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There's a new 'translation' of Beowulf:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906423831/bro-this-is-not-the-beowulf-you-think-you-know

Feature on Felix Feneon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/design/moma-reopens-felix-feneon.html

Pondering the oldest city in the world:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/which-ancient-city-is-considered-the-oldest-in-the-world

Marking Hegel's 250th birthday:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/27/germany-finds-it-hard-to-love-hegel-250-years-after-his-birth

A history of thong sandals:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2020/08/25/articulo/1598350626_374769.html

More on Pius XII and the Holocaust:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/unsealed-vatican-documents-detail-pope-pius-xii-holocaust-complacency-640347

Review of Michael Gorra, *The Saddest Words*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/books/review/the-saddest-words-michael-gorra.html

Feature on the evolution of ancient empires 'side by side':

https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/first-civilisations-dates-timeline-ancient-empires-when-founded-egypt-greece-tutankhamun-persia-rome-carthage-vesuvius-pyramids/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Carian Princess:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/carian-princess-tomb-gold-jewelry-in-her-new-hall-157696
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/visitors-flock-to-see-carian-princess-tomb-golden-artifacts-at-newly-renovated-bodrum-castle

Buckingham Palace art:

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/25/best-buckingham-palaces-art-going-display-first-time-13175700/

Kings of the Sun:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91387/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Min-of-Tourism-Antiquities-inaugurates-National-Museum-Kings-of

Cycladic Art:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/256050/article/ekathimerini/whats-on/cycladic-art--athens--year-round

The British Museum reopened:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-the-british-museum-is-coming-back-from-the-dead-gbq7fd5kp
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/the-british-museum-is-reopening-this-week-and-its-really-eerie-082520
https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/British-Museum-Reopens-After-163-Days-of-Closure-20200827

... and relocated a bust of founder Hans Sloane:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/24/british-museum-removes-bust-slave-owner-founder-sir-hans-sloane/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/aug/25/british-museum-removes-founder-hans-sloane-statue-over-slavery-links
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-moved-founder-bust-1904050 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sir-hans-sloane-bust-displayed-181751029.html https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-slave-owner-bust-moved-british-museum https://hyperallergic.com/584711/british-museum-sir-hans-sloane-bust/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-museum-moves-bust-founder-who-profited-enslavement-180975680/

... and spawned opeds on same:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-hans-sloane https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/comment/pushing-hans-sloane-off-his-pedestal-does-nothing-to-right-the-wrongs-of-history-39486420.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/30/it-is-not-hans-sloane-who-has-been-erased-from-history-but-his-slaves
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/amateur-archaeologists-terrible-snobs-helped-found-britains/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/333/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/333/pub/333/page/78/article/75942

... and the BM also altered other exhibits to clarify links to slavery and colonialism:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/design/british-museum-reopening.html

... and its director claims the 'loot' in the BM was paid for:

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/334/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/334/pub/334/page/45/article/76487

... still, there was a 'creative protest' for the return of the Parthenon Marbles:

https://eu.greekreporter.com/2020/08/28/creative-protest-for-the-return-of-the-parthenon-marbles-held-at-the-british-museum/

The Metropolitan reopened and began its 150th anniversary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/design/met-museum-reopens-anniversary.html

The Cleveland MoA has fixed up its British gallery:

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/08/cleveland-museum-of-art-refreshes-british-gallery-with-splash-of-color-new-purchases-references-to-sins-of-empire.html

A couple more royal statues arrived at the GEM:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91289/Two-royal-statues-placed-in-GEM%E2%80%99s-Great-Staircase

... and the GEM will be marketing/manufacturing things, apparently:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91390/Egypt%E2%80%99s-GEM-the-1st-Egyptian-museum-to-produce-market-its

Flooding damaged some artifacts at the Southend museum:

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/18683302.artefacts-damaged-southends-museum-storage-flooded/

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A lock of Lincoln's hair:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-lincoln-hair-bloodied-telegram-auction.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Reconstructing the technology used to carve mammoth ivory some 20 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-mammoth-ivory-technology-reconstructed.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/sfu-ami082420.php http://www.archaeology.org/news/8980-200826-siberia-tool-use

Revised tree ring data is confirming some Mediterranean dates:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/revised-tree-ring-data-confirms-ancient-mediterranean-dates

What we might be able to learn from residues in ceramic cooking pots:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/august/ceramic-cooking-pots-ancient-food.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/sr-acc082520.php https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ceramic-cooking-pots-history-ancient.html

Some very high res satellite images of sites in Syria are now possible:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285908

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8986-200828-experiment-cooking-pots

Photorealistic recreations of ancient celebs seems to be a thing now:

http://despardes.com/historical-figures-lady-liberty-then-now/

... and in case you missed the Roman emperors:

https://news.yahoo.com/photorealistic-portraits-roman-emperors-blast-200033947.html
https://mymodernmet.com/daniel-voshart-roman-emperors/

More on the digital restoration of Palmyra's Temple of Bel:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/destroyed-temple-of-bel-in-syrias.html

More on the establishment of a strontium isotope map for Israel:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/first-comprehensive-strontium-isotope.html
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A study of 'abrupt climate change' events and their effects around the world:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uoc-phc082620.php

More on connections between a megadrought in Asia and the drying of the Sahara:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/research-links-southeast-asia.html
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Chateau de Breze:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200827-a-secret-world-under-a-french-castle ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Everywoman:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/theater/jedermann-everywoman-salzburg.html

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Frans Hal's 'Two Laughing Boys' was stolen ... again:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53934954 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/design/frans-hals-painting-stolen-again.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/27/treble-dutch-old-master-painting-laughing-boys-stolen-for-a-third-time
https://www.dw.com/en/frans-hals-painting-stolen-for-third-time-from-dutch-museum/a-54722408
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/old-master-painting-stolen-netherlands-third-time-180975682/

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collection Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2020/08/culture-crime-news-10-23-august-2020.html

That guy who punched a hole in a Picasso at the Tate Modern was sentenced:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8663027/Art-vandal-punched-hole-Pablo-Picassos-20m-Bust-Woman-jailed-18-months.html

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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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Questioning the 'deal' Hobby Lobby is trying to forge with Iraq:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-iraq-getting-screwed-in-a-looted-treasures-deal-with-the-hobby-lobby

An illegally-exported Cypriot vase is being repatriated from London:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/08/25/stolen-ancient-vase-on-its-way-back-home/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on collecting ancient 'fourees':

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/collectible-or-not-a-study-of-ancient-coin-fourees/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n34.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n35.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Douglas Latchford:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/douglas-aj-latchford-khmer-antiquities-expert-dies-at-88.html

Alfredo Breitfeld:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/obituaries/alfredo-breitfeld-dead-coronavirus.html

Paolo Ferri:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/08/26/paolo-ferri-italian-antiquities-hunter-known-sherlock-holmes/

Deirdre Le Faye:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/deirdre-le-faye-obituary-9n98wp8kl

Eusebio Leal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-53917885

Elaine Howard:

https://mtstandard.com/news/local/obituaries/elaine-howard-73/article_76f73ad0-4738-5aa3-9009-6b928585aa35.html

Nicholas Sturgeon:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/philosopher-nicholas-sturgeon-dies-age-77
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2987-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-16-through-august-22-2020
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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/

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

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