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https://news.yahoo.com/1-100-old-monument-mayan-183330541.html https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-maya-ball-game-scoreboard-from-match-played-in-894-ce-discovered-68390
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-mayan-scoreboard-chichen-itza-mexico-1234663862/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66985 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/04/maya-ball-game-marker-discovered-in-chichen-itza/146867
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11373-230412-maya-game-carving

Study suggests inconsistent rainfall may have contributed to the destabilization of Maya societies:

https://news.unm.edu/news/less-predictable-rainfall-may-have-caused-disintegration-of-early-maya-societies
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11378-230414-belize-maya-rainfall

More on the 1400 years bp murals of two-faced men from Peru:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/moche-mural-peru-two-headed-man-2276807 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1400-year-old-mural-two-faced-man-peru-180981975/
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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 ============================================================
Plans to recreate 'The Feast of King Midas' based on archaeological finds from the tomb:

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/apr/12/midas-meal-archaeology-group-to-recreate-2700-year/

Feature on 31 ancient temples from various cultures:

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-temples-from-around-the-world

Feature on the importance of underwater archaeology:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-archaeologist-underwater.html

Feature/book excerpt on the Oulipians:

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/oulipo-french-mathematicians-strange-literature/

Feature on medieval thinkers foreshadowing modern physics:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-medieval-thinkers-did-physics-without-knowing-it

Feature on Alice Ball and her treatment for leprosy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/obituaries/alice-ball-overlooked.html

Feature on archaeology and sex toys:

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185380

Feature on the Tale of Genji:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/books/tale-of-genji-japan-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/books/the-tale-of-genji-translations.html

Feature on a book of hours:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/arts/design/tres-riches-heures-calendar.html

Using tech to see more of what's 'underpainted' in a picture of Cosimo de Medici:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-synchrotron-technique-reveals-mysterious-underlying.html

Pondering the use of AI to decipher the Indus script and Voynich manuscript:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/could-ai-language-models-like-chatgpt-unlock-mysterious-ancient-texts

Not sure where to put this item pondering why the Neoltihic occurred:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-04-13/ty-article/what-drove-humans-to-settle-israeli-researchers-offer-new-paradigm-for-neolithic-puzzle/00000187-7a42-d484-adef-fac60a5c0000

Review of David Grann, *The Wager*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/books/review/the-wager-david-grann.html

Review of Lee Durkee, *Stalking Shakespeare*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/books/review/stalking-shakespeare-lee-durkee.html

Review of Gregory May, *A Madman's Will*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/books/review/a-madmans-will-gregory-may.html

More on use of eggs in Old Masters' paints:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/old-masters-da-vinci-egg-yolk-painting-scn/index.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on some of the regalia being used in Charles III's coronation:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1302/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1302/pub/1302/page/6/article/NaN

... and the three coronation coaches:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-65231561

Feature on the impeachment of Samuel Chase:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/opinion/supreme-court-impeachment-samuel-chase.html

Feature on Anthony Comstock:

https://www.vox.com/politics/23678636/supreme-court-anthony-comstock-abortion-mifepristone-matthew-kacsmaryk

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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
A possible 'flat faced' dog burial from Roman-era Turkiye:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-early-romans-flat-faced-dogs.html https://www.iflscience.com/the-romans-bred-lap-dogs-with-squished-faces-like-french-bulldogs-68443

A study of the domestication of reindeer:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33422-6

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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A Spanish dialect in New Mexico is apparently dying out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/us/new-mexico-spanish.html

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
On Aristotle and philosophy as humanity's highest purpose:

https://aeon.co/videos/why-aristotle-believed-that-philosophy-was-humanitys-highest-purpose
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ramses II:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/495640/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Ramses-II-in-Paris.aspx
https://menafn.com/1105978196/Ramses-And-Gold-Of-Pharaohs-Exhibition-All-What-You-Need-To-Know-Dailynewsegypt

Tusker Rock:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57853220

Picasso:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/arts/design/picasso-museums-nyc-paris-madrid.html

Rossettis:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230412-the-rossettis-the-bohemians-who-shocked-victorian-britain

The Hatay Archaeology Museum has been protected against aftershocks:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/hatay-archaeology-museums-mosaics-protected-against-aftershocks/news

Feature on the 'boom' of private art museums:

https://www.classicult.it/en/the-boom-of-private-art-museums-elites-shape-the-art-we-see/

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Big bucks for a Yongzheng era Chinese bowl:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/falangcai-bowl-auction-sothebys-hong-kong/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/300-old-chinese-bowl-just-195932960.html https://www.nation.com.pk/11-Apr-2023/highly-important-chinese-bowl-fetches-over-dollar-25m-at-auction

More on the upcoming auction of an Eid Mar denarius:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/julius-caesar-commemorative-leads-auction

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A DNA study suggests the first Mongolian empire was multiethnic:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-ancient-dna-reveals-multiethnic-mongolia.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230414201820.htm

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf3904

A DNA study relating to populations of central Africa:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-dna-window-african-civilisations-left.html https://theconversation.com/dna-study-opens-a-window-into-african-civilisations-that-left-a-lasting-legacy-202490

More on DNA and human remains from the Swahili coast:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/4/12/harvard-research-swahili-dna/ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/12/1168613272/whats-the-origin-of-the-long-ago-swahili-civilization-genes-offer-a-revealing-an

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05754-w ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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A new technique for detecting collagen in archaeological bones:

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-invisible-visible-technique-archaeological-bones.html
https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-bones-reveal-their-secrets-with-cutting-edge-hyperspectral-imaging/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-023-00848-y

On dating artifacts with the help of cosmic ray storms:

https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-history-ancient-egypt-vikings

More on the recreation of a 35 000 years bp face from Egypt:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-738840

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Pictish stones:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/apr/12/picts-ancient-stones-scotland-aberlemno-burghead-angus

Picasso's Malaga:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/travel/malaga-spain-picasso.html ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Galatea:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/12/galatea-john-lyly-queer-trans-shakespeares-cross-dressing-brighton-festival

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CRIME BEAT
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Details of a trial of a pair caught some guys trying to sell some Anglo-Saxon coins:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/11/two-men-accused-trying-sell-rare-anglo-saxon-coins-viking-hoard-undercover-police
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-65250287 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-65243814 https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1305/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1305/pub/1305/page/48/article/NaN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/11/two-men-accused-trying-sell-rare-anglo-saxon-coins-viking-hoard-undercover-police
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/man-accused-of-plot-to-sell-viking-coins-told-undercover-police-im-not-greedy-4102047
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23454354.us-expert-tells-trial-thought-viking-hoard-coins-offer-fake/

Spanish police seized some fake Spanish masters that were up for sale:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/spain-fraud-police-velazquez-goya-scli-intl/index.html

Someone scrawled blue crayon all over a 230 years bp statue at Croome:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-65262756 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/statue-vandalized-crayon-intl-scli/index.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969529/Blue-crayon-scrawled-230-year-old-statue-Roman-nymph-leaving-National-Trust-dismayed.html

Italy is planning major fines for art and monument vandalism:

https://apnews.com/article/italy-vandalism-fines-art-spanish-steps-uffizi-ce3a3afa3e6fff94fd2d4184413cd253
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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 ============================================================
The Manhattan DA seized 11 items from the Princeton Art Museum:

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/manhattan-da-seizes-11-allegedly-stolen-artifacts-princeton-art-museum-collection

The British Museum has returned an Oceanic sculpture ot Polynesia (for three years):

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/12/british-museum-returns-oceanic-sculpture-aa-to-polynesiafor-three-years

A Rutland village is returning a Somme crucifix:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65201597

More on the Met returning 15 items to India:

https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/travelnews/story/72090/metropolitan-museum-of-art-to-return-15-indian-sculptures

More on the Manhattan DA returning items to Greece:

https://hellenicnews.com/greek-minister-of-culture-receives-stolen-antiquities-from-manhattan-da/

More on Cycladic items at the Met on display/being returned:

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/04/11/delaware-the-met-and-a-homecoming-of-sorts-for-161-greek-antiquities/

Oxford is apparently being urged not to return Benin Bronzes in its possession:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/12/oxford-university-return-africa-benin-bronzes-pay-twice/

Turkiye is seeking repatriation of a number of items:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/monuments-statues-turkiye-calls-for-stolen-artifacts-repatriation-to-country/news

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on a silver drachm of Alexander of Pherae:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/a-silver-drachm-of-alexander-of-pherae/

Latest e-Sylum:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n15.html

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

https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n16.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3269-audio-news-from-archaeologica-april-2nd-through-the-8th-2023

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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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