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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311199-geese-may-have-been-the-first-birds-to-be-domesticated-7000-years-ago/
https://www.zmescience.com/?p=212655 http://www.archaeology.org/news/10404-220309-china-domesticated-geese

More on the breeding of kungas:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/before-horses-hybrid-donkeys-were-once-used-for-battle

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii in Color:

https://untappedcities.com/2022/03/08/nyus-pompeii-in-color-exhibit/

Stations of the Cross:

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2022/03/scottish-catholic-museum-reopens-highlighting-engravings-of-stations-of-the-cross

Queer:

https://theconversation.com/this-show-exceeds-the-hype-ngvs-queer-advances-a-beautiful-and-challenging-reading-of-the-queer-gaze-in-art-176005

Kubla Khan:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/11/samuel-taylor-coleridge-kubla-khan-poem-manuscript-somerset

Surrealism:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220309-seven-artworks-exploding-the-myth-of-a-movement

Stonehenge:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-the-mysteries-of-stonehenge-at-the-british-museum-180979690/

Feminine Power:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hindu-london-british-army-metropolitan-museum-of-art-american-b2030988.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-museum-london-british-army-american-india-b986729.html

Queen Victoria's silk paintings:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63532 https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/904/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/904/pub/904/page/26/article/279655

Grimani Collection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/arts/venice-grimani-collection-sculpture.html

Feature/interview on Melbourne's Hellenic Museum:

https://greekherald.com.au/community/1-people-community/interviews/hellenic-museum-about-hellenism-not-just-about-greece-interview-with-sarah-craig/

Feature on Rome's Museo della Cucina

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220307-romes-new-museum-dedicated-to-cooking
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/garum-food-museum

A number of UK museums refuse to take part in a UK-Saudi culture agreement:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/10/uk-museums-shun-saudi-deal https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220310-prominent-uk-museums-refuse-to-participate-in-saudi-cultural-agreement/

The Hermitage is demanding the early return of some paintings on loan to Italy:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-museums-return-loaned-works-russian-galleries-2022-03-10/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/20220311/ddefa0789ef24fd39ba0d18a468f7316/c.html
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-09/card/russia-tells-italy-to-return-loaned-works-of-art-1o1AYUtNTzd4jbkayecD
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hermitage-loans-2083407

... and one from London's National Gallery:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hermitage-pulls-raphael-loan-national-gallery-1234621700/

Houston's MFA has acquired a long unseen Diego Rivera work:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mfa-houston-acquires-diego-rivera-christies-1234621739/

The Israel Museum has acquired a 255 scroll of Esther:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-700664

Feature on the Poe Museum:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/03/11/poe-museum-richmond-virginia/

cf: https://poemuseum.org/

Interview with Neil MacGregor on the purpose of museums:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/museums-can-help-us-interview-neil-macgregor-dg3xljj0w

More on Iraq's National Museum reopening after three years:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220307-iraq-s-national-museum-reopens-after-three-year-closure
https://thearabweekly.com/iraqs-national-museum-reopens-after-three-year-closure
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/11/iraq-museum-baghdad-reopens ============================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Results of a sale of a 14th century gold coin found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk a couple years ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-60665067 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-treasure-hunter-unearths-rare-14th-century-gold-coin-180979703/

Mexico succeeded in having a pre-Hispanic artifact removed from a Vienna auction:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-mexico-pre-hispanic-artifact-vienna-sale.html ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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What a midden from Georgia reveals about how Native Americans adapted to climate change:

https://www.inverse.com/science/mollusk-shells-reveal-striking-details-about-ancient-climate-change
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jordan:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2022/03/explore-the-historical-wonders-of-jordan

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed:

https://dailygazette.com/2022/03/12/film-continues-debate-over-benedict-arnolds-legacy/
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CRIME BEAT
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A bust at a home in Jerusalem led to the seizure of a pile of 1500 years bp 'incantation bowls' among other items:

https://www.livescience.com/israel-police-seize-looted-artifacts https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-700549 https://www.timesofisrael.com/magic-bowls-among-trove-of-ancient-artifacts-seized-in-raid-on-jerusalem-home/
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bjj00hbxb9 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323427 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60571616 https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/03/07/1500-year-old-magic-bowls-found-in-jerusalem/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220307/ebe8737ab3114cf59700f6a7e8e74703/c.html
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/swearing-bowls-among-ancient-artifacts-found-in-raid-on-suspected-illegal-trader/
https://www.newsweek.com/1500-year-old-bowls-magic-spells-curses-seized-raid-jerusalem-israel-antiquities-authority-1685590
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/magic-bowls-among-trove-of-ancient-artefacts-seized-in-raid/143005
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1500-year-old-magic-bowls-seized-in-jerusalem-raid-180979705/

Another major international bust -- dubbed Operation Pandora VI -- recovered close to 10 000 illicit antiquities in 28 countries:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/thousands-of-priceless-artefacts-seized-in-police-operation-across-28-countries
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/52-arrests-in-operation-across-28-countries-targeting-trafficking-in-cultural-goods
https://norwaytoday.info/news/dozens-of-people-arrested-in-operation-aimed-at-smugglers-of-cultural-objects-norway-participated-in-the-effort/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/interpol-seizes-looted-art-2083378

Not sure where to put this one on Demi Lovato's 'unboxing' of some questionable antiquities on Instagram:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/demi-lovato-s-egyptian-artifacts-instagram-lose-lose-ncna1291542
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/demi-lovato-ancient-egyptian-artifacts-draw-suspicion-i-thought-it-was-a-joke-1235108041/
https://etcanada.com/news/874836/demi-lovato-called-out-by-art-experts-after-unboxing-supposed-egyptian-antiquities-on-social-media/
https://popcrush.com/demi-lovato-fake-egyptian-artifacts/

Ethiopian artifacts are showing up on eBay:

https://www.dw.com/en/civil-war-to-blame-for-surge-in-online-sales-of-ethiopian-artifacts/a-61069797

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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 ============================================================
Turkey is returning the Siloam inscription to Jerusalem:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-turkey-agrees-to-return-ancient-hebrew-inscription-to-jerusalem/
https://ahvalnews.com/turkey-israel/ankara-agrees-return-ancient-hebrew-inscription-israel-report
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/03/13/turkey-to-return-ancient-hebrew-inscription-to-israel/

The Smithsonian is returning its Benin Bronzes:

https://hyperallergic.com/716122/smithsonian-announces-landmark-decision-to-repatriate-benin-bronzes/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgq45/smithsonian-benin-bronzes-nigeria https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-faces-pressure-as-smithsonian-returns-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria-5d3qbjmhb
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/08/pressure-british-museum-smithsonian-gives-back-entire-benin/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/904/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/904/pub/904/page/63/article/285188
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-benin-bronzes-return-plan-1234621351/

... some background:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-smithsonians-return-of-the-benin-bronzes-comes-after-years-of-relationship-building-180979716/

... and on Oxford and Cambridge returning the ones they had
: http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/908/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/908/pub/908/page/20/article/280935
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-and-cambridge-lead-the-way-in-return-of-benin-bronzes-td7jxfnxp

... and an OpEd on the colonial side of all this:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/03/07/how-the-looted-benin-bronzes-are-symbolic-of-colonial-cultural-erasure/

Denmark is returning a rune drum to the Sami people:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/13/three-centuries-on-a-shamans-precious-rune-drum-returns-home

More on the US returning a number of items looted from a shipwreck to France:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-returns-gold-treasure-skull-to-france/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/10395-220307-france-repatriation-looted

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Lydia:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/113533/The-first-currency-in-history-Kingdom-of-Lydia-minted-gold

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n10.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n11.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Walter Kaegi:

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/walter-kaegi-noted-scholar-byzantine-and-roman-empires-1937-2022

Edmund Keeley:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/edmund-keeley-dead.html

Neil Faulkner:

https://the-past.com/comment/in-memoriam-dr-neil-faulkner/

Martha Sharp Joukowsky:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/martha-sharp-joukowsky-1936-2022/

Ghazi Bisheh:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/ghazi-bisheh-1945-2022/

Ramadan B. Hussein:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/10/ramadan-b-hussein-has-passed-away/

Stuart Mitchell:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituaries-stuart-mitchell-classicist-musician-and-book-lover-3605261

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3159-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-27th-2022-through-march-5th-2022
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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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