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Feature on alchemist Nicolas Flamel:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09ykqlg/the-alchemist-believed-to-have-found-the-key-to-immortality

... and also one on John Dee and his son:

https://theconversation.com/deciphering-the-philosophers-stone-how-we-cracked-a-400-year-old-alchemical-cipher-167900

Feature on Edgar James Banks:

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/11/feature-vita-edgar-james-banks

Feature on five historic codes that haven't been 'cracked':

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78011/5-historic-codes-yet-be-cracked

Feature on 11 'lost' cities:

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/11-lost-cities-of-the-ancient-world-that-were-rediscovered-you-probably-didnt-know-551354.html

Feature on all the unexploded ordinance that keeps turning up in Britain:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgx55/world-war-2-bombs-manipur-india-britain-japan

Feature on the 'toxic fungus' which may have affected the Salem Witch trials:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/this-hallucinogenic-fungus-might-be-behind-the-salem-witch-trials

Feature on Charles Dickens' antisemitism (and other things):

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/sally-rooneys-israel-boycott-and-charles-dickens-antisemitism-681959

Interesting censorship of Michelangelo's David in Dubai:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045551509/art-or-censorship-expo-shows-just-top-of-famed-david-statue

... and a feature on David:

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/michelangelo-david-medici/

Suggestion that Columbus' fear of Islam affected his view of Native Americans:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-10-11/columbus-islam-european-views-crusades-indigenous-americans

... and how he used science and superstition to his benefit in Jamaica:

https://elpais.com/ciencia/el-hacha-de-piedra/2021-10-14/la-hispanidad-y-la-mercancia.html

On attempts to recreate the type of mead known as Bochet:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-make-medieval-mead-bochet

Feature on the origins of Halloween:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-halloween-sprang-from-an-ancient-pagan-festival

Feature on the racism behind 'aliens built the pyramids' and other such theories:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-aliens-build-the-pyramids-and-other-racist-theories

Feature on tattooing:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tattoo-historians-and-archives

Feature on reliquaries:

https://daily.jstor.org/whats-in-the-box-the-art-of-reliquaries/

Pondering the world's 'greatest' paintings:

https://www.bbcselect.com/the-worlds-greatest-paintings/

Feature on the Orient Express:

https://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2021/10/07/actualidad/1633618029_798566.html

Oxford is offering courses on a dozen 'rare' Jewish languages:

https://www.jta.org/2021/10/12/culture/from-judeo-greek-to-karaim-oxford-courses-on-12-rare-jewish-languages-aim-to-keep-heritages-alive

Feature on India's 'hidden languages':

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211014-the-man-who-found-indias-hidden-languages

Review of Andrew Blaunder, *Now Comes Good Sailing*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/books/review/now-comes-good-sailing-andrew-blauner.html

Review of Matthew Sturgis, *Oscar Wilde*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/books/review/oscar-wilde-matthew-sturgis.html

More on a Milanese monk's mention of North America 150 years before Columbus:

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-italian-sailors-knew-america-years.html https://www.zmescience.com/science/history-science/a-milanese-friar-mentions-north-america-in-1345-text-150-years-before-columbus/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
============================================================ Criticizing/rethinking Columbus Day:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/columbus-day-not-holiday-u-s-italian-americans-should-celebrate-ncna1281074

Mexico City has replaced a statue of Columbus with a statue of an Indigenous woman:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/12/1045357312/indigenous-woman-sculpture-mexico-city
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/world/americas/mexico-columbus-statue-indigenous.html

A plaque put up near the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford isn't going over well:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78011/5-historic-codes-yet-be-cracked

Hype for a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune at Statuary Hall:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045964525/mary-mcleod-bethune-statue-us-capitol-florida-unveiling

The Taliban apparently want to protect the Bamiyan Buddhas:

https://asianlite.com/2021/top-news/once-destroyers-taliban-now-want-to-protect-bamiyan-buddhas/

Latest 'blackface' scandal revolves around a production of Othello:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/arts/music/othello-blackface-bright-sheng.html

... and an OpEd:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/blackface-michigan-sheng.html

Pondering what Europeans actually discovered:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/european-discoveries/ ============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
A study of raising turkeys in the American Southwest:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-delves-role-turkeys-ancestral-pueblo.html

cf: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10816-021-09531-9

Possible evidence of the presence of dogs in Costa Rica, some 12 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-fossil-humans-dogs-america-bc.html https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211012-researchers-say-fossil-shows-humans-dogs-lived-in-c-america-in-10-000-bc
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-fossil-jaw-might-show-humans-and-dogs-lived-in-central-america-12-000-years-ago
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10080-211013-costa-rica-dog

More on humans raising cassowaries:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/prehistoric-people-were-farming-the-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-as-early-as-18000-years-ago/141693
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Secrets of Gold:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/108670/Egypt-inaugurates-temporary-archaeological-exhibition-at-Luxor-Museum-titled-%E2%80%98

Faberge in London:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/11/a-faberge-egg-lost-for-decades-to-be-exhibited/

Unearthing My Past:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/10/13/unearthing-my-past-looks-at-identity-and-diversity/

Colonizing the Past:

https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/exhibitions/14490

Black Newstead:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58929076

Poussin and the Dance:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/14/poussin-and-the-dance/

Tut's second shrine has been transferred to the GEM:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/426709/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Grand-Egyptian-Museum-receives-Tutankhamun;s-nd-sh.aspx

The recently-found Ryedale Hoard bronzes have been acquired by a Yorkshire museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58898075 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/north-yorkshire-yorkshire-mars-york-london-b960246.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62458

There's a new Spanish Gallery in Edinburgh:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/14/northern-towns-spanish-takeover

Pondering the long-term effects of Covid on UK museums:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/arts/design/british-museums-recovery.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A pair of carved stone sphinxes from an English garden turned out to be ancient artifacts and fetched a nice price at auction:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-58883391 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-statues-intl-scli-scn/index.html http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/751/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/751/pub/751/page/46/article/227993

Big bucks for a 16th century maiolica dish:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62445

A Tiepolo drawing found in an attic at Weston Hall will be auctioned:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58873868

A recently-restored Joshua Reynolds painting is coming to auction:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58916967

Much anticipation for a Van Gogh waterlcolour coming to auction:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58888862 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/van-gogh-artwork-looted-by-nazis-to-be-auctioned-in-new-york

Results from that auction of Al Capone-related memorabilia:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58888862

More on the auction of a Shoeless Joe Jackson signed baseball photo:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/us/shoeless-joe-jackson-photo-auction/index.html ============================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
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More on the evolution of HepB

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211007145816.htm https://english.radio.cz/czech-archaeologists-help-scientists-discover-hepatitis-b-affected-humans-pre-8731352
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THE TECHY SIDE
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An analysis of assorted changes in gold production in the Caucasus in three or so millennia BCE:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98514-7

Studying Late Pleistocene tooth enamel to figure out human rainforest adaptation in Southeast Asia:

https://www.mpg.de/17690538/1014-evan-early-modern-human-from-southeast-asia-150495-x
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-early-modern-human-southeast-asia.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014141955.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/10085-211015-laos-isotopes-teeth

Feature on the coming 'era of technology' for archaeology:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/why-archaeology-will-be-the-next-harbour-for-technology/141637
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A climate study linking changes in the Antarctic to Maori fires (i think we mentioned the study) is causing controversy:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/14/climate-study-linking-early-maori-fires-to-antarctic-changes-sparks-controversy
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Germany's 'best' towns:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/oct/14/beautiful-buildings-wherever-you-look-germanys-best-towns-and-villages-by-readers

Offa's Dyke:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/oct/14/offas-dyke-path-at-50

More sites are being added to Western Wall Tunnels tours:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/tours-of-western-wall-tunnels-show-new-underground-area-in-jerusalem.html

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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Thomas Mann's piano was played again after a long journey:

https://www.dw.com/en/igor-levit-plays-in-memory-of-thomas-mann/a-59516862

Clara Schumann:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/arts/music/schumann-brahms-philharmonic.html

Feature on Wilhelm Furtwangler:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/arts/music/wilhelm-furtwangler-classical-music.html
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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Looking at the historicity of 'The Last Duel':

https://slate.com/culture/2021/10/last-duel-movie-historical-accuracy.html https://time.com/6106868/the-last-duel-true-story/ https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1045633461/the-last-duel-movie-review ============================================================
CRIME BEAT
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Looted items dating back to the 4th century BCE found hidden in a laundry in Foggia (Italian):

https://www.quotidianodipuglia.it/foggia/foggia_droga_reperti_archeologici_lavanderia_san_severo_bari-6250665.html
https://www.lagazzettadisansevero.it/san-severo-in-una-lavanderia-sequestrata-marijuana-e-reperti-archeologici-del-iv-secolo-a-c/

A bust of a team of tombaroli at the archaeological site of Kamarina (Italian):

https://www.lasiciliaweb.it/2021/10/sorpresi-i-tombaroli-catanesi/ https://www.ilsicilia.it/scavi-archeologici-abusivi-banda-di-tombaroli-scoperta-a-ragusa-4-denunce/

A man was arrested for 'damaging' Stonehenge while metal detecting:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-58903052 https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/stonehenge-reportedly-damaged-metal-detector-6056228
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/19645740.man-arrested-yorkshire-heritage-crimes-stonehenge/
https://www.newsweek.com/man-arrested-treasure-hunting-stonehenge-metal-detector-wiltshire-police-1638965
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10091863/Metal-detectorist-30-arrested-digging-treasure-Stonehenge-possessing-explosives.html

Another Monson Mavunkal fake confirmed/identified:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/copper-plate-manuscript-on-sabarimala-fake-chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayan/article36938574.ece

The Denver Art Museum still has six items connected to Douglas Latchford:

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/16/denver-art-museum-pandora-papers-douglas-latchford-cambodian-art/

Mehrdad Sadigh admits he was mass producing fakes for years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/arts/design/fake-antiquities-mehrdad-sadigh.html

Assorted art trade groups are banding together to prevent looted Afghan artifacts from reaching the Western market:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/11/major-trade-groups-stop-looted-afghan-art-western-market

Interpol marked International Archaeology Day by listing a pile of looted art and antiquities:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/16/looted-art-antiquities-interpol-international-archaeology-day/

More on that BYU professor and grad student identifying Mayan forgeries:

https://universe.byu.edu/2021/10/15/byu-professor-and-grad-student-identify-mayan-forgeries/
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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 Neolithic petroglyph of a doe that disappeared years ago has been located in a museum in France:

https://bcfocus.com/the-painting-of-a-neolithic-doe-looted-in-albacete-found-in-a-french-museum/
https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-10-14/hallada-en-un-museo-frances-la-pintura-de-una-cierva-del-neolitico-expoliada-en-albacete.html

Winchester College has recovered a stolen vase after 60 years:

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/19642787.winchester-college-recovers-stolen-vase-60-years/

Cambridge is returning its bronze cockerel to Nigeria:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58927240

A verdict on that Scythian gold in a Dutch museum is being postponed:

https://tass.com/society/1347961

The British Museum is being encouraged to return some sacred items taken from Ethiopia 150 years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/11/uk-urged-return-religious-treasures-hidden-away-150-years-ethiopia

The Sami people have asked the Queen of Denmark to help get a sacred drum back:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/sami-people-norway-ask-danish-queen-to-return-sacred-witchcraft-trial-drum

Germany has agreed to return some 1000 (!) Benin bronzes:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-intends-to-return-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/a-59516998

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n41.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n42.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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T. James Luce:

https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/we-report-great-sadness-death-professor-t-james-luce-may-29
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-t-james-luce https://www.themontynews.org/single-post/torry-james-luce-jr-88

Albert J. Raboteau:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/books/albert-j-raboteau-dead.html

Thanasis Kalpaxis:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/13/farewell-to-thanasis-kalpaxis/

Evi Touloupa:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/13/evi-touloupa-has-passed-away/

Diana Walton:

https://nugget.remembering.ca/obituary/diana-walton-1083449041 ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3107-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-3-through-october-9-2021
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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
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Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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