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,

Richard Miller, Kris Curry, 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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Possible Neanderthal footprints from Gibraltar:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uos-fnf021319.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190213100452.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7410-190214-gibraltar-hominin-footprint

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AFRICA

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Interesting study of some Bankoni figurines from Mali:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/taio-aio021419.php

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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A burial (of uncertain date?) of a teenage girl near the base of the Meidum pyramid:

https://www.livescience.com/64747-teen-skeleton-buried-mysterious-pyramid.html

https://www.livescience.com/64745-teen-skeleton-meidum-pyramid.html

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/skeleton-of-ancient-egyptian-teenage-girl-unearthed-at-base-of-4600yearold-pyramid/

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1589116/scotland-insists-legal-right-keep-pyramid-stone-egypt-awaits-documents

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7403-190212-meidum-pyramid-cemetery

Evidence of a Ptolemaic-era shipbuilding/repairing workshop from the Sinai:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/325517/Heritage/GrecoRoman/Ancient-workshop-for-construction-of-boats-uncover.aspx

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/archaeologists-in-north-sinai-unearth-remains-of-ptolemaic-workshop-for-ship-repairs/

https://menafn.com/1098111874/Egypt-RomanPtolemaic-maintenance-workshop-unearthed-in-North-Sinai

http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/02/13/archaeologists-discover-ancient-workshop-in-egypts-sinai/

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-archaeologists-ancient-workshop-egypt-sinai.html

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2019/02/12/archaeologists-discover-ancient-workshop-egypt/39045345/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7405-190213-egypt-ship-workshop

A water leak contributed to a wall collapse at the Temple of Esna:

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/temple-of-esna-western-wall-collapses-due-to-water-leak/

Crediting ancient Egyptians with developing some technologies rather than ‘adopting’ them:

https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2019/02/technology-once-thought-adopted-by-egyptians-may-have-been-innovated-by-them-instead/

Feature on Akhenaten and Aten:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-an-ancient-egyptian-king-erase-all-gods-but-aten

Zahi Hawass is calling for the return of a pile of Egyptian artifacts:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/64704/Zahi-Hawass-demands-retrieval-of-Egypt%E2%80%99s-looted-artifacts

Another teenage girl burial dating to 3000-5000 years bp from northern Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/433021/Ancient-teenage-girl-s-skeleton-discovered-in-northern-Iran

A Bar Kochba-era coin found by hikers in Lachish:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/rains-unearth-rare-bar-kochba-era-coin-hailing-freedom-of-israel/

https://hamodia.com/2019/02/11/bar-kochba-coin-found-lachish/

I think we mentioned the controversy arising from this tunnel being dug in the Wadi Hilweh area:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/palestine-jerusalem-dig-ancient-road-arab-wadi-hilweh-a8746521.html

Feature on the Dome of the Rock and why it was built:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-little-known-story-behind-jerusalem-s-most-iconic-and-controversial-site-1.6938420

Haven’t had a ‘Palestinian private museum’ story in a while:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/13/c_137818770.htm

A project to trace Italian archaeology participation in Amman (I think):

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/rome-digger-retraces-italian-archaeological-work-jordan-1253338

Jodi Magness was talking about the Huqoq excavations:

https://www.wuwf.org/post/archaeologist-unveils-mosaic-art-hidden-ancient-israel-synagogue

Feature on Enheduanna:

http://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-enheduanna-princess-priestess-and-the-worlds-first-known-author-109185

Concerns for sites in Yemen continues:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/02/yemen-war-devastating-for-countrys-heritage.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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The big find this week appears to be an amazing fresco of Narcissus from Pompeii:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2019/02/14/stunning-narcissus-fresco-at-pompeii_f41d7086-efff-4461-af0e-8267f9d504a8.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/world/europe/pompeii-narcissus-fresco.html

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-pompeii-uncovers-narcissus-fresco-ancient.html

https://www.livescience.com/64775-pompeii-fresco-narcissus-found.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47244338

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/stunningly-preserved-fresco-of-narcissus-discovered-in-pompeii

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/narcissus-is-found-posing-in-pompeii-m92m6kktj

https://www.apnews.com/2f7567c00433435db2d8c4a9119125de

http://www.startribune.com/pompeii-dig-uncovers-narcissus-fresco-in-ancient-atrium/505825652/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pompeii-narcissus-fresco-20190214-story.html

https://www.dispatch.com/entertainment/20190214/pompeii-dig-uncovers-ancient-roman-fresco-of-mythologys-narcissus

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-02/15/content_74466508.htm

http://famagusta-gazette.com/2019/02/15/more-secrets-emerge-from-rubble-of-pompeii/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/15/c_137822269.htm

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7409-190214-pompeii-narcissus-fresco

… or the big find might be artifacts from the battle of the Aegates Islands which suggest Carthaginians may have used capture Roman warships:

https://www.livescience.com/64734-underwater-rome-carthage-battle-artifacts.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-roman-naval-battle-archaeology

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7400-190211-rome-carthage-battle

Underwater Roman finds from Wookey Hole:

https://www.yeovilexpress.co.uk/news/17438926.roman-artefacts-discovered-at-wookey-hole/

There’s a reenactment of a Roman funeral in Malta today (connected to a book release):

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190213/community/mortem-roman-funeral-to-be-reenacted-on-sunday.701880

https://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/articles/view/20190216/arts-entertainment/a-romans-last-journey.702094

https://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2019/02/14/mortem-a-romans-last-journey/?lang=en

https://lovinmalta.com/lifestyle/things-to-do/calling-all-history-buffs-take-part-in-an-ancient-roman-funeral-this-sunday-in-malta

Really a techy sort of thing on the origins of Pompeian mosaic tiles:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemical-analysis-reveals-origin-of-pompeian-mosaic-tiles/3010127.article

Feature on how Romans dealt with ‘barbarians at the gate’:

http://theconversation.com/immigration-how-ancient-rome-dealt-with-the-barbarians-at-the-gate-109933

https://www.idahopress.com/opinion/conversation/immigration-how-ancient-rome-dealt-with-the-barbarians-at-the/article_d28486dd-45e5-5832-925c-060579a67e7d.html

https://wtop.com/national/2019/02/how-ancient-rome-dealt-with-the-barbarians-at-the-gate/

https://menafn.com/1098113590/How-ancient-Rome-dealt-with-the-Barbarians-at-the-gate

A ‘top ten ancient finds’ from Greece thing:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/02/17/greeces-top-ten-ancient-finds-of-the-last-decade/

Feature on Antony and Cleopatra’s ‘affair’:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/inside-the-decadent-love-affair-of-cleopatra-and-mark-antony.aspx

Feature on the Romans in Germany:

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/germanysromanpast/

Feature on the Lupercalia:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-rites-and-wrongs-of-spring-frank-mcnally-on-lupercalia-1.3791534

On Greek mythology in kpop:

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2019/02/kpop-going-greek

Feature on sirens:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/43zaxd/sirens-greek-mythology-women-death

Feature on lions in ancient Greece:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/02/15/the-lions-den-when-big-cats-roamed-greece-video/

What Barry Strauss is up to:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/02/caesars-death-and-life-explored-antiquitas-podcast

What Tom Sienkewicz is up to:

https://www.reviewatlas.com/news/20190214/sienkewicz-to-present-monmouth-colleges-fox-lecture-on-hercules

What Theodore Harwood is up to:

http://www.troubonline.com/new-professor-strives-for-truth-and-meaning-through-classics/

An interview with Mary Beard:

https://scroll.in/article/913494/mary-beard-interview-being-a-popular-writer-helps-you-say-the-unpopular

Interview with Richard Buxton:

http://catalystnewspaper.com/listen/chase-for-the-impossible-interview-with-richard-buxton/

Parthenon/Elgin Marbles editorials are getting stranger:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/15/the-parthenon-marbles-debate-british-museum-acropolis-athens-elgin-marbles

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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A study suggests megalithic monuments/henges originated in northern France and spread out in a few ‘waves’:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-stonehenge-mystery-prehistoric-french-european.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/science/megaliths-archaeology-tombs.html

https://www.livescience.com/64746-stonehenge-megalith-common-origin.html

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/archaeologist-traces-newgrange-origins-mainland-europe

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/02/11/stonehenge-other-megaliths-may-have-originated-northwest-france/2841267002/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/stonehenge-other-ancient-rock-structures-may-trace-their-origins-monuments

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/europe-neolithic-stone-monuments-origin-france

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/europe-megalithic-monuments-france-sea-routes-mediterranean-180971467/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7404-190212-model-megalith-spread

Evidence of use of cattle in the Neolithic period in Europe:

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-discovered-that-europeans-used-cattle-8000-years-ago?

Traces of 6000 years bp longhouses from Canoustie (Scotland):

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/britain-s-largest-neolithic-house-built-in-scotland-1-4873921

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7412-190215-scotland-neolithic-halls

On ritual dog burials in the Neolithic Iberian Peninsula:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uob-dba021419.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-dog-burial-common-ritual-neolithic.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-buried-their-dogs-them-4000-years-ago-180971502/

Remains of a 2000 years bp settlement site in Poland’s Tuchola Forest:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C32802%2Carchaeologists-trail-completely-preserved-almost-2000-years-old-settlement.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7411-190214-poland-tuchola-forest

A sixth century terracotta sculpture fragment from a monastery site near Varna is being touted as a Roman emperor depiction:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/02/12/archaeology-sixth-century-terracotta-mask-of-emperor-found-in-bulgarias-varna/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7402-190212-varna-emperor-face

A major Viking site (including at least one ship burial) from Halden (Norway):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/02/16/archaeologists-make-very-special-viking-era-discovery-in-norway/#3ed5bd6c335e

Finds from Stoo are raising questions about the settlement of Iceland:

https://now.guidetoiceland.is/2019/02/12/culture/history-and-folklore/not-only-vikings-new-archaeology-find-sheds-light-on-icelands-first-settlers/

Latest find from the medieval Veliko Turnovo dig is an infant burial (clay pot):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/02/12/archaeology-baby-found-buried-in-clay-pot-at-bulgarias-mediaeval-turnovo-trapezitsa-site/

A medieval ‘three seater’ toiler seat from London is going on display:

https://www.livescience.com/64783-triple-toilet-let-three-go-number-two.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/13/helles-toilet-12th-century-three-person-loo-seat-goes-on-display

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7414-190215-london-wooden-seat

A huge collection of ‘witches’ marks’ from Creswell Crags:

https://www.livescience.com/64791-witches-marks-ice-age-cave-creswell-crags.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/15/nottinghamshire-cave-carvings-marks-scare-witches

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/national/17434433.uks-largest-collection-of-witches-marks-discovered-in-caves/

Finds from various periods beneath a police station in Wallingford:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17428577.entire-buildings-keys-and-bones-under-wallingford-police-station/

Recent finds from the Minera limeworks site:

https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/17430517.clearance-work-reveals-200-year-old-secrets-of-mineras-victorian-limeworks-picture-gallery/

Feature on the wreck of the HMS Victory:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47044932

Plans to search for the ‘lost’ Collyweston Palace’:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-47209859

Plans to restore a recently-collapsed 10th century church on Cyprus:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/02/13/restoration-work-to-start-on-collapsed-church/

Concerns over bypass construction near a plague cemetery:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/3876393/building-road-stirling-bypass-plague-cemetery-dr-murray-cook/

On Brexit and the misuse of archaeology:

https://theconversation.com/archaeologists-must-avoid-prehistoric-brexit-parallels-they-encourage-twisted-readings-of-the-past-109037

More on that medieval sword from a Danish sewer:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-sword-its-blade-still-sharp-pulled-sewer-denmark-180971469/

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/medieval-sword-found-denmark-sewer-aalborg-archaeology/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/573928/medieval-sword-pulled-from-sewer-in-aalborg-denmark

More on Celts keeping the decapitated heads of their enemies:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=31787

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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Western Han Dynasty painted terracottas from Shandong:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2019/02/13/2000-year-old-painted-terracotta-figures-found-in-eastern-china

Neolithic tools from Vangchhia:

https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/neolithic-tools-found-at-dig/cid/1684354

Seventh century remains of ‘a historic kingdom’ near Alichinga Tengani:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/7th-century-ruins-found-in-golaghat/articleshow/68015424.cms

High hopes for finds from the Keeladi site:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/keeladi-could-rewrite-history-of-india-says-researcher/articleshow/67934780.cms

Concerns for the Ashoka Pillar in Buddha’s birthplace:

http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-02-12/ashoka-pillar-losing-its-shine-amidst-negligence.html

A Jomon period clay statue was reunited with its leg after 90 years:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902120057.html

Petroglyphs made by 19th century whalers in Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-17/ancient-rock-art-carvings-of-american-sailors-found-in-wa/10807596

Something about the effects of the fires of the Martu people in Australia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/science/australia-aboriginal-fires-martu.html?em_pos=medium&nl_art=5&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190212

Might want to file this one about the archaeological (and other) claims made by some Hindu nationalists:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/hindu-nationalists-claim-ancient-indians-had-airplanes-stem-cell-technology-and

… and we’re keeping an eye on this story about the arrest of Pakistans director of archaeology and museums:

https://dailytimes.com.pk/355508/pm-khan-takes-notice-of-disgraceful-arrest-of-archaeology-director/

https://arynews.tv/en/abdul-samad-initial-investigations/

More on what a high tech approach revealed about a 12th century shipwreck off the coast of Java (more in the techy section):

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/shipwreck-reveals-ancient-market-for-knock-off-consumer-goods/

cf: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190208124708.htm

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b917a20ae5

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NORTH AMERICA

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Finds of First Nations artifacts have halted pipeline construction in northern British Columbia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoc–mcs021419.php

On indigenous residents of Marin County surviving colonization:

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/02/16/northern-b-c-first-nation-clan-says-ancient-tools-found-at-pipeline-work-site/

https://globalnews.ca/news/4969367/gas-pipeline-artifacts/

A Revolutionary War burial site from Albany:

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article226158130.html

Archaeologists are poking around Cape Canaveral:

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/02/14/at-floridas-gateway-to-space-archaeologists-are-in-a-race-against-time/2849364002/

https://www.wftv.com/weather/space/archaeologists-race-to-preserve-cape-canaveral-air-force-station-s-past/918458991

http://spacecoastdaily.com/2019/02/archaeologists-digging-at-cape-canaveral-air-force-station-find-ancient-artifacts/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7407-190213-cape-canaveral-erosion

I think we mentioned bones being found at a Lake George construction site:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Revolutionary-War-burial-site-uncovered-during-13610919.php

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Human-bones-found-on-North-Country-construction-site-505825061.html

https://poststar.com/news/local/more-remains-buttons-at-construction-site-may-date-from-revolutionary/article_d68ddfca-8d23-5024-80d4-85edabd0ae0f.html

https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/revolutionary-war-artifacts-found-at-lake-george-burial-site/1779747747

https://wnyt.com/news/bones-of-10-12-people-and-pewter-buttons-found-at-lake-george-construction-site-have-archaeologists-and-historians-thinking-revolutionary-war-soldiers/5245558/

Bones found in Aurora (Colorado) might be 1000 (or 100?) years old:

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/14/human-bones-aurora-construction-site/

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/police-human-bones-found-in-southeast-aurora-could-be-1000-years-old/73-6220209f-fc9a-4b69-bcda-caf14bf79eb5

https://kdvr.com/2019/02/14/human-bones-found-at-aurora-construction-site-may-be-1000-years-old/

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/02/14/aurora-human-bones-found-construction/

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/trending/human-remains-found-in-southeast-aurora-could-be-a-thousand-years-old

https://koaa.com/ap-colorado-news/2019/02/15/bones-found-at-construction-site-are-at-least-100-years-old/

A digital map of what the Bering Strait may have looked like back in the ‘crossing’ days:

https://www.livescience.com/64786-beringia-map-during-ice-age.html

Plans to continue a dig on the Norwalk River:

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/politics/article/Dig-will-continue-at-Native-American-fort-in-13617998.php

What Dr Whitney Battle-Baptiste is up to:

https://diverseeducation.com/article/138202/

Feature on the first Africans in British North America:

https://wjla.com/news/local/400-years-ago-first-africans-british-north-america-arrived-virginia

Review of a biography of Wild Bill Hickok:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/books/review/tom-clavin-wild-bill-biography-james-butler-hickok.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Review of a biography of Sarah Polk:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/books/review/lady-first-amy-greenberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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A possible elite Inca burial from Mata Indio (Lambayeque):

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-archaeologists-incan-tomb-peru.html

https://www.france24.com/en/20190216-archaeologists-discover-incan-tomb-peru

Feature on Vera Tiesler’s work on Maya burials:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00517-y

‘Biocolonizer’ concerns at Macchu Pichu:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uotb-bsa021419.php

Pondering Hernan Cortes’ legacy in Mexico:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/08/actualidad/1549647993_688293.html

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Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

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On the history of the turban:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/turbans-tales-history/index.html

Latest Shroud of Turin ‘experiment’:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/researchers-hung-men-cross-and-added-blood-bid-prove-turin-shroud-real

The broke through the ice in search of Shackleton’s ship:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47192952

… but they found nothing and have decided to give up:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47227657

https://www.livescience.com/64777-lost-shackleton-wreck-search-abandoned-antarctica.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7413-190215-shackleton-endurance-search

Latest beer recreation attempt hails from an 1866 shipwreck:

https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/02/15/suny-cobleskill-lab-site-of-effort-to-re-create-beer-from-1886-shipwreck

The annual Valentine’s Day origins/history pieces:

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/yep-says/a-word-from-the-editor-valentine-s-day-isn-t-always-a-garden-of-roses-its-origins-in-ancient-rome-are-far-less-pleasant-than-hearts-and-flowers-1-9586386

https://mymodernmet.com/valentines-day-the-origins-of-the-worlds-most-romantic-holiday/

https://dakotastudent.com/12599/opinion/the-origin-of-valentines-day/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/valentine-day-history-saint-who-real-story-cured/

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/valentines-day-how-a-day-known-for-beheadings-animal-sacrifices-and-criminal-activity-became-a-lovers-holiday/news-story/42bd81638e44cae2ef4441f500e2bc2c

http://time.com/5516579/history-cupid-valentines-day/

http://time.com/5527298/valentines-day-lottery/

http://time.com/5527259/valentines-day-lupercalia/

https://www.omaha.com/sarpy/bellevue/saints-and-goat-skins-the-tangled-origins-of-valentine-s/article_ef5750cc-f4f9-5662-ae10-2cc32ff2e82a.html

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/14/heres-what-animal-sacrifices-in-rome-have-to-do-with-valentines-day/

… and one on Valentine’s Day cards:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/a-brief-history-of-valentines-day-cards/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47203715

… in a similar spirit:

https://www.vpr.org/post/after-90-years-hidden-floor-couples-love-letters-resurface-west-lebanon#stream/0

Interesting story of a medieval nun who faked her own death to get out of the convent:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/11/archive-shows-medieval-nun-faked-her-own-death-to-escape-convent

https://www.livescience.com/64772-medieval-nun-faked-death.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-arts-culture/medieval-nun-wanted-escape-her-conventso-she-faked-her-death-180971477/

Interesting study of past maternal mortality rates:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-mystery-maternal-mortality.html

On an error in the 1631 King James Bible:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-wicked-bible/

The New York Times reprinted Frederick Douglass’ obituary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/obituaries/frederick-douglass-dead-1895.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

On the history of bonds:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694635007/planet-moneys-podcast-the-indicator-tackles-history-of-bonds

On the history of the pomegranate:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/02/Golden-Pome

Reviewish/hypish thing of Lauren Johnson, *Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/17/henry-vi-medieval-mystery-margaret-of-anjou-marriage-bed-historian-lauren-johnson

Feature on the Night Watch:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190214-does-rembrandts-the-night-watch-reveal-a-murder-plot

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/restoration-nightwatch

Pondering Titian’s Lady in White:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/693912245/who-was-the-lady-in-white-titian-painted-a-mystery-masterpiece

Feature on Eugene V Debs:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/eugene-v-debs-and-the-endurance-of-socialism

Marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/travel/leonardo-da-vinci-travel-tours-museums.html

… and the 250th of von Humboldt’s birth:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-president-steinmeier-we-only-have-this-one-planet/a-47517468

… and the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/09/actualidad/1549742195_593918.html

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/legado-hernando-magallanes-sale-nuevamente-flote/520331/

More on Henry VII’s marriage bed:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/henry-viis-marriage-bed-may-have-spent-15-years-british-hotels-honeymoon-suite-180971485/

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MUSEUM MATTERS

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Victorian mugshots:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47211731

Tolkien’s World:

https://nyti.ms/2UZ5I6g?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Grey Nuns of Montreal have plans for a museum (and more):

https://aleteia.org/2019/02/14/the-grey-nuns-of-montreal-to-turn-their-mother-house-into-an-arcaheological-haven/

Feature on Persian artifacts in museums around the world:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/432818/Persian-antiquities-found-in-almost-all-museums-worldwide

Finds from Bulgaria’s Struma Motorway construction are going on display:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/02/14/archaeological-finds-from-bulgarias-struma-motorway-construction-go-on-display/

Latest followups on restoration efforts after the fire at the Brazil museum:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-slow-going-fire-gutted-brazilian-museum.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/around-2000-artifacts-have-been-saved-ruins-brazils-national-museum-fire-180971510/

Feature on weird artifacts in London Museums:

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/london-museum-artefacts-fascinating-roman-ancient-relics-a4067356.html

Not sure if we can call the Scotland Museum’s pyramid stone dispute a repatriation thing yet:

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1589116/scotland-insists-legal-right-keep-pyramid-stone-egypt-awaits-documents

I think we need to keep our eye out on fallout from the Sackler opioid thing:

https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17079

Folks are still protesting BP sponsorship of the BM:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/16/campaigners-protest-against-bp-sponsorship-of-british-museum

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-bp-sponsorship-protest-iraq-kurds-assyria-a8783021.html

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AT THE AUCTIONS

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Some paintings purportedly by Adolph Hitlet failed to sell:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47189155

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THE TECHY SIDE

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More on analyzing 800 years bp pottery from a shipwreck off Java:

https://www.livescience.com/64731-x-ray-gun-shipwreck-ceramics.html

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/scientists-crack-mystery-of-ancient-chinese-pottery-found-in-shipwreck

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-use-ray-gun-find-origin-ancient-chinese-porcelain-180971476/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/7401-190212-porcelain-cargo-analyzed

Feature on LiDAR use at various Maya sites:

http://discovermagazine.com/2019/mar/a-lost-world-emerges

Using AI to finish Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony:

https://theconversation.com/composers-are-under-no-threat-from-ai-if-huaweis-finished-schubert-symphony-is-a-guide-111630

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CLIMATE MATTERS

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I think we mentioned this study of climate changes via Japanese tree stumps:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190205-does-the-climate-shape-social-change

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ON THE DNA FRONT

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

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TOURISTY THINGS

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Acharnes (Crete):

https://www.thenationalherald.com/230325/archanes-center-of-minoan-culture/

Al Sogara:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20190213-a-hidden-village-carved-into-a-cliff

Salt extraction in Chile:

https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/turistas-pueden-aprender-chile-oficio-500-anos-antiguedad/523478/

Solothurn:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190211-the-swiss-town-obsessed-with-the-number-11

Baden-Wurttemberg:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-16-states-baden-w%C3%BCrttemberg/a-45148057

Evora:

https://www.heraldnet.com/life/peeling-back-layers-of-portuguese-history-in-evora/

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PERFORMANCES

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A Winter’s Tale:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47152108

War and Peace:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/movies/war-and-peace-bondarchuk-lincoln-center.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Not sure where to put this effort by Saudi Arabia to ‘lure tourists’ with a music festival near ancient tombs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-tourism-music-festival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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CRIME BEAT

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A former minister’s brother in Egypt charged with smuggling antiquities:

https://ww.egyptindependent.com/former-ministers-brother-arrested-for-smuggled-antiquities/

Karl Marx’s memorial in London was vandalized again:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/16/karl-marxs-london-memorial-vandalised-for-second-time

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/karl-marx-grave-vandalised-highgate-cemetery-london-memorial-a8782746.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

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The Netherlands returned a bust smuggled in the 1990s to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/325376/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyptian-officials-recover-ancient-limestone-bust-.aspx

https://egyptianstreets.com/2019/02/13/stolen-ancient-egyptian-artifact-retrieved-at-amsterdam/

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/12/c_137813982.htm

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7399-190211-egypt-repatriated-statue

Christie’s returned eight looted antiquities to Italy:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/italy-looted-art-scli-intl/index.html

https://fox2now.com/2019/02/14/ancient-looted-artworks-returned-to-italy-by-christies-auction-house/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-looted-artwork-returned-italy-christies-auction-house-220200274.html

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2019/christie-s-voluntarily-returns-group-of-eight-looted-antiquities-to-italy/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/7406-190213-artifacts-repatriated-italy

The Met will be returning a gilded ancient sarcophagus to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/325703/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-recovers-gilded-coffin-from-Metropolitan-Mus.aspx

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/64832/In-pics-Egypt-to-recover-gilded-coffin-from-Met-museum

https://www.france24.com/en/20190216-ny-museum-says-ancient-coffin-was-looted-will-go-back-egypt

https://nyti.ms/2V60BBn?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/15/met-museum-says-its-returning-stolen-coffin-to-egy/

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NUMISMATICA

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Feature on late Roman coin obverses:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-late-roman-coin-obverse-types/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n06.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v22/club_nbs_esylum_v22n07.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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OBITUARIES

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Nancy B. Reich:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/obituaries/nancy-b-reich-dead.html

Jack Taylor:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/obituaries/jack-taylor-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Andrew Ranard:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/andrew-ranard-chronicler-of-the-history-of-burmese-painting-dies-at-69/2019/02/14/26e42250-306c-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html

Anne Firor Scott:

https://nyti.ms/2UVUW0w?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/anne-firor-scott-historian-who-illuminated-lives-of-southern-women-dies-at-97/2019/02/13/0043d522-2f37-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

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Audio News from Archaeologica:

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CONFERENCES

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Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-americas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

Current Archaeology Live (March 8-9, 2019):

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/live/ca-live-2018

Berkshire Archaeology Day (April 6, 2019)

The Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names (June 3, 2019)

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS

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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

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PODCASTS/VODCASTS

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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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