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Early hominids pretty much ate anything:

http://www.wtsp.com/news/nation-now/real-paleo-diet-early-hominids-ate-just- about-everything/458522081

Concern for hominin footprints in the shadow of a volcano in Tanzania:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5748-170720-tanzania-volcano-footprints

Nice feature on Neanderthal evidence from Gibraltar:

http://www.gibraltarolivepress.com/2017/07/22/exciting-archaeological-breakt hrough-helping-researchers-understand-ancient-relatives/

On the mitochondrial side of interbreeding:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/18/did-human-women-contribut e-to-neanderthal-genomes-over-200000-years-ago

More of a DNA story, but trace evidence from saliva of some ‘ghost species’ of human as a result of interbreeding or some such thing:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-saliva-clues-ghost-species-ancient.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uab-isc072117.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170721113415.htm https://www.sciencealert.com/sign-of-a-mysterious-human-ancestor-has-been- found-in-our-spit

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Kingdom of Kerma era tombs from the Sudan:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1056993.shtml

I think we mentioned this Egyptian-style goldsmith’s burial from the Sudan:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170721090109.htm


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Plenty of coverage of the possible discovery of the tomb of Tut’s wife:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/12657/Archaeologists-claim-discovery-of- Tutankhamun-s-wife-lost-tomb https://www.livescience.com/59840-king-tut-wife-tomb-possibly-found.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-tuts-wife-possibly-buried-new-tomb/ http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/king-tutankhamuns- wife-might-be-hidden-in-newly-discovered-tomb-filled-with-3300yearold-secret s/news-story/a271484eecb06e04be6ce79507e0a2a8?from=rss-basic http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11893023 http://www.ibtimes.com/tomb-king-tutankhamuns-wifes-discovered-ankhesena mun-lies-next-her-second-husband-2567662 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/07/19/tomb-king-tuts-wife-discovered-e xperts-excited-by-find-in-egypt.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/tomb-king-tutankhamun-wife-likely-125653687.ht
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http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/egypt/2017/07/20/ archeology-tomb-of-tutankhamuns-wife-possibly-discovered_6811f305-fefc-40 72-ab78-174fcb8806c7.html

Medieval graffiti from a cave in Upper Egypt (we may have mentioned this
last week):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/273873/Heritage/Islamic/ Medievalera-graffiti-discovered-in-cave-in-Upper-E.aspx http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/no-god-except-allah-medieval-grafitti-by-ancient-pilgri
ms-discovered-egyptian-cave-1631342 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5750-170720-egypt-medieval-graffiti

There’s a Cairo Pass now to help get you to assorted sites:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/273767/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ Cairo-Pass-available-for-foreigners-to-visit-all-a.aspx http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/12653/Egypt-launches-new-pass-for-Giza- an-Cairo-archaeological-sites

Antiquities stolen from an Egyptian mosque were recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/274040/Heritage/Islamic/ Antiquities-stolen-from-Egypts-Jani-Bek-AlAshrafi-.aspx

Feature on the Rosetta Stone:

https://www.livescience.com/59858-rosetta-stone-turns-218.html

Egypt is ‘taking stock’ of its neglected antiquities:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/egypt-antiquities-campaign -prevent-theft.html

More on the AUC handing over a pile of items to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/273713/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ AUC-hands-over-to-Egypt-,-artifacts-from-past-arch.aspx https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/07/19/national-museum-egyptian-civilisation -receives-453-artefacts/

Study suggesting the Philistines weren’t ‘Aegean pirates’:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802928

10 000 years bp burials near Dargecit possibly suggest a belief in the afterlife:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-in-turkeys-southeast-reveal-10 000-year-old-belief-in-afterlife.aspx?pageID=238&nid=115695&NewsCatID=37
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Plenty of interest for the find of the ‘oldest emoji/smiley’ on a pot at a site
near Gazian Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/worlds-oldest-smiley-emoji-found-in-turkey. aspx?pageID=238&nid=115642&NewsCatID=375 https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/17/worlds-first-smiley-discovere d-on-4000-year-old-pot-in-turkey https://www.livescience.com/59895-oldest-known-smiley-face-emoji.html https://hyperallergic.com/391472/was-the-oldest-smiley-found-on-a-3700-year- old-jug/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/historys-oldest-smile-found-on-4000-year-old-pot -in-turkey/ http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/worlds-oldest-emoji-discovered-on-3-700-year-old -pottery-1728207
5000 years bp pottery from Cadir Hoyuk:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/20/archaeologists-delicately-exc avate-5000-year-old-pottery

10 pre-First Temple pots from Shiloh are causing a stir:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=43843 http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/14/10-ancient-jugs-predating-first-templ e-unearthed-at-shiloh-site

… and they’re looking for the Ark of the Covenant there too:

http://forward.com/fast-forward/377171/watch-archaeologists-hunt-for-ark-of-th e-covenant-in-israel/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-bibles-and-shovels-a-search-for-the-biblical- tabernacle-gathers-pace-at-shiloh/

A 2700 years bp reservoir from Rosh Ha’ayin:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=429
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http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/High-school-students-di scover-ancient-Assyrian-period-water-system-20-July-2017.aspx http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-2700-year-old-Assyrian-era-reservoir-u nearthed-in-central-Israel-500236 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232744 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/impressive-2700-year-old-water-syst em-discovered-near-rosh-haayin/2017/07/20/ http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802466 http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-high-schoolers-excavate-2700-year-old-w ater-system/ http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/20/israeli-students-help-to-uncover-270 0-year-old-assyrian-era-water-reservoir http://www.aina.org/ata/20170720121416.htm https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/07/21/israeli-students-help-uncover-2700-y ear-old-assyrian-era-water-reservoir/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5749-170720-israel-water-reservoir

More on the evidence for destruction at Gezer:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-account-of-gezers-destruction-gains-gro und-with-torched-skeleton-finds/

The Tel Es-Safi/Gath blog is up and running again:

https://gath.wordpress.com/

On the multidisciplinary approach to archaeology in Jordan:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/multidisciplinary-approach-archaeolog y-improves-research-findings-%E2%80%94-jordanian-expert http://www.menafn.com/1095628577/Multidisciplinary-approach-to-archaeolog y-improves-research-findings-%E2%80%94-Jordanian-expert

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-minister-accuses-israel-of-exploiting-attack-to -dig-under-temple-mount/

More on the dig at Karkamis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-works-in-ancient-karkamis-end.a spx?pageID=238&nid=115519&NewsCatID=375

Politics and archaeology clash in Israel once again:

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/07/the-worlds-oldest-archaeological-j ournal-cancels-a-conference-in-order-to-boycott-israel/

Somewhat strange feature on how ISIL chooses what cities to take:

http://www.aina.org/news/20170720120507.htm

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A Roman sarcophagus find from Southwark was getting plenty of attention:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40641846 https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/extremely-rare-roman-sarcophagus-fo und-borough-dig/ http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/uk_national_news/15417908.Ancient_Ro man_sarcophagus_found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/ http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/national/15417908.Ancient_Roman_sa rcophagus_found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/ http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/ancient-roman-sarcophagus-found- next-to-baby-bones-near-borough-market-35942779.html http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15417924.Ancient_Roman_sarcophagus _found_next_to_baby_bones_near_Borough_Market/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-sarcophagus-unearthed-at-building-s ite-near-borough-market-southwark-c7nblh3pb http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/archaeologists-lift-the-lid-of-an- ancient-roman-sarcophagus-news-photo/817569336 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5743-170718-london-roman-sarcophagus

A very interesting mosaic from Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1800-year-old-mosaic-found-in-ancient-city- of-perge.aspx?PageID=238&NID=115733&NewsCatID=375

Remains of a Temple of Apollo on Despotiko:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26446-remains-of-ancient-apo llo-temple-unearthed-on-greek-despotiko-islet-west-of-antiparos.html

Roman coin from Orkney:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40606908 http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15418643.Roman_coin_found_i n___39_race_against_time__39__dig_on_Scottish_island/ http://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-islands/rare-roman-coi n-found-at-orkney-dig-site-1-4509490 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5740-170717-scotland-roman-coin

Late Roman coins from a Chinese tomb:

http://gbtimes.com/china/eastern-roman-gold-coins-found-1500-year-old-chine se-tomb

On the Roman villa dig at Zejtun:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170718/life-features/a-roman-vi lla-inside-a-zejtun-school.653583 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-07-19/company-news/GSD-Mark eting-Ltd-supports-the-UoM-during-the-archaeological-excavations-at-the-Zejtu n-Roman-Villa-6736176787

Feature on the Herculaneum Graffiti Project:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170720/pompeii-herculaneum-graffiti-history-archaeo logy-marginalized-groups-ancient-rome-slaves-women-vesuvius-social-media

Feature on garum:

http://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/07/fish-sauce-ancient-rome-garum/

Feature on Nero’s fire and ancient firefighting:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/18/july-18-64-the-great-fire -of-nero-and-the-ancient-history-of-firefighting/

… and the subsequent blame/martyrdom put on Christians:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/nero-the-execution-of-peter-and-paul-and-the-big gest-fake-news-in-early-christian-history

Feature on Iklaina:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/22/iklaina-the-first-city-state-of-ancien
t-greece-and-europe/

In case you missed the news of the earthquake on Kos:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/67-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-greek-islands-tu rkish-coast

… and there was damage at some sites:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/21/earthquake-damaged-kos-sites-an d-monuments-archaeological-service-reports/

Interesting production of the Eumenides:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/manhattans-district-attorney-vs- aeschylus.html

Interview with Rossella Rea:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/qa-dr-ross ella-rea-63-director-of-the-colosseum-rome/news-story/e89de7840a1282bbf32 b72532829d3ab

Valerio Manfredi has written a novel based on the Varian disaster:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/07/08/actualidad/1499549585_749131.html

The Greek Orthodox Church sold the Roman *theater* (not amphitheater) in Caesarea:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-roman-amphitheater-in-caesarea-sold-by -greek-orthodox-church-to-mystery-foreign-buyer/ https://www.jta.org/2017/07/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/ancient-roman -amphitheater-in-caesarea-sold-to-foreign-buyer

… and other land too, by the way:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/greek-orthodox-church-sold-land-near-iconic-jaff a-clock-tower-report/ http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/7/18/israels-greek-orthodox-church-sells-i conic-jaffa-land-in-latest-controversial-deal

Probably not uncommon fallout from the lack of washroom facilities at
Pompeii:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elderly-tourist-reported-after-defecating-one-pompeiis -best-preserved-homes-1630710

Strange ‘spray attack’ at the Vergina tombs:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26418-no-damage-to-ancient- artifacts-from-spray-attack-at-vergina-tombs-in-greece.html

On Shakespeare’s idea of the invasion of Britain:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166456

More on ‘white’ ancient statuary:

https://news.vice.com/story/marble-helped-scholars-whitewash-ancient-histor
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More on those Roman coins from Rio Tinto:

http://blog.gainesvillecoins.com/2017/07/16/ancient-roman-coins-found-spain/

More on the Fourni shipwrecks:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.801529

More on plans for those burials at Phaleron:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-high-tech-year-old-greek-cold.ht
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http://www.ibtimes.com/are-these-ancient-greek-skeletons-executed-army-oly mpic-champion-cylon-2567322 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/archaeologists-high-tech-2-500-old-greek-cold-03 0929020.html http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26348-archaeologists-in-athe ns-discover-2-500-year-old-greek-mystery.html http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-go-high-tech-in-2500-year-ol d-greek-cold-case----.aspx?pageID=238&nID=115563&NewsCatID=375 https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-15/archaeologists-will-use-csi-technology- study-2500-year-old-remains-near-athens

More on Lanciani’s images of Rome going online:

https://hyperallergic.com/389365/rodolpho-lanciani-rome-images-archive-onli
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More on the St Catherine’s Hippocrates:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/hippocrates-manuscript-sinai-pal impsests-st-catherines-monastery-spd/


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Bronze Age burials from Romania:

https://www.romania-insider.com/bronze-age-tombs-2017/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5752-170721-romania-bronze-age

A 4500 years bp burial urn from Silsden:

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/15417817.Top_caveman__39_s_urn_fou nd_at_Silsden_burial_mound/ http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15420640.Stone_Age_burial_ch amber_discovered_on_site_of_new_homes/

Neolithic ‘butterfly motifs’ from Orkney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40653877 http://www.scotsman.com/news/neolithic-butterfly-markings-found-on-orkney-1 -4509215 http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/archaeologists-hit-jackpot-af ter-sun-uncovers-neolithic-markings-1-4509215 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5746-170719-scotland-orkney-art

From the same Ness of Brodgar site … an incense pot:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40681085

3500 years bp artifacts from the Zadar archipelago:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/20585-archaeologists-uncover-350 0-year-old-artefacts-in-zadar-archipelago

3000 years bp necropolis in Spain with Urnfield Culture items:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/19/inenglish/1500485443_757250.html http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3000-year-old-necropolis-discovered-spain-contains- clues-about-urnfield-culture-1630822 http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/830541/Graveyard-remains-Sena-Spain- archeologists-cemetery-site

On recent finds around Stonehenge:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170713-why-stonehenge-was-built

A fish trap in Southampton has been dated to Saxon times:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40635975 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5747-170719-england-fishing-weir

Studying fenland in Anglo-Saxon times:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-dark-agesanglo-saxon-fenland-re-imagined.htm
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An update on the Tintagel dig:

https://www.livescience.com/59889-archaeologists-return-king-arthur-birthplac e.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-40588509

Searching for evidence of 17th century gunfire at Nottingham Castle:

https://nottstv.com/archaeologists-digging-find-evidence-guns-fired-nottingha m-castle-17th-century-civil-war/

On how bad London smelled in 1858:

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/537890448/london-literally-stank-in-the-summe r-of-1858-just-ask-dickens-and-darwin

Digging some 19th century steel industry sites in Yorkshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40669159 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5751-170720-england-steel-industry

There’s an exhibition associated with this but the story is interesting … African-
Caribbean prisoners’ from a medieval castle:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/18/hidden-story-of-2000-african- caribbean-pows-in-a-medieval-castle

Studying the sale of offices in 17th century Spain:

https://economia.elpais.com/economia/2017/07/21/actualidad/ 1500639917_726301.html

The Ely Museum is trying to acquire a gold torc:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/british-museum-gold-torc-e ly-13353495 http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/can-you-help-raise-8-000-to-keep-bronze-a ge-gold-torc-found-in-fordham-at-ely-museum-1-5116754

5000 years of Scottish history in 25 objects:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/5-000-years-of-scottish-history-summed-up -in-25-objects-1-4508701

Plans for another archaeological park in Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/181433/Sofia+will+have+a+Second+Archaeol ogical+Complex

Chester Castle has reopened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40657606

A history of the Windsors:

http://www.dw.com/en/100-years-of-the-windsors/g-39700438

What we’re learning from some mummies from Vilnius:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/16/mummies-church-of-the-holy-s pirit-vilnius-dario-piombino-mascali

There are apparently a pile of undiscovered caves beneath Nottingham:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/22/hundreds-undiscovered-caves-sti ll-remain-nottinghams-streets/ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40668609

More on ‘St Columba’s purported hut’:

https://www.livescience.com/59841-remains-of-medieval-saints-hut-confirmed. html


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Plenty of coverage of evidence from Australia’s Northern Territory that humans were in the area some 65 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-artifacts-humans-australia-earlier-thought.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uow-ash071817.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoq-kfc071717.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170719132252.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/humans-reached-australia-abori ginal-65000-years.html https://www.livescience.com/59874-humans-arrived-australia-65000-years-ag o.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40651473 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/19/dig-finds-evidence-of- aboriginal-habitation-up-to-80000-years-ago https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2017/jul/20/aboriginal-arch aeological-dig-80000-australia-video http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/aboriginal-archaeologic al-discovery-in-kakadu-rewrites-the-history-of-australia-20170719-gxe3qy.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-07-20/aboriginal-shelter-pushes-hu man-history-back-to-65,000-years/8719314 https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1102/Humans-first-settled-in-Australi a-much-earlier-than-previous-estimates http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-archaeology-aborigines-idUSKBN1 A50J6?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-first-settled-australia-early-6500 0-years-ago http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/07/19/the-first-australian s-arrived-65000-years-ago/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/indigenous-archaeology-rewri tes-the-history-of-australia.aspx https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/buried-tools-and-pigments-tell-a-ne w-history-of-humans-in-australia-for-65-000-years/ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v547/n7663/full/nature22968.html?foxtro tcallback=true http://www.archaeology.org/news/5745-170719-australia-madjedbebe-shelter

Why it’s important:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/what-globally-signifi cant-archaeological-discovery-in-australia-actually-means/news-story/ e5744f4826789b7300afe581d1521f98?from=rss-basic

Related:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/how_to_m ake_a_study_reproducible.html

A Sumatran cave preserves 5000 years of evidence of tsunamis:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/5000-year-long-record-of-tsunami s-found-in-sumatran-cave-encrusted-in-bat-guano https://www.livescience.com/59880-5000-year-long-tsunami-record-found.html

Latest frozen mummies from Siberia (1300 years bp) seems to have had
Persian connections:

http://www.newsweek.com/medieval-mummies-siberia-arctic-civilization-6376
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/copper-covered-mummies-discovered-remote-siberia -long-lost-arctic-civilisation-1630804 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4032080/mysterious-mummies-were-cocooned -in-copper-and-fur-for-1300-years-in-icy-siberian-male-only-necropolis-with-link
s-to-persia/

Hype for a Chinese survey and dig of a Mongolian burial ground:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/19/c_136456132.htm

A report on the Tao River Archaeological Project:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/harvard-summer-archaeology-ancient-ch
ina

Plundering tombs is on the rise in China:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thieves-plunder-tombs-in-china-as- demand-for-antiquities-rises

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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Searching for the grave of the “Maryland 400:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-maryland-400-20170713- story.html

Digging up the remains of Canada’s (torched) parliament:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreals-pompeii-archeologists- sift-through-ruins-of-canadas-torched-parliament

On some detached skulls in a Middle Woodland mound:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170717/archaeology-science-solves-myster y-of-detached-skulls-in-burial-mound

Concerns for artifacts from Annapolis Royal as Canada centralizes storage facilities:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1487514-annapolis-royal-mayor-trying -to-keep-local-artifacts-in-the-province http://www.novanewsnow.com/news/local/2017/7/18/saving-history----annapoli s-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html http://www.annapoliscountyspectator.ca/news/local/2017/7/18/saving-history-- --annapolis-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/regional/2017/7/18/saving-history----annap olis-royal-mayor-hopes-artifacts-wont-be-.html

Remembering the Salem Witch trials:

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/07/20/325-years-later-wit ch-trial-victims-remembered/103840534/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/site-salem-witch-trial-hangings-finally -has-memorial-180964049/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
media

They’re ‘downsizing’ the Franklin dig:

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674ship_glitch_scales_back_f ranklin_wreck_survey_in_nunavut/

Vandalism at Mesa Verde:

http://www.9news.com/news/local/someone-destroyed-archaeological-artifacts -to-vandalize-mesa-verde/458781379

More on that French and Indian War cannonball find in Quebec:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/cannonball-quebec-city-seven- years-war-british-french-canada http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/quebec-cannonball-90kg-e xplode-britain-1759-canada-photos-a7843056.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/potentially-live-cannonball-frenc h-and-indian-war-found-quebec-city-180964093/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5741-170717-canada-quebec-cannonball


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A dig on St Thomas is looking at 18th/19th century lifestyles:

http://stthomassource.com/content/2017/07/17/bethlehem-dig-sheds-light-on-h ow-crucians-lived-and-died/

More on Easter Island:

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-archaeological-analysis-is-rewriting-the-his tory-of-easter-island


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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ===============================================================
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Plenty of Jane Austen stuff (these all vary in focus):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40644085 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jane-austen-symposium/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/on-the-money-jane-austen/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/07/17/200-years-after-her-death-jan e-austen-beloved-heroine-her-own-story/480464001/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/12/books/review/ jane-austen-quiz.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/books/review/jane-austen-death-has-no- dominion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/books/review/jane-smiley-on-jane-auste n-legacy-roots.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40647121 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40643883 http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/18/537247637/it-is-a-truth-univers ally-acknowledged-that-jane-austen-pairs-well-with-tea

… there was particular attention paid to the quotation put on the Jane Austen banknote:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/18/jane-austen-banknote-unv eiled-with-strange-choice-of-quotation http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40641382
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40649721

… and related to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38257375 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40649712

On German condoms and the Russian Revolution (!):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/german-condoms-russian-revolu tion.html

Not sure if we’ve mentioned the legal action being taken by the Aboutaams over allegations they sold ISIL-related items:

http://www.courthousenews.com/defamed-isis-conduit-antiquities-dealer-says/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/arts/design/antiquities-dealer-sues-wall- street-journal-over-isis-article.html https://www.artsjournal.com/2017/07/antiquities-dealer-sues-wall-street-journa l-over-article-suggesting-he-trafficked-with-isis.html http://observer.com/2017/07/isis-looting-wall-street-journal-lawsuit/

A nice APOD over Pisa:

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170718.html

On Handel’s ‘Water Music’:

http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/07/17/536493418/ 300-years-of-handels-water-music-with-a-splash-of-politics

On the ‘Book of Miracles’:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/arts/book-of-miracles/index.html https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/44613/ facts.the_book_of_miracles.htm

On defending Western civilization with science:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/07/18/537882769/to-defend-western-civ ilization-start-with-science

Pondering ‘who owns antiquity’:

http://wnpr.org/post/who-owns-antiquity

They exhumed Dali and his moustache is intact:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-exhumation-dali-mustache-intact.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=97664

Feature on Tesla:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nikola-tesla-sparked-the-electric-age

Latest Victor Nuovo piece on Hobbes:

http://addisonindependent.com/201707victor-nuovo-lingering-problems-hobbe
s

On automata in various cultures:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/17/fotorrelato/1500306240_136785.html#15 00306240_136785_1500379119

Where to see assorted old maps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-see-some-worlds-oldest-maps-1 80963855/

Feature on five languages which have yet to be ‘deciphered’:

https://www.livescience.com/59851-ancient-languages-not-yet-deciphered.htm
l

Marking the centennial of the NAACP Silent Protest parade:

http://news.yale.edu/2017/07/18/beinecke-display-marks-centennial-1917-naa cp-silent-protest-parade

Feature on Martin Luther:

https://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/07/21/actualidad/ 1500642089_505462.html

Why they can’t find Genghis Khan’s tomb:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-why-genghis-khans-tomb-cant-be-fo
und

Not really within our purview, age-wise, but remains of a couple who disappeared some 75 years ago emerged from a swiss glacier:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/bodies-of-swiss-couple-missin g-for-75-years-found-on-glacier http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/victims-of-decades-old-accident-found-on-swiss-g lacier-1.3507868 https://www.livescience.com/59903-two-bodies-mummified-in-swiss-glacier.ht
ml

A history-what-if piece on the Ottoman Empire:

http://econ.st/2v9ie73

Review of a book on the changing attitudes towards what is considered ‘vice’
in various periods:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/07/19/review-mark-stein-vice-cap ades-sex-drugs-and-bowling-pilgrims-present

Review of a book on balloonist/photographer Nadar:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/he-photographed-victor- hugo-and-jules-verne-now-the-spotlight-is-on-him/2017/07/19/76c2b5f4-6aff-11 e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ===============================================================
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Franklin Expedition:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/franklin-exhibition-in-london-features-items-fro m-shipwreck-inuit-artifacts-1.3505001

Anishinaabeg:

http://ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2356421/anishinaabeg-art-and-power-at -royal-ontario-museum-toronto

Emotions:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/events/26395-%CE%B5xhibition-%CE%B5 motions-opens-at-the-acropolis-museum-in-athens-on-tuesday.html

Animal mummies;

http://observer.com/2017/07/brooklyn-museum-secrets-of-animal-mummies-e xhibition/

Hokusai:


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