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https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/life/national/city-locates-eight-more-burials-at-oaklawn-cemetery-this-week-as-tulsa-race-massacre-mass/article_0cb1a4df-34ea-55bc-9999-bbaf0478d841.html
https://www.ksby.com/news/national/more-bodies-found-in-mass-grave-that-officials-say-was-created-during-tulsa-race-massacre
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gyeb/tulsa-massacre-researchers-just-found-more-coffins-at-a-mass-grave-site
https://www.newson6.com/story/60b8110a105a4b0be21750ea/archaeologists-discover-three-more-burials-in-mass-grave-at-oaklawn-cemetery
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/more-coffins-found-tulsa-race-massacre-victims-search-n1269611
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9737-210604-tulsa-race-massacre

... and an explanation of the tech being used:

https://kfor.com/news/tulsa-race-massacre/experts-break-down-the-science-behind-identifying-remains-thought-to-belong-to-tulsa-race-massacre-victims/

... and features on other such race massacres:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/31/it-was-much-more-than-tulsa/ https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002604442/remembering-red-summer-years-of-racial-violence-set-the-stage-for-tulsa-massacre

... a related podcast:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/blindspot

... and Tom Hanks on what you should know about it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html

Excavations have resumed at James Monroe's Highland:

https://www.cbs19news.com/story/44036593/excavations-resume-at-highland

... and Colonial Michilimackinac:

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/63rd-consecutive-season-of-archaeological-digs-kicks-off-at-colonial-michilimackinac
https://www.cheboygannews.com/story/news/2021/06/03/archaeological-work-colonial-michilimackinac-underway-63rd-season/7521770002/

Feature on abandoned Native American food caches on the Spoonville Peninsula (Michigan):

http://greatlakesecho.org/2021/06/02/abandoned-food-caches-offer-evidence-of-native-american-survival-strategies/

Interesting study of some obsidian found in the depths of Lake Huron almost a decade ago:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/at-the-bottom-of-lake-huron-an-ancient-mystery-materializes/

Interview with Clint Smith about his *How the Word is Passed*:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1003020324/in-how-the-word-is-passed-8-places-tell-the-story-of-slavery-in-the-u-s

... and with Carol Anderson about her *The Second*:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment

Feature on endangered historic places in the US:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002871559/here-s-the-latest-list-of-the-nation-s-most-endangered-historic-places
https://savingplaces.org/stories/11-most-endangered-historic-places-2021

Arguing over plans for the Alamo:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/san-antonios-new-battle-over-the-alamo

Fundraising for preservation of a Jamestown Island church tower:

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-jamestown-church-0519-20210601-hlgmi4s4rvb3bd4yx5zxmvepm4-story.html

... which might be later than previously thought:

https://www.pilotonline.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-jamestown-history-0602-20210601-hlgy7sf27rd5djt3psslkw5qm4-story.html

Plans for restoration work at the Miami Circle:

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/06/04/miami-circle-to-go-through-restroation/

Review of Burlingame, *An American Marriage*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/books/review/michael-burlingame-an-american-marriage-abraham-lincoln-mary-todd.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Possible 30 000 years bp evidence in a Mexican cave (we might have mentioned this):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-what-were-rabbits-and-deer-doing-in-a-cave-in-mexico-30-000-years-ago-1.9870917

A study of the 1400 years bp burial and associated objects of Tomb II from Michoacan (found in 2011):

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/05/1400-year-old-remains-of-elite-young.html

An 18th century burial ground for enslaved persons from a Caribbean plantation site:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-18th-century-graveyard-caribbean-plantation.html https://www.ksat.com/tech/2021/05/31/18th-century-graveyard-found-at-former-caribbean-plantation/
https://apnews.com/article/europe-caribbean-science-b74a3312d5e196ee3123bc1b50ea0e7c
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/18th-century-graveyard-found-at-former-caribbean-plantation/2021/05/31/0d97a3be-c262-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/18th-century-graveyard-found-at-former-caribbean-sugar-plantation/MJY3HN3UQZPWJ2Z6IQ3RKZ4JTA/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/18th-century-graveyard-found-at-former.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-18th-century-grave-enslaved-people-caribbean-island-180977870/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9732-210602-caribbean-slavery-sugar

Mexico shut down that building project near Teotihuacan:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-mexico-raids-teotihuacn-pyramids.html https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2021/05/31/mexico-raids-building-project-next-to-teotihuacan-pyramids/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/mexican-authorities-seize-illegal-development-in-teotihuacan
https://gizmodo.com/mexican-authorities-raid-construction-site-near-famous-1847007049

Feature on stone spheres from Costa Rica:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-mysterious-stone-spheres-of-costa-rica/139375

Assorted Ancient Americas talks coming up via zoom and youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/
http://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Sheffield 'higher ups' apparently ignored a funding offer:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/education/sheffield-university-chiefs-ignored-secret-donors-ps200000-offer-to-keep-doomed-archaeology-department-open-3257311

... while the NPS Archaeological Unit is being shut down:

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/nps-archaeological-unit-to-be-closed-down-8015792

... and archaeologists fear there is a 'nationwide attack' on the discipline going on:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/30/help-our-profession-or-uks-shared-history-will-be-lost-say-archaeologists
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/archaeology-faces-perfect-storm-shortages-closures-nationwide-attack-discipline-tony-robinson-1032079
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19338408.brexit-education-cuts-threaten-make-scottish-archaeology-history/

Feature on the impact of experimental archaeology on excavations:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/01/contributions-of-experimental-archaeology-to-excavation/

The National Library of Scotland purchased the original manuscript of the chronicle of Fortingall:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19349035.one-important-documents-scottish-history-bought-national-library/

On efforts to preserve the prison where Oscar Wilde was sent:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/world/europe/oscar-wilde-prison-jail.html

On Vikings' role in the medieval slave trade:

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/news-analysis/viking-britain-slave-trade-b1854503.html

Feature on a Berthe Morisot painting:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/04/arts/design/berthe-morisot-in-england.html

Feature on alcohol consumption over the ages:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/

Feature on a 19th century fabric scrapbook:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/alspaugh-fabric-scrapbook-clothing-history.html

Feature on Renaissance philosophy:

https://aeon.co/essays/there-was-no-such-thing-as-renaissance-philosophy

A 108 years bp message in a bottle from a construction site in Detroit:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40888/ford-finds-108-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-during-michigan-central-station-renovation
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/98-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-ford-construction http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61502 http://www.archaeology.org/news/9733-210603-detroit-beer-bottle

Feature on Gertrude Bell:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210531-searching-for-gertrude-bell-colonial-mother-of-modern-iraq
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/searching-for-miss-bell-archaeologist-who-drew-iraq-s-borders-1.1232705

A Noah's Ark replica/museum has been deemed unseaworthy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-57363750

Feature on research into Van Gogh's last days:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/design/van-gogh-painting-maine.html

Feature on Ingres's portrit of the Comtesse d'Haussonville:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/ingres-comtesse-d-haussonville/

Feature on medieval wall paintings in parish churches:

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/622/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/622/pub/622/page/177/article/180642

On the antiquity of beer and wine snobs:

https://www.winemag.com/2021/06/03/ancient-rome-history-ancient-greek-history-wine/

On how humanity has changed the food it eats:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210514-how-humanity-has-changed-the-food-it-eats

On the collectors of radioactive glassware:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/uranium-glass-radioactive-plates-cups

Feature on famous horses who served in battle:

https://cowgirlmagazine.com/famous-horses-who-served-in-battle/

Feature on assorted (real) sunken cities:

https://www.livescience.com/real-life-atlantis-settlements.html

Study suggests there's no evidence that the shift to farming made males and females more physically similar:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-evidence-shift-farming-males-females.html

Atlas Obscura has a 'decolonization project':

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/business/media/atlas-obscura-travel-media.html

On some recent translation of the Divine Comedy:

https://elpais.com/babelia/2021-06-05/leer-a-dante-traducido.html

Review of a biography of Kurt Godel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/books/review-journey-edge-of-reason-kurt-godel-biography-stephen-budiansky.html

More on that skull sculpted by Bernini:

https://aleteia.org/2021/05/30/skull-sculpted-by-bernini-and-owned-by-a-pope-discovered/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61477 ================================================================
CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
215 burials of students from a residential school site in Kamloops:

https://www.coastreporter.net/bc-news/burial-site-investigation-informed-by-bands-archaeological-policies-ceremonies-chief-3825544

... some backstory:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamloops-residential-school-survivor-abuse/

... followed by a suggestion that GPR be used at residential school sites in general in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ground-radar-technology-residential-school-remains-1.6049776
https://battlefordsnow.com/2021/06/01/archaeologist-believes-ground-penetrating-radar-can-show-true-reality-of-residential-schools/

A residential school site in Nova Scotia will be investigated:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-archaeologist-to-investigate-grounds-at-former-nova-scotia-residential/
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/provincial/saint-marys-archaeologists-to-start-work-at-shubenacadie-residential-school-this-weekend-100596206/

The Passamaquoddy people in Maine bought back and island taken from them 160 years bp:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/native-american-tribe-maine-buys-back-pine-island

A seminary built using Jim Crow labour has begun paying reparations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/us/reparations-virginia-theological-seminary.html

Feature on the 'disconnect' in how we talk about slavery:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1001243385/slavery-wasnt-long-ago-writer-exposes-the-disconnect-in-how-we-tell-history

Maryland has repealed a state song that referred to Lincoln as a tyrant:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/983057655/maryland-repeals-state-song-that-called-lincoln-a-tyrant

A possible mass grave of WWII massacre victims from Singapore is being investigated:

https://www.livescience.com/mass-grave-wwii-massacre-singapore-hospital.html

Latest 'actor' brouhaha is over a Black actress playing Anne Boleyn:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-was-first-woman-color-bring-anne-boleyns-story-screen-180977882/

Gender neutral pronouns go back further than most folks know:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/06/gender-neutral-pronouns-arent-new/619092/

The British Museum is taking suggestions on what to do with a toppled statue of a slave trader:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/04/bristol-edward-colston-statue-museum/

Germany has acknowledged genocide in Namibia:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/germany-acknowledges-genocide-namibia-stops-short-reparations-180977886/?

Washington and Lee University has voted to keep the Lee in their name:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/washington-lee-university-names.html

Questioning Johns Hopkins' involvement in slavery:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/washington-lee-university-names.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/05/john-hopkins-slavery-founder-inquiry/

cf: https://osf.io/zra5f/

On challenging Argentina's 'white European' image:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/argentina-white-european-racism-history
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Studying how the ancestors of modern horses migrated across the Bering Land Bridge:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/ufu-rfo060221.php

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Nero:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/podcast/mary-beard-on-the-infamous-roman-emperor-nero
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/06/nero-the-man-behind-the-myth-review-legend-and-truth
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nero-exhibition-british-museum-1961527

Torlonia Marbles:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/the-torlonia-marbles-on-display-roman-magnificence-top-scholarship/

Becket:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-thomas-beckets-beaus-turbulent-relics-v5wc0dmzv

Epic Iran:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/arts/design/iran-ayatollah.html

Keros antiquities:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/2021-06/04/c_139989422.htm

Slavery:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210601-how-the-dutch-are-facing-up-to-their-colonial-past
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/design/rijksmuseum-slavery-exhibition.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/02/slavery-the-new-exhibition-at-the-rijksmuseum/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/major-rijksmuseum-exhibition-confronts-brutal-history-enslavement-180977857/

Galloway Hoard:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/3202528/galloway-hoard-viking-age-treasure-to-go-on-display-at-aberdeen-art-gallery/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/christian-clergymen-may-have-buried-trove-trick-vikings-180977879/

Merovingian sarophagi:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61472

Mythologies:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3135194/surrealism-and-mythology-how-salvador-dali-pablo-picasso-and

Imagine Mozart:

https://www.dw.com/en/imagine-mozart-the-composer-in-art/g-57722795

The GEM's Grand Staircase is complete:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/archaeological-work-for-grand-egyptian-museums-great-staircase-complete/

... while the transfer of two of Khufu's boats are in works:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/gem-board-makes-plans-to-transfer-king-khufus-two-archaeological-boats/

Egypt's sunken antiquities that have been on tour for a few years are back in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Museum:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/104629/After-a-global-tour-Egypt-s-sunken-antiquities-return-to

Possible kiss marks have been detected at the Becket display at the British Museum:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-new-thomas-becket-exhibition-pilgrims-kiss-wfnthnxc8

Feature on the Volos Museum:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/06/01/volos-museum-displays-historical-treasures-from-hub-of-ancient-greek-civilization/

The Louvre has a pile of Greek antiquities:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/03/louvre-holds-stolen-treasures-200-greeks-died-trying-to-protect/

There's a new head at the Louvre:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/05/31/laurence-des-cars-is-the-new-head-of-the-louvre-museum/

... and a new director general at the Acropolis Museum:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/tourism-businesses/thematic-tourism/44740-cycladic-museum-director-elected-athens-acropolis-museum-s-first-director-general.html

A programme to digitize the museums of Cyprus:

https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/department-of-antiquities-announces-digitising-the-museums-of-cyprus-programme/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/02/digitising-the-museums-of-cyprus/

As might be expected, it was a bad year for museums:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002077626/a-new-report-shows-museums-had-a-bad-year-but-not-the-worst-possible

More on the underwater museum at Peristera:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/31/diving-into-greeces-heritage-experience-of-a-lifetime-at-ancient-wreck/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/03/the-alonissos-underwater-museum-opened-on-june-1/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Newton's notes for a second edition of his Principia are coming to auction:

https://www.dw.com/en/christies-to-sell-isaac-newtons-notes-for-greatest-work/a-57735280

Bonham's cancelled the auction of some Nepalese antiquities:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/bonhams-cancels-auction-of-nepali-antiquities/

More on those Bronte items coming to auction:

https://www.reviewgeek.com/85525/a-lost-bronte-family-library-is-up-for-grabs-in-a-sothebys-auction/

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Testing the DNA found in 9000 years bp auroch bones found in a woman's burial in Spain:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-dna-of-three-aurochs-found-next-to.html

DNA suggests the Basques are genetically unique in Europe:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/basque-genetic-singularity-confirmed-in-largest-ever-study/ar-BB1fcIgy

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) use to date sites in Tibet:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-oldest-human-southern-tibetan-plateau.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoi-oht053121.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210602153407.htm https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/oldest-human-traces-from-southern.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/03/oldest-human-traces-from-the-southern-tibetan-plateau-in-a-new-light/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/oldest-human-traces-from-the-southern-tibetan-plateau-in-a-new-light/139361

Feature on the use of Portable Xray Fluorescence analysis (pXRF):

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-non-invasive-procedure-archaeological-excavating.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/upf--anp052821.php https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250776 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-non-invasive-procedure-allows.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/01/a-non-invasive-procedure-for-obtaining-archaeological-information/

What applying AI to a Modigliani found:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/06/modigliani-lost-lover-beatrice-hastings

Using bacteria to clean Italian sculptures:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/arts/bacteria-cleaning-michelangelo-medici-restoration.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-team-art-restorers-using-bacteria-clean-michelangelos-sculptures-180977866/

I think we mentioned this use of mud cores to analyze human impacts:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57273664

Feature on digital archiving in archaeology:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue58/index.html ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Suggestion that an African 'climate seasaw' drove human evolution for the last 620 000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/mpif-nda052821.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210531153205.htm https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/01/newly-discovered-african-climate-seesaw-drove-human-evolution/
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Ancient cities in Iran:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/461517/Top-Iranian-cities-where-echoes-of-ancient-civilizations-still

Architectural wonders of Spain:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2021/05/four-of-spains-lesser-known-architectural-wonders

Sleeping giant of Naxos:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/30/the-mystery-of-the-sleeping-giant-in-naxos-greece-photos/

Azores tea plantation:

https://www.dw.com/en/azores-home-to-the-oldest-tea-plantation-in-europe/a-57596094

El Camino de Santiago:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Pilgrims-return-to-Spain-s-El-Camino-paths-16226764.php

Ravenna:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ravenna-italy-roman-powerhouse-artistic-hub-podcast/

Aegina:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/30/swimming-among-the-ruins-of-a-glorious-ancient-greek-military-harbor/

Versailles has a hotel now:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/le-grand-controle-chateau-de-versailles/index.html

More on efforts to save Venice from cruise ships:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/mick-jagger-and-tilda-swinton-join-calls-for-new-law-to-protect-venice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/05/angry-protests-in-venice-at-shock-return-of-cruise-ships
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-57373381

... but:

https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/1st-cruise-ship-sails-through-Venice-since-start-16221941.php
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Mystery Plays:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-57299429

Prometheus Bound:

https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/05/31/o-promitheas-desmotis-se-skinothesia-ari-mpiniari-gia-treis-parastaseis-stin-epidayro/

Feature on this year's Epidaurus Festival:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/201519/a-new-era-for-the-athens-and-epidaurus-festival/

Mozart festival in Wurzburg is celebrating its centennial:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-mozart-festival-in-w%C3%BCrzburg-celebrates-100-years-amid-pandemic/a-57720119

Feature on Andras Schiff and authentic instruments:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/music/piano-brahms-andras-schiff.html

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
Domina:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/domina-review-power-hungry-provocative-poisonous-11622748898

The Great Wall:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3135782/zhang-yimous-fantasy-movie-great-wall-matt-damon-great-fail

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CRIME BEAT
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Some 'visitors' to Sabratha (Libya) graffitied the walls:

https://en.libyan-cna.net/tourism-and-archaeology/walls-of-ancient-sabratha-defaced/

Spanish police busted an internet auction of some Roman items:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-06-04/el-deshonor-del-aguila-perdida-por-la-legion-romana-que-se-vendia-en-internet.html

Feature on theft of manuscripts from libraries:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget-art-and-gems-thieves-make-discreet-millions-at-the-library
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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 ================================================================
A descendent of Japan's Ryukyuan kingdom wants to recover some bones:

https://www.dw.com/en/japan-descendant-of-ryukyuan-royalty-demands-return-of-stolen-bones/a-57726230

Nepal is seeking some looted antiquities from France:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/nepal-wants-stolen-antiquities-returned-from-france/

A French heir has donated a Pissarro stolen by the Nazis to the University of Oklahoma:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/arts/design/pissarro-university-oklahoma-nazi.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/french-heiress-ends-fight-university-oklahoma-over-nazi-looted-art-n1269297

Germany restored a Nazi-looted Wopfner to heirs:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bavaria-restitutes-joseph-wopfner-painting-1234594427/

Feature on looted art from Kenya:

https://www.dw.com/en/looted-art-from-kenya-when-the-display-cases-remain-empty/a-57735942

Feature on the Benin Bronzes:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2021-06/benin-bronzes-long-journey-home

Feature/reviewish on women-led slave revolts:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1001430516/a-stunning-graphic-novel-uncovers-the-history-of-enslaved-women-who-fought-back

Review of Barnaby Phillips, *Loot*:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/loot-review-plunders-revenge-11622822870

More on those temple lintels returned to Thailand:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/1000-year-old-looted-temple-lintels.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on temples on ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/temples-on-ancient-coins/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n22.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n23.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Eilat Mazar:

https://aleteia.org/2021/06/01/archaeologist-known-for-heavy-use-of-bible-dies-at-64/

Josep Almudever:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/world/europe/josep-almudever-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3075-audio-news-from-archaeologica-may-23-through-may-29-2021
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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