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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
A. Landreau, Hernan Astudillo, H.J. Kratt, Anthony Stevens,
Jack Keller, Joan Griffith, Dan Kiernan, David Critchley, Joos Postma,
Wilfried Zankl, Rochelle Altman, Tim Parking, Bill Jennings,
John Hall, Ron Janoff, Don Buck, Adrian Murdoch, Richard Campbell,
Bob Heuman,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 HOMINIDS
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On earbones and human evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-prehistoric-ear-bones-evolutionary.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130513174048.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/hearing-changes-could-be-ancient-in-the-human-line-1.12976
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23532-early-hominins-couldnt-have-heard-modern-speech.html
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/05/13/binghamton.researcher.studies.oldest.fossil.hominin.ear.bones.ever.recovered

cf http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/08/1303375110

On the possibility Neanderthals were “smarter” than us:

http://www.nature.com/news/neanderthal-culture-old-masters-1.12974
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/news/national/2013/05/16/neanderthals-smarter-than-us/

A new homonin site from China:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-homonin-site-daoxian-county-hunan.html

More on early evidence of humans as hunters/scavengers:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/13/Earliest-evidence-of-human-ancestors-as-huntersscavengers-found/UPI-31501368478136/
http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=130078
http://www.ukessays.com/essays/history/ancestors-hunters-or-scavengers-or-both-history-essay.php?awc=2662_1368643923_330e2b312d9cac5b49ba446cbf4d90ca
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AFRICA
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Fighting to preserve colonial heritage in Zimbabwe:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22524537
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 3000 years b.p. Phoenician ivories have traces of paint and gold:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i20/Archaeologys-Hidden-Secrets.html

A colossal head of Ramesses II has been put in storage:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/71270/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Head-of-Ramses-II-in-Akhmim-removed-and-stored.aspx

An update/tv hype about the Pyramid of Djoser Project:

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=22537

Theory on why the Egyptians stopped building pyramids:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/egyptian-pyramid-riddle-tackled-welsh-3862973

Remains of a military person 1400 years b.p. from Aswan might be Nubian:

http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2053266_remains-of-nubian-soldier-who-lived-1-400-years-ago-found-in-egypt.html

… or Roman:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/71533/Heritage/GrecoRoman/-Aswan-dig-reveals-another-facet-of-its-ancient-hi.aspx

… or uncategorized:

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/remains-of-soldier-who-lived-1-400-years-ago-found-in-egypt-113051700196_1.html

Analysis of burials suggest ‘baby-making season’ in ancient Egypt was
late August:

http://news.yahoo.com/cemetery-reveals-baby-making-season-ancient-egypt-115101876.html

LandMinds interview with Yuval Gadot on the City of David in the First and Second
Temple periods:

http://www.foundationstone.org/landminds/

Plans for additional prayer space at the Western Wall is causing new
controversies:

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Robinsons-Arch-construction-plans-must-go-on-hold-313165
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/shavuot-2013/sharansky-s-solution-for-the-wall-will-ruin-the-country-s-archaeological-treasure-israeli-scholars-fear.premium-1.523969

… and the latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/plo-warns-against-danger-of-temple-mount-judaization/

Heavy equipment damaged a Neolithic site in Istanbul:

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-315323-heavy-equipment-invades-istanbul-excavation-site-harming-neolithic-ruins.html

A bust in Lebanon of purveyors of Syrian antiquities:

http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/05/18/lebanon-arrests-a-network-smuggling-stolen-syrian-antiquities/

An Orthodox monastery in Syria was plundered/destroyed:

http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/61507.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=pravoslavie.ru

Another report on the extent of damage to sites:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0514/Syria-Damaged-landmarks-await-peace-restoration

Feature on some ‘new’ Jordanian geoglyphs:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/new-geoglyphs-of-the-jordanian-harrat

More on that major Byzantine mosaic find from Kibbutz Bet Qama:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=2001&module_id=#as
http://www.timesofisrael.com/byzantine-mosaic-unearthed-in-southern-israel/#
http://news.yahoo.com/stunning-byzantine-mosaic-uncovered-israel-133001119.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62541
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/spectacular-1-500-year-old-mosaic-discovered-in-southern-israel.premium-1.523655
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/13/stunning-byzantine-mosaic-uncovered-in-israel/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4379382,00.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article01068.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/byzantine-mosaics-southern-israel_n_3272484.html?utm_hp_ref=world (Photos)

More on the Hanging Gardens of not-Babylon:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112838936/hanging-gardens-nineveh-not-babylon-050613/

A rather late reiteration of those finds at Ur:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=40085

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the DNA front, it seems the Minoans are definitely European in origin:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-mtdna-minoans-europe-africa.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527821
http://www.nature.com/news/minoan-civilization-was-made-in-europe-1.12990?goback=%2Egde_690807_member_240895350
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=minoan-civilization-origin-europe-not-egypt
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mysterious-minoans-were-european-130514.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
http://www.livescience.com/31983-minoans-were-genetically-european.html
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/05/14/dna-analysis-unearths-origins-of-minoans-the-first-major-european-civilization/

An archaeologist is claiming a new site for the Battle of Mons Graupius:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/archaeologist-claims-to-have-located-site-of-roman-battle.21105032

Possible find of Beirut’s Roman Gate:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/May-15/217122-archeologists-believe-roman-gate-found-in-beirut.ashx#axzz2TNx9deWU

A Roman ‘farmstead’ in Haverhill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-22487227

On the ‘Beyond the Polis’ project:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/05/15/greek-city-before-the-polis/

Somewhat unfocussed piece on Statonikeia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-revived-in-ancient-city.aspx?pageID=238&nID=47075&NewsCatID=375

Eric Cline has a new book out on the Trojan War:

http://blog.oup.com/2013/05/trojan-war-fact-or-fiction/

An update of sorts on the Ancient Lives transcription project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/may/17/children-ancient-texts-citizen-science-video

Making Classical connections to the treatment of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s remains:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/unburied-tamerlan-tsarvaev-and-the-lessons-of-greek-tragedy.html

Mary Beard and Robert Harris chat about Pompeii:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/channel/events.aspx

Ray Laurence’s latest animated effort looks at the lives of four sisters in Ancient

Rome:

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/four-sisters-in-ancient-rome-ray-laurence

Suggestion that teaching of ancient Greek should be community funded:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/ancient-greek-should-be-funded-by-community

What we can learn from the Romans (specifically, Q. Cicero):

http://www.frontline.in/books/what-the-romans-can-teach-us/article4698395.ece

Here’s a nice gift for a Classics grad:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62569

Feature on Gregory Nagy’s ‘Ancient Greek Hero’ MOOC:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/20/130520fa_fact_heller

Feature/factsheet on ancient Sparta:

http://www.livescience.com/32035-sparta.html

An interview with James Uden:

http://www.i-studentglobal.com/study-programmes/liberal-arts-social-sciences-humanities/classics/an-interview-with-a-classics-lecturer

Folks might want to page through Alice Kober’s papers:

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/15875

The Blackworth Hoard is returning home:

http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/local/roman-items-return-home-1-5682830

Some beleated coverage of Donald Kagan’s last lecture:

http://news.yale.edu/2013/05/15/kagan-discusses-liberal-arts-education-farewell-lecture

Greece is working on getting back some Nazi-looted items:

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/82650-officials-greece-drafting-case-on-antiquities-looted-by-nazis

More on the Elephant Tomb in Carmona:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Elephants_Tomb_in_Carmona_may_have_been_a_temple_to_the_god_Mithras_999.html

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

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Paleolithic site from Poland:

http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,395189,unique-workshop-of-palaeolithic-hunters-discovered-in-silesia.html

A log boat from Boyne might be 5000 years b.p.:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/logboat-found-in-boyne-could-be-5000-years-old-29261380.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ancient-wooden-boat-found-in-the-boyne-river-1.1391540

Remnants of a Bronze age initiation rite involving dog sacrifices from
Russia’s Volga region:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-dogs-sacrifice-initiation-rite-russia-archaeology-science/

Finds from various periods on the banks of the Tees estuary:

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/community/exciting-finds-of-roman-remains-1-5663914
http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/update/2013-05-13/fragments-of-life-4-000-years-ago-found-on-teesside/

Possible ‘ancient’ burials on Iona:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/isle-of-iona-may-be-ancient-burial-site-1-2934998

A Danish teenager found a pile of Viking artifacts with his metal detector:

http://news.yahoo.com/danish-teenager-makes-rare-viking-162658921.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/photo/denmark-viking-find

… while metal detectorists at Whiby Abbey have done some damage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22553951
http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/10419843._/
http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/opportunists-digging-deep-in-abbey-grounds-1-5670491

Archaeologists have located the site of medieval Nieszawa (Poland):

http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,391851,archaeologists-located-a-city-dating-back-more-than-500-years.html
http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,394663,3d-reconstruction-of-medieval-nieszawa.html

A burial in a garden in Wallingford has helped to pinpoint the location of one of
the town’s oldest churches:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10422125.Skeleton_find_reveals_long_lost_church_site/

… while a previously-undiscovered church plus some burials that are at least

1000 years b.p. have turned up under Lincoln Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22553227

Richard III’s reconstructed head is on tour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22555317

Restoration of Cornwall’s Old Duchy Palace is complete:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22496427

“Scandalous” construction near an archaeological reserve in Bulgaria
has been halted:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=150394

That modern druid’s bid to get some reburials at Stonehenge didn’t pan out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22558293

More on the genetic side of Europeans:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/05/europeans-share-common-ancestors-to-differing-extents/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/05/my-big-fat-european-family-what-genomics-tell-us-about-shared-ancestors/
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence for agriculture prior to the domestication of rice in Xincun some 5000
years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-discovery-ancient-diet-shatters-conventional.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130517085734.htm

… and a study of the diet of the first New Zealanders:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516105700.htm

Buddha-period relics from Devdaha:

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Relics+from+Lord+Buddha%27s+period+found+from+excavation&NewsID=376944

Protests from archaeologists and the public have brought excavation of a Chen
Dynasty mausoleum to a halt:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/14/c_132380362.htm

Evidence of ‘trickery’ in some Shang Dynasty divination techniques:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/13/c_132379100.htm

Cambodia is seeking the return of more antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/arts/design/cambodia-presses-us-museums-to-return-antiquities.html?pagewanted=all
http://style.time.com/2013/05/16/cambodia-demands-u-s-return-its-khmer-antiquities/

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East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/

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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They’re going to destroy a Native American mound in Alabama to build a Sam’s Club:

http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/alabama-city-destroying-ancient-indian-mound-for-sams-club.html

Rising sea levels threaten Jamestown:

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/14/178809495/with-rising-seas-americas-birthplace-could-disappear?sc=17&f=1001

Checking out the ships that were involved in the siege of Louisbourg:

http://www.ngnews.ca/News/Local/2013-05-09/article-3242211/Underwater-archeologists-helping-tell-story-of-Louisbourg-siege/1

Housing construction threatens an Oregon Trail site in Wyoming:

http://trib.com/news/local/casper/housing-development-threatens-oregon-trail-guard-camp-in-wyoming/article_a9294875-7a11-5db8-b001-22852c7249f4.html?comment_form=true

Finds from various periods at a Miami River dig:

http://www.local10.com/news/Remnants-of-ancient-Indian-village-found/-/1717324/20120272/-/6oee6s/-/index.html

Trying to figure out the 1700 Cascadia earthquake event:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-finer-picture-massive-earthquake.html

Remembering the mysterious Dr Glidden:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324683/The-strange-mysterious-Dr-Glidden-Callousness-archaeologist-raided-hundreds-Native-American-graves-set-macabre-museum-remembered-California.html

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/may/13/catalina-exhibits-american-indian-grave-plunderer/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Some idiot construction crew bulldozed a Mayan pyramid in Belize:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22521669
http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=25471
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-builders-bulldoze-mayan-pyramid-belize.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/no-more-noh-mul-contractor-bulldozes-mayan-temple
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57584279/bulldozers-destroy-mayan-pyramid-in-belize/
http://rt.com/news/belize-mayan-pyramid-destroyed-234/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/14/184007560/road-crew-in-belize-destroys-ancient-pyramid?sc=17&f=1007
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/13/builders-bulldoze-mayan-pyramid-in-belize/
http://news.yahoo.com/builders-bulldoze-big-mayan-pyramid-belize-225012836.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/mayan-pyramid-bulldozed-road-construction?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0514/Mayan-pyramid-bulldozed-for-road-fill-by-construction-company
http://www.livescience.com/31990-workers-bulldoze-mayan-relic.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130515-belize-pyramid-destroyed-archeology-maya-nohmul-world-road/

… and the government of Belize was not amused:

http://www.newsdaily.com/article/f25a117f77f8ed5654bbe3ea8cad4191/belizean-government-condemns-pyramid-destruction

… but the fine doesn’t quite reflect the ire:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/17/fine-for-destruction-ancient-mayan-pyramid-5000/

LiDAR may have located Ciudad Bianca (didn’t we have this a while ago?):

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/have-archaeologists-discovered-the-mysterious-lost-city-of-gold-ciudad-blanca-8616240.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/15/ruins-lost-city-may-lurk-deep-in-honduras-rain-forest/
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ruins-of-lost-city-in-honduran-forest-130515.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

… related to the above, but more general:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-honduran-mexican-civilizations.html

Nice Explorers Journal feature on excavating ceremonial sites in Central Nicaragua:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/13/mysterious-mounds-uncovering-matagalpa-archaeology-in-central-nicaragua/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A major manuscript archiving project in Germany:

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/mammoth-project-to-archive-manuscripts-1.1515313#.UZH19oI1eiY

Another project (this one from Cardiff) to read unreadable manuscripts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22557875

Why humans took up agriculture:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/13/183710778/why-humans-took-up-farming-they-like-to-own-stuff

Repatriating a Bonaparte family letter:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-bonaparte-family-letter-france.html

Feature on acoustic archaeology:

http://www.spectroscopynow.com/details/ezine/13e9d18280f/Acoustic-archaeology-A-sound-approach.html?tzcheck=1

On the history of swearing:

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_modern_history_of_swearing_where_all_the_dirtiest_words_come_from/

The LOC has digitized a pile of postcards:

http://petapixel.com/2013/05/14/library-of-congress-digitizes-archive-of-rare-20th-century-panoramic-postcards/

Latest on the Shroud of Turin (I think we had this a month or so ago):

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/science-shines-new-light-on-shroud-of-turins-age/

A family album of the Romanovs has turned up:

http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/family-album-of-last-tsar-surfaces-in-russian-museum-14398

Victorian-era folks were ‘smarter’ than today’s folks:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intelligent-modern-day-counterparts.html

Studying ‘overlooked’ 19th century writers:

http://wunc.org/post/professor-examines-overlooked-writers-19th-century

Some iPad/iPhone apps of interest:

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/10-best-history-apps-for-iphone-and-ipad-1148303

Google Earth is apparently spurring on ‘armchair archaeology’ (this sound like something

from a few years ago, no?):

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/google-earth-fuelling-rise-of-armchair-archaeology.htm

On dogs being domesticated earlier than previously thought (this sounds like something

we’ve had within the past few months):

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-dogs-domesticated-earlier-thought.html

Interesting collection of glass models:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/07/science/glass-ocean.html?ref=science&_r=0

Review of Candida Moss, *The Myt of Persecution*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/candida-moss-debunks-the-myth-of-christian-persecution/2013/05/14/1b903b24-bcc7-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tivoli:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/-/europe/17215068/emperors-club/

Libya:

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/top-stories/item/458935-8-things-to-know-about-touring-libya
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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:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n19.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n20.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Life and Death in Roman Egypt:

http://facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/life-and-death-in-roman-egypt-artemidoros-and-his-family/

Pre Columbian Textiles:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62528

Hidden Treasures from the Kabul Museum:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/voice/treasures-saved-from-civil-war-in-afghanistan-20130510-2jbwo.html

Gettysburg:

http://www.newsdaily.com/travel/447f526d787a5c2a355f867c872e7c09/museum-of-the-confederacy-opening-gettysburg-show

Mirror of Health:

http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/mirror-health-discovering-medicine-golden-age-islam

Nice feature on conservationists at the BM:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22360927

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Geza Vermes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/10052468/Professor-Geza-Vermes.html
http://forward.com/articles/176752/geza-vermes-hungarian-bible-scholar-who-returned-t/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/14/geza-vermes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/europe/geza-vermes-dead-sea-scrolls-scholar-dies-at-88.html
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21578017-geza-vermes-jew-ex-priest-and-translator-dead-sea-scrolls-died-may-8th-aged
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/geza-vermes.21070893

Penry Williams:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/15/penry-williams
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Video News from The Archaeology Channel:

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Frontiers of the European Iron Age (September 20-22):

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/iron_age/2013/index.html

PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):

http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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Ancient Digger:

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Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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