab2700c7292ca58a

...this one in Chalcidiki seems to be another one:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/06/counting-of-looted-antiquities-comple\
te/

... or maybe it isn't (the coverage is confusing):

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/53786

Police have recovered a number of paintings stolen from Rome forty
years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/09/stolen-paintings-rome-art-hei\
st

This link to a video was sent to me to draw attention to looting
by assorted gangs at El Hibbeh (and elsewhere) in Egypt:

http://www.alqaheraalyoum.net/videos/playvideo.php?vid=0164108b3

A pile of Lord Nelson's personal artifacts were stolen:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110581/Plundered--37-800-worth-Lord-Nel\
son-s-personal-artefacts-stolen-Norwich-Castle.html

Some looted Cambodian artifacts were recovered from Sotheby's:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Cambodians-Work-to-Recover-Priceless-An\
tiquities-141610743.html

More on Laurence O'Toole's stolen heart:

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/05/10582329-police-hunt-thief-who-s\
tole-ancient-heart-of-irish-saint-laurence-otoole

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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Big bucks for a year one silver shekel:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54100
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g8WLHv6RbfBquZPiGEAP2NeYpJLg?\
docId=CNG.524e6f7b2b8480aa5a92b13164d02a18.111
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/for_just_one_shekel_LiM4EyaL42j7pRi\
DCmHGAN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan

Today's issue of the e-Sylum (should be out later today):

http://www.coinbooks.com/club_nbs_esylum_v15n11.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle
East:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-0308-museums-oriental-institu\
te-20120307,0,4621998.column

The Steins Collect:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/arts/design/the-steins-collect-matisse-and-pic\
asso-at-the-met.html?ref=design

Lux in Arcana:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/lux-in-arcana-the-vatic\
an-secret-archive-revealed

Islamic Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/arts/03iht-melikian03.html

Turkey is banning loans to US and British Museums:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/308999/20120305/turkey-metropolitan-museum-met-b\
ritish-exhibition-ertu.htm

The Corning Museum of Glass has launched a new website:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54026


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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Otello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/arts/music/cecila-bartoli-in-otello-at-zurich-\
opera-house.html?ref=design

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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The New York Times reprised the obit of Howard Carter this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html
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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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Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of a potential new ancestor (for now, referred
to as the Red Deer Cave people):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/14/red-deer-cave-people-species-human
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17370170
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/Possible-new-human-species-unearthed-\
in-China
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/New-human-species-discovered-How-Chin\
a-fossils-could-redefine-human
http://www.theage.com.au/national/scientists-stumped-by-prehistoric-human-whose-\
face-doesnt-fit-20120314-1v3m0.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/new-human-species-red-deer-cave_n_13452\
16.html
http://www.livescience.com/19039-human-species-china-cave.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-mystery-human-fossils-spotlight-china.html

... a gallery of human ancestors:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/14/anthropology-evolution
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meet-the-other-ancestors-7570380.html

On climate change and human evolution:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-human-evolution-climate.html

Postulating an earlier form of writing included with petroglyphs? (not
sure where to put this one):

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/did-stone-age-cavemen-talk-to-each-other-i\
n-symbols/

More on Otzi's genetics:

http://www.physorg.com/news250761066.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A Canadian team has found what might be a statue of Hatshepsut:

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/statue-chapels-animal-mummies-found\
-egypt-u-of-t
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uot-sca031212.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-statue-chapels-animal-mummies-egypt.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312140250.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/03/cross-dressing-pharo\
ah-found-i.html
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Canadian+archeologists+unearth+rare+wooden+\
statue+pharaoh/6296272/story.html
http://www.history.com/news/2012/03/13/egypt-dig-reveals-animal-mummies-and-poss\
ible-hatshepsut-statue/

On the return of archaeologists to Iraq:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-10/archaeol\
ogy-returns-to-iraq/53449318/1
Latest from Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46759542/ns/technology_and_science-science/

LandMinds interview with Norma Franklin about Jezreel:

http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12a.mp3
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-13March12b.mp3

cf: http://www.jezreel-expedition.com/

In case you missed it, there was a verdict in the Oded Golan trial (n.b.,
the
judge did not rule the James Ossuary is authentic ... that doesn't come
through in all the press coverage):

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/03/16/antiquities-fraud-trial-ends-but-not-que\
stions-about-ossuarys-authenticity/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2012-03-17/james-os\
suary-jesus/53578490/1
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/14/2436962/israeli-antiquities-collector\
.html
http://chronicle.com/article/Jerusalem-Court-Acquits/131164/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/israeli-antiquities-collectors\
-acquitted-but-archaeological-mystery-remains.html
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Israeli-court-clears-2-of-faking-Jesus-era\
-box-3405158.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-court-acquits-2-men-accu\
sed-of-forging-bible-era-relics/2012/03/14/gIQAhCqQBS_story.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1145906--james-ossuary-trial-acquits-i\
sraeli-man-of-forgery-charges
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-israel-archaeology-idUSBRE82D0XO201\
20314
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james\
-ossuary-for-real/
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_ANTIQUITIES_ACQUITTAL?SITE=AP&S\
ECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/verdict-not-guilty/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/03/14/ossuary-james-acquitted-golan.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/antiquities-collector-acquitted-of-for\
gery-charges-in-james-ossuary-case/article2368752/
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/14/200624.html

... some responses from Golan and Deutsch:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/oded-golan-speaks-out-on-forgery-trial-verdict/
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/biblical-archaeology-to\
pics/robert-deutsch-to-sue-iaa/

The ROM has no plans to 'remount' the James Ossuary exhibit:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/toronto-museum-wouldnt-remount-james-o\
ssuary-display-vice-president-says/article2369672/

Nice overview of recent finds from Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/Greatest-archeological-finds-in-Israe\
l-15-Mar-2012.htm

An up-and-comer in the ANE field?:

http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=7359

Feature on the excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/woo368016.shtml



Not sure if I mentioned this Maimonides series last week ... here
are the first two parts:

http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=260088
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=262162

Latest from Temple Mount (varies):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/234867
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153721


A clarification/correction on that "previously-unknown" pharaoh find last
week (it's actually first documented evidence of an already-know
pharaoh):

http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Assorted finds from a dairy construction site in Arla:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/local-news/roman-remains-found-at-arla-1-36370\
70

Latest on that Temple of Demeter find at Taman:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/12/the-secrets-of-the-temple-of-demeter-foun\
d-in-ancient-greek-ruins-in-russia/

A Roman kiln site found during primary school expansion in North
Yorkshire:

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/roman-kiln-find-excites-s\
chool-1-4347393

Plans to give some Roman burial urns the CT scan treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17366284

Pompeii's Stabian baths have reopened:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112356/Pompeiis-Stabian-Baths-reopens-1\
m-renovation.html

Greek archaeologists are appealing to Europeans to help defend/fund its
cultural heritage:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-12/greek-archaeologists-plead-for-help-to-\
protect-heritage-amid-austerity.html

Possible threat to Paphos antiquities from a proposed seaplane
landing site:

http://www.news.cyprus-property-buyers.com/2012/03/11/paphos-seaplane-project-co\
mes-under-fire/id=0010945

Archaeology mag has a feature on the Aqua Traiana:

http://www.archaeology.org/1203/features/rome_aqua_traiana_aqueduct_carestia.htm\
l

Classics Confidential talks with Helen King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMILds1Gg4&feature=uploademail

Trailer for Andrew Irvine's production of Socrates on Trial (link to full
video
there as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn1xSa7z00&feature=uploademail

What Jeff Tatum is up to:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1203/S00061/inaugural-lecture-plutarch-and-grec\
o-roman-biculturalism.htm\
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/13151494/being-greek-under-rome-pluta\
rch-and-greco-roman-biculturalism/

Feature on the Ides of March:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120315-ides-of-march-beware-caes\
ar-what-when-shakespeare-quote/

A 'visualization' of character relationships in the Iliad:

http://www.vizworld.com/2012/03/character-relationships-iliad/

Harry Mount on the new editions of the OCD and OLD:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9149925/The-classical-world-just-refuse\
s-to-stay-dead.html

Review of a number of books dealing with (inter alia) the Homeric
Question:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article993731.ece

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://books.usatoday.com/book/madeline-miller-the-song-of-achilles/r646129

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)
================================================================
A seventh century teen found buried in her bed (possibly
the first Christian burial in England according to
some reports):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54220
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/final-resting-place-british-archaeolo\
gists-discover-7th-century-teenager-buried-in-her-bed/2012/03/15/gIQAspAFES_stor\
y.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/uk-experts-find-7thcentur_n_1351636.htm\
l
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-skeleton-cambridge-evidence-christian-burial\
.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17378845
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/experts-find-7th-century-teen-bur\
ied-in-bed-1.1258071

... and an item focussing on the cross that was pinned to her
cloak:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-grave


A couple 13th century frescoes returned to their
home in Cyprus 30+ years after they had been removed
during the invasion:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/byzantine-frescoes/long-lost-frescoes-arrive-home/201\
20317

Weather exposes a 19th century shipwreck near Norfolk:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/days-out/norfolk_s_submerged_treasures_\
exposed_by_weather_1_1235263

Feature on the Flag Fen dig:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-return-to\
-excavate-major-3-300-year-old-bronze-age-site-in-england

Neolithic pottery from Inverness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17397694

Finds from various periods in various places near Sheffield:

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/prehistoric-and-roman-remains-are\
-discovered-1-4339119

Interesting feature on an Elizabethan Vizard:

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/03/elizabethan-vizard.html

I think we mentioned this Ipswich Museum bones story last
week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17342869

Feature on Princess Charlotee:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/mar/13/brighton-royal-pavilion-princess-c\
harlotte

Review of Jerry White, *London in the Eighteenth Century*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9133345/London-in-th\
e-Eighteenth-Century-by-Jerry-White-review.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
On monsoons and shifts in Indian civilizations:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-links-monsoon-major-shifts-indian.html

Plenty of finds from various periods on Australia's Salisbury Island:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/13172311/island-a-precious-time-ca\
psule
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
================================================================
Someone is claiming to know the site of the wreck of the San Agustin:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20167593/researcher-says-he-knows-si\
te-400-year-old

A house within a house find from Quogue:

http://westhampton-hamptonbays.patch.com/articles/historical-surprise-found-in-a\
ntiquity

A Confederate flagpole in a grave in Elizabethton:

http://www.starhq.com/2012/03/15/archaeologists-survey-discovers-confederate-fla\
gpole-in-grave/

Feature/exhibit on early women PhDs from Yale:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phd\
s.html

Getting Howard's collections in order:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/arts/a-plan-for-howard-universitys-moorland-sp\
ingarn-center.html

Review of James F. Brown, *Freedom's Gardener*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/books/review/myra-b-young-armsteads-freedoms-g\
ardener.html

Review of Julia Siler, *Lost Kingdom*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/lost-kingdom-a-history-of-hawaii.\
html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mass grave in Chiapas turns out to be a 1300 years b.p. burial ground:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17335586
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/mexicos-mas\
s-grave-1300-year-old-cemetery

A 'mystery crown' among  items on display marking the Diamond Jubilee:

http://icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news//tm_headline=mystery-crown-amon\
g-royal-treasures%26method=full%26objectid=30522571%26siteid=77296-name_page.htm\
l
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
================================================================
Archaeology News from the Archaeology Channel (last week's):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews11mar12.mp3

Not sure where to classify this revisionism in regards to ancient nomads:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/from-their-graves-ancient-nomads-speak\
.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/03/13/science/20120313-NOMA.html

As might be expected, there were several features on St Patrick this
week:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/europe/saint-patrick-study/
http://news.discovery.com/history/who-was-st-patrick.html
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/history-purpose/2012/mar/17/\
who-was-saint-patrick/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116153/St-Patricks-Day-legend-just-bit-\
blarney-He-runaway-tax-collector-turned-slave-
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0317/stpatrick.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/17/oukoe-uk-stpatrick-history-idUKBRE82G00\
G20120317

This is kind of strange ... a political party in Armenia is runningon a
platform that the BM should return a statue of Anahit:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/how-a-mythical-fertilit\
y-goddess-could-help-steer-armenias-national-election/254652/
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65135

They think they've found traces of Leonardo's 'Battle of Anghiari' (maybe):

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54130
http://news.yahoo.com/art-sleuths-believe-long-lost-da-vinci-found-151434869.htm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/long-lost-da-vinci-masterpiece-possibly-found-032403876.ht\
ml
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-masterpiece-thought-\
found-behind-195958025.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-theory-lost-leonardo-da-vinci.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uoc--dst031312.php

Canada and Norway ended their arguing over Amundsen's shipwreck:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-arctic-explorer-ship-norway.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-norway-arctic-explorer-amundsen-ship.html(pr\
e)

Encyclopedia Britannica ends its print version:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-\
publication
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/03/14/britannica-define-outdated/

Did a woman teach Christopher Wren?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/the-case-for-a-17th-century-female\
-british-architect.html

Interesting hieroglyphics story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-hieroglyphics-prisoner-20120314,0,553\
203.story

Totally out of our purview, but it's interesting to note that looters have
already
hit that Italian shipwreck that ran aground a month or so ago:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/16/thieves-evade-lasers-to-nab-shipwrecks-bell

Santorini might be in store for another big blow up:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-santorini-ground-paradise.html

This year's Bancroft Prize winner(s):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/bancroft-prize-for-history-goes-to-\
three-scholars/

Another feature on LIDAR:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/03/12/l-is-for-l\
idar/

Why treasure hunting (the underwater variety) is big bucks (op ed):

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/13/business/sunken-treasure-business/index.html

Reviewish of Ted Bishop, *Social Life of Ink*:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-social-life-ink.html

Review of Kathryn Harrison, *Enchantments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/kathryn-harrisons-enchantments.ht\
ml

Review of Anne Sebba, *That Woman*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/that-woman-by-anne-sebba.html

Review of Eyal Press, *Beautiful Souls*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-souls-by-eyal-press.htm\
l
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Assorted sites in Turkey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/turkey/9137950/Away-from-t\
he-desk-Benedict-Brogans-crash-course-in-the-antiquities-of-Turkey.html

Interview with Peter Whitfield about  his *Travel: A Literary History*:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/peter-whitfield-talks-about-the-his\
tory-of-travel-literature/
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Some would-be looters in Egypt were killed when their 'site'
caved in on them:

http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524621/s/1d5b7133/l/0L0Sstrait\
stimes0N0CBreakingNews0CWorld0CStory0CSTIStory0I7767660Bhtml/story01.htm
http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=23395&title=Deluded%20d\
iggers%20defy%20death
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/12/200177.html

Spain returned some items purloined from Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/36583/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Nine-l\
imestone-reliefs-are-back-home-from-Spain.aspx
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/03/12/spain-to-return-antiquitie\
s-to-egypt-dating-back-to-time-pharaohs/

Perhaps not surprisingly, Syrian antiquities are being "eyed":

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5043/

A bust in Mexico:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=478658&CategoryId=14091

More on the looting at El Hibeh:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/massive-looting-at-el-h\
ibeh-egypt
http://www.eloquentpeasant.com/2012/03/09/looting-in-el-hibeh/#101

More on those looters guided by the Copper Scroll:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/no-gold-in-them-hills-1.417506

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
================================================================
Big bucks for a 'year one' shekel:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/03/11/3092076/ancient-judean-shekel-nets-11\
-million-at-auction
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54100

... here's a different spin:

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6541

The High Weald hoard of Roman coins is on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17378763

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n11.html

... and the one which will probably be out by the time I finish
this week's explorator (It's taking forever!):

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n12.html


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/========================================================\
========
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/travel/2012/03/18/1-out-of-the-ashes.htm\
l

Antikythera Shipwreck:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2012/03/06/visualizza_n\
ew.html_128211190.html
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/03/06/national-archaeological-museum-to-pre\
sent-temporary-exhibition-of-the-antikythera-shipwreck/

Inca Empire:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fa20120315t1.html

Etruscans:

http://visnews-en.blogspot.ca/2012/03/vatican-museums-contribute-to.html

Weimar Classicism:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54224

Verbum Domini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7grozBoF9Y&feature=uploademail

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/arts/design/princes-and-painters-in-mughal-del\
hi-at-asia-society.html

Degas:

http://www.ajc.com/travel/degas-impressionism-stripped-bare-1386540.html

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/byzantium-and-islam-age-of-transit\
ion-at-the-met.html

Alexander the Great:

http://nine-to-five.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/alexander-the-great-comes-\
to-sydney-museum-1/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-09/alexander-the-great-exhibition/3879368/?si\
te=newcastle
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/alexander-the-great-exhibition-\
rides-into-the-australian-museum-in-sydney/story-e6freuzi-1226295072363

The Getty returned a couple items to Greece:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/03/11/getty-museum-returns-two-ancient-artifac\
ts-to-greece/

The Deutsches Historisches Museum has to return some Nazi looted posters:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/german-museum-ordered-to-return-col\
lection-of-posters-seized-by-nazis/

Some interesting coverage of items available at the Maastricht thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/arts/17iht-melikian17.html

Some Old Masters auction 'advice':

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartmelikian16.html

Assorted antiques/auction items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/fern-history-fry-glass-and-a-milit\
iamans-sword.html

Coverage of Asia Week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/asia-week-in-new-york-includes-mor\
e-than-40-shows.html

Profile of one of the more prolific auction patrons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/16iht-rartjessop16.html

Plenty of museum items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
L'Apeggiata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/music/larpeggiatas-period-instruments-at-\
zankel-hall.html

Francois Cuperin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/arts/music/tenet-performs-couperins-lessons-fo\
r-lent.html

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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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham,
Patrick Swan, Don Buck, A. Landreau, Edward Rockstein,
Laval Hunsucker, June Samaras, Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis,
Wendy van Duivenvoorde, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Why our ancestors started walking around on two feet:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-reveals-ancestors-bipedal-power.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/team-sheds-light-upright-walking-000212560.html

The importance of sediba:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-of-our-kind
http://io9.com/5894866/why-australopithecus-sediba-could-rewrite-our-evolutionar\
y-history

They might know where the original Peking Man fossils are:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/03/22/report-from-former-u\
-s-marine-hints-at-whereabouts-of-long-lost-peking-man-fossils/
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/22/are-the-lost-peking-man-fossi\
ls-buried-under-a-parking-lot-in-china/
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/ancient-fossil-could-be-buried-un\
der-car-park-1.1262480

Top ten hominid fantasy finds:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/03/top-ten-hominid-fantasy-finds/

Cooking turned humans into an invasive species?:

http://io9.com/5895119/how-cooking-turned-humans-into-an-invasive-species
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, Madagascar was apparently founded by women (not
sure that's an accurate headline):

http://news.discovery.com/history/madagascar-women-120320.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-indonesian-eves-colonised-madagascar-years.h\
tml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-eves-colonised-madagascar-1-200-years-ago-00\
4901696.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Combining assorted satellite methods has revealed a pile of sites in Syria:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=satellites-expose-8000-years-lo\
st-civilization
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologist-satellite-images-early-human.h\
tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17436400
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/20/satellites-spy-thousands-ancient-human\
-settlements/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0320/Satellites-identify-thousands-of-smal\
l-hills-as-ancient-human-settlements
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243160-Satellites-reveal-thousands-of-ancient-\
human-settlements
http://www.livescience.com/19153-ancient-settlements-satellites-surveys.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/12/1115472109

A proposed redating of the Meidum cemetery:

http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&\
s=szablon.depesza&dz=archeology&dep=388729&data=&lang=EN&_CheckSum=-1851997953

Plans to open six tombs on the Giza Plateau:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/37069/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Six-Ol\
d-Kingdom-tombs-to-be-opened-at-Giza-Plateau.aspx

Earliest known horse bit turns up at Tel-Haror:

http://horsetalk.co.nz/2012/03/20/archaeologists-discover-earliest-known-metal-b\
it/

The Israel MFA ponders Israel's greatest archaeological finds:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/Greatest-archeological-finds-in-Israe\
l-15-Mar-2012.htm

A reporter spent a week digging at KhirbetQeiyafa:

http://www.freep.com/article/20120318/FEATURES07/203180306/

Archaeologists return to Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149231682/-archaeologists-revisit-iraq
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/troops-leave-archaeologi\
sts-return-as-hope-for-iraqs-cultural-relics-and-tourism-industry-grow

Pondering the purpose of some ancient figurines from Israel:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bi\
ble/apotropaic-guardians-ancient-symbols-divine-icons-or-children%E2%80%99s-toys\
/

Pondering the question of the existence of Israel in ancient times:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march172012/ancient-israel-ae.php

Followup to Harvard's revival of an Egyptology program:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/3/23/egyptologist-manuelian/

A Bethesda woman returned a number of objects (prehistoric) to Saudi
Arabia:

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120321/NEWS/703219502/1007/bethesda-woman-retur\
ns-to-saudi-arabia-with-prehistoric-artifacts&template=gazette

Some followup opinions to the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burleigh-bible-ossuary-forg\
ery-20120325,0,2491331.story
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/fle368021.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-cleared-of-forging-j\
esus-brothers-burial-box-relic-7567034.html

Latest TAU microarchaeology lab newsletter:

http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/LCM%20Mar%2012.pdf

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamen*:

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2012/03/tutankhamen_the_search_fo\
r_an.html

Review of Elaine Pagels, *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/books/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html

More on Gobelki Tepe as 'cosmopolitan centre':

http://www.livescience.com/19085-world-oldest-temple-tools-pilgrimage.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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
That diet-of-gladiators is making the rounds again from some
reason:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/23/did-gladiators-in-rome-observe-kosher-laws-\
video/

Bronze Age settlement from Thasos (article in Greek):

http://www.tovima.gr/culture/article/?aid=449532#.T2r65p2iYpg.email

Back in the day, Greece apparently pondered  buying back the
Elgin Marbles:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iaymq4bBR2mc2M-cSUvqnDpCVE7w?\
docId=CNG.68eb0d745951ee8e2437a64149a8832f.41

A fly-though of the latest version of Rome Reborn:

http://vimeo.com/32038695

Some photos from Hadrian's Villa:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-firpo/postcard-from-the-villa-adriana_b_1363\
853.html

Boris Johnson spins the Olympic Torch origins story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9153631/Boris-Johnson-gives-lesson-on-\
Olympic-flame-history.html

James Romm ponders Alexander the Great's death:

http://www.historytoday.com/james-romm/who-killed-alexander-great

The Boston MFA acquires a huge statue of Juno:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577279650134903754.html

More on returns to Greece from the Getty:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54098

Review of A.M. Juster (trans), *The Elegies of Tibullus*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/25/tibullus-elegies-review

I think we mentioned these Roman burial urns from near
St Albans:

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/9600246.Roman_mysteries_uncovered_in_Chip\
penham/r/

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)
================================================================
A survey reveals a cluster of cairns and sites in Caithness:

http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Survey-reveals-cluster-of-ancient-cairn\
s-20032012.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17463275

A 14th century silver seal found by a metal detectorist is garnering some
interest:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Silver-Lincolnshire-field-sparks-British-Mus\
eum/story-15534605-detail/story.html

The Cutty Sark has reopened five years after that fire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/21/cutty-sark-gallery-long-john-silver-fig\
ureheads

Archaeologists have started excavating a mass grave which dates to
the Thirty Years' War near Lutzen:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120324-41541.html

Chemical analysis of some of Nelson's sailor's has been used
to reconstruct their diet:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-archaeologists-reconstruct-diet-nelson-navy.\
html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/w-ard032312.php

On traditions helping folks in Medieval Iceland:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-conservatism-iceland-catastrophe.html
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1186

Plans to save the ruins of Quarr Abbey:

http://iwcp.co.uk/news/news/abbey-launches-community-plan-43587.aspx

Remains of some Franciscan monks (maybe) found during road
construction at St Andrews:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/301295-franciscan-monk-remains-unearthed-at-\
roadworks-site/

Venice is apparently still sinking:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120321172208.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-venice-hasnt.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57401506/city-of-venice-still-sinking-study-\
says/

The Viking Mice invasion:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-viking-journey-mice-men.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/03/20/viking_mice_invaded_the_north_atl\
antic_like_crazy_too.html

More on that early-Christian-buried-in-her-bed find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/pictures/120321-anglo-saxon-trea\
sure-christian-burial-gold-cross-cambridge/

Another 'sound effects' study, this time on a very old stone structure
from Malta:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/ancient-builders-created\
-monumental-structures-that-altered-sound-and-mind-say-researchers

What lies beneath the Mound of Down:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/unearthin\
g-the-mystery-of-what-lies-beneath-the-ancient-mound-of-down-16132883.html

Building a monastery medieval-style:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,822375,00.html

Review of Ian Mortimer, *The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan
England*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/03/time-travellers-guide-elizabethan-engla\
nd

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Australia's megafauna were hunted to extinction according to
fecal evidence:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/humans-killed-australia039s-b\
ig-beasts/story-e6frea83-1226307827470
http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/1db64116/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0C\
earth0Cearthnews0C916210A70CHuman0Ehunting0Ecaused0Eextinction0Eof0Emegafauna0Bh\
tml/story01.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-hunters-climate-giant-beasts-yearsago.html

A Buddha statue is the latest thing to get a CAT scan:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/buddha-goes-to-the-hospita\
l-medical-scans-reveal-rare-documents-inside-17th-century-sculpture/2012/03/22/g\
IQADq96TS_story.html

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
================================================================
Earliest trace of human presence in Ohio:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Butchered+sloth+bone+lends+more+eviden\
ce+early+North+American/6332457/story.html
http://www.canada.com/Butchered+sloth+bone+lends+more+evidence+early+North+Ameri\
can+settlement/6332336/story.html

Settling the dispute over Drake's 1579 landfall in California:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20215163/calif-bay-be-named-explorer\
s-landing-place

Assorted interesting finds from Dritt Mansion:

http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_20215927/archeology-revealed-unusual-finds-at-drit\
t-mansion

Finds from various periods from a dig at Luke Air Force
Base (Arizona):

http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20120323/NEWS09/703239915/archeologists-uneart\
h-artifacts-at-luke-afb

Monitor v Virginia:

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-11/metro/31143362_1_confederate-ship-virginia\
-ironclads-face-of-naval-warfare

Some old trolley tracks turn up in Hendersonville:

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20120318/ARTICLES/120319790
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
That gold crown given to Queen Victoria might not have been
made by the Incas after all:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54289

Latest theory on the demise of the Mayans:

http://news.yahoo.com/did-belief-gods-lead-mayan-demise-223407714.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/mayans-gods-120322.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
================================================================
Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The latest Shroud of Turin claim, just in time for Easter:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9162459/Mystery-solved-Turin-Shroud-lin\
ked-to-Resurrection-of-Christ.html

One of my alma maters just acquired an interesting bit of equipment which
will be useful for archaeological research, I suspect:

http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/692531--mcmaster-opens-new-archeology-\
lab

A previously-unknown Mozart composition turns up in Austria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17490070
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/24/lost-mozart-work-found/

Latest in the Odyssey Marine thing (I thought this was already done):

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/03/21/actualidad/1332354607_623738.html

Famous sunken ancient cities:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/318530/20120323/sunken-city-atlantis-cities-medi\
terranean-world-around.htm

Prominent French families are hurling accusations about a missing Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/arts/design/prominent-french-families-battle-o\
ver-a-missing-monet.html

Plans to resume the search for Amelia Earhart:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/316862/20120321/amelia-earhart-search-news-confer\
ence-hillary-clinton.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-search-resumes-120320.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/a-small-broken-cosmetic-glass-jar-fragments-of\
-rouge-from-a-womans-compact-buttons-parts-of-a-pocket-knife-that-was-beat.html

More on the possible find of the Battle of Anghiari:

http://www.france24.com/en/20120312-art-experts-found-lost-da-vinci-mural-palazz\
io-vecchio-florence-italy-leonardo

Ancient folk apparently knew how to sustain a fishery:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-ancient-civilizations-reveal-ways-fisheries.\
html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/su-acr031612.php

On 'runner's high' and the evolution of exercise:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-runner-high-evolution.html

A (free) GIS webinar is coming up next week:

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/26233/2/

Review of *The Papers of Thomas A. Edison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-seventh-volume-of-thomas-edis\
ons-papers.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Belize:

http://www.thespec.com/living/travel/article/690410--mayan-ruins-in-belize-stand\
-alone-with-prehistory

Arqua:

http://www.travelagentcentral.com/newscred?guid=68b539a01c655e433975619a24981dad

Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=262962

Baghdad:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/20/world/meast/baghdad-architecture/index.html

Volubilis:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54310
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/mar/20/bc-ml--travel-trip-morocco-remains-of-rom\
e1462/
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Morocco-s-Roman-ruins-Stunning-with-few-to\
urists-3420978.php
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BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
Warnings of organized looting to come in Syria:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/leaked-government-memo-w\
arns-of-organized-looting-in-syria

Another antiquities dealer gets his comeuppance:

http://agourahills.patch.com/articles/antiquities-dealer-gets-home-detention-fin\
es-for-illegally-dealing-in-indian-artifacts

A pair of diggers arrested for digging into some Native American mounds:

http://www.sunherald.com/2012/03/19/3827306/2-arrested-for-digging-into-indian.h\
tml

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
================================================================
A huge Roman hoard from Bath:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9161483/Hoard-of-30000-silver-Rom\
an-coins-discovered-in-Bath.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/318404/20120323/roman-coins-largest-collection\
-britain-beau-street.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17480016
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-coins-120323.html
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/318404/20120323/roman-coins-largest-collection-br\
itain-beau-street.htm
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/30000-roman-silv\
er-coins-found-at-work-site-in-bath/1
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/03/23/Hoard-of-Roman-coins-unearthed-in-Eng\
land/UPI-80201332520356/

Big bucks for an Augustus Aureus:

http://news.coinupdate.com/gold-aureus-of-famed-first-emperor-augustus-1277/

A hoard of 300 years b.p. Indian gold coins from near Sandur:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/300-year-old-gold-coins-found-near-Bell\
ary/articleshow/12396234.cms

More on that 'Year One' shekel sale:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54100

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n12.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n13.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Hajj:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/19/british-mus\
eum-hajj-pilgrimage-propaganda

Alexander the Great:

http://wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/ancient-treasures-on-\
the-way-for-alexander-the-great-exhibition/

Klimt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/neue-galerie-to-celebrate-klimts-b\
irthday.html

The Louvre has put DaVinci's Saint Anne on display:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/23/louvre-unveils-da-vincis-last-masterpiece/

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/nyregion/a-review-of-life-liberty-and-the-purs\
uit-of-happiness-at-yale-university.html

A couple of interesting exhibitions at Yale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/making-history-and-remembering-sha\
kespeare-at-yale.html

Top ten (by attendance) museums:

http://www.agi.it/english-version/people/elenco-notizie/201203232245-spe-ren1108\
-no_italian_museum_in_world_s_top_ten

Some observations from the European Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/arts/24iht-melikian24.html

Goings-ons at the Motown Historical Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/design/motown-piano-restored-postcard-boo\
ks-film-on-lynd-ward.html

Economy problems are affecting all sorts of arts-related programs in Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/world/europe/the-euro-crisis-is-hurting-cultur\
al-groups.html?ref=arts

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Thomanerchor of Leipzig celebrates its 800th birthday:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/21/oldest-choir-800-year-anniversary
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/21/worlds-oldest-choir-celebrates-800-years-o\
f-singing-in-harmony/

Notre Dame:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/notre-dame-franz-schmidts-opera-at-\
carnegie-hall.html

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
================================================================
Brian Shefton:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/915\
3928/Professor-Brian-Shefton.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
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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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Lucy had cousins in the neighbourhood it seems:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120328-lucy-fossil-foot-science-aus\
tralopithecus-trees-evolution/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/new_homninin_found/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17533826
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/62392-new-hominid-discovered-li\
ving-alongside-lucy
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/new-hominid-fossil-foot-belonge\
d-to-lucys-neighbor/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/science/african-foot-fossil-indicates-another-\
hominin-species-lived-with-lucy.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121975/Unearthed-fossilised-foot-reveal\
s-previously-unknown-human-species-lived-half-million-years-ago.html
http://news.yahoo.com/foot-shows-prehuman-walked-same-time-lucy-172512927.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/cmon-dof032812.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-lucy-cousins-discovery-foot-fossil.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/28/fossil-foot-walking-climbing-trees\
?newsfeed=true
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46882487/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Hominids may have been using fire a million years ago:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1157081--human-ancestors-may-have-used\
-fire-a-million-years-ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/cooking-the-1-million-year\
-old-technology/255455/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/the-earliest-example-of-hominid\
-fire/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0403/Were-early-humans-cooking-their-food-\
a-million-years-ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17598738
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-qu\
estion
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fire-20120403,0,5516323.story
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-human-ancestors-million-years-archaeologist.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/humans_using_fire_a_million_years_ago/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023504577319923936483222.html?m\
od=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Interesting well-preserved woolly mammath carcass from Siberia shows both
animal predation and human use:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-mammoth-siberia-early-lions.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17525070
http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-yuka-120404.html

How (why?) homo sapiens became so successful, evolution-wise:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/06/150123937/how-homo-sapiens-became-masters-of-the-p\
lanet

Feature on Piltdown Man:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/04/01/strange-skull-\
rewrites-history-of-man/

More on Neanderthals being almost extinct in Europe by the
time humans arrived:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122832/European-Neanderthals-ext\
inct-long-humans-showed-according-DNA-evidence.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/neanderthals-died-out-humans-120329.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46894761/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243543-Neanderthals-Were-Dying-Out-Before-Huma\
ns-Arrived
http://phys.org/news/2012-03-european-neandertals-extinct-humans.html

More on the location of Peking Man:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7768484.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
The annual concern for heritage in Timbuktu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17596831
http://www.elpais.com/iphone/index.php?module=iphone&page=elp_iph_visornoticias&\
idNoticia=20120403elpnepint_15.Tes

Suggestion that Europeans headed to Africa to weather out
the Ice Ages:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-genetic-unravels-ancient-links-african.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120940/Early-humans-moved-Europe\
-Africa-long-recorded-history-claims-new-genetic-study.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A pink granite sarcophagus from Egypt:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Mar/16/Rare-pink-granite-sarcophagus-un\
covered-in-Egypt.ashx#axzz1qWMxEwz3

Plans to dig at Tel Achziv:

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/archaeologists-excavate-\
ancient-phoenician-port-city

El Hibeh continues to be an area of concern:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/37656/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Facebo\
ok-page-to-save-ancient-Egypts-ElHibeh-site.aspx

A mummy in Albany will be getting the CT Scan thing:

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_20304588/scans-may-reveal-albany-mummie\
s-rsquo-secrets
http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2012/04/01/news/doc4f7795f610359162125808.txt

... and one from a Cornish museum got the treatment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17513748

UNESCO is worried about Syrian antiquities:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/unesco-chief-appeals-for-safegua\
rding-rich-cultural-heritage-in-violence-marred-syria/2012/03/30/gIQAUVZnlS_stor\
y.html
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/03/syrian-ancient-sites-under-threat.html

... and apparently for good reason:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Apr-06/169378-experts-sound-alarm-o\
ver-syria-archaeological-treasures.ashx

Cyprus and Israel are working on a database for archaeology:

http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=26059
http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-and-israel-to-cooperate-in-forming-database-\
for-archaeology-p14999-69.htm

Interesting Lod Mosaic followup:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/1.422037


Politics and the City of David excavations:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/in-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-excavation-\
politics-is-never-absent-1.421448

cf: http://www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=264005

... and this week:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=264714
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=263430

Studying ancient Egyptian cotton:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402093938.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-ancient-egyptian-cotton-unveils-secrets.html

An unusually massive bit of coverage for the recovery of a pair of Egyptian
coffin lids in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ahead-of-passover-israel-authorities-seize-\
remains-of-ancient-egypt-coffin-1.422344
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=264615
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154454
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.timesofisrael.com/smuggled-ancient-egyptian-sarcophagi-found-in-jerus\
alem-old-city-shop/
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/38408/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-an\
cient-Egyptian-sarcophagus-covers-seized-in-.aspx
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j5ErOZWBrpgQxrcSfrWMHoDlDFOg?d\
ocId=489cb8d248e248b095fd38ffaf98fb90

... and there was a recovery of Egyptian antiquities in Belgium as well:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1092/eg3.htm
http://bikyamasr.com/64658/egypt-restores-80-relics-from-belgium-following-court\
-ruling/

Ronny Reich talks about the Oded Golan thing:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/faking-it-1.421463


Another interviewish thing with Oded Golan:

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/313400/Why-I-believe-this-box-contains-Je\
sus-s-brother%20?%3E

... and I can't remember if I mentioned this one:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/israeli-antiquities-collector-talks-ab\
out-his-trial-and-his-acquittal-1.421645

Pondering ownership of Nefertiti and the Rosetta Stone:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1092/he1.htm

Pondering haggadah differences:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/anglo-file/1.421627

... and a feature on the Wolf Haggadah:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3690

Zahi Hawass is facing more charges:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/38308/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Indian\
a-Jones-faces-charges.aspx
http://www.galleristny.com/2012/04/zahi-hawass-former-antiquities-minister-faces\
-charges-in-egypt/


Hype for that upcoming Tabor/Jacobovici Talpiot tomb thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/exploring-tombs-in-jerusalem/2012/\
04/05/gIQAunhQyS_gallery.html
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/04/3092550/jerusalem-archeological-find-\
is-first-reference-to-resurrection

... which sparked this:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/aprilweb-only/archaeology-jesus-tomb.ht\
ml

Moses was apparently a Muslim:

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6716

Review of Elaine Pagels *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/31/four-big-myths-about-the-book-of-revela\
tion/comment-page-116/
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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The Romans had celebrity recruiters for their army, apparently:

http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-martial-arts-celeb-120330.html
http://www.livescience.com/19354-martial-artist-recruited-ancient-roman-army.htm\
l

A sanctuary of Asklepios:

http://www.asianage.com/newsmakers/greeks-find-remains-healing-sanctuary-492

A Hellenistic/Roman cemetery from Thessaloniki:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/54479

The first floor of the Stoa of Attalos has opened to the public:

http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_26/03/2012_434797

A big Juno is revealed in Boston:

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/06/mfa-unveils-juno-largest-classical-statu\
e/ecUJoLdfu88UVjhMt9Pc6L/story.html

Ten best emperors?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/06/john-mullan-ten-best-emperors

Some Roman-era finds from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138127

A Kore turned up in a goat pen in Greece:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54454
http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/28/2211416/greek-police-recovers-ancient.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/greek-statue-found-goat-pen
http://www.newser.com/article/d9tpim7g2/ancient-greek-statue-recovered-from-goat\
-pen-near-athens-2-suspected-looters-arrested.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJM24t6royfFsAKkXkNxzBXx9NSA?\
docId=CNG.0bd36df6ab57c7f3f39750504c09e57e.a21

... and later turned out to be a forgery:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2012/04/03/seized_ancient_greek\
_statue_declared_a_forgery/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_03/04/2012_436280
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17596144


Rome doesn't want those faux gladiators messing with tourists,
it seems:

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149674933/rome-drives-away-photogenic-gladiators
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/disappearing-gladiator-rome-co\
losseum.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/gladiators-colosseum-120404.html

... that was last week; this week, the gladiators turned to protest:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/world/6709428/Scorned-gladiators-climb\
-Colosseum
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/07/3541242/angry-gladiators-climb-colosseum.ht\
ml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10184132
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/roman-gladiators-climb-colosseum-to-p\
rotest-crackdown-on-unauthorized-posing-with-tourists/2012/04/07/gIQAWFag1S_stor\
y.html

Archaeology is Greece's 'Achilles heel' right now, it seems:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_05/04/2012_436567
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Apr-07/169494-archaeology-a-burden-\
on-debt-stricken-greece.ashx
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/04/06/12/amid-debt-crisis-archaeology-become\
s-greeces-achilles-heel

... and Pompeii is getting an infusion of cash:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17634115

... and Italy has plans for other sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/europe/italy-unveils-plan-to-preserve-si\
tes-and-prevent-interference-by-organized-crime-at-pompeii.html

Feature on sword and sandal flicks:

http://news.moviefone.com/jason-apuzzo/hail-caesar-whats-good-ba_b_1401721.html

... in a similar vein:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9174269/Top-12-films-\
based-on-classical-mythology.html

Mary Beard's day:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Business/Working-day/Mary-Beard-03042012.htm

... and she was playing with the Sortes Vergilianae:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/03/sortes-virgilianae.html

Are the Elgin Marbles special?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/are-the-parthenon-marbles-so-\
special

... while Stephen Fry advocates for their return:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/01/stephen-fry-elgin-marbles-gre\
ece

The charioteer of Mozia is coming to London:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Divinely-beautiful-Greek-charioteer-come\
s-to-London/26280

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/styled-to-a-t-madeline-miller/

What Robert Woolverton is up to:

http://nems360.com/pages/full_story/push?article-April+Fools%E2%80%99+Day+-+Pran\
king+tradition+goes+back+centuries+-seriously-%20&id=18074410&instance=secondary\
_stories_left_column

Latest Ancient Art podcast is on te Apollo Sauroktonos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZ775lu07g&context=C4ccd205ADvjVQa1PpcFMZ8lWdC9E\
rSOGYvOs9lS54d0y5E-bifvU=

Dalhousie's version of the Pythian Games:

http://www.dal.ca/news/2012/03/20/a-classical-experience-at-the-pythian-games.ht\
ml

Review of Jennifer T. Roberts, *Herodotus*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/herodotus-very-short-introduction-jennifer-robert\
s

Review of *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504367_162-57406364-504367/the-song-of-achilles-by-m\
adeline-miller/
Latest reviews from BMCR:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
The bones of folks who sank with the Mary Rose are being examined:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17536851

Finds dating back to the 12th century from a housing development site
in Eynsham:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9631914.Village_history_revealed_in_dig/

Bones discovered a few years ago at a St John's College site might
belong to Viking raiders rather than massacred Danes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17595823

Summer wasn't the best time to be a Tudor, apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17601616

A Bronze Age gold torq from a Northern Ireland bog:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1154300--treasure-hunter-finds-ancient\
-gold-jewellery-in-bog-in-northern-ireland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17561882

Possible remains of western Europe's oldest stringed
instrument from a cave on Skye:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243534-Archaeologists-astounded-by-musical-ins\
trument-find-in-Skye-cave

Feature on assorted finds from assorted periods in Koln:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,824797,00.html

Bronze Age artifacts from Wiltshire are going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17553249

Theory (not new, surely) that Gardom Edge monolith was some sort of
calendrical device:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-evidence-stacks-monolith-gardom-edge.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/neolithic-monolith-sundial/
http://www.space.com/15050-ancient-monolith-astronomical-marker.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/monolith-astronomy-120327.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

Concerns for a collection of Wellington memorabilia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/9168992/Battle-to-save-Wellingto\
n-legacy.html

Funds for Lincoln Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-17541084

Some 18th century bone telescopes from Amsterdam:

http://news.yahoo.com/18th-century-bone-telescopes-discovered-amsterdam-22240736\
6.html

A possible Saxon church find:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/05/york-minster-archaeology-saxon-fin\
ds

Beer and bling in Iron Age Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319163710.htm

I think we mentioned the recovery of these Byzantine frescoes from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/byzantine-frescoes/stolen-frescoes-unveiled-their-new\
-home/20120328

Hype for a television program about the merits of various antiquities
found in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/tv-show-most-important-archaeologica\
l-find

France and Bulgaria are working together at Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=137865

Review(ish) of Richard Davies, *Wooden Churches - Travelling in the Russian
North*:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/alexander-mozhayev/tragedy-of-russias-aba\
ndoned-wooden-churches

Review of Peter McPhee, *Robespierre*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/robespierre-revolutionary-life-peter-mcphee
Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
'Stone Age' remains on Taiwan may help understand the peopling
of the Pacific:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-taiwan-pacific-settlers.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-may-throw-light-pacific-settlers-051712139.html

On the DNA front, Afghans are apparently genetically unique:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-afghans-unique-genetic-heritage-dna.html

Searching for Black Jack:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13261039/in-search-of-pirate-black\
-jack/

Remains of a 12th century shipwreck off Indonesia:

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/80111/french-archaeologist-discover-12th-centu\
ry-shipwreck

Feature on Pitcairn Island:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/30/pitcairn-islands-expedition-r\
emnants-of-a-lost-civilization/

Buddhist antiquities from Peruvaje:

http://www.bellevision.com/belle/index.php?action=topnews&type=3711

Controversy over a Khmer statue at Sotheby's:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cambodia-antiquities-20120406,0,\
7358592.story
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/sothebys-retains-custody-of-cambodi\
an-statue/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cambodian-antiquity-201204\
05,0,1254428.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized\
-from-sothebys.html

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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Rethinking the casualty count in the Civil War:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17604991

A 19th century shipwreck in Lake Michigan near Grand Haven:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120406/METRO/204060420/1361/Shipwreck-group\
-says-it-found-19th-century-schooner-near-Grand-Haven
http://www.npr.org/local/stories/Michigan-Radio/150143600
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/ottawa_county/shipwreck-found-near-grand-ha\
ven
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/shipwreck-group-says-it-found-a-19th-cent\
ury-schooner-350-feet-down-in-western-michigan/2012/04/06/gIQAuLZ1zS_story.html

Feature on three centuries of scandal in New York City:

http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Very old animal mounds from Peru:

http://www.livescience.com/19372-animal-mounds-peru-nazca.html
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/benfer329/
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00239.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/uom-ram032912.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-rare-animal-shaped-mounds-peru.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329112209.htm

Burials from Cholula with artifacts from various periods:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/247-historia/5800-hallan-entierro-mul\
tiple-en-cholula-de-hace-800-anos

A Moche altar from Peru:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/04/04/1500-year-old-altar-for-hu\
man-sacrifices-found-in-peru/
http://elcomercio.pe/peru/1396516/noticia-descubren-altar-sacrificios-humanos-cu\
ltura-moche

Scientists have confirmed the source of Maya Blue (didn't we hear of
this a while ago?):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-discovery-evidence-pre-columbian-sources-may\
a.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/fm-dot040212.php
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/maya-blue-source-confir\
med

Penn Museum posted a video of Loa Traxler's talk on Maya human
sacrifice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWZY8Q8bA8&feature=uploademail

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews25mar12.mp3  (last
week's)
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews1apr12.mp3

A call for 'standards' when determining whether bones are marked by tools
or animals:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-analytical-standards-pliocene-bones.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/iu-asn040412.php

More on that Napoleon theme park:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17397172

Newton's life as a KML thing (never seen one of these myself):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/26/sir_isaac_newtown_kml/

'Interesting' eighteenth century map of northern Europe:

http://io9.com/5899754/a-1793-map-of-england-firing-a-tsunami-of-poop-at-revolut\
ionary-france

Medieval warming was global, according to the latest study:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/warm_period_little_ice_age_global/

The genetics of Van Gogh's sunflowers:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-scientists-reveal-genetic-mutation-depicted.\
html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/sunflower-mutants-van-gogh/

The Louvre revealed its restoration of DaVinci's St Anne:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9172975/Louvre-uncovers-restorat\
ion-of-Leonardo-da-Vincis-last-work-Saint-Anne.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/controversial-leonardo-restoration-\
to-be-unveiled-in-major-louvre-show/

Pondering Botticelli's Birth of Venus:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/28/botticelli-\
birth-of-venus-ancient-religion

A study for Cezanne's Card Players series has turned up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/arts/design/a-card-player-a-cezanne-watercolor\
-for-sale-by-christies.html


They've confirmed Rembrandt's Old Rabbi is one of a pair:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/28/rembrandt-old-rabbi-painting-\
authenticated

If it's Easter, there has to be something on the Shroud in the news:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121149/New-Turin-Shroud-theory-claims-C\
hrist-did-NOT-rise-dead.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/shroud-of-turin-thomas-de-wesselow-birt\
h-of-christianity_n_1405565.html
http://www.livescience.com/19522-shroud-turin-spread-christianity.html

... but rather new to the season is the Vatican and Israel arguing over he
site of the
Last Supper:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/150016572/vatican-israel-spar-over-disputed-last-s\
upper-site

The story of English in a hundred words (reviewish):

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149849559/linguist-tells-the-story-of-english-in-1\
00-words

Pondering Macchiavelli (two parts):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/mar/26/machiavelli-prince-po\
wer-good-evil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/02/machiavelli-humanism-\
history-prince

Did lead poisoning kill Handel?:

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/303958

Interesting study of Bedouin animal sacrifice rituals:

http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/bedouin-animal-sacrifice-rituals-provide-cl\
ues-to-archaeological-remains-133733.htm

All cattle can be traced back -- dna wise -- to a herd in Iran some 10 500
years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-dna-cattle-small-herd-domesticated.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/ucl-dtc032712.php


On why temperature affects the taste of things for us humans:

http://www.livescience.com/19288-room-temperature-coffee-taste.html

Rethinking the Neolithic Revolution:

http://phys.org/news/2012-03-foraging-farming-year-revolution.html

High tech photography may have revealed Shakespeare's signature:

http://news.discovery.com/history/shakespeare-signature-tech-120403.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/50-megapixel-digital-imaging-system-\
uncovers-shakespeare-signature.ars

Feature on execution in the Ottoman Empire:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/03/the-ottoman-empires-life-death-r\
ace/

The Earths' wobble may have ended the last Ice Age:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/05/150000446/shake-it-off-earth-s-wobble-may-have-end\
ed-ice-age


Feature on finding sites with Google Earth:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/googling-the-past-how-i\
-uncovered-prehistoric-remains-from-my-office

... which seems related to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17436400

Ten 'most sacred' spots:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/04/08/10-most-sacred-spots-on-earth/

The National Archives found some Nazi loot:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/national-archives-announces-discove\
ry-of-nazi-looted-art-volumes/

Review of Paul B. Israel et al (eds.), *The Papers of Thomas A. Edison*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-seventh-volume-of-thomas-edis\
ons-papers.html

Review of Tom Holland, *In the Shadow of the Sword*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9174113/In-the-Shado\
w-of-the-Sword-by-Tom-Holland-review.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/fall-roman-empire-rise-islam
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7765973/interview-tom-hollandon-the-origin\
s-of-islam.thtml

Review of Kathryn Harrison, *Enchantments*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/25/RVTP1NNMT6.DTL

Review of Jennifer duBois, *A Partial History of Lost Causes* (fiction):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/25/RV131N66H2.DTL

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Semi-touristy thing on Empuries:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/03/29/empuries-the-ancient-greek-town-of-spain/

Turkey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/23/turkey-unusual-tourist-sights
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
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/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Belgian art dealer convicted of smuggling has died while under
house arrest in Beijing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/belgian-man-convicted-of-art-sm\
uggling-dies-in-beijing-while-under-house-arrest/2012/03/30/gIQAHLvlkS_story.htm\
l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17561107

Major theft of some Chinese artifacts from Durham University's
Oriental Museum:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/07/international/i02425\
5D32.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/british-police-say-chinese-artifacts-\
worth-32-million-stolen-from-uk-museum/2012/04/07/gIQAYSYM1S_story.html

China and Mexico are cooperating in regards to dealing with smuggling:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=488759&CategoryId=14091

A purloined sarcophagus from Turkey turns up in Switzerland:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/swiss-customs-seize-roman-sarcophagus-stolen-fr\
om-turkey.aspx?pageID=238&nID=16998&NewsCatID=375

Vandalism at Priddy Circles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17614600

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Roman coins from Ripley:

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Treasure-hunter-uncovers-coins-Ripley-dating/s\
tory-15703408-detail/story.html

Roman coins from Bath:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17480016
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/27/hoard-roman-coins-found-in-england/

Celtic hoard from Switzerland:

http://bazonline.ch/basel/gemeinden/Archaeologen-finden-Schatz-in-Fuellinsdorf/s\
tory/24533898(Germany)

Latest eSylums:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n13.html (Mar 25)
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n14.html (April 1)
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n15.html (later today)

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
I think every local paper mentioned something about Google's Art Project, so
it's easier just to link to the project itself:

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth:

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/02/arts/egypt

Utopian Impulse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/r-buckminster-fullers-comeback-at-\
a-san-francisco-museum.html

Colorful Realm:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/design/colorful-realm-works-by-ito-jakuch\
u-at-national-gallery.html

Faux Real:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/prolific-forger-gets-an-exhibition-\
with-his-name-attached/

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54445
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/04/01/aphrodite-and-the-gods-of-love-exhibitio\
n-at-the-getty-villa-museum/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/art-review-aphrodite-and-\
the-gods-of-love-at-the-getty-villa.html

Rembrandt at Work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/rembrandt-at-work-at-metropolitan-\
museum.html

Nuestra Senora de Begona:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/30825272/detail.html

Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript (can't decide where to put this one):

http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/intro.cfm
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/pages/index_zucker.cfm?so_id=18004&pagepos\
ition=1&level=3&rotate=0(online
version)

8000 years b.p. footprints:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-276108-8000-year-old-footprints-to-be-displayed-\
at-istanbul-museum.html
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/mapplan.cfm (maps)

Turkey's asking a number of US museums to return things they believed
were illegally excavated:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-turkey-antiquities-20120331,0,46\
73943.story
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2012/04/02/turkey-targeting-r\
eturn-of-antiquities-in-cleveland-museum-of-arts-collection
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/turkey-steps-up-demands-for-antiqui\
ties-in-u-s-museums/

A judge has ruled the SLAM can keep its mummy mask:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54592

Major stamp collection coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/nyregion/frelinghuysen-familys-rare-stamp-coll\
ection-goes-to-auction.html

Drouot art sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/arts/31iht-melikian31.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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New season of Game of Thrones:

http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/arts/television/game-of-thrones-on-hbo.html

Deidamia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/28iht-loomis28.html

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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Ross Kilpatrick:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/from-vergil-to-winnie-the-pooh-ross\
-kilpatrick-had-wide-ranging-interests/article2381034/

Hilton Kramer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-champione\
d-modernism-dies-at-84.html
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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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EARLY HUMANS
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Teamwork apparently gave humans bigger brains:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-teamwork-brainier-scientists.html

More on use of fire a million years b.p.:

http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html
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AFRICA
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PhysOrg’s search for the oldest decorated eggs took them
to South Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-egg-cetera-world-oldest-eggs.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting coverage of a cat mummy radiograph:

http://news.discovery.com/history/kitten-mummy-egypt-sacrifice-baby-ancient-1204\
13.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/13/mummified-kitten-served-as-egyptian-of\
fering/
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-robotic-cats-kitten-mummy-major.html

Feature on Israel’s ‘other temple’:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-827144.html

Feature on the excavations at Tel Kedesh:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_kedesh.html

Interesting feature on Twins Cave:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-cave-was-seen-as-porthole-to-roman-\
underworld-researchers-say-1.423472

Plans to inspect the looted El Hibeh site:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/38989/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Archae\
ological-committee-to-inspect-the-looted-ElH.aspx

Concerns for sites in the Kidron Valley:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=266047

Plans to excavate in Doha:

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/190014-archaeologists-plan-to-uncover-dohas-p\
ast.html

Honours for Eric Cline:

http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/people/awardwinningresearchandteaching

Interview with Mark Goodacre and Eric Meyer about the Talpiot Tomb B:

http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/q-mark-goodacre-and-eric-meyers

… and some of the press coverage about the documentary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/filmmaker-says-jerusalem-tomb-hous\
es-some-of-jesuss-earliest-followers/2012/04/05/gIQAjCioxS_story.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ancient-ossuary-hints-at-earliest-refe\
rence-to-resurrection-of-jesus/article2399269/
http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8449717/coffin-depicts-jesus-resurrection
http://abcnews.go.com/International/jesus-tomb-controversy-rages-archeologists-e\
xplore-2000-year/story?id=16111993

Ka-Nefer-Nefer’s mask is going on display at the SLAM:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1093/heritage.htm

Plans for a really comprehensive historical Hebrew dictionary:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/1.423490

More on Bedoin sacrificial rituals shedding light on the ancient:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=54628&int_sec=2

Review of Elaine Pagels, *Revelations*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/revelations-by-elaine-pagels.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Greek and Byzantine finds from Alexandria:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/39166/Heritage/GrecoRoman/Greek-and\
-Byzantineera-tomb-discoveries-in-Alexand.aspx

Santorini is (finally) reopening for tourists:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_11/04/2012_437527
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bronze-age-town-on-greek-island-of-sa\
ntorini-to-reopen-7-years-after-fatal-roof-collapse/2012/04/10/gIQAwIve8S_story.\
html
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/environment/2012/04/13/337688/Ancient-Greek.htm

Funding for Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-17669732

Feature on Epiacum:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/04/13/epiacum-a-hi\
dden-slice-of-roman-history-at-slaggyford-61634-30748979/

Slideshow of recent Roman and Iron Age finds from a Cambridge
dig:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Slideshow-Roman-and-Iron-Age-finds-at-colle\
ge-13042012.htm

OpEd on Roman anti-semitism:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11517#.T4qb3NlmPDM

What Thomas Winter is up to:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/classics-professor-keeps-young-as-avid-skater\
-internet-sensation-1.2728560

Hype for Mary Beard’s ‘Meet the Romans’:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/How-Joe-Bloggs-fared-in-the-Roman-Empire-12\
042012.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSB-kRfyWD4

… and Classics Confidential interviewed Dr Beard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ASBFU8ivg

Hype for Bettany Hughes’ ‘Divine Women’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9200436/Divine-journey-with-the-Ni\
gella-of-Antiquity.html

Honours for Joshua Katz:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/04/11/30576/

Daniel Mendelsohn takes an Odyssey cruise:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/travel_leisure/2012/04/odyssey_cruise_daniel_\
mendelsohn_takes_odysseus_journey_.html

Ben Hur Bloopers (of the cinematic variety):

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-hur-bloopers-can-you-784963

More coverage of the expulsion of the Centurions from
the Colosseum and their subsequent protests (this is obviously
the big news of the week):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9204441/Centurions-kicked\
-out-of-the-Colosseum.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/gladiator-protest-colosseum-rome_n_1410\
192.html
http://www.timescolonist.com/travel/Colosseum+battle+pits+Rome+police+against+ce\
nturions/6459673/story.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0413/breaking8.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/04/12/Rome-Police-battle-gladiators/\
UPI-37441334267413/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/roman-centurions-scuffle-police-colo\
sseum
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/police_costumed_centurions_clash_Pprp\
TwIcw0Wiy8zYAxZEHJ
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/Italy-Centurions-occupy\
-Colosseum-to-protest-expulsion_313194786838.html

… and some video:

http://video.corriere.it/rissa-centurioni-vigili-al-colosseo/9130298a-84a5-11e1-\
8bd9-25a08dbe0046
http://video.corriere.it/blitz-vigili-colosseo-30-centurioni-diffidati/d7a88e2c-\
7e54-11e1-b61a-22df94744509
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADoDI0osao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLF9pgGpKk

Review of Lynda Wordwell (ed)., *The Fusion of Neo - Classical Principles*:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0414/1224314714445.html

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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The Trefael Stone is actually the capstone of a 5500 years b.p. tomb:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeologists-rewrite-history-trefael-stone.html

Runes on a second century comb:

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120413-41929.html

Some Luddite revisionism:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-rage-machine.html

The Wiltshire White Horse is getting a cleaning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17714006

Some bodies dug up a couple decades ago at Eynsham Abbey
are going to be reburied:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9648915.Abbey_remains_to_get_proper_buri\
al/r/

Plans to dig a 4th-2nd millenium site in Yerevan:

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg417910.html

Some idiots graffitied a medieval building in York:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17700654

That ‘witch’s cottage’ from Pendle is to be reburied to prevent
damage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-17667277

Hype for a history conference in Iona:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17676549

Neil MacGregor comments on a Drake Circumnavigation medal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB8EZYzOKgs&feature=uploademail

Debating whether the Celts occupied Ireland:

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/history-proved-wrong-castle-debate-says-\
nay-to-celts-1-3726999

More on skeletons from Oxford possibly being remains of Viking raiders:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-skeletons-oxford-10th-century-viking-raiders.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Gleaning historical information from Chinese surnames:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-surname-explores-evolution-reveals-china.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/w-wia041312.php

Interesting feature on oracle bones:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2012-04/05/content_14983122.htm

Remains of a Zhukiatai culture dyke from Henan:

http://english.people.com.cn/90782/7786433.html

Harappan artifacts from Haryana:

http://www.indiatalkies.com/2012/04/harappan-relics-haryana-village.html

A probable Buddhist monastery wall find:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=230249

Recent finds from Taxila:

http://dawn.com/2012/04/09/more-antiquities-discovered-in-taxila-2/

Plans to dive/excavate the Clarence near St Leonards (Australia):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-shipwreck-history.html
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2012/04/12/319311_news.html

More coverage of that disputed Cambodian statue which is up for
auction:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/sothebys-retains-custody-of-cambodi\
an-statue/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized\
-from-sothebys.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6cifon5-UGS9-OhroU0B13ObgHw?\
docId=CNG.b9db698686022e61c12be4e24e911e29.231
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Government-Sothebys-Battle-over-Ancie\
nt-Khmer-Warrior-Statue----147199195.html

More on that skeleton from Taiwan:

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=198157

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
================================================================
Feature on a dig at the Donner Party camp site:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/letter/donner_party_alder_creek_washoe.html

Possible Native American burial site from Oklahoma:

http://www.ktul.com/story/17375013/human-bones-discovered-in

Another mining company v. First Nations dispute, this time in Montana:

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/a-sacred-peak-with-rich-ore-deposits/

Interesting feature on identifying a hitherto unknown Civil War soldier:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150288978/unknown-no-more-identifying-a-civil-war-\
soldier


Scans are finding shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka:

http://www.startribune.com/local/147405865.html

There’s a new state archaeologist in Georgia:

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-04-12/story/georgia-gets-new-state-arc\
heologist

Feature on the Boettcher Mansion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/garden/when-governors-refuse-the-mansions.html

Feature on a 19th century Alutiiq kayak:

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/18212674/article-1860-Alutiiq-kayak-holds-c\
lues-to-an-Alaskan-culture

More on that shipwreck off Grand Haven:

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/content/divers-believe-theyve-discovered-schoon\
er-missing-138-years

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/books/when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews-by-\
jonathan-d-sarna.html

Review of assorted tomes on Lincoln:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/149871122/best-books-and-surprising-insights-on-li\
ncoln
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of 13th century Lambayeque priestesses from Peru:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/remains-of-p\
riestess-of-the-13th-century-lambayeque-culture-found-in-peru/15191/

Evidence of 800 years b.p. sustainable farming in the
Amazonian savannas of French Guiana:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00254.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-year-old-farmers-amazon.html

Interesting feature on the ‘Big Bird’ mummy bundle:

http://www.cipstudies.org/wallace.htm

More on animal mounds from Peru:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-animals-hidden-in-plain-sight/tabid/1160/articleI\
D/249996/Default.aspx

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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Audio News from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8apr12.mp3

Not sure where to put this one … George Washington has been
named as Britain’s greatest foe:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9204961/George-Washington-named-Britains-grea\
test-ever-foe.html

The Vatican and Oxford libraries announced a project to digtize a pile of
manuscripts:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-vatican-oxford-libraries-joint-digital.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/13/4411450/vatican-and-oxford-libraries-announce.h\
tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17687947

Darwin’s daughter’s journal is rather interesting:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-unpublished-journal-darwin-daughter.html

Feature on assorted cathedrals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17627040

17th century cooking by science:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-egg-cetera-eggs-fifteen-whites.html

Marking the Titanic anniversary (these vary in focus):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/robert-ballard-man-of-t\
he-hour-for-titanic-100th-anniversary/2012/04/11/gIQARYQ5AT_blog.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/a-new-look-at-natures-role-in-the-tita\
nics-sinking.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/beating-the-odds-to-survive-the-titani\
cs-sinking.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/fashion/on-the-titanic-defined-by-what-they-wo\
re.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/titanic-at-100-at-south-street-sea\
port-museum.html
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/worlds-most-famous-shipwreck-turns-100_2012-0\
4-14.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/new-books-about-the-titanic-and-i\
ts-passengers.html

… and there is evidence (apparently) of human remains at the
site still:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-human-remains-titanic-shipwreck-sit\
e-16141850

… and UNESCO put out a video on the current condition of the wreck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLCkn2ifmWg

… and also ‘protected’ the Titanic:

http://news.discovery.com/history/titanic-unesco-120410.html

A painting has been identified as a possible El Greco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/muscarelle-museum-scholar-identifi\
es-an-el-greco-work.html

This year’s Guggenheim Fellows:

http://www.gf.org/news-events/2012-Fellows-by-field-in-the-United-States-and-Can\
ada/

On writing a terrible dissertation:

http://chronicle.com/article/My-Terrible-Horrible-No/131438/

On how Shakespeare sounded:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/03/24/149160526/shakespeares-accent-how-\
did-the-bard-really-sound

More on the Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/world/europe/prado-researcher-finds-insights-b\
eneath-copy-of-mona-lisa.html

More on daVinci’s Ste Anne:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/arts/07iht-melikian07.html

More on the Google Art Project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/design/google-art-projects-expanded-offer\
ings.html

Review of Paul Kindstedt, *Cheese and Culture*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/cheese-and-culture-a-history-o\
f-cheese-and-its-place-in-western-civilization-by-paul-s-kindstedt/2012/04/13/gI\
QA7BfxFT_story.html
http://www.7dvt.com/2012cultured-read

Review of Catalin Avramescu, *An Intellectual History of Cannibalism*:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/18900540016/people-who-eat-people
Review of Sadakat Kidri, *Heaven on Earth*:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/150005101/heaven-a-hilarious-yes-really-history-of\
-shariah

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Morocco’s Roman Ruins:

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2012/4/14/lifetravel/11082099&se\
c=lifetravel
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BLOGS
================================================================
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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Arrests in that theft of Chinese artifacts from a Durham Museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/08/theft-chinese-artefacts-durham-museum

… and they’ve recovered the purloined artifacts:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54770
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/15/chinese-treasures-durham-heist-found

A stolen Cezanne was also recovered this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/12/paul-cezanne-masterpiece-reco\
vered-serbian-police

Some stolen relics associated with John the Baptist were returned:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138458

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
================================================================
A Viking horde from Gotland:

http://www.thelocal.se/40206/20120411/

Latest ‘Rome on the Danube’ coin:

http://news.coinupdate.com/latest-rome-on-the-danube-silver-coin-features-lauria\
cum-1312/

Hype for a Roman coin exhibition at Smith College:

http://www.smith.edu/video/celebrating-collaborations-2012

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n15.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n16.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
John Constable:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/nyregion/a-review-of-john-constable-oil-sketch\
es-from-the-victoria-and-albert-museum.html

Rembrandt at Work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/design/rembrandt-at-work-at-metropolitan-\
museum.html

Sorolla:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-sorolla12.html

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150349190/at-the-met-a-middle-east-transition-cent\
uries-ago

Dawn of Egyptian Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/the-dawn-of-egyptian-art-at-the-me\
tropolitan-museum.html

Egyptian Museum of Barcelona:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/38812/Heritage/Museums/Ancient-Egyp\
tian-beauty-exhibited-at-the-Egyptian-.aspx

Titian’s Diana and Actaeon is going on display:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54744

Hype for Christie’s upcoming antiquities auction:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/04/11/ancient-greek-jewels-to-be-auctioned-at-c\
hristies-in-london/
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54685

Turkey wants the Samsat Stele to be returned from the British
Museum:

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=88346
The Louvre teamed up with Nintendo for a guide’book’:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/louvre-teams-up-with-nintendo-on-ne\
w-guides/

Review of the Met’s new guidebook:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-gu\
idebook.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
================================================================
La Mouette de Portici:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/arts/11iht-loomis11.html

On the revival of the guqin in Chinese performance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-guqin12.html

Talking like an opera geek:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/04/11/150420827/talk-like-an-oper\
a-geek-how-verdi-wagner-and-puccini-got-their-grooves

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
================================================================
Trevor Hodge:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/carleton-professor-had-a-classic-ca\
se-of-inquiring-mind/article2396680/

Charles Lockwood:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/arts/design/charles-lockwood-architectural-his\
torian-dies-at-63.html

Kenneth Libo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/books/kenneth-libo-historian-of-jewish-immigra\
tion-dies-at-74.html
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Ole A. Imsen,
Brad Leppert, George York, Kurt Theis, Adrian Murdoch, Bob Heuman,
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).

Hic incipit feliciter our sixteenth year!!!
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Still arguing about Mrs Ples:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/04/mrs-ples-a-hominid-with-an-iden\
tity-crisis/

Pondering the origins of music:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/did-humans-invent-music\
/255945/

Meat eating was apparently good for early humans:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-meat-earlier-weaning-humans-globe.html

What chimpanzee ground nests tell us about early humans:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-chimpanzee-ground-insight-ancestors-descent.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Austria returned some human remains to South Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-austria-safrican-indigenous-people.html
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A clumsy visiting Egyptologist found some missing bits
of the Book of the Dead in Australia:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/ancient-manuscript-found-in-brisbane-\
20120420-1xc5l.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-egyptian-scrolls-found-australia-collection-065458\
457.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPk7XSb6KJO3dJgjp46_dUMCvp_Q?\
docId=CNG.965b6d49d6a70f298d41b90874111367.641
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books/its-the-mummy-of-all-discoveries/stor\
y-fn9412vp-1226334861179
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-rare-egyptian-scrolls-australian.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2132755/Last-pages-magical-Egypti\
an-Book-Dead-museum-Queensland--worldwide-search-archaeologists.html?ito=feeds-n\
ewsxml

Quarrying near Aswan threatens petroglyphs:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/quarrying-upper-egypt-endangers-paleolithic\
-rock-art

A scarab find in Jerusalem:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3847

Recent finds at Gath:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/some-nice-pictures-of-iron-i-and-lb-pottery\
/

A preliminary report from Khirbat Qeiyafa (Elah Fortress):

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.asp?id=1989

Plans to restore La Description de l’Egypte:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/39656/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/La-Des\
cription-de-L%E2%80%99Egypte-to-be-restored.aspx

Qatar and the DAI have a new agreement:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=500330&version\
=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

The latest ‘turn’ in the ‘Jonah ossuary’ claim:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uonc-hia041812.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-hebrew-inscription-jonah-christian-ancient.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47117296/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/19806-hebrew-inscription-jonah-ossuary.html

… and the reaction:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47124510/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/19830-christian-ossuary-random-squiggles.html

Studying Jewish DNA:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Chosen-Genes/131481/

Feature on Adam Zertal and his work over the past decades:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3848

OpEd on Turkey’s recent demand for item returns:

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65272

Pondering the ‘demise’ of Biblical minimalism:

http://www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/minimalist-response.asp

… and the Qeiyafa Ostracon:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=38&Issue=03&ArticleID=\
04&Page=1&UserID=0&

A bill currently in front of the Knesset would put ex soldiers on
archaeological
digs:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216024,00.html

Feature (in French) on conservation efforts at Minet el Hosn:

http://libnanews.com/2012/04/02/les-archeologues-locaux-et-internationaux-catego\
riques-les-cales-pheniciennes-de-minet-el-hosn-a-conserver-a-tout-prix-video/

Review(ish) thing of the latest volume of Eretz Israel:

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=264823

More coverage of the outcome of the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/20/3093401/israeli-judge-says-antiquity-\
inscriptions-werent-forged
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage over a claim of an identification of a statue as
being a female gladiator/gladiatrix:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120419-female-gladiator-statue-t\
opless-science-ancient-rome/
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/18/rare-ancient-statue-depicts-topless-fe\
male-gladiator/
http://www.livescience.com/19729-female-gladiator-statue-rome.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47088229/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131949/The-Gladiatrix-Rare-statu\
e-shows-topless-female-gladiator-standing-triumphant-defeated-foe.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/rare-bronze-statue-of-top_n_1435121.htm\
l
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-ancient-statue-depicts-topless-female-gladiator-11240\
8435.html

… but cf:

Very interesting find of what appears to be a statue of Cleopatra’s
twin kiddies:

http://news.discovery.com/history/cleopatras-twin-babies-120420.html
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/04/20/Italian-finds-sculptu\
re-Antony-Cleopatra-twins_6752091.html
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/04/20/Italian-\
finds-sculpture-Antony-Cleopatra-twins_6752119.html

Some more of the Palladion was unearthed in Athens:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/17/ancient-greek-murder-court-found-in-a\
thens/

Archaeologists are seeking a halt to church construction until
a Roman fort can be checked out in Yorkshire:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/9657997.Call_for__delay_on_church\
_site_plan/

Moles are digging up Roman artifacts at Epiacum:

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/04/21/roman-artefa\
cts-at-epiacum-churned-up-by-moles-61634-30806040/

Confirmation (of sorts) of a tsunami hitting Potidaea in 479 B.C.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-ancient-greek-tsunami.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47107517/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2787-ancient-wave-real-tsunami.html

Nice feature on a Roman military diploma at the
Israel Museum:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-bronze-inscription-a-remnant-of-roman-might/

CWR University celebrated Vergil Week:

http://cwru-daily.com/news/?p=7017

There was a marathon reading of the Iliad at Bowdoin:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/009408.shtml

Honours for Judith Lynn Sebesta:

http://www.yankton.net/articles/2012/04/19/community/doc4f8f89110d4f4875774233.t\
xt

Mary Beard had a big presence this week … being interviewed:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/21/professor-mary-beard-saturday-interv\
iew

… writing about ‘pushy parents’ in ancient Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17701080

… and Rome’s desperate housewives or lack thereof:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2133010/Romes-desperate-housewives-For\
get-orgies-eating-incest-Mrs-Average-Caesars-reign-just-like-x-rated.html

… and her favourite parts of Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/rome/9216363/Rome-an\
cient-life-in-a-modern-city.html

… and there were reviews of her ‘Meet the Romans’:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/telly-talk/2012/04/18/meet-the-roman\
s-with-mary-beard-tv-review/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9210111/Meet-the-Romans-BBC-Two-re\
view.html

The Greek kiln at UA was fired up again:

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/041912_greek_kiln/ua-group-fire-up-kil\
n-re-create-ancient-greek-pottery/

I think we mentioned Daniel Mendelsohn and his father’s ‘odyssey’ trip last
week:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150629440/a-father-and-son-go-on-their-last-odysse\
y-together

Some town in Turkey has actually trademarked Veni, Vidi, Vici:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/veni-vidi-vici-patented-in-turkey.aspx?pageID=2\
38&nID=18472&NewsCatID=341

*The Swerve* won a Pulitzer:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/pulitzer-prizes-announced-no-fiction-\
award-1.3664641
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-General-Nonfiction
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/No-fiction-Pulitzer-given-for-1st-time-in-\
35-years-3485760.php
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/17/pulitzer-greenblatt-2012/

Hype for the Homer Encyclopedia;

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/afot-fhe041712.php

We’re hearing about Roman theme parks again:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/million+ancient+Rome+theme+park+planned+Rome/6\
488881/story.html
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=500162&version\
=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

The Olympias won’t be at the Olympics (so far):

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6d3c20c6-8980-11e1-85b6-00144feab49a.html#axzz1sQPJjsG\
T

Feature on the Romosexuality conference:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419679&\
c=1

Review of Christian Cameron, *God of War* [novel]:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/god-of-war-by-christian-cameron/a\
rticle2403728/

Review of Susan Allen, *Classical Spies*:

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13491/54859

Review(ish) of Rebecca Jones, *Roman Camps in Scotland*:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/a-new-book-challenges-the-myth-that-scotland-w\
as-never-conquered-by-the-romans-1-2236252http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/a-ne\
w-book-challenges-the-myth-that-scotland-was-never-conquered-by-the-romans-1-223\
6252
http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-headlines/legacy-of-the-romans-fail\
ed-conquest-1-2227947

More on revolting gladiators:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/italy-gladiators-up-in-arms?\
newsfeed=true

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)
================================================================
Arguing about Ale’s Stones (Sweden):

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/19/swedish-stonehenge-ancient-stone-struc\
ture-spurs-debate/

Excavating one of the earliest farming sites in Europe (Albania):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-uc-reveals-earliest-farming-sites.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416113013.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uoc-rro041612.php

The acoustics of Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17754949

Time Team finds assorted items from assorted
periods at a site in Cardiff:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/04/21/91466-30804706/

They’re excavating the 16th century defenses of Leith:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/ancient-defences-of-leith-unearthed-1-2245552

A medieval grave of an abbot at Furness Abbey turns out
to be rather more interesting than expected:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/19/furness-abbey-grave-medieval-abbot

A metal detectorist found a bronze age axe handle in
Flintshire:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/need_to_read/2012/04/20/wrexham-butcher-finds-tr\
easure-in-treuddyn-55578-30798988/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-17767303
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/spectacular-ecclesias\
tical-treasures-discovered-in-ruins-of-a-medieval-abbey-in-cumbria-7657875.html

Plans to put a 13th century shipwreck (or two) in a ‘metal cave’ to
protect it:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/19/shipwrecks-in-rhodes-and-zakynthos-be\
ing-protected-from-natural-decay/

Video feature on the Cornish Bronze Age Boat project
and the Nebra Sky disk:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17775009

Neil MacGregor talks about Henry V’s armour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfDCmYtgy1E&feature=uploademail

A Bronze Age necklace has returned to Cornwall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17745523

The British Library has purchased  the St Cuthbert Gospel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/17/british-library-buys-gospel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17732310

An Anglo-Saxon collection/’haul’ wins an award:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17752500

Seeking to bring a Viking horde back to Furness:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/appeal-launched-to-save-furness-viking-hoard-1.945\
047?referrerPath=home

Britain destroyed records of assorted Colonial crimes, but
some survived:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/britain-destroyed-records-of-colonial-crim\
es/#.T47Dc-FO1Xo.email

Checking out the DNA of the Scots (spin is slightly different
in these):

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/scotland-s-dna-descended-from-lost-tribes-and-\
related-to-napoleon-1-2238030
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/conservation/9211247/DNA-reveals-th\
e-truth-about-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html

Italy is going the sponsorship route to save cultural treasures:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,828256,00.html

Damage to Priddy Stone Circle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17771005

More on the Trefael Stone:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeologists-rewrite-history-trefael-stone.html

More on Oxford Viking skeletons:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-skeletons-oxford-10th-century-viking-raiders.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Harappan remains in Gujarat:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=659549

4000 years b.p. ‘cliff drawings’ from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/22/c_131543881.htm

Excavating some 9th century Buddhist artifacts from a village
in Cuttack district:

http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/historians-dig-out-9th-century-buddhist-rel\
ics/384060.html

Arguing about surveying/investigating Adam’s Bridge have resumed:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120419/jsp/nation/story_15392818.jsp#.T5PsZtl52RJ

An 1800 years b.p. ‘tomb cluster’ from Jiangxi:

http://www.mysinchew.com/node/72603


I think we mentioned this 3000 Buddha find last week … here are
some photos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/pictures/120417-3000-ancient-bud\
dhas-china-world-science/

More on Chinese surnames:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120413101115.htm

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
================================================================
A possible pre-Clovis site at Lamb Springs near Denver:

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_20384186/denver-area-archaelogical-di\
g-could-rewrite-human-history

Possible evidence of early ritual at the Crowfield site (near Strathroy):

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/04/15/paleo-indian-site-mig\
ht-demonstrate-early-ritual.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/04/paleoindian-ceremonies.html

Brown University has discovered a rare print by Paul Revere:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150630478/lost-and-found-rare-paul-revere-print-re\
discovered

Wondering whether a stovepipe hat really belonged to Lincoln:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/11867891-418/was-famous-stovepipe-hat-really-\
abe-lincolns.html

OpEddish thing on the ongoing question of ownership of Native American
bones:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=who-owns-the-past

Review of Richard Zacks, *Island of Vice*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/08/RV061N885D.DTL
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Burial of a Sican princess at at the Chotuna-Chornancap site:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/remains-of-p\
riestess-of-the-13th-century-lambayeque-culture-found-in-peru/15191/

Pondering whether Naymlap was a real person:

http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/archaeologist-sets-out-to-validate-230460.aspx

Feature on Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17567230

Penn Museum video in which Dr Loa Traxler talks about
tunnels at Copan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSiNCmsaeLQ&feature=uploademail

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
================================================================
Audio News from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8apr12.mp3

Archaeonews podcast:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/archaeo-news-podcast-20\
9

This month’s video news from the Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

The fish that almost sank Isaac Newton:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-revealed-fish-sank-isaac-newton.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/revealed-fish-nearly-sank-isaac-newton-220835477.html

Studying human tissue to figure out epidemics of the past:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/asking-old-human-tissue-to\
-answer-new-scientific-questions/2012/04/16/gIQA2MCEMT_story.html

Looking at the dirt on medieval books:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/technique-offers-window-past-113720092.html

Tracing one’s ancestry back to the Stone Age:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17527318

Feature on the guy-who-owns-Hobby-Lobby’s massive collection of
Bible-related artifacts:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/13/hobby-shop-magnate-own-passion-is-massive-c\
ollection-bible-artifacts/

A Nazi-looted painting was returned to the heirs of its owner:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765218

Nice Nature Video on DaVinci’s anatomical drawings in Windsor Castle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9xUL5Yi_8M&feature=uploademail

The ‘Stuff You Missed in History Class’ folks ponder who the real
Indiana Jones was:

http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/symhc/2012-04-16-symhc-real-india\
na-jones.mp3

More Pulitzer Prize stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/2012-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-drama-an\
d-music.html

Latest on the did-Marco-Polo-really-go-to-China thing:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=119306&CultureCode=en

Review(ish) of Tom Holland, *In the Shadow of the Sword*:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100151556/a-historical-look-at-the-birt\
h-of-islam/

Review of David Crystal, *The Story of English in 100 Words*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/08/RV1N1NSPRJ.DTL

Review of Sadakat Kadri, *Heaven on Earth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/heaven-on-earth-by-sadakat-kadri.html

More on Darwin’s daughter’s diary:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-unpublished-journal-darwin-daughter.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Bettany Hughes’ Athens:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/athens/9216669/Bett\
any-Hughess-Athens.html

Trier:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/48-hours-in-trier-16145512.ht\
ml

Dougga:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/04/15/the-timeless-city-of-dougga/
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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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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 e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n16.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n17.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Sanctuaries of Demeter and Persephone at Morgantina

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54800

Joaquin Sorolla:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-sorolla12.html

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-18/mummies-unwrapped/3957826/?site=newcastle

Feature on the Vatican Museums:

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/arts-entertainment/At-the-Vatican-So\
me-of-the-Worlds-Greatest-Art-147834365.html

Iraq’s National Museum has partially reopened (didn’t we have this
already?):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/16/c_131530245.htm

Terracotta Warriors are coming to New York:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/chinese-terracotta-warriors-coming-\
to-new-york/

Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/16/clytemnestra-makeover-gwyneth-lewis

Anthonello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/music/anthonellos-asian-tinged-early-musi\
c-at-st-john-the-divine.html

Fetih 1453:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/turkish-fetih-1453

Musica Sacra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/arts/music/orchestra-of-st-lukes-at-carnegie-h\
all.html

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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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Jennifer Cosham,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heumann, 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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Evidence of Middle Paleolithic folk chowing down on elephants:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-inhabitants-madrid-ate-elephants-meat.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/f-sf-om042412.php

Early humans (specifically, homo erectus, it seems) were
more advanced than previously thought:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323827

Somewhat rambling thing on the hominid family tree:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2135612/Meet-ancestors--mean-cousins.h\
tml

Again on climate change and evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-climate-human-evolution.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Ramses III ‘slab’ was found at Karnak:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=61473

A ‘facelift’ for the temple of Hathor on Philae:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/40238/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Philae\
s-Hathor-temple-gets-facelift-in-advance-of-.aspx

A pile of different scans on a mummy revealed he suffered from
a very painful disease:

http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-disease-120427.html
http://www.livescience.com/19944-egyptian-mummy-rare-disease.html

They keep finding mikvehs (and are drawing conclusions) at Galilee’s
Cliffs of Arbel:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-researcher-mikvehs-show-that-galile\
e-cave-dwellers-were-likely-kohanim-1.426773

On pipelines and antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17702153

A reconstruction of Herod’s tomb was dedicated:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/237901

LandMinds interview with Omer Sergey about lamelekh jug handles and other
things:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-27March12a1.mp3

Lengthy LandMinds interview with Aren Maier about Tel es-Safi-Gat:

http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12a.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-April2k12d.mp3

… and the latest from the dig weblog:

http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/new-look-to-the-lab/

An interview with Eilat Mazar:

http://thejerusalemreport.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/the-key-to-davids-city/

Latest on the Mughrabi Bridge:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155093

Last week we were pondering Chinese surnames … now we’re pondering
Yiddish:

http://forward.com/articles/154965/from-esperanza-to-shprintze/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a temple in Messinia:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/24/ancient-temple-discovered-in-messinia\
/

A very complete Roman shipwreck from off the shore of Trapani:

http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwreck-smuggling-120425.html

An erotic vase find from Bulgaria (in various attempts at translation, it
seems):

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n276285
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/23/Ancient-erotic-vase-found-in-Bulgaria/UPI\
-46391335214710/
http://www.sofiaecho.com/2012/04/23/1813443_archaeology-greek-vase-depicting-ero\
tic-scene-found-in-bulgarias-sozopol
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/04/22/erotic-greek-painted-vase-discovered-in-b\
ulgaria/
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138732

Resuming the search for a Laodicea temple (a bit of an awkward
description):

http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/97165-archaeologists-resume-search-for-l\
aodicea-temple

Potential for a Roman suburb find in Northampton:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/archaeological-dig-at-upton-could-f\
ind-remains-of-a-roman-suburb-1-3785282

Plans for Cirencester’s Roman amphitheatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-17839762

Another wall collapse at Pompeii:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9219470/Pompeii-wall-coll\
apses-despite-new-conservation-initiative.html

Interesting oped on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in European art:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/apr/24/transformat\
ive-effect-ovid-metamorphoses-european-artists

Slideshow of the ‘first Olympic hotel’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17841415

Latest Classics program in peril is at UPitt:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/24/pittsburgh-suspends-graduate-admis\
sions-three-programs

What Anne Carson is up to:

http://www.biconews.com/2012/04/24/anne-carsons-cassandra-float-can-bracko-a-pro\
vocative-exchange-between-modes-of-expression/

What Christopher Krebs is up to:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/news/christopher-krebs-join-st\
anford-classics

What Greg Crane is up to:

http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news473187

Honours for Crawford Greenwalt:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/26/archaeologist-crawford-greenewalt-to-r\
eceive-public-service-award-for-work-at-site-of-ancient-city-of-sardis/

Latest ‘why study Latin’ piece:

http://www.nouse.co.uk/2012/04/23/for-the-love-of-latin-2/

Nice video on Oxyrhychus: the city and its texts:

http://youtu.be/nS_FSkFwpIM

Those gladiators tried to return to the Colosseum:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/26/Gladiators-attempt-Colosseum-return/UPI-1\
9461335465329/

Not sure if we mentioned that Santorini is rumbling again:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-greek-isles-volcano-awakened.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47147123/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/332393/20120424/santorini-volcano-wakes-again-\
greek-isle-atlantis.htm

More on proposed Roman theme parks:

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/04/faux-ancient-rom\
an-theme-park-planned-in-%C3%83%C2%A2%C3%A2%E2%80%9A%C2%AC%C3%82%C2%A6-rome-/680\
185/1
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/ancient-rome-themed-for-today/story-e\
6frg6so-1226335583522

More on moles at Epiacum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/apr/23/moles-roman-remains-epia\
cum-english-heritage-vindolanda

Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/29/all-in-dons-day-mary-beard-review

… and a feature on her as well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/apr/29/observer-profile-mary-beard

… and a clip from the second episode of *Meet the Romans*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUiNHWDPgog&feature=uploademail

Review of Natalie Haynes, *The Ancient Guide to Modern Life*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/29/ancient-guide-modern-life-review

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeline-\
miller.html
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-song-of-achilles-fresh-take-on-\
homers-illiad

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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Not sure this is a recent find … the oldest musical instrument from
a cave in Germany (I think this is a few years old);

http://www.classical-music.com/news/world%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98oldest-musical-inst\
rument%E2%80%99-found

Using DNA to track the spread of farming in Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-genetic-agriculture-stone-age-europe.html
http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancient-migrants-spread-farming-europe-182928954.htm\
l
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17857641
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426143850.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/aaft-nsc042012.php

Bones from a basement in Vienna are likely soldiers who fought
against Napoleon:

http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/world-news/4329/27301/bones-are-napoleonic

… and archaeologists are digging up remains from the Battle of Lutzen:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,830203,00.html

Reflecting on Nantes’ role in the slave trade:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,829447,00.html

Remains of a Victorian roundhouse and other railroad things
near York:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17811588

The Cutty Sark returns:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cutty-sark-rises-again-50m-restoration-010311008.html

Hype for the International Congress of Medieval Studies:

http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2012/04/081.html

Suggesting (sort of) a return to Anglo-Saxon style local government:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17822919

Plans to xray a bag found at a Dartmoor Moors burial site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17817307
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/x-ray-may-reveal-bronze-age-secrets-022414331.html

… and it turned out to be full of beads:

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/story-15943159-detail/story.html

Trying to keep the Silverdale Horde in a Lancashire museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-17822808

More on the Trefael Stone:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/9675561.Stone_me__Archaeologists__new_the\
ory_on_ancient_north_Pembrokeshire_site/r/

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Students from FlindersU may have found a shipwreck off
Kangaroo Island:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-maritime-mystery.html

A couple hundred Qing/Ming dynasty forts in Shaanxi province:

http://www.tajikistannews.net/story/205193756
http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/shaanxi-zhenan-found-more-than-200-ancient-mi\
ng-and-qing-cottage/26787/

Something about the Great Wall in this one; kind of gets lost
in translation:

http://insidechina.onehotspots.com/jinan-found-large-scale-ancient-castle-which-\
cottage-or-ancient-troops-in-camp-xinmin/19812/

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
================================================================
The Canadian military is going to explore the HMS Breadalbane:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/24/north-military-films-breada\
lbane-wreck.html

Plans to excavate the remains of what is believed to be the USS
Scorpion:

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120426/NEWS/704269763/1029/warship-excavation-p\
lanned-near-upper-marlboro&template=gazette

Possible remains of a military fort at the US Naval Academy firing
range:

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/04/ap-possible-remains-army-fort-found-naval-\
academy-annapolis-042512/

Recent finds from Monticello:

http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Archaeologists_Make_Discovery_Near_Montic\
ello_149226435.html

Some burials (400-1000 years b.p.) found in the North West
Territories:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/04/25/north-paulatuk-park-graves.\
html

Not sure where Fort Ann’s Battle Hill is any more:

http://poststar.com/news/local/surveys-call-into-question-location-of-fighting-o\
n-fort-ann/article_83fb7c70-918d-11e1-88f8-0019bb2963f4.html

A long lost figurine (maybe) show up in the mail:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/state-and-regional/anonymous-delivery-may-be-lon\
g-lost-figurine/article_fd7f3972-29b2-5ab3-a54c-35e219b7e2f5.html

The discovery of native artifacts is interfering with the Genesis solar
project:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-discovery-indian-artifacts-complicates-genesis.html

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/RVIF1M54DS.DTL
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of human activity in Chile some 14 000 years b.p.:

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/science-technology/23717-evidence-of-the-earli\
est-human-activity-found-in-chiles-south

An Aztec headress might return (temporarily) to Mexico from Austria:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17878130

Using DNA to track migrations in pre-Columbian Peru:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-forensic-science-pre-columbian-peru.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47145013/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/bc-fsu042012.php

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
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews22apr12.mp3

Latest Ancient Art podcast is about dragons in various cultures:

http://www.ancientartpodcast.org/home/Ancient_Art_Podcast_-_Lucas_Livingston.htm\
l

Marking the Luddites’ bicentennial:

http://scienceblog.com/53237/rage-against-the-machine-luddite-movement-turns-200\
/

Using facial recognition software to identify folks in portraits:

http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/5453

Yale Center for British Art jumps on the Google Art Project bus:

http://news.yale.edu/2012/04/04/yale-center-british-art-partner-google-expanded-\
art-project

Interesting item on upside-down reading:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/04/26/151311708/the-delights-of-reading-u\
pside-down

Suggestion that Shakespeare collaborated with Thomas Middleton
in ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-shakespeare-co-author-revealed.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17828729

On writing in various contexts:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/talking-with-your-fingers/

Latest African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0312/news0312.html

More on measuring dirt/wear on medieval books to determine popularity:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-dirty-reveal-secret-people-mediaeval.html
Bouncy Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17777997

Smelly mummies (humour):

http://www.theonion.com/audio/archaeologists-report-recently-uncovered-tomb-sure\
,27930/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rome:

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/04/26/uncover-romes-history-at-these-five-sit\
es/
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BLOGS
================================================================
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
================================================================
The US returned some stolen items to Italy:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/04/27/US-returns-stolen-artwork-to-Italy/UPI\
-37391335550744/?spt=hs&or=tn
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-stolenart-italy-idUSBRE83P1GY201204\
26

… while Italy was found to have some ill-gotten art herself:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-italian-painting-2012042\
4,0,4187454.story

Another theft of Chinese antiquities from a British Museum (this time, the
Fitzwilliam …
cf the Museums section):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9212037/Valuable-Chinese-art-sto\
len-from-Cambridge-University.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17758686
http://chronicle.com/blogs/global/chinese-antiquities-are-stolen-from-cambridge-\
u-museum/32902?sid=gn&utm_source=gn&utm_medium=en

Similarly, but this one involves some choral music manuscripts (it seems to
be part of the above … the list of what is being returned seems to vary
from article
to article):

http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/apr/26/italian-antiquities-returned-from-ore-\
dealer/
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/04/ancient_italian_art_includi\
ng.html

Bones from that underwater reservoir in the Yucatan (10 000 years b.p.)
have been stolen:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21741-bones-of-ancient-american-stolen-fro\
m-underwater-cave.html

A mosaic in the Valley of Elah was vandalized:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4220742,00.html

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
================================================================
Latest eSylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n17.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n18.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Terracotta Warriors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/design/terracotta-warriors-at-discovery-t\
imes-square.html

Mummies of the World:

http://www2.tbo.com/entertainment/entertainment/2012/apr/27/fxnewso7-unwrapping-\
thousands-of-years-of-mysterie-ar-396629/

Fascinating Mummies:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2012/0426/1224315190559.html

Children of the Plumed Serpent:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-plumed-serpent-review-20\
120427,0,5970690.story

Manet:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2012/04/27/Toledo-museum-to-be-sole-U-S-venue-for\
-Manet-exhibit-1.html

Interesting followup report on security at Athens’ National Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_22/04/2012_438799

A pile of Chinese artifacts are coming to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/biggest-ever-collection-of\
-chinese-artefacts-set-to-arrive-in-britain-7685114.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Hype for the International Meeting of Archaeological Movies of the
Mediterranean:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/28/greek-film-museum-to-present-archaeol\
ogical-movies-of-the-world/

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
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Joann Conman, 'Stan',
Patrick Swan, A. Landreau,Kurt Theis, Angie Telepenko, Adrienne Mayor,
John McMahon, David Critchley, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of red blood cells in Otzi:

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/26/rsif.2012.0174.f\
ull
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17909396
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/149914235.html?cmpid=132476848
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57426197/iceman-mummy-holds-worlds-oldest-bl\
ood-cells/
http://news.yahoo.com/iceman-mummy-holds-worlds-oldest-blood-cells-230805449.htm\
l

… although at least one source seems to be concentrating on Otzi asa first
assassination victim:

http://gizmodo.com/5907165/the-first-assassinated-man-in-history-was-killed-by-a\
n-arrow-5300-years-ago

… and another that he survived for a while after being hit with an arrow:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-iceman-oetzi-arrow-wound.html

Rethinking/redating modern humans’ arrival in Europe:

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573

How gene duplication helped our brains become ‘human’:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/03/scripps.research.institute.scientist\
s.show.how.a.gene.duplication.helped.our.brains.become.human
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138861/Missing-link-gene-trigger\
ed-leap-intelligence-million-years-ago--separated-man-apes.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21777-early-human-brains-grew-big-with-one\
-gene.html

Modern humans had an edge in regards to navigation skills, perhaps:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/05/superior-navigation-secret-to-h\
umans-success/

On the ‘separate’ evolution of blondes (not sure where to put this one):

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-blond-hair-gene-solomon-island\
s-20120503,0,2418895.story
http://news.yahoo.com/origin-mysterious-dark-skinned-blonds-discovered-181239858\
.html

… similarly, apparently humans are still undergoing natural selection:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/human-genetic-evolution/

This one’s mostly about Neanderthal-Sapiens interbreeding:

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/03/3592660/caveman-genes-lightly-laced-in.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Islamists have attached a 16th century tomb in Timbuktu:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=503627&version\
=1&template_id=39
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Some temples in Luxor and Karnak are getting some restoration:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1096/heritage.htm

Remains of a First Temple period temple beneath an Israeli drain:

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/336124/20120502/first-temple-period-building-foun\
d-under-ancient.htm

An eighth century B.C.E. Netanyahu seal find connected to the above:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4169
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Hebrew_seal_Matany\
ahu_uncovered_Jerusalem_1-May-2012.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/netanyahu-seal-120501.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2012/May/Rare-Find-Archaeologists-Uncove\
r-First-Temple-Seal/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-seal-found-in-jerusalem/

Beersheba’s big dig:

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Features/Article.aspx?id=267547

Phoenician tombs found during sewer work in Lanarca:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/sewerage-works/sewerage-work-uncovers-ancient-tombs/2\
0120501

Satellite images reveal the courses of ancient rivers in the Arabian
desert:

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Ancient-Network-of-Rivers-Lakes-found\
-in-Arabian-Desert-050412.aspx

Latest on the Ilisu Dam project:

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/03/flooding-out-terror-turkeys-i\
lisu-dam-project/

Continuing concern for Syrian antiquities:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/01/syria-cultural-treasures-latest-uprising\
-victim/

Feature on those clay tablets which were in the World Trade Center:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/from-iraq-and-back-via-911-and-har\
vard/

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamen*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/tutankhamen-by-joyce-tyldesley.ht\
ml

Review of Janet Picton et al (eds.) , *Living Images*:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/living-images-janet-picton/1008410365

More on mummies with rare diseases:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47207778/ns/technology_and_science-science/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A 3000 years b.p. necropolis find during highway construction
in Bulgaria:

http://sofiaecho.com/2012/05/02/1818561_archaeology-ancient-necropolis-found-in-\
path-of-bulgarias-struma-motorway

A Byzantine settlement is being excavated in Pelion:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/30/byzantine-settlement-excavated-in-cen\
tral-greece/


An Italian court has upheld the decision on the Getty bronze:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-getty-bronze-ruling-2012\
0504,0,2759444.story

On women and ‘microcredit’ in ancient Rome:

http://www.uji.es/UK/noticies/detall&id_a=28320248
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/how-roman-women-got-aro\
und-the-banking-system

Ranking the deaths of Roman emperors:

http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths

Bizarre tribute to Trajan in Romania:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gRespkTVVQYmcG8SiHb0aEoVTesA?\
docId=CNG.cbc7e79b464161e130bd941cc0363871.6b1

Fears about Leda and the Swan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9232512/Mythical-swan-photo-take\
n-down-after-bestiality-fears.html

Brief item on Roman glassmaking:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-roman-age-glassmaking.html

Nice outreach program at Emory:

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/05/oxford_%20classics_language_classes_thrive\
/campus.html

Nice field trip for some Notre Dame grad students:

http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/grad-students-study-ancient-texts-1.2865412#.T\
6Z4aFJ52RI

Peter Burian is now emeritus (sort of):

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/29/2031425/duke-professor-leaves-classroom.h\
tml

Restoring gardens on the Palatine:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j21sgNOX392rUWPkt3A-Jfq43iRw?\
docId=CNG.0737c640174ca721d68b08076948e78f.6d1

Feature on Talos:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/03/the-worlds-first-robot-talos.html

Feature on the Kyrenia shipwreck:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/kyrenia/ancient-ship-s-sos/20120506

Feature on the ancient Olympics:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/events-ancient-olympic-games-204300910--oly.html

Interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/01/madeline-miller-song-of-achilles

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)
================================================================
Pondering whether ancient Germans may have stolen ancient Egyptian
chair designs:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-830958.html

Evidence of Medieval defense works at Fyvie Castle:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/98218-archaeologists-uncover-medieval-defences-on-gr\
ounds-of-historic-castle/

Brief feature on Maeshowe:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/04/ancient-burial-chamb\
er-reveale.html

Plans to repaint the Westbury white horse:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17967525

More on the spread of agriculture in Europe (with a northern
European focus):

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-glimpse-ancient-human-history.html

Fallout from the HMS Victory salvaging plans:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-victory-shipwreck-odyssey-excavatio\
n

More on the Cutty Sark:

http://www.greenwich.co.uk/magazine/08116-cutty-sark-review/

More on efforts to acquire a Viking hoard for a Lancaster Museum:

http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancaster-and-district-news/let-city-kee\
p-viking-hoard-1-4486128

Review of Hilary Mantel, *Bringing Up the Bodies*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/hilary-mantel-bring-up-the-bodies

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A mystery object found in a tomb in China 35 years ago might be a gnomon:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00292.html

In India, the ASI is threatening to tear down homes that are too close to
sites:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/apr/26/india-archaeology-homes-\
interactive-map

Feature on Qin’s tomb and environs:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2012/0505/1224315528333.html

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
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An important pre-Clovis find in Florida:

http://www.livescience.com/20088-early-floridians-mingled-mammoths-mastodons.htm\
l
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uof-nus050312.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-early-north-americans-extinct-giant.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120503153929.htm

Nice feature on pre-Clovis evidence in general:

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562

Plenty of coverage for what is apparently a ‘hidden map
of the Lost Colony:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-clue-lost-colony.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/map-markings-offer-clues-to-lost-colony.htm\
l
http://www.thestate.com/2012/05/06/2265183/at-last-a-legitimate-lead-to-the.html
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/03/3216814/north-carolina-british-resea\
rchers.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/01/2041723/north-carolina-and-british-resear\
chers.html
http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-clue-lost-colony-214550117.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138832/Is-Walter-Raleigh-s-lost-colony-\
drawn-invisible-ink-Clue-400-year-old-mystery-discovered-map-North-America.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/drawn-in-invisible-ink-is-this\
-the-site-of-walter-raleighs-lost-colony-7707486.html


Definite and indefinite articles form the basis of an argument that the
English made it to North America before Columbus:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-italian-merchants-funded-england-discovery.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47288320/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2139486/Did-English-expedition-BE\
AT-Columbus-Americas-Record-bank-loan-sailor-North-America-1497-hints-first.html

Plans to excavate the USS Scorpion:

http://uppermarlboro.patch.com/articles/warship-to-be-excavated-near-upper-marlb\
oro

Remains of the CSS Georgia are in the way of waterway
deepening:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/05/civil-war-shipwreck-creates-hurdle-for-gove\
rnment-653m-plan/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-war-shipwreck-ga-port-project-16285687

On medicine during the Civil War:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/william-hammond-and-the-end-of-t\
he-medical-middle-ages/

An ancient Caddo people artifact turns up at Goodwill:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55159
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/336986/20120504/prehistoric-artifact-ancient-pott\
ery-goodwill-caddo-indian.htm

Review of Albert Casterl, *Victors in Blue*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/30/when-civil-war-generals-clashed/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Traces of blood on obsidian knives provide the first definite evidence of
human sacrifice in Mexico some 2000 years b.p.:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55173
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mexican-experts-ancient-blood-stone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/9\
242485/Conclusive-evidence-of-human-sacrifice-found-in-Mexico.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/mexican-experts-find-ancient-blood-on-stone-k\
nives-1.3695711

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29apr12.mp3


Archaeology is more than digging in the dirt:

https://asunews.asu.edu/20120430_Smithpaper
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeology-traditional-scope-sciences.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/asu-aeb043012.php

So you want to be an archaeologist:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/advice/careers-in-archaeology/getting-started/joe-f\
latman-ten-top-tips-for-getting-into-archaeology.htm

… and a reminder that it can be dangerous work:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/05/05/archaeologist-rescued-after-being-pi\
nned-by-boulder-in-mercer-county/


Feature on Dolce of Worms and her elegy:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=267586

The causes (maybe) of Lenin’s death:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/vladimir-lenin-death_n_1477258.html

A teen caught a mistake with a map at the Met:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/teen-points-out-inaccurat_n_1477094.htm\
l

Pondering the accuracy of DaVinci’s anatomy drawings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17907305

Related … a pricey (but interesting) DaVinci-related iPad app:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55137

Interesting feature on how ‘unknown artists’ are identified:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55133

On linking names to activities/personalities (in this case, Godel):

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/whats-in-a-name-part-3/

What we can learn from dental plaque:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502184838.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uonr-uon050212.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-plaque.html

Review of Steven Nadler, *A Book Forged in Hell*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/book-forged-hell-spinoza-treatise-steven-nadler

Review of Faramerz Dabhoiwala , *The Origins of Sex*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at\
-museum-of-sex.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greece:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/9245299/Greece-Wher\
e-the-Games-began.html

Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destination/italy/rome/66607/Rome-itineraries.\
html
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BLOGS
================================================================
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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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest issue of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n18.html

… and the one which will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================

Maya 2012:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55175
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20120503_Those_amazing_Mayans.html?cmpid=138\
896554
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120504/ENT/305040006/-Maya-2012-exhib\
it-Penn-Museum-separates-fact-from-fiction

Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17910197
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-search-for-immortality-tomb-treasures-of-\
han-china/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-05/04/c_131569147.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/03/han-dynasty-immortality-suits-show

Byzantium and Islam:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/slideshow-byzantium-and-islam-age-trans\
ition

Antico:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55083

White Gold: Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins:

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit.asp?id=794&term=%200

Terracotta Warriors:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55091

Burr and his Contemporaries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/aaron-burr-items-at-the-grolier-cl\
ub.html

Vuillard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/vuillard-works-at-jewish-museum-an\
d-jill-newhouse-gallery.html


The Asmolean has acquired an important textile from Mohammed’s tomb:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55099

The Stobhall Castle auction exceeded expectations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-17938207

The National Museum in Afghanistan has an exhibition about the Bamiyan
Buddhas:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzGM5HZO0JhLZibMGYIMxRQYYSwQ?\
docId=CNG.b1a31f37fd43c751d497a7b1640016c6.a71

Job cuts at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-getty-cuts-20120501,0,182954.sto\
ry

Pondering the recent auction of ‘The Scream’

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-mi\
llion-at-sothebys-auction.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/the-scream-sells-at-sothebys-for-12\
0-million-a-record/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/how-to-spend-120-million-edvard-mu\
nchs-scream.html

Results of an Impressionist sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/cezanne-watercolor-sells-at-christ\
ies-for-17-million.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
================================================================
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/music/freiburg-baroque-orchestra.html

Book IV of Monteverdi’s Madrigals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/music/artek-plays-book-4-of-monteverdis-m\
adrigals.html

Macbeth:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/theater/reviews/macbeth-from-epic-theater-\
ensemble-at-47th-st-theater.html

Midsummer Night’s Dream:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/theater/reviews/a-midsummer-nights-dream-a\
t-classic-stage-company.html

Merchant of Venice:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/theater/reviews/the-merchant-of-venice-at-\
clurman-theater.html


Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/world/middleeast/in-iraq-romeo-and-juliet-port\
rays-montague-and-capulet-as-shiite-and-sunni.html

Die Shopfung:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/music/haydns-oratorio-die-schopfung-at-st\
-bartholomews-church.html

The Bodleian has announced a crowd-sourced Victorian music project:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/bodleian-announces-crowd-sourced-vi\
ctorian-music-project/

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
================================================================
Benzion Netanyahu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/middleeast/benzion-netanyahu-dies-at-102\
.html

John Wacher:

http://www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/johnwacher

Norman Fruman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/books/norman-fruman-coleridge-scholar-dies-at-\
88.html

Robert Miles Parker:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/arts/design/robert-miles-parker-dies-at-72-art\
ist-and-preservationist.html
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PODCASTS
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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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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Jennifer Cosham, Rick Heli, Dan Kiernan,
Joos Postma, A Landreau, Joanne Conman, Rochelle Altman,
Laval Hunsucker, Adrian Murdoch, Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
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EARLY HUMANS
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The Taung fossil may give hints about human brain growth:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-anthropologist-explanation-hominin-brain-evolution.\
html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/05/07/Fossil-gives-hints-of-larger-human-br\
ains/UPI-74001336436872/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2012/may/07/1

Homo sapiens’ success might be tied to their ‘symbolic abilities’:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-success-homo-sapiens-due-spatial.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Assorted controversial spins being put on finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologist-evidence-cult-judah-king.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508103803.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeological-find-stirs-debate-on-david-s\
-kingdom-1.429087
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429087
http://news.discovery.com/history/shrine-king-david-cult-120510.html
http://www.livescience.com/20204-shrines-biblical-kings-excavated.html
http://www.yourjewishnews.com/Pages/19826.aspx
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4262
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155579
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=269164
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/the-hebrew-university-press-r\
elease-on-the-qeiyafa-discovery/

… and some reaction:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-keys-to-the-kingdom-1.360222
http://gath.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/yossi-garfinkel-on-the-ark/
http://servingtheword.blogspot.ca/2012/05/khirbet-qeiyafa-possible-unintended.ht\
ml

Plans to dig Abel Beth Maacah:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/09/prweb9483985.DTL

An update on recent finds from Judea and Samaria:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Archeological_news\
_Judea_Samaria_May_2012.htm

Evidence of a ‘lost language’ from Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/archaeologists-discover-lost-language/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-language-discovere\
d-on-clay-tablets-found-amid-ruins-of-2800-year-old-middle-eastern-palace-772889\
4.html
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/05/clay-tablet-unknown-\
language.html
http://m.phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologists-lost-language.html

Feature on the dig at Tel Kedesh:

http://www.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_kedesh_mound_upper_galilee_israel.h\
tml

Feature on the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-the-true-story-of-judaisms-most-precious-b\
ook/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-the-codex/

Feature on the Royal Lion Hunt reliefs in the BM:

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/outdoors/2012/05/10/early-animal-rights-artist/

A possible sixth century church site in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429195

Neolithic finds from Qatar:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=503582&version\
=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

The IAA doesn’t want to return things to Oded Golan:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=269669

Smuggling is still a major concern in Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55328
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018198051_egyptantique13.html
http://www.startribune.com/world/151239205.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/thieves-treasure-hunters-take-ad\
vantage-of-turmoil-to-prey-on-antiquities/2012/05/12/gIQATrKRKU_story.html

… while they recovered a number of artifacts from Belgium:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201205071109.html

Not quite sure where to put this one … evidence of Freemasons in
Jerusalem:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4105

Vandals have damaged the Monk’s Mill site in northern Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155491#.T6-ndlJr19s

A somewhat strange damaging-a-burial-site case in Tzippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/owner-of-israeli-bed-and-breakfast-under-fi\
re-for-damaging-rabbi-s-burial-site-1.428592

The West Bank separation fence apparently threatens some (still in use)
Roman irrigation works:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/12/MNFL1OGNIH.DTL
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114581,00.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-separation-barrier-threatens-roman-terrac\
es/


The Qatna dig has a new website:

http://www.qatna.de/

A virtual 3d tour of Giza:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-internet-virtual-giza-3d.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/egypt-gyza-plateau-online-120511.html

The Google Doodle tribute to Howard Carter gained some news
attention:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120509-howard-carter-google-dood\
le-tutankhamun-tomb-king-tut-science/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0509/Howard-Carter-the-origina\
l-Indiana-Jones-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/09/howard-carter-google-doodle

The British Library is digitizing some Persian manuscripts:

http://www.iranheritage.org/BL_Project/default.htm



More on evidence of former rivers in the Great Nafud desert of
Saudi Arabia:

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/10/213313.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Remains of a Roman temple in Bonn:

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120504-42341.html
http://www.rhein-sieg-anzeiger.ksta.de/html/artikel/1335978680795.shtml
http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/lokales/bonn/Studenten-stossen-bei-Grabung-i\
n-Poppelsdorf-zufaellig-auf-Relikte-aus-der-Roemerzeit-article753774.html


The Classics feel good story of the week:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/09/columbia-university-custodian-to-graduate-a\
fter-12-years-part-time-study/

Nice feature on Dido:

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/05/09/dido-of-carthage-tunisias-warrior-queen/

Some missing bits of the Cadeby hoard turned up:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/doncaster-roman-jewels-mystery-1-4527933

They’ve moved the Chichester Mosaic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17982339

Donation of a Thracian horseman statue:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139116

Comparing Olympics ancient and modern:

http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/05/12/therealolympics/G4hkiNQoD6quqBbqPvBlWM/s\
tory.html

In a similar vein, but from a Classicist:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/paying-your-way-to-the-olympics/story-fn6ck62\
0-1226346184803

… and the usual commentary on the origins of the torch thing:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/the-nazi-origins-of-the\
-olympic-flame-relay/257002/


A nice why-take-Classics piece:

http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/campuslife/opinion-majoring-in-\
the-classics-gives-students-an-edge

Comparing London and ancient Rome:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17956446

Interesting adaptation of the Birds:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2012/05/11/how-\
a-greek-comedy-from-414bc-was-adapted-to-tell-the-plight-of-the-disabled-in-mode\
rn-wales-91466-30942094/

Interesting ‘Warfare in the Ancient World’ class:

http://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2011-12/Battle-Demo.aspx

The Classical Timeline project looks interesting (and needs help!):

http://www.classicaltimeline.com/

Honours for Tim Winters:

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/305080055

What Reviel Netz is up to:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/math-literature-netz-050712.html

Feature on Bill Murray’s work on Roman naval warfare:

http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=4442&z=123

Latest classicist-turned-author:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2012/05/06/scots-author-blown-a\
way-by-response-to-book-tipped-to-be-the-new-twilight-86908-23850073/

Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/all-dons-day-mary-beard-review

Review of a number of books about ancient walking around Rome:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1034506.ece

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)
================================================================
Chauvet Cave may house the oldest petroglyphs around:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-analysis-france-cave-art-oldest.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rock-analysis-suggests-france-cave-art-oldest-180841034\
.html
http://iphone.france24.com/en/20120508-france-rock-painting-prehistoric-cave-art\
-oldest-archeology-elaborate

Remains of Neolithic houses from a site in Prague:

http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/archaeologists-find-early-stone-age-ho\
uses-prague

They’re spinning this one as evidence of ‘stone age raves’:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/13/scientists-stone-age-boom-festival\
s

Evidence of a Saxon glass industry at Glastonbury Abbey:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-glastonbury-abbey-excavations-reveal-saxon.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17989094

Evidence of medieval trepanning from Spain:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/two-trepanned-skulls-fr\
om-the-middles-ages-found-in-spain


Continuing the look at the Lopez-Villareal family’s travails in  Inquisition
era Castile:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=269481

On the ‘metrosexual’ side of Oliver Cromwell:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9248773/Oliver-Cromwell-the-metrosexual-how-t\
he-Lord-Protector-became-the-skin-protector.html

Strange/ugly statue of undetermined date found in the waters near Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139143

The effigy of Henry Stuart is going on display:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/08/effigy-lost-prince-henry-stua\
rt


The maiden voyage of that Bronze Age boat recreation didn’t go so
well:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9262100/Maiden-voyage-of\
-Bronze-Age-boat-founders.html
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2012/may/12/bronze_age_boat_r\
eplica_fails.aspx

Interesting feature on English pirates who turned to Islam:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9261344/English-pirates-turning-Turk.ht\
ml

A ‘mystery texts’ in Master’s House:

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/9699566.What_is_ancient_text_in_Master___s\
_House_/

More on the fallout from the HMS Victory decision:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-victory-shipwreck-odyssey-excavatio\
n

Looking at links between solar activity and climate change in history:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climatic-effects-solar-minimum.html

Review of David Pearson, *London 1000 Years*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/london-1000-years

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Mystery burials/culture in Cambodia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-otago-delve-enigmatic-burial-rituals.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoo-nlo050812.php
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-coffins-glimpses-mysterious-asian-people.html

Remains of a 1500 years b.p. Buddhist temple in the Talimakan Desert:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-05/07/c_131573268.htm

As part of a publicity thing, Ferrari damaged the walls of Nanjing
(not intentionally):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18006291

There’s been a major increase in pillaging of sites in Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/05/10/sec01.asp

… possibly related:

http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-6147-news-detail-398-arrested-with-artifacts.html

Preserving a ‘dead’ language on Papua, New Guinea:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/09/dead_papua_language_preserved/

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
================================================================
Some seventh-graders on a field trip in New Mexico found a
900 years b.p. pot:

http://www.kcbd.com/story/18364177/nm-teens-find-possible-900-year-old-artifact

Interesting finds in Savage Neck Midden:

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/pottery-mystery-unfolds-chesapeake-bay

They’ve removed half of Fort Pocahontas to get to the original James Fort:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-war-fort-at-jamestow\
n-is-dug-up-to-get-at-1607-site/2012/05/04/gIQAWfiC8T_story.html

A 270 year-old-book turned up in the Charleston Library Society vault:

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/viewart/20120507/NEWS/305070038/Almost-270-year-\
old-book-found-state-library-vault
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
As might be expected, plenty of coverage for the discovery of another
‘version’ of the Maya calendar at Xultun (and of course, it’s being spun in
various predictable ways):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6082/714
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/science/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-maya-ca\
lendar-writing.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=xultun-mayan-calendar
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120510-maya-2012-doomsday-calend\
ar-end-of-world-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/mayan-calendar-discovery-doomsday-120511.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-maya-calendar.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55294
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Team-with-Skidmore-archaeologist-makes-m\
ajor-3549108.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Mayan-calendar-discovery-suggests-wor\
ld-might-not-end-in-2012
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Oldest-Mayan-calendar-found-and-it-go\
es-way-beyond-Dec.-12-2012-video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18018343
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ancient-mayan-workshop-for-1435307.html
http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/05/ancient-mayan-workshop-for-astronome\
rs.html
http://news.yahoo.com/earliest-mayan-calendar-shows-no-hint-world-end-185153809.\
html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-guatemala-never-before-\
seen-mayan-artwork-is-discovered/2012/05/10/gIQAPic5FU_gallery.html


Latest in the search for the tomb of Atahualpa:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17981616

Latest research into that well-known Mesoamerican ball game:

http://www.gwu.edu/explore/mediaroom/newsreleases/georgewashingtonuniversityprof\
essorsresearchonancientballgamerevealsmoreaboutearlymesoamericansociety
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-ballgame-reveals-early-mesoamerican.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/gwu-gpr050812.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508152131.htm

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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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews6may12.mp3


On the DNA front, horses were domesticated first in the Ukraine, some
6000 years b.p.:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17943974
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mystery-horse-domestication.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507154107.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoc-mot050412.php

MicroCT scanning in archaeology:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-redefining-archaeological.html

Interesting 19th century slide collection has been rediscovered:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-exeter-biologist-rediscovers-forgotten-19th.html

It’s that time of year when folks start yakking about recreating some lost
beer … this time it’s from an 1840s shipwreck:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-Scientists-May-Resurrect-Beer-From-an-\
19th-Century-Shipwreck-151115415.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/finland-shipwreck-beer-idUSL5E8GA9OT20\
120510

Was Jack the Ripper a woman?:

http://news.discovery.com/history/jack-ripper-serial-killer-prostitute-murder-wo\
man-120511.html

On eating corpses for medicinal purposes:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Gruesome-History-of-Eating\
-Corpses-as-Medicine.html


DaVinci had problems with the female reproductive system:

http://news.discovery.com/history/da-vinci-human-body-part-120508.html
http://www.livescience.com/20157-anatomy-drawings-leonardo-da-vinci.html

The Guardian features one of Ben Jonson’s poems:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/07/poem-week-ben-jonson

The Graphic Canon looks interesting:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/09/when-great-literature-collides-with-ca\
rtoons/?mod=e2tw

A cultural history (of sorts) of breasts:

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/10/on_the_rack_a_cultural_history_of_breasts/

I think we mentioned this archaeology-as-social science thing
last week … here’s a link to the journal article abstract:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/04/25/1201714109.abstract

A loophole in the curse (note the source):

http://www.theonion.com/articles/loophole-in-curse-lets-archaeologist-off-the-ho\
ok,28124/

Review of Flannery and Marcus, *The Creation of Inequality*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304363104577389944241796150.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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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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A New York antiquities dealer is suspected of smuggling Indian antiquities:

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/42558/new-york-antique-dealer-suspected-of-traf\
ficking-antiquities/

A Stradivarius scam:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-case-of-disgraced-stradivari-dea\
ler-dietmar-machold-a-832274.html

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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The Israel Museum has a major exhibition of electrum coins:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55230

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html

.. and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n20.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Search for Immortality:

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-immortality-tomb-treasures-han-china.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55201

DSS:

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_20602596/dead-sea-scrolls-come-life-philly-e\
xhibit