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explorator 18.31 November 22, 2015 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, Barbara
Saylor Rodgers, Feral Boy, Rick Heli, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross
W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Study suggests homo floresiensis was a branch on the homo erectus tree:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-dental-analysis-homo-floresiensis-species.html http://www.livescience.com/52839-hobbits-were-separate-species.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2015/11/20/homo_floresiensis_hobbits_evolved
_from_homo_erectus.html http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/hobbit-human-teeth-reveal-surprising-history
-photos-151118.htm
https://www.rt.com/news/322750-hobbit-evolved-species-teeth/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3324599/Hobbits-separate-species-Study-
18-000-year-old-teeth-contradicts-theory-creatures-deformed-modern-humans.html

A homo erectus skull from China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/20/c_134838032.htm http://www.ecns.cn/2015/11-20/189517.shtml

DNA is shedding light on the Denisovans:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-dna-analysis-denisovan-molars-clues.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/science/in-a-tooth-dna-from-some-very-old-cousins-t
he-denisovans.html http://www.livescience.com/52818-extinct-cavemen-more-diverse-than-neanderthals.html
http://www.thenewsindependent.com/ancient-denisouman-relatives/6482/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/17/dna-sheds-light-on-m
ysterious-big-toothed-human-relatives/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/science/in-a-tooth-dna-from-some-very-old-cousins-t
he-denisovans.html

What Neanderthals did for us:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151116-what-did-the-neanderthals-do-for-us

Some early humour:

http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/fk151109.gif

More on the homo naledi find:

http://wjla.com/features/working-women/working-woman-archaeologist-makes-historic-fin
ding

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AFRICA
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More on that church off the coast of Africa with some slave-trade associations:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/500-year-old-church-found-in-slave-trade-
settlement-151116.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Not sure if we mentioned the NYT coverage of possible discoveries to be made in the
Great Pyramid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/science/great-pyramid-giza-possible-undiscovered-t
omb.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Reviewish of Joann Fletcher, *The Story of Egypt*:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2015/ancient-egypt-it-wasnt-all-ph
araohs-and-gold

The Egyptian Museum marked its 113th anniversary:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-egyptian-museum-113th-anniversary-tourism.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/egypt-marks-113th-anniversary-of-famed-museum-amid-to
urism-slump-1.2660193

A pit from Yavneh reveals very interesting aspects of cult activities in 9th century B.C.E.
(or so) Palestine:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/19882_ENG_HTML.php http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/jgum-fot111715.php

A 2200 years b.p. incense shovel from near the Sea of Galilee:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/if-it-looks-like-a-duck-quacks-like-a-duck-is-it-a-clue-to-the-ri
se-of-jewish-galilee/

Another amazing Roman-era mosaic from Lod:

http://mfa.gov.il/mfa/israelexperience/history/pages/new-impressive-mosaic-uncovered-i
n-lod-16-november-2015.aspx http://phys.org/news/2015-11-israel-unveils-roman-era-mosaic.html http://www.livescience.com/52815-courtyard-mosaic-unearthed-in-israel.html http://www.livescience.com/52810-courtyard-mosaic-israel-photos.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4726430,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Roman-and-Byzantine-era-mosaic-discovered-i
n-Lod-434235
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.686402 https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/54035/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-complete-rom
an-villa-jerusalem/ http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/1700-year-old-mosaic-floor-unveiled-in-is
rael-151116.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3320259/Israel-unveils-Roman-era-mosaic
-construction.html http://news.yahoo.com/israel-accidentally-finds-impressive-ancient-mosaic-184645865.h
tml http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/324958/fabled-1-700-year-old-lod-mosaic-goes-o
n-display/

300 years b.p. pearl fishing industry in Qatar:

http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-excavate-300-year-old-tax-haven

On the common roots of bagels and falafel:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-secret-bagels-falafel.html


More on ancient beekeeping:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151111143131.htm

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Very interesting first century pagan "basilica" from Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12005864/Secret-pagan-basilica
-in-Rome-emerges-from-the-shadows-after-2000-years.html

A massive hoard of Roman coins from a Swiss molehill:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34872657 http://www.dw.com/en/swiss-farmer-unearths-4000-roman-coins/a-18863368 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/19/roman-treasure-found-in-swiss-orchard-e
xceeds-4000-coins http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/trove-of-antique-roman-coins-found-in-swi
ss-orchard-151120.htm http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/1119/Massive-collection-of-antique-R
oman-coins-found-in-Swiss-orchard http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/bronze-wage_hoard-of-roman-coins-found-in-switzerland/
41788700
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/farmer-unearths-over-4-100-010630962.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3326915/Hoard-4-000-Roman-coins-uneart
hed-Money-laid-undisturbed-beneath-Swiss-cherry-tree-1-700-years.html?ITO=1490&ns_
mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/19/456704902/a-glint-in-a-molehill-revea
ls-treasure-trove-of-4-000-ancient-coins http://nhpr.org/post/glint-molehill-reveals-treasure-trove-4000-ancient-coins

Not sure where to put this one about a fragment of the Gospel of John found on eBay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/books/greek-new-testament-papyrus-is-discovered-o
n-ebay.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038r4xp http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ancient-and-rare-greek-new-testamen
t-papyrus-discovered-on-ebay-a6743756.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3328952/Two-thousand-year-old-page-New-Testa
ment-manuscript-spotted-sale-eBay-99.html

A section of Roman road beneath a Dorchester car park:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14094084.What_did_the_Romans_do_for_us___Rom an_road_unearthed_under_Dorchester_car_park/

I think we mentioned this find of a Greek site in the Ukraine:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Ancient-Greek-site-found-in-southern-Ukraine

What toilets and latrines tell us about Roman sanitation:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html https://theconversation.com/talking-heads-what-toilets-and-sewers-tell-us-about-ancient-r
oman-sanitation-50045

On prostitution in Pompeii ... then and now:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/prostitution-in-pompeii-2000-years-after
-explosion-sex-for-cash-is-still-rife-a6736826.html

Why the Iliad matters:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/the-iliad-translation/

Feature on the Grand Tour:

https://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/the-delights-and-dangers-of-the-grand-tour/

Review of Beard, *SPQR*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/books/review-in-spqr-a-history-of-ancient-rome-mary-
beard-tackles-myths-and-more.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/22/a-brash-brit-s-subversive-siege-of-anci
ent-rome.html

Review of Robin Lane Fox, *Augustine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/augustine-conversions-to-confessions-
by-robin-lane-fox.html

Review of Tim Whitmarsh, *Battling the Gods*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/battling-the-gods-atheism-in-the-ancien
t-world-by-tim-whitmarsh.html

Review of Rahe, *The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta*:

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/the-review/book-review-historian-paul-rahe-recounts-ep
ic-spartan-tales-and-the-defeat-of-the-mighty-persian-empire

More on finding the site of the Battle of Arginusae:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151119-lost-island-aegean-kane-sparta-athe
ns-archaeology/ http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/turkey/2015/11/19/legendary-arginus
ae-battle-island-unearthed-in-turkey_70256e07-90ba-468f-b4fe-751ba13d9a1b.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3322131/Has-lost-city-Kane-ity-saw-Sparta
ns-defeated-rediscovered-Sediment-joined-ancient-island-Kane-mainland.html

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Latest reviews from BMCR:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 6600 years b.p. golden pendant from a Bulgarian site:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3327210/Is-world-s-oldest-BLING-6-600-ye
ar-old-golden-pendant-prehistoric-Bulgarian-settlement.html

A medieval 'burnt witch girl' burial from Italy:

http://www.livescience.com/52849-skeleton-of-burnt-witch-girl-found-in-italy.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/skeleton-of-burnt-witch-girl-found-in-italy-
151118.htm

A hoard of coin clippings from the Forest of Dean:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34779378

Some 15th century remains from Rosslyn Chapel were reburied:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14034787.Rosslyn_Chapel_remains_reburied_in_g
rounds/

A survey of Burgh-le-Marsh reveals finds from various periods:

http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/local/excavation-unearths-site-s-hidden-history
-1-7065240

Interesting feature on a church in Tamworth:

http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/Sacred-town-site-existed-1300-years/ story-28157634-detail/story.html

Tram construction in Manchester reveals a number of bodies:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/nearly-280-bodies-have-been-di
scovered-under-a-tram-line-in-manchester-a6736041.html

Feature on a friar's leather shop excavation in Oxford:

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/195-1511/trenches/3750-trenches-england-medieval-l
eather-wood

Interesting feature on digitizing 18th century roads in France:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542251/how-cartographers-digitized-the-18th-cent
ury-road-network-in-france/

Researching Victorian criminals:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-34594625

Funding for Sutton Hoo:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-34869263

... and some 'new' photos of the discovery have been found:

http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/discovery_was_as_dramatic_as_the_burial_1_43164
85

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A Ming Dynasty era tomb with murals from Shandong:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/22/c_134842071.htm

Finds from a Western Han Dynasty tomb from Nanchang (we may have mentioned this):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2015-11/18/c_134827223.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2015-11/19/content_22484915.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2015-11/18/content_22480377.htm

A possible portrait of Confucius from a tomb:

http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/portraits-found-tomb-may-include-image-confucius

An ancient board game in a looted tomb:

http://www.livescience.com/52808-ancient-board-game-found-in-china-tomb.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-board-game-found-in-looted-china-tomb
1/ http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-board-game-found-looted-china-tomb-125643604.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3322881/Mysterious-board-game-pieces-c
ontaining-eyes-thunderstorms-hasn-t-played-1-500-years-discovered-Chinese-tomb.html
?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/68448/20151117/archaeologist-found-artifacts-believe
d-part-ancient-board-game-2-300.htm

More on 'geoglyphs' from Kazakhstan:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1115/What-s-with-those-mysterious-shapes-NAS
A-photographed-in-Kazakhstan http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-symbols-kazakhstan-old-really-115853622.html

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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A pile of unmarked, mostly African-American burials near UNC Chapel Hill:

http://abc11.com/news/unmarked-graves-discovered-at-cemetery-near-unc-/1082118/

Reviewish thing about a book on the Mayflower:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/books/review/the-boy-who-fell-off-the-mayflower-revi
ew.html?_r=0

Amherst College is rethinking its mascot:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34802747

James Madison apparently engaged in a bit of spin with his account of the Constitutional
Convention:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/18/how-james-madison-
doctered-the-story-of-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787

They're still arguing about that Mountain Meadows Massacre site thing:

http://www.lakepowelllife.com/burial-location-dispute/

Searching for pre-1860 American muralists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/arts/design/documenting-the-romantic-strokes-of-lon
g-ago-muralists.html

Concerns for sites on the Louisiana coast:

http://www.nola.com/futureofneworleans/2015/11/coastal_erosion_archaeology.html

Review of Vowell, *Lafayette in the Somewhat United States*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/sarah-vowells-lafayette-in-the-somewh
at-united-states.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
A site in Chile suggests humans arrived in the Americas some 6000 years earlier than
previously thought:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/vu-nce111215.php http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141923 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3324091/First-Americans-arrived-19-000-y
ears-ago-New-clues-suggest-earliest-settlers-survived-ice-age.html?ITO=1490&ns_mcha
nnel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1120/When-did-people-first-arrive-in-South-Amer
ica http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/11/oldest-stone-tools-americas-claimed-c
hile

Very interesting finds from Zultépec-Tecoaque in Tlaxcala:

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/evidence-of-pulque-god-found-in-tlaxcala/

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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/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On the origins of graphic communication (includes a link to a Ted Talk):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22395

Syphilis was apparently all over Europe prior to Columbus' voyage:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119103306.htm

Relating Hobbes and Machiavelli to other political venues:

http://theconversation.com/contentious-politics-hobbes-machiavelli-and-corporate-power-
48223

On the history of skull reshaping:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/parents-have-been-reshaping-their-kids-sku
lls-45000-years-180957343/?no-ist

On expectations of female behaviour in 1831:

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/11/20/456224571/18-rules-of-behavior-
for-young-ladies-in-1831

What corsets did to Victorian female skeletons:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/11/16/how-corsets-deformed-the-skele
tons-of-victorian-women/

Studying the implications of movement of cultural artifacts:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-scholars-gain-insight-geographical-cultural.html

On the history of the stereotype of the gay suicide:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-historian-uncovers-historical-insidious-gay.html

On mummy eating:

http://www.techinsider.io/people-eating-mummies-health-2015-11

Reimagining some famous artworks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3316737/Designer-adds-Chanel-Hermes-paintin
gs-artists-Raphael-Botticelli.html

Results from Christie's Impressionist and Moderns sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/arts/design/christies-auctions-solid-bids.html

More on tsar burial identification stuff:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-bones-contention-russia-royal-row.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Agamemnon to Alexander:

http://entertainment.suntimes.com/entertainment-news/field-museum-exhibit-traces-evol
ution-ancient-greece-artistic-treasures/

Celts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/culture/national-art-pass/11999088/celts-art-and-id
entity-exhibition.html

Head Shots:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/arts/design/a-history-of-head-shots-and-an-exhibitio
n-on-immigrants-tales.html

New York Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/arts/design/19th-century-parks-drawings-for-new-yor
k-city-are-destined-for-display.html

Coney Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/design/coney-island-culture-at-the-brooklyn-mus
eum.html

Japanese Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/arts/design/masterpieces-of-japanese-art-at-the-met.
html

More on virtual visits to the British Museum:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/visit-british-museum-without-buying-plane-t
icket-180957276/

Restoration at the Flagler Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/arts/design/flagler-museums-gilded-seating-restored
-evokes-a-sumptuous-and-torrid-gilded-age.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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They're going to use xray variations to look at those letters in a trunk we mentioned last
week:

http://www.livescience.com/52869-x-rays-peer-inside-sealed-letters.html

High speed digitization of artifacts:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20151119-cultlab3d-streamlines-3d-digitization-of-historic-a
rtifacts-with-new-pipeline-system.html


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
On the 'fourth strand' of European ancestry:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/tcd-sfi111315.php http://phys.org/news/2015-11-fourth-strand-european-ancestry-hunter-gatherers.html
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/lDCyvN7UwX
M/151116084005.htm http://news.yahoo.com/genetic-sleuthing-helps-sort-ancestry-modern-europeans-060450
154.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34832781

DNA suggests the Irish potato famine had its 'roots' in South America:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-south-american-irish-potato-famine.html

More on DNA from an Inca child mummy:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/incan-child-sacrificed-to-the-gods-reveals-histor
y-of-american-expansion/

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
British forests:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151110-the-ancient-protectors-of-englands-forests

Frank Lloyd Wright houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/travel/frank-lloyd-wright-oak-park-illinois.html

Iceland:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/travel/reykjavik-iceland-tours.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Cameras monitoring a site in Arkansas catch a bad guy:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/nov/22/forest-had-eyes-on-man-digging-artifact/

A Florida antiquities dealer pleads guilty to smuggling:

http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Florida-Man-Pleads-to-Smuggling-Antiquities-T
hrough-Dulles-350647061.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fla-dealer-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling
-artifacts-from-grave-sites-in-pakistan/2015/11/13/fc886cda-89a9-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0
ec_story.html

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/11/culture-crime-news-9-15-november-20
15.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 ================================================================
Germany returned a mummy mask to Egypt:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=97776

An Indiana museum is returning a bronze to India:

http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/bca835ca9f904747a187508c7bfddd1b/IN--Smuggle
d-Antiquities-Indiana

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NUMISMATICA
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On the purchasing power of ancient coins:

http://www.coinweek.com/education/worth-purchasing-power-ancient-coins/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n46.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n47.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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