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explorator 26.03 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? May 7, 2023
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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, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, 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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Tool study suggest there were three waves of Homo sapiens migrations into Europe:








A study of the Banyoles jawbone and its implications for sapiens-neanderthal relations:



Feature on Neanderthal culture and aesthetics:


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AFRICA
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Israel will be excavating a couple of 'genizas' in Morocco:



A study of 140 000 years of cultural continuity at a west African site:



More on the wall paintings in Old Dongola:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Greco-Roman pottery from the tell el-Maskhuta site in Ismailia:




Byzantine and Late Period finds from the Meir necropolis in Assiut:



More on the find of the 3200 years bp tomb of Panehsy:



More on the mummy-based study suggesting many children in Egypt were anemic:



More on the Philae Temple Graffiti Project:



Feature on Lord Carnarvon:



Feature on Howard Carter:



Pondering whether a fungal infection might explain Tutankhamun's 'curse':




Finds from various periods from a site near the Great Wall of Gorgan in northern Iran:



Inscriptions in Armenia are helping to trace the history of the Iranian lion symbol:



A Safavid-era public bathhouse in Iran's West Azarbaijan province is undergoing restoration:



Archaeologists continue to look for remains of a Laodicea Temple in Nahavand:



An AI model to translate Akkadian written in cuneiform:





Feature on coronation rituals in ancient Persia:



Overview of the progress of the dig at the 4500 years bp site of Mobolla (Turkiye):



Some ancient coins were revealed as Lake Iznik (Turkiye) recedes:




Overview of archaeology in Turkiye for the month of April:



More on the excavation of the 1500 years bp St Polyeuktos church in Istanbul:






I think we've mentioned the concerns for the El-Unuk site amid Palestinian road construction:




Brown University is digitizing 10 000 ancient inscriptions from Israel:



Feature on the Lachish letters:



Studying 4000 years bp human remains to see biological effects of climate change in Bronze Age Arabia:




A followup piece on the cattle cult associated with the mustatils found in Saudi Arabia a while back:



More on the 'trilith' structures (and other items) found recently in Oman:




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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a possibly 'significant' Roman villa complex at a housing development site in Southwick Court Fields:



Highway construction on Crete revealed a Roman-era 'pipeline' (aqueduct):



Roman and Egyptian figurines from a survey in Poland (!):



Latest finds (many structures) from near the Valley of the Temples (Italian):



I think we've mentioned this hoard of 175 silver denarii (and more) dating to the Republic from Livorno:






Excavations of a drain at an 1800 years bp Roman bathhouse in Carlisle have revealed plenty of intaglios:






Some recent finds from Pompeii, including that fancy four-wheeled 'chariot' restored, have gone on display:







The British Museum have started a project relating to the Vindolanda Tablets:



Study suggests there may have been kosher-observant Jews in the Roman army 2000 years bp:



Plans to restore the Asclepieion of Trikala:



More on the Buddha statue found at Berenike (in case you missed it):









More on the 'new' Roman military camps in the Jordanian desert spotted via Google Earth:









More on the Roman-era necropolis found near the Port Royal train station in Paris:



More on muography revealing a 2500 years bp necropolis in Naples:






More on the reconstructed gateway at Richborough Roman Fort:





More on the 1st century burial of a physician and their instruments in Hungary:






More on the Roman mosaic recently revealed in Buckinghamshire:



More on the sculptures associated with the Tartessos civilization in Spain:




More on the terracottas and other recent finds from Paestum:



More on the 1700 years bp coin hoard found by a metal detectorist in Romania:






A Roman phallus ring is going on display:



Three sections of a Roman wall in London have been given protected status:








Review of Josiah Osgood, *Uncommon Wrath*:



Review of Shadi Bartsch, *Plato Goes to China*:



David Pritchard on the people of the Piraeus:




Hyping Yaron Z. Eliav, *A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse*:



Feature/Review on Honor Cargill-Martin's work on Messalina:




Feature on possible evidence of 'chemical warfare' at Dura Europos:



Feature on Roman maritime law:



Feature on Hypatia:




Feature on ancient Greek technology things:



Feature on Roman glass:



Feature on Alexander's plans to conquer Arabia:



Feature on the Library of Alexandria:



Feature on the Oracle of Delphi:



Feature on ancient Greek swimming:



Feature on the funding of the building of the Colosseum:



Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is in talks to return a pair of Parthenon sculptures in its possession:















... and some opeds raising hopes King Charles might be helpful regarding their return:







Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 15 000 years bp stone with an image of a mammoth and a horse from Brno:



A 6000 years bp settlement site on Corsica:





A 5000 years bp megalithic monument from Andalusia:





A 3700 years bp stone dagger found by an 8-year-old in Norway:




An 'investigation' is underway of a hillfort at Dumyat:




An Iron Age vessel hoard from Monmouthshire has been declared treasure:



Archaeologists are releasing footage of the 14th century Storfjord wreck (Norway):



A large medieval tableman/gaming-piece from a site in Bedfordshire:



A medieval Arabic inscription found at a housing site in southern Malta:



Overview of a community excavation of a medieval site in Yorkshire:



Some 14th century silver coins found by a metal detectorist near Manchester:



Overview of the dig at the 15th century Thurster Tower site:



16th century medical waste, including 'urine flasks' from a dig at Caesar's Forum:









Analysis of 17th century human remains from the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan reveal the presence of opiates:



More on 2300 years bp scissors found in a Munich burial:



More on the 1000 years bp VIking hacksilver and coins found by a young (maybe) metal detectorist in Denmark:




More on the 1000 years bp iron ingots found in a basement in Norway:




More on evidence of a woman among the crew of the Vasa:



More on a drone find of the possible site of the Battle of Marston Moor:





More on the VIking ship found at Karmoy Mound:



More on Vikings in Greenland importning North American timber:



More on the study of the Stone of Destiny:





Some restored medieval stained glass has been returned to Malvern Priory:




Feature on the use of Egyptian mummies in Victorian-era medicine:



A coin acquired by the Centre Charlemagne in Aachen refers to his third wife Fastrada:



In case you're in the market for the Earlshall Castle in Fife:


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Archaeology in Europe News:



Medievalists.net:



Viking Archaeology Blog:



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 1500 years bp petroglyph and several 1800-2000 years bp 'waterbodies' from a national park in Madhya Pradesh:




Assorted political historians have agreed on the site of Dara Shikoh's grave:



More on the study suggesting drought contributed to the end of Indus Civilization:



Latest 'missing artifact' case associated with Nancy Wiener:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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A study (including isotope analysis) of the skeletal remains of eight Indigenous people from near 19th century Normanton:




A project to map 'hidden' Northern Territory landscape altered by rising water 8000 years bp:





cf:

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NORTH AMERICA
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A 9-year-old found a mammoth tooth in Oregon:



A mystery 'stone doorway' found during a dig in Carbonear (Newfoundland):



The burial of one of the first colonists was found in Maryland:



Looking for the site of an Algonquian village on Roanoke Island:



Civil War soldier burials from Colonial Williamsburg:



A gag order on archaeologists working on the Swan Tavern site in Charlottesville:



A submerged 19th century cemetery and quarantine/hospital site in Dry Tortugas National Park near the Florida Keys:












That recently-revealed shipwreck off Florida is larger than expected:





Feature on the Dixon Bridge collapse in 1873:



Hype for Ned Blackhwak, *The Rediscovery of America*:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 17th/18th century Janambre culture burial from Mexico:



Peruvian gas workers came across a 600 years bp tomb with mummified people, textiles, and ceramics:



Looking for a hidden cenote beneath a convent in Izamal:



More on the find of a sculpture of K'awiil on the Maya Train route:





More on Maya lime plaster:



Feature on the peopling of St Thomas:



Latest Aztlander newsletter (pdf):


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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:



Ancient MesoAmerica News:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on witches in Germany:



Czech archaeologists were testing a Neolithic boat recreation for a larger project next month:




A possible identification of the stone bridge behind the Mona Lisa:






Feature on the British Royal Family's German roots:



Feature on some French aristocrats who survived the Reign of Terror and influenced art:



Feature on fake antiquities in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library:



A study of a man who was 'painted out' of a Vermeer:



A hunt for Nazi loot in a Dutch village came up empty:




Feature on the horns of Moses:



Feature on the Kama Sutra:



Feature on the Cultural Emergency Response people:



Feature on the 'Pearlies':



Haven't had a 'who was Jack the Ripper' feature for a while:



Review of Kay Hessel, *The Story of Art Without Men*:



Review of S.C. Gwynne, *His Majesty's Airship*:



Hyping Kelly Grovier's *The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments*:



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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on May Day:



Feature on 'coronation cuisine':



Feature on 'issues' that have affected previous coronations:



Feature on the Stone of Destiny beyond coronations:



Review of six books on British monarchs and coronations:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on the Cynics and self satisfaction:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Black Classicists in Texas:



Luxury and Power:










Sarah Bernhardt:



Shakespeare's First Folio:



The Moment and Eternity: Between Us and the Ancients:





The Barnes Foundation building is now an art museum:



Feature on the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Egypt is investigating a mummified head and hand in an auction gallery in the UK:




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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Plenty of coverage of the recovery of a woman's DNA from a 20 000 years bp pendant:















cf:


More on the DNA study of some Pictish remains:




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THE TECHY SIDE
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I think we had this facial reconstruction of Alexander ?a while ago:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome:




KIngston upon Thames:



Tochni (Cyprus):


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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An unfinished Rameau opera is finally being staged:


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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Assorted coverage of the brouhaha about the upcoming Netflix docuseries about Cleopatra:






... but Egypt seems especially angry:





... and Zahi Hawass called on Egypt to make its own movie:



... and Egypt is now planning its own documentary:





... related oped:



... and a feature on what Cleopatra 'actually looked like':




... and a review of the series by a Classicist who has actually seen it:



The Laureate:


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CRIME BEAT
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This year's Operation Pandora has recovered 11 000+ stolen artifacts:







Followup to the attempted sale of an Eid Mar aureus a while ago:



More on illegal metal detecting at Colchester's archaeological park:





More on the pair convicted of trying to illegally sell some Alfred the Great coins:





Seizures of looted art is affecting the market:


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conflict antiquities:



anonymous swiss collector:



Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:



Looting Matters:



Illicit Cultural Property:



SAFE:



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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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Cyprus is expecting returns from assorted European nations:



... and the US returned some this week:







Italy returned a looted stela to Turkiye:




The US is returning items to Yemen:



The Pope has expressed willingness to return items to various Indigenous peoples:



Some manuscripts looted during WWI and found in Manhattan will be returned to a Greek monastery:



Criticism for the University of California's slow return of Native American artifacts:



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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:



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


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Coin Week:



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OBITUARIES
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Dame Rosemary Cramp:





Robert G. Ousterhout:



David Fontijn:



Thomas Robinson:




Judith Miller:



Wolfgang Schivelbusch:



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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:


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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:



About.com Archaeology:



Archaeology Briefs:



Atlas Obscura:



Heritage Daily:



Sapiens Archaeology:



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:


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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:



Archaeology Podcast Network:


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