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explorator 21.11 July 8, 2018
n.b. for reasons unknown, somewhere along the line an extra dot will
likely be inserted in that url and you will get a 'page not found'.
Removing the extra dot in your address bar should fix it (I have not
been able to figure out why this is happening ... if you can enlighten
me, it would be greatly appreciated)
Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David
Critchley, Bill Kennedy, 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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A study of feet suggests Australopithecines could walk upright and
still climb trees:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704151911.htm
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-ancestors-feet-children-backup.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/health/selam-toddler-fossil-foot-study/
index.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-lucy-walked-upright-but-bab
y-australopithecines-lurked-in-trees-1.6243522
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/foot-fossil-hominid-kids-lucy-uprigh
t-walkers-33-million-years-ago?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6767-180705-a-afarensis-toddler-feet
More on Neanderthals hunting in groups:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/dc-oha062718.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/jgum-npc070218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702111122.htm
More on Otzi's tools:
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180701/copper-age-hunter-repaired-his-too
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AFRICA
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Not sure if we mentioned these petroglyphs from Tanzania:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C30116%2Cpolish-archaeologis
t-discovers-hundreds-rock-paintings-tanzania.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Restoration work on the Pyramid of Djoser revealed a statue of Osiris:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305974/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/Osiris-statuette-discovered-between-blocks-of-Saqq.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/osiris-statue-found-djoser-pyramid/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53163/statuette-of-Osiris-uncovered
-at-King-Djoser-Step-Pyramid-in
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6763-180702-egypt-saqqara-osiris
Remains of a couple of 4500 years bp 'houses' near the Giza pyramids:
https://www.livescience.com/62976-ancient-homes-giza-pyramids.html
https://www.livescience.com/62966-residences-giza-discovery-photos.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6771-180706-egypt-official-residences
26th dynasty canopic jars from Luxor:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/305454/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/th-Dynasty-canopic-jars-discovered-at-Luxors-South.aspx
A very interesting Ptolemaic-era sarcophagus from Alexandria:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/305971/Heritage/GrecoRoman/
Ptolemaic-tomb-discovered-in-Alexandria.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53155/In-pics-Antique-sarcophagus-f
ound-by-security-forces-in-Alexandria
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1320371/discovery-%E2%80%98ptole
maic%E2%80%99-tomb-sheds-light-hidden-monuments-alexandria
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-black-sarcophagus-discov
ered-alexandria-egypt-180969551/
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-giant-26meterlong-sarcophagus-h
as-just-been-found-in-egypt/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6764-180703-egypt-alexandria-sarcophagus
A cache of pottery vessels from various periods hidden during WWII:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53278/A-cache-of-pottery-vessels-di
scovered
Feature on Harry Burton (related to an exhibition of his photos):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-44719815/harry-burton-
the-man-who-photographed-king-tut
Hyping China's first archaeological mission in Egypt:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/02/c_137294254.htm
http://www.ecns.cn/news/culture/2018-07-02/detail-ifyvrptq6366553.shtml
Latest Jewish Revolt coin find comes from Emek Zurim National Park:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bronze-coin-from-4th-year-of-Great-Rev
olt-found-at-national-park-561347
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-coin-from-4th-year-of-jewis
h-revolt-found-in-ancient-jerusalem-drain-1.6223591
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/three-weeks-appropriate
-discovery-bronze-coin-from-the-great-revolt/2018/07/01/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/recently-uncovered-jewish-revolt-coin-show
s-rebels-aware-of-impending-disaster/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/07/02/rare-coin-minted-1900-years-ago-di
scovered-in-%E2%80%8Ejerusalem/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rare-coin-sheds-light-on-doomed-jewish-reb
els
2000 years bp pots from an Israeli cave near the border with Lebanon:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/From-on-high-2000-year-old-pottery-dis
covered-in-a-cave-30-meters-high-561351
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-ancient-jars-over-2-000-yea
rs-old-lowered-by-rope-from-cliffside-cave-1.6232836
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248314
https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-lebanon-border-salvage-op-rappels-2000-
year-old-vessels-down-sheer-cliff/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/178528-180702-2000-years-old-potte
ry-found-in-israeli-cave
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/03/c_137296912.htm
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6761-180702-galilee-cave-amphorae
What Christopher Eames is up to:
https://www.thetrumpet.com/radio/watch-jerusalem/episodes/71-discovering
-biblical-hebron-and-post-excavation-work-at-hebrew-university
Digging has resumed at Tieion (Turkey):
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/07/06/excavations-resume-in-tiei
on-ancient-city-in-turkeys-black-sea-region
Feature on Gobekli Tepe:
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-site-of-the-earliest-known-temple-on
-earth-continues-to-keep-its-secrets/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/08/c_137309029.htm
Feature on Tappe Sialk:
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/07/04/567028/Iran-culture-Sialk
More on that Islamic amulet from Jerusalem:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-muslim-evil-eye-amulet-discovered-in-a
-jerusalem-parking-lot
More on damage to Bosra's Roman theatre:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/07/05/Assad-s-bomb
ings-damage-Roman-theater-in-city-mentioned-by-Pharaohs.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Finds (including Mycenean) from various periods at Hala Sultan Tekke:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31788-excavations-at-drom
olaxia-vizakia-or-hala-sultan-tekke-in-cyprus.html
A small hoard of 3rd century BCE coins from Vulci:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2018/07/03/
treasure-of-coins-found-at-vulci-archaeological-site_89467e5f-b991-4010-
b0bf-9f4eaa937285.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6765-180703-italy-vulci-coins
Remains of a Thracian settlement on St Thomas Island (Bulgaria):
https://sofiaglobe.com/2018/07/03/archaeology-ancient-thracian-settlemen
t-found-on-bulgarias-st-thomas-island/
A trio of Roman burials from a Lincoln student housing site:
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/these-romans-certai
nly-seemed-good-1744873
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6693783/roman-skeletons-lincoln-take-away-
viking-house/
Latest thing the Romans are being 'credited' for is spreading
tuberculosis:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2173374-dna-reveals-romans-helped-s
pread-tb-across-three-continents/
https://www.sciencealert.com/roman-trade-routes-carried-tuberculosis-acr
oss-globe
Interesting followup to that 'Roman fridge' story from a month or so
ago:
https://www.thelocal.ch/20180706/augusta-raurica-basel-ancient-roman-fri
dge-keeps-beer-cool-for-a-month
The contents of that sarcophagus found in Southwark last year have been
revealed:
https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/contents-of-roman-coffin-finally-reve
aled/
Some ACL conference coverage:
https://missoulian.com/news/local/veritas-classics-scholars-venture-into
-montana-find-no-bear-spray/article_102ba741-fbb4-5652-823f-73b0d38f71c8
.html
Feature on Phil Stinson and his 3d models:
http://news.ku.edu/2018/06/26/classics-professor-uses-technological-tool
s-rebuild-ancient-history
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-classics-professor-d-rebuild-ancient.html
Feature on Curtis Dozier's Pharos project (and related):
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2018/07/far-right-using-anti
quity-re-brand-itself-classicists-are-fighting-back
A couple of scholars talking about 'badass goddesses':
http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/07/authors-emily-wilson-and-maria-da
hvana-headley-talk-badass-goddesses-humanizing-monsters-and-their-new-wo
rk/
Feature on Rodin's Classical influences:
https://hyperallergic.com/449655/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece/
Feature on Aigai (now open to the public):
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/07/c_137308582.htm
On the US Founding Fathers and Gibbon:
http://digital.vpr.net/post/when-history-rhymes#stream/0
... and how ancient Greece inspired American independence:
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2018/07/04/how-greeks-inspired-american-ind
ependence/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/31825-media-report-how-an
cient-greece-inspired-american-independence.html
On Greeks reclining to eat:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/07/01/why-did-ancient-greeks-reclin
e-to-eat-and-drink/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/gastronomy/31795-report-w
hy-did-ancient-greeks-recline-to-eat-and-drink.html
Learning from Epictetus:
http://www.gulf-times.com/story/598518/How-to-live-a-happy-life-Epictetu
s-lessons
Latest Parthenon Marbles protest:
https://news.gtp.gr/2018/07/04/return-hold-protest-parthenon-marbles/
A replica of the Nike of Samothrace is being made for the site:
http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/05/a-replica-of-the-winged-victory-of-sa
mothrace-is-being-made-in-greece
More on terrorist concerns at Pompeii:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-at-risk-from-terrorists-and-v
isitors-d3fj8jrpx
More on the followup to that 'latest victim of Vesuvius' story:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/pompeii-man-not-decapitated-by-flyin
g-stone-archaeologists-find-20180701-p4zovn.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-01/pompeii-victim-was-not-crushed-by-
stone-skull-found-intact/9929058
More on that Latin inscription from Yambol:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6770-180706-bulgaria-kabyle-inscription
A Neolithic 'roadway' and a possible ritual site in Suffolk:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-trackway-possibly-ri
tual-site-discovered-england-180969493/
Byzantine finds at Hotalich fortress (Bulgaria):
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122603&headline=Ceredigion
%20archaeologists%20unearth%20startling%20finds%20in%20Bulgaria§ionI
s=news&searchyear=2018
Finds from various periods found during expansion of the Dorset County
Museum:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-44694816
A 500 years bp sword from a Norwegian lake:
https://www.thelocal.no/20180703/norwegian-divers-find-500-year-old-swor
d-in-lake
Latest medieval finds from Auckland Castle:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16330193.medieval-mysteries-uneart
hed-during-in-castle-dig/
The Book of Deer Project has found a Viking game board of some sort:
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/medieval-games-board-found-in-search-
for-pictish-monastery-1-4764734
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6768-180705-scotland-medieval-game
Remains of 17th century barracks from Elizabeth Castle:
http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2018-07-07/archaeologists-uncovering-17t
h-century-barracks-at-elizabeth-castle/
Feature/exhibition on all the interesting things found in Amsterdam's
canals over the years:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/jul/02/from-stone-age
-tools-to-false-teeth-the-secrets-of-amsterdams-canals
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/New-website-amsterdam-history-
artifacts-180969497/
Reevaluating the evidence for when brown bears became extinct in
Britain:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704112036.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uon-nsq070318.php
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44699233
... and a not-connected but probably related find:
https://www.newstalk.com/Skull-found-in-Aillwee-Cave-dates-from-Irelands
-Stone-Age
Concerns for Albania's underwater heritage:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-urge-albania-underwater-her
itage.html
... seems related:
http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=137767
Latest in the France-UK Bayeux Tapestry deal:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44732897
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/governments-sign-deal-securing-loan
-of-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-uk-in-2022
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-and-uk-sign-bayeux-tapestry-deal/
Heritage status for Germany's Naumburg Cathedral:
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-naumburg-cathedral-wins-world-heritage-de
signation/a-44481701
More on beer brewing in Sweden:
http://sciencenordic.com/1600-year-old-evidence-beer-brewing-sweden
More on 17th century latrine contents (I think we mentioned this a
while ago):
https://www.livescience.com/62990-wine-barrel-renaissance-bathrooms.html
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2018/07/17thc-wine-barrels-turned-loos
-reveal-theirsecrets/
More on human sacrifice at a German henge site:
http://www.newsweek.com/women-children-brutally-killed-german-stonehenge
-1004937
https://abcnews.go.com/International/dismembered-bodies-women-children-f
ound-german-stonehenge/story?id=56313781
More on the search for the lost standing stones of Devon:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/the-lost-standing-stones-of-devo
n-are-still-hiding-from-archaeologists/
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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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Paleolithic stoneware from near the Suifen River in northeast China:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/02/c_137296077.htm
Evidence of equine 'veterinary care' in Mongolia 1300-700 BCE:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-oldest-evidence-horse-veterinary-mongolia.
html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/mpif-oeo062818.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180702154739.htm
https://www.livescience.com/62974-oldest-horse-dentistry-on-record.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mongolians-practiced-horse-dentistry
-early-3200-years-ago?tgt=nr
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/3000-year-old-sawn-tooth-may-be-e
arliest-evidence-horse-dentistry
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-horse-veterinary
-dentist-Mongolia-archaeology/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6766-180703-mongolia-equine-dentistry
Interesting Spring and Autumn Period burials from Henan:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2018-07/02/content_54475055.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6762-180702-china-horse-pits
Suggestion that the Soga clan in Japan was of Korean origin:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807030011.html
An Iron Age site in Andra Pradesh was bulldozed (!):
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/070718/iron-age-s
ite-bulldozed-in-ap.html
Marking the 50th anniversary of the find of 'Mungo Lady':
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fifty-years-lake-mungo-true.html
http://theconversation.com/time-to-honour-a-historical-legend-50-years-s
ince-the-discovery-of-mungo-lady-97785
Digging a colonial Tauranga garbage pit:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=150
3343&objectid=12084504
A study suggests Chaco Canyon people may have grown their own food:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-apo070318.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ancestral-people-chaco-canyon-grew.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180703154919.htm
Bones found in Albuquerque thought to be connected to a serial killer
case turn out to be an 1100 years (maybe) bp Native American burial:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/bones-found-in-albuquer
que-link-to-archaeological-site/article_29c7f242-4984-5b30-a74a-b6dc7a63
7794.html
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193665/bones-found-on-west-mesa-were-ancient
-not-connected-to-west-mesa-case.html
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193279/west-mesa-park-where-remains-found-tu
esday-was-site-of-1000-year-old-archaeological-find.html
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Remains-found-in-Albuquerque-near-arc
haeological-13054130.php
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Remains-found-in-Albuquerque-near-a
rchaeological-13054130.php
Latest from the Queen Anne's Revenge:
http://wunc.org/post/300-years-later-blackbeard-s-nc-shipwreck-continues
-turn-archaeological-treasures#stream/0
... and this seems to be a semi-new shipwreck find off North Carolina:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-noaa-blake-reidg
e-shipwreck-archaeology/
Plans to study a pre-contact Inuit winter village in the Okak Islands:
http://www.thetelegram.com/news/archaeology-team-set-to-study-pre-contac
t-inuit-winter-village-224268/
Studying remains from burials found at Fort Gibson:
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/archaeologists-examine-remains-found
-in-fort-gibson/article_c5c8e0da-50bf-5e86-98eb-cdaf43960181.html
http://www.swtimes.com/news/20180704/archaeologists-study-remains-discov
ered-in-eastern-oklahoma
Excavating slave quarters at Poplar Forest:
http://wset.com/news/local/archaeologists-work-to-uncover-slave-artifact
s-at-poplar-forest
Interesting Revolutionary War medal going on display:
http://wamc.org/post/rare-revolutionary-medal-going-display-ft-ticondero
ga
Rethinking a 'forgery rock inscription' about the 'Lost Colony':
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/07/05/dismissed-a
s-a-forgery-could-a-mysterious-stone-found-near-roanokes-lost-colony-act
ually-be-real/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b1505aa43aaf
On news coverage at Gettysburg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/insider/the-times-at-gettysburg-july-
1863-a-reporters-civil-war-heartbreak.html
On Clovis hunters and Ohio flint:
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180701/archaeology-ancient-clovis-hunters
-drawn-to-ohio-flint
On the map that gave America its name:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180702-the-epic-story-of-the-map-that-
gave-america-its-name
On 'God Bless America':
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/arts/music/irving-berlin-god-bless-am
erica.html
... and 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic':
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625351953/one-song-glory
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Tombs of 24 Inca nobles in the Valley of the Pyramids (I think we
mentioned this):
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/07/05/world/americas/05reuters-peru
-archaeology-tombs.html
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2460424&CategoryId=14095
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54995530.htm
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology-tombs/archaeologists-
in-peru-uncover-incan-burial-site-in-desert-valley-idUKKBN1JV2DY
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6769-180705-peru-pyramid-of-the-bees
What teeth tell archaeologists:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-teeth-reveal-our-r
oots-180969495/
Assorted sites added to the World Heritage list:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/viking-archeological-site-and-
others-earn-world-heritage-status-180969496/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44680526
https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/07/01/actualidad/1530429696_873094.html
How literature shapes history:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/04/written-world-literature-s
haped-history-martin-puchner-review
On feasting rituals and civilization:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-feasting-rituals-cooperation-require-cruci
al.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/feasting-rituals-crucial-s
tep-toward-human-civilization-180969540/
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Feasting-rituals-and-the-c
ooperation-they-13046031.php
On the 'dancing plague' that broke out in 1518:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-
summer-1518-strasbourg
On some arsenic-laced books found in a university library:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arsenic-laced-books-discovered
-university-library-180969527/
A copy of the Declaration of Independence from Chichester:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-sussex-44703928/declaration-of-in
dependence-found-in-chichester-archives
Brown has acquired an interesting collection of Jewish texts:
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/06/ungerleider
Interesting story behind the St Thomas Way hiking paths:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/07/story-of-resurrected-wel
sh-warrior-inspires-st-thomas-way
Charles I left behind a 'message for the future', apparently:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/05/charles-i-message-poetry-b
ook-university-challenge
Genoa is apparently miffed at England's use of the St George cross:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/england-owes-arrears-over-
st-georges-cross-claims-genoa-mayor
On botched restorations:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180705-the-well-intentioned-copies-th
at-went-wrong
Review of Stephen Platt, *Imperial Twilight*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/stephen-r-platt-imperial
-twilight.html
Review of Listri, *The World's Most Beautiful Libraries*:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180704-libraries-where-the-worlds-mem
ory-is-stored
Review of a book on the last days of the Romanovs:
https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/06/30/actualidad/1530381522_415055.html
The House of Herod:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-franciscan-museum-jerusalem-life-jesus.htm
l
Discovering King Tutankhamun's Tomb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44636774
Islamic Art:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/joint-exhibition-shows-florenc
e-medici-familys-connections-islamic-world-180969553/
Gold of the Pharaohs:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53457/The-Gold-of-the-Pharaohs-Mass
ive-Egyptian-exhibition-in-Monaco
Bolivia is planning a museum at the bottom of Lake Titicaca:
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-bolivia-museum-bottom-sacred-lake.html
Sharing a Cezanne from the Gurlitt hoard:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/arts/design/cezanne-cornelius-gurlitt
-kunstmuseum.html
Viking exhibition hype talking about the Vinland Map:
http://wnpr.org/post/vikings-invade-connecticut
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AT THE AUCTIONS
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Interesting collection of Roman, Greek, Viking and medieval rings:
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/how-much-collecti
on-rare-ancient-1738345
Egyptian antiquities at Sotheby's:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53190/Sotheby-s-auction-vies-with-C
hristie-s-on-selling-Egyptian
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/53399/In-Pics-Ancient-Egyptian-arti
facts-sold-in-auction-in-London
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA reveals much about the first domestic dogs in North America:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705143544.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoia-fdi070218.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-adt070618.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/science/dog-american-genome.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-first-american-dogs-
20180705-story.html#
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/go-for-launch/la-sci-sn-first-
american-dogs-20180705-story.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-european-dogs-devastated-i
ndigenous-american-pup-populations-180969561/
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/north-america-earliest-d
ogs-came-siberia?tgt=nr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6772-180706-north-american-dogs
... less attention being paid to a DNA study of dogs in New Zealand:
https://massivesci.com/articles/ancient-dogs-history-archaeology-new-zea
land
Using DNA to track goat domestication:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/tcd-aga070318.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180705143907.htm
DNA is also solving a mystery about Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers in
Southeast Asia:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc-adt070618.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ancient-dna-year-old-controversy-southeast
.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180706105950.htm
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Studying climate from evidence in Brazilian caves:
http://agencia.fapesp.br/pesquisa-traca-2-mil-anos-da-historia-das-chuva
s-no-brasil-/28151/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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The five 'culture setting' countries of the world:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180701-the-five-countries-that-set-wor
ld-culture
Hildene:
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2018/07/04/
hildene-manchester-vermont-robert-todd-lincoln-lincolns-son-home/
36558587/
https://www.hildene.org/
Nimes:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/
roman-ruins-museum-nimes-france
Homes of the US Founding Fathers:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/07/03/declaratio
n-independence-historic-homes/757243002/
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CRIME BEAT
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In case you haven't heard about Operation Demetra yet:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44717855
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54922231.htm
https://www.dw.com/en/italian-police-nab-ancient-artifact-trafficking-ga
ng/a-44526923
http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/05/-40-million-worth-of-roman-and-greek-
antiquities-seized-in-european-crackdown-on-trafficki
Feature on the Benin Bronzes:
https://guardian.ng/life/rediscovering-the-benin-art-a-universal-vessel-
for-cultural-importance/
cf:
https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2018/07/05/french-leader-promises-qu
ick-return-of-stolen-african-relics/
Ethiopia wants a looted tabot returned from Westminster Abbey:
https://inews.co.uk/culture/ethiopia-calls-on-westminster-abbey-to-retur
n-looted-sacred-tablet/
Egypt is displaying the items it received back from Italy:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-puts-relics-recovered-smugglers-it
aly-display/
http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2018-07-01/detail-ifyvrptq6366045.shtml
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1320586/egypt-puts-artifacts-ret
rieved-italy-display
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2018-07/05/
content_54941890.htm
On the Getty's 'Victorious Youth':
https://hyperallergic.com/449866/should-the-getty-return-its-famed-victo
rious-youth-statue/
More on Sotheby's and that horse:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sothebys-strikes-back-against-greekrep
atriation-claim-1311500
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n26.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n27.html
2752-audio-news-from-archaeologica-24-june-30-june-2018
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OBITUARIES
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Ada Yardeni:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dead-sea-scrolls-decoder-remembered-as-gra
nde-dame-of-semitic-paleography/
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologis
ts-biblical-scholars-works/in-memoriam-ada-yardeni/ (tribute)
Lawrence E Stager:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologis
ts-biblical-scholars-works/giant-of-iron-age-research-lawrence-stager/
(tribute)