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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Rick
Heli, David Emery,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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Evidence that an older, ‘injured’ Neanderthal was taken care of by
others:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-older-neandertal-survived-friends.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/wuis-ons102317.php https://gizmodo.com/neanderthals-with-disabilities-survived-through-soci al-1819801216

More on Neanderthal genetic legacy:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-neanderthals-human-genetics-crossroads-asi
a.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171024130617.htm

Sabre-toothed cats may have been around when modern humans were around:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saber-toothed-cats-may-have-co -existed-modern-humans-180965349/


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AFRICA
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On questioning ‘Out of Africa’:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-theory-humans-emerged-africa-questionedtha
t.html

The aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands originally hailed from
Africa:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/su-tgo102617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-10-guanches-north-africa-dna-study.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171026135349.htm

What Jane Humphris is up to:

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/26/10/2017/Sudan-dig-A-home-away-fr om-home-for-head-of-UCL-Qatar-project-archaeologist

More on that ‘antiquities awareness’ campaign in Libya:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/libyan-antiquities-are-subject-awar eness-campaign


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A Coptic ‘tombstone’ from the Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/29054/New-tombstone-discovered-datin g-back-to-Coptic-Era https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/23/coptic-tombstone-dates-coptic-era- discovered-luxor/ http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/42/280244/Heritage/Coptic/ Coptic-tombstone-unearthed-at-Sphinxes-Avenue-in-L.aspx https://www.livescience.com/60749-ancient-coptic-tombstone-discovered.ht
ml

… and it was for a 10-year-old girl:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/25/luxors-coptic-tombstone-discovered -week-belongs-10-year-old-girl/ http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280309/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/Newly-discovered-Coptic-tombstone-in-Luxor-belonge.aspx

Overviewish thing of some recent finds from Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/29230/Latest-discoveries-found-in-Lu
xor

Feature on the ‘Coptic era’:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/18/279022/Books/The-Coptic-era- The-bridge-between-the-pharaonic-an.aspx

Feature on Pelusium:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/9/29495/Ep-1-Holy-Family-in-Egypt-Pelu sium-ruins-reveal-war

Those sound and light shows appear to be a major source of revenue:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/26/sound-light-agrees-increase-antiqu ities-ministry-profits-20-2020/

An 8600 years bp bear statuette from Izmir:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/22/8600-year-old-bear-statuet te-unearthed-in-turkeys-izmir

Digs shedding some light on Abu Dhabi 7000 years bp:

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/abu-dhabi-archaeological-finds-shed- light-on-life-in-abu-dhabi-7000-years-ago

A cuneiform ‘archive’ from Iraqi Kurdistan:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171023180303.htm http://www.aina.org/news/20171023143436.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2017/archaeologists- uncover-cuneiform-archive-in-iraqs-kurdish-region https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-cuneiform-table ts-northern-iraq-180966923/

Finds from various periods from the subway construction in Istanbul:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/earliest-traces-of-turks-in-anatolia-fo und-in-istanbul-121444

Ongoing concerns for Bronze Age sites in Gaza:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-gaza-bronze-age-concrete.html https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-bronze-age-remains-disappearing-under -concrete/ http://artdaily.com/news/99763/Gaza-Bronze-Age-remains-disappearing-unde r-concrete http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/gaza-bronze-age-remains-disappear ing-under-concrete http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/10/palestine-youth-protes t-tell-es-sakan-old-historic-dredging.html

… and protests:

http://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-destruction-archaeological-site-by-hamas

A shipwreck off Oman associated with Vasco da Gama has yielded the
oldest known example of an astrolabe:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-oldest-marine-tool-revealed-scanning.html https://www.livescience.com/60761-oldest-astrolabe-navigation-tool-found
.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41724022 https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/24/earliest-navigation-tool-f ound-at-shipwreck-off-oman-coast http://www.newsweek.com/shipwreck-discovered-oman-reveals-secrets-500-ye ar-old-navigation-device-691280 http://nhpr.org/post/left-explorers-armada-shipwreck-yields-earliest-kno wn-marine-astrolabe http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/24/559772740/left-by-expl orers-armada-shipwreck-yields-earliest-known-marine-astrolabe https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/navigation-tool-astrolabe-va sco-da-gama-shipwreck-esmeralda-spd/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-mariners-astrolabe-found- shipwreck-near-oman-2-180966980/

Eight Ottoman-era cannons from off the Antalya coast:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/26/ottoman-cannons-see-light- of-day-again

Studying Jordan’s ‘basalt desert’:

http://menafn.com/1095974464/Dutch-scholar-researches-entire-history-of- basalt-desert-in-Jordan

More on those ‘gates’ in Saudi Arabia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-google-earth-reveals-ancient-stone.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/saudi-arabia-gates-google-ear th.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/uwa-archaeologist-google-earth-anc ient-saudi-structures/9079694 https://www.timesofisrael.com/mystery-ancient-stone-structures-spotted-i n-saudi-desert/


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Apparently we’ve been wrong about the Portland Vase for quite a while:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-centuries-old-theories-roman-glass.html https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/roman-glass-theory-wrong-for-centur
ies

The Barberini Tomb is opening to the public:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/10/26/barberini-tomb -to-open-on-via-latina_f3aaf98e-00a3-4041-931d-9e6ba34c2d64.html

Suggestion that Classicists stay out of alt-right arguments:

https://panampost.com/editor/2017/10/27/why-classicists-should-stay-out- of-the-alt-right-propaganda-dilemma/

On the ‘statue debate’ in ancient times:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/10/rewriting-history-a-brief-history/

Learning from the fall of the Republic:

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-the-us-can-learn-from-the-fall-of -the-roman-republic/

On tyrants and poetry:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171025-why-tyrants-love-to-write-poet
ry

Studying how to live like a Stoic:

https://apps.carleton.edu/academics/archive/?story_id=1646310

What Bettina Bergmann is up to:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/10/27/goldberg-lecturer-to-offer-birds- eye-view-of-roman-art/

What Aaron Poochigian is up to:

http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2017/10/22/professors-mellifluous-reading -grabs-attention/

Adrienne Mayor’s Amazon book was study material for Wonder Woman
actors:

https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2017/10/26/wonder-woman-actors-inspire d-by-adrienne-mayors-book-on-amazons/

Feature on Darius and the Scythians:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/darius-herodotus-and-the-scythians/ An
app to guide you through the Forum:

http://www.mikeanderson.biz/2017/10/let-me-take-you-on-tour-of-roman-for um.html

On Killing of a Sacred Deer:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-and-greek-my ths.html

Latin is doing well in Branford:

http://www.shorelinetimes.com/news/latin-is-alive-and-well-in-branford/ article_88a52326-bd03-5080-97be-54536c7676c2.html

Feature on the Aeneid:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-virgils-aeneid-85459

In a similar vein:

https://www.mercatornet.com/features/view/virgils-aeneid-the-most-influe ntial-poem-ever-written/20613

Hopefully we’ll see more on this … a possible Roman ‘fort’ site in the Teutoburg Forest:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/romans-last-stand-archaeologists-find -site-of-massacre-by-german-tribes-g3klhvfmj

I think we mentioned this upcoming study of lead in the Roman Empire:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-archaeologists-poisoning-affected-roman-em pire.html http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/deadly-lead-how-lead-poisoning-affected -roman-empire

On the therapeutic side of Greek Tragedy:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/healing-power-greek-tragedy- 180965220/

Review of Rudolph, *Taste and the Ancient Senses*:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uok-atb102617.php

More on finds from the Antikythera shipwreck site:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/antikythera-shipwreck-finds/

More on Greek theatre acoustics:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/acoustics-ancient-greek-theater s-may-no-longer-be-so-great-180965360/ https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/tabard/2017/
diary-greek-myth-goes-dutch/

More on the Roman ‘theatre’ in Jerusalem:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/roman-theater-discovery-near-jerusale m-s-western-wall-delights-archaeologists-n814101


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A possible Bronze Age ‘standing stone’ from Switzerland:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-menhir -switzerland-discover-archaeologists-bern-breitnacher-a8017701.html https://www.thelocal.ch/20171024/bronze-age-menhir-found-near-bern https://www.archaeology.org/news/6047-171025-switzerland-stone-monument

A 4000 years bp earring from near Lincoln:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-find-40 00-year-old-692608

What they’re learning from that 3250 years bp battlefield site in the Tollense Valley:

https://www.livescience.com/60739-europe-oldest-battlefield-yields-secre ts.html
https://www.livescience.com/60756-photos-bronze-age-battlefield.html http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-bones-3000-year-old-german-battlefield-w ere-fierce-warriors-trained-691791 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6040-171023-germany-tollense-valley

3000 years bp burials from Norway:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/23/c_136700387.htm

Evidence of some 400 Iron Age houses from a site in Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-excavate-400-iron-age-houses-den
mark

Suggestion that desire for squirrel fur may have contributed to a
medieval leprosy outbreak:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/sjcu-cst102517.php https://phys.org/news/2017-10-squirrel-contributed-england-medieval-lepr osy.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171025103109.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/25/viking-squirrels-may-have- brought-leprosy-britain-says-cambridge/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41748336 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/25/medieval-love-of-squirre l-fur-may-have-helped-spread-leprosy-study-reveals https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-viking-squirrels-brought-l eprosy-england-180966986/

Studying items found associated with a medieval Scottish hospital:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/medical-mysteries-of-scotland-s-mediev al-hospital-unearthed-1-4596577

Metal detectorists have found a hoard of 13th century coins:

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/coins-unearthed-700-years-later-1-882
0624

… while a 10 year old on a dig found a 16th century coin at Castle
Fraser:

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/north-east-schoolboy-find s-ancient-coin-at-dig-at-castle-fraser/ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/1347002/ school-boy-unearths-rare-elizabethan-coin-on-day-out/

… and they’re going to tell us the value of the Jersey Celtic hoard:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/10/24/coin-hoard-value-to-be-rel
eased/

Some rings found by metal detectorists have been declared treasure:

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/15618066.Two_medieval_rings_found_b y_metal_detectorists_are_treasure__inquest_finds/

Hurricane Ophelia revealed a burial in Ireland:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/509042/hurricane-ophelia-unearthed-ancien t-skeleton-ireland

Concerns for assorted sites in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41751045

… and how to save them:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-41747886

Some restoration work on Beverley Gate in Hull:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-41733749

What Richard Bradley is up to:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15625454.University_to_host_lectur e_on_Indiana_Jones_style_archaeologist_who_collected_tens_of_thousands_o f_items_from_around_the_world/

Nice slide show of assorted megalithic monuments in Europe:

https://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2017/10/20/album/
1508501411_200749.html

Feature on the ‘Lion Man’:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-41727505/the-lion-man-an- ice-age-masterpiece

More on the Viking ‘Allah’ thing:

https://hyperallergic.com/407746/refuting-viking-allah-textiles-meaning/



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Suggestion that a 6000 years bp skull found decades ago in New Guinea
is probably a tsunami victim:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-aitape-skull-world-oldest-tsunami.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fm-6sc102317.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171025150631.htm https://www.livescience.com/60772-ancient-skull-tsunami-victim.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/science/skull-tsunami-victim.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/25/skull-tsunami-papua-new- guinea-oldest-victim?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/25/ancient-papua-new-guinea-skul l-oldest-known-tsunami-victim/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41757232 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/25/
first-tsunami-victim/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/skull-may-be-oldest-known-tsun ami-victim-180966982/

A 5000 years bp figurine with a feathered headdress from western
Siberia:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/unique-5000-year-old-fig urine-with-feather-headdress-found-in-old-potato-field-in-novosibirsk/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/6041-171023-russia-feathered-headdress

5.6 tonnes (!) of 800 years bp coinage from Jiangxi:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2117117/mystery-over-tonn es-ancient-coins-found-buried-chinese-village

Finds from various periods from a Xinjiang site:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/26/c_136707693.htm

… and ‘tomb clusters’ from Chongqing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/27/c_136709805.htm

A 700 years bp shipwreck associated with the descendents of Genghis
Khan:

https://www.livescience.com/60753-china-shipwreck-from-mongols-era.html http://www.newsweek.com/china-mongol-shipwreck-reveals-golden-treasure-w hen-descendants-genghis-khan-692511 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6044-171024-china-river-shipwreck

… and there are concerns for sites in Mongolia:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/oct/26/beyond-ghengis-khan -how-looting-threatens-to-erase-mongolias-history

Feature on the looting of Cambodian antiquities:

https://smarthistory.org/looting-cambodia/

Dating the Bakhshali manuscript (and zero):

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-bakhshali-manuscript-world-oldest.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoa-tbm102517.php

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Checking out a Native American axe head found in Washington State:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/article180088371.html

Hurricane Irma may have revealed some Calusa artifacts in Florida:

http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/environment/2017/10/25/hurricane-ir ma-might-have-unearthed-calusa-artifacts-marco-island-preserve/
795862001/ http://naplesherald.com/2017/10/26/irma-turns-calusa-artifact-trove-marc
o/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6049-171026florida-calusa-artifacts

Britain is giving the Franklin wrecks to Canada:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-britain-canada-shipwrecks-explorer-frankli
n.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/23/britain-to-give-canada-rec ently-found-1800s-arctic-shipwrecks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/23/britain-give-canada-john-fran klin-expedition-shipwrecks-hms/ http://www.richmond.com/news/latest-news/ap/britain-to-give-canada-the-s hipwrecks-of-explorer-franklin/article_8b1b2feb-9c02-508a-9072-f182e2166 1f0.html http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/23/559601361/u-k-offers-f amed-arctic-shipwrecks-as-exceptional-gift-to-canada http://www.therepublic.com/2017/10/23/eu-britain-canada-shipwrecks/


They’re looking at the burials in the church in Jamestown and finding interesting things:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/experts-have-uncovered-remains-at-a mericas-first-permanent-colony-but-whose-bones-are-they/2017/10/26/ 6ceaa0c4-b446-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html http://www.fredericksburg.com/features/experts-have-uncovered-remains-at -jamstown---but-whose/article_c727bb8c-bb3d-11e7-bee7-07d741d1ca91.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/6053-171027-virginia-jamestown-graves

A possible (recent) time capsule from Jamestown too:

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Archaeologists-in-Jamestown-find-a-mys terious-box-from-the-past-453670893.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/6050-171026-jamestown-time-capsule

Interesting finds from Plymouth:

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20171024/archaeology-teams-come-up-wit h-interesting-finds-in-plymouth

A possible Revolution-era well from Boerum Hill:

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/43/dtg-revolutionary-war-well-b oerum-hill-2017-10-27-bk.html

They were exploring Boston’s Old North Church’s 200 years bp crypt in anticipation of opening it up for tourists:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/10/25/old-north-church-opens-year- old-crypt/8KmL9GteGgKkZA43JC4TYP/story.html https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/ 2017-10-26/tomb-reopened-in-citys-oldest-surviving-church https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/26/centuries-old-tomb-linked-to-pa ul-reveres-ride-reo/

… and what they found:

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/10/27/heres-what-they-found- in-the-old-north-church-tomb

The potential archaeological impact of Trump’s wall:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/03/21/how-trumps-wal l-would-trample-hundreds-of-archaeological-sites/#4b0d494655ec

On fighting over statuary:

http://politi.co/2zd1b9x

Feature on Viking settlements in and on the way to North America:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/visit-viking-settlement-sites-1809
65257/

More on turquoise mining in the American southwest:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoa-rsn101817.php

I think we mentioned this study of Maine middens:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/native-americans-shell-midden s-maine.html http://www.newser.com/story/250564/piles-of-old-shells-are-important-end angered-history-lesson.html


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Feature on the Chimu Culture:

https://smarthistory.org/chimu/


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A possible hidden, unfinished portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/27/unfinished-mary-queen-scots-p ortrait-could-hidden-behind-1589/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/mary-queen-scots-i mage-discovery-hidden-painting-ghostly-face-portrait-a8022316.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/27/secret-portrait-of- mary-queen-of-scots-lost-for-centuries-goes-on-display

On Romanians and garlic:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171026-why-romanians-are-obsessed-with -garlic

The seasonal Hallowe’en-related things (to be taken with the usual
grains of salt):

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/weve-forgotten-about-halloweens- roots-threats-and-thrills/article36749302/ http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/26/where-did-halloween-come-from-origins-and- why-we-celebrate-on-all-hallows-eve-7028563/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/cats-rats-bats-Halloween-ani mal-history/

… and features on Vampire burials probably are seasonal too:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/deviant-burials-poland-ope n-casket-secret-lives-vampires-180966970/ http://theconversation.com/how-long-have-we-believed-in-vampires-85639

… and a piece on the first woman convicted of witchcraft (in the US):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/nyregion/connecticut-witchcraft-trial s.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion

… and a review of *Frankenstein: the first Two Hundred Years*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/books/review/christopher-frayling-fra nkenstein.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

On the history of mincemeat pies:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crusades-christmas-history-min cemeat-pies-180966981/

A 16th century manuscript full of advice for Samurai:

https://www.livescience.com/60738-ancient-samurai-book-reveals-warrior-r ules.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/songbook-16th-century-spells-o ut-samurai-customs-tactics-and-baby-names-180965361/

Folks might be interested in this Einstein autograph story:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/24/einstein-sc ribbled-his-theory-of-happiness-in-place-of-a-tip-it-just-sold-for-more- than-1-million/#

Feature on Luca Pacioli:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41582244

Feature on Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party:

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/559515290/guess-who-renoir-was-in-love-wit h-in-luncheon-of-the-boating-party

Feature on assorted ‘drowned towns’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/turkey-hasankeyf-ilisu-dam-underw ater-ghost-towns-lost-cities/

Rome has opened an ‘Open Restoration Workshop’:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/10/25/rome-open-rest oration-workshop-opens_b0d03d15-2e21-4940-99d0-ecf31d0c3fd7.html

Latest Shakespeare-was-really-someone-else thing:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/oct/28/william-shakespeare-buri ed-westminster-abbey-alexander-waugh

The Louvre is bidding on a Book of Hours that the UK really wants to
keep:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/25/renaissance-masterpiece-lost- britain-louvre-makes-bid/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/louvre-campaign-to-get-renaissance-bo ok-back-from-britain-0bvdpqcgl

Who really discovered America:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/who-discovered-america-2 1102017/

I think we mentioned this Titanic letter which fetched a nice price at
auction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/world/europe/
uk-titanic-letter-record.html

A manuscript documenting a 17th century witch trial is coming to
auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/26/witchcraft-rare-manuscript -of-woeful-witness-to-17th-century-trial-up-for-sale

Victor Nuovo brings his series to an end:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201710victor-nuovo-irony-american-hist
ory

Marking Horace Walpole’s 300th birthday:

https://news.yale.edu/2017/10/24/walpolooza-celebration-marks-horace-wal poles-300th-birthday

More on the ‘nude Mona Lisa’:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/10/22/france-nude-mona-lisa-bitterm ann.cnn

Review of de Hamel, *Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts*:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-complicated-political-li ves-of-medieval-manuscripts

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Lewis Hine photos:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41699836/lewis-hine-and-the-p hotos-that-changed-america

Codebreakers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41696274 http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/codebreakers-and-ground breakers

Nineveh:

http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/nineveh

Holocaust papers:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/10/25/rare-trove-papers-believed -lost-holocaust-go-display-u-s/

Burying Treasure during WWII:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/10/24/buried-treasure-from-wwii-pho to-exhibit-at-national-archaeological-museum/

Ancient Mediterranean:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-field-ancient -mediterranean-1019-story.html

Renaissance Folios:

http://www.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/lynchburg-college-exhibit-features -translated-renaissance-era-folios/article_959e1af9-c181-54ba-9846-41a20 530488e.html

Scythians:

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-british-museum-membercast-the-bp-exhib ition-scythians-warriors-of-ancient-siberia/

Ongoing concerns about the Museum of the Bible’s collection:

https://dc.curbed.com/2017/10/23/16520244/bible-museum-artifacts-scholar
s-dc

The National Museum of Korea is returning plenty of items to local
museums:

http://english.donga.com/List/3/04/26/1106614/1

The National Museum of Scotland has acquired the Galloway Viking Hoard:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/oct/26/galloway-viking-hoard-ac quired-by-national-museums-of-scotland

More hype for the Grand Egyptian Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/280450/Heritage/GrecoRoman/ Ptolemaic-crown-pillar-to-be-transported-to-the-Gr.aspx


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on assorted technologies used by archaeologists:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-hi-tech-archaeological-scientists.html http://www.concordmonitor.com/aerial-archaeology-dartmouth-12725363

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Studying prehistoric DNA from Malawi:

http://emorywheel.com/26137-2/

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Magdala:

http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magdala/2017/10/23/

Guatemala:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/travel/sd-tr-guatemala-201 71025-story.html


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CRIME BEAT
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In case you missed the looted antiquities at London Frieze Masters:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/22/looted-antiquities- allegedly-on-sale-at-london-frieze-masters-art-fair https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/frieze-masters-art-fair-accused-of-se lling-stolen-ancient-greek-vases-9hwgq88n2 http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/10/23/looted-greek-antiquities-allegedl y-on-sale-at-london-art-fair/ http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/27808-report-looted-greek -antiquities-allegedly-on-sale-at-london-art-fair.html

… and Greece is putting in a claim:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/10/26/greek-culture-ministry-to-cla im-two-stolen-antiquities-up-for-sale-in-london/ http://news.gtp.gr/2017/10/26/greek-culture-ministry-claim-stolen-antiqu ities-sale-london/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/26/c_136708032.htm

On theft of works from Italian churches:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/world/europe/
italy-churches-theft.html

Three more folks sentenced for looting a Mississippi mound:

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/3-more-people-sentenced-for-loot ing-Mississippi-12301130.php

Vandals hit a statue of Roosevelt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/arts/protesters-deface-roosevelt-stat ue-outside-natural-history-museum.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollecti on%2Fnyregion

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-16-22- october-2017.html


conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

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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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
France returned eight items to Egypt:

http://www.menafn.com/1095999291/France-hands-over-eight-Egyptian-antiqu ities-seized-from-traffickers http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280412/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/France-to-return--stolen-ancient-Egyptian-artefact.aspx

Colombia wants Spain to return the Quimbaya Treasure:

https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/10/19/colombia/
1508439951_173982.html

In case you missed the mosaic from Caligula’s ship story:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-culture-caligula/italy-gets-bac k-looted-mosaic-from-emperor-caligulas-ship-idUSKBN1CP23I https://www.thelocal.it/20171023/mosaic-found-caligulas-ship-nemi

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n43.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n44.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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