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explorator 26.04 May 14, 2023
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You can read explorator online at:

https://exploratornews.wordpress.com/


Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Earliest evidence of cancer in humans comes from a 1.7 million years bp Paranthropus robustus or Homo ergaster bone:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/whats-the-oldest-known-case-of-cancer-in-humans
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-742886

A 300 000 years bp footprint find from Germany:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-year-old-snapshot-oldest-human-footprints.html http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67249

Study suggests we get our nose-shape gene from Neanderthals:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/may/nose-shape-gene-inherited-neanderthals https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1332/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1332/pub/1332/page/20/article/NaN
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230508104930.htm https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/neanderthals-passed-on-their-large-noses-to-modern-humans
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/study-finds-that-nose-shape-gene-is-inherited-from-neanderthals/147241
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/10/nose-shape-gene-inherited-from-neanderthals/

A tooth enamel study is shedding light on hunting habits of Neanderthals and other early humans in western Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tooth-enamel-clues-hunter-gatherer-lifestyle.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230509122036.htm https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/ancient-microbial-natural-products-reconstructed-from-neanderthal-dental-plaques/4017421.article

... and possible spinoffs for developing new antibiotics:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lost-bacteria-found-on-neanderthal-teeth-could-be-used-to-develop-new-antibiotics

Study suggests early humans preferred/adapted to 'mosaic landscapes':

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/12/human-ancestors-preferred-mosaic-landscapes-and-ecosystem-diversity/

More on the study of fossilized soot and what it reveals about occupation of the Nerja Caves (Spain):

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230509122036.htm https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/smoke-archaeology-reveals-early-humans-were-visiting-nerja-caves-41000-years-ago/

More on the study of tools suggesting there were three migrations of homo sapiens into Europe:

https://www.sciencealert.com/it-took-waves-of-modern-humans-to-claim-europe-from-neanderthals
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/modern-humans-europe-three-waves/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/11424-230508-europe-migration-waves ============================================================
AFRICA
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Using isotope data to track ecological change in Lesothos over the past 60 000 years:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/11/isotope-data-reveal-millennia-of-ecological-change-in-southern-africa/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ============================================================
Byzantine and Late Period burials and texts from the Meir Necropolis in Assiut:

https://cairoscene.com/Buzz/Byzantine-Burial-Chambers-Unearthed-in-Assiut-Necropolis
https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2023/05/08/remains-of-ancient-buildings-discovered-in-assiut/
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2299491/middle-east https://see.news/egyptian-archaeological-mission-uncovers-number-of-buildings-burials-from-late-ages-of-ancient-egypt-in-assiut-governorate
https://www.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/world/article275273536.html https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/09/byzantine-and-late-period-relics-uncovered-in-meir-necropolis-in-assiut/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/09/byzantine-buildings-burials-assiut-egypt/ https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/10/late-pharaonic-and-early-christian-finds-located-in-meir/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11431-230511-meir-necropolis-monks

In case you missed the find of a 2nd century CE Buddha statue from Berenike:

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-10/buddha-in-the-land-of-the-pharaohs-2000-year-old-statue-of-siddhartha-gautama-discovered-in-egypt.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/buddha-statue-discovered-egypt-2295035

Feature on mummified canines in ancient Egypt:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-05-08/ty-article/mummified-dogs-in-ancient-egypt-were-they-pets-sacrifices-or-wolves/00000187-fb9a-d78f-a5d7-fbdb98800000

Feature on Champollion:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1205/500454/AlAhram-Weekly/Culture/Remembering-Champollion.aspx

Feature on Egyptian use of meteoric iron:

https://gulfnews.com/games/play/spell-it-how-ancient-egyptians-were-masters-of-iron-long-before-it-was-even-discovered-1.1683655078848

A project to record petroglyphs and inscriptions from the desert in southern Egypt:

https://arkeonews.net/staging-of-religion-on-rock-paintings-that-are-thousands-of-years-old-in-southern-egypt-desert/

Latest 'curse of the mummy' account making the rounds:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-742957 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12064435/Is-curse-mummy-REAL-Archaeologist-suffers-mystery-illness-opening-Egyptian-tomb.html

The Greek necropolis of Alexandria has opened to the public:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/500464/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Inauguration-of-AlShatby-Necropolis.aspx
https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/07/ancient-greek-necropolis-alexandria-opens/

... and the pyramid of Khufu will reopen within a month:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/khufu-pyramid-to-reopen-by-june/

3000 years bp evidence of rice cultivation from Qale-Kesh (Iran):

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/484623/Iranian-farmers-grew-rice-some-3-000-years-ago-archaeologists

Feature on the Qale-Gardan site:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/484447/Qale-Gardan-an-isolated-fort-of-the-Iron-Age

The search for the Laodicea Temple continues:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/484406/Archaeologists-still-hoping-to-find-Laodicea-Temple

Tree rings suggest climate change may have played a role in the fall of the Hittite Empire:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/tree-rings-hint-at-the-fall-of-the-hittite-empire

More on the use of AI to translate Akkadian tablets:

https://m.jpost.com/archaeology/article-741982 https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/09/ai-translate-ancient-akkadian-cuneiform/ https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/translating-cuneiform-ai/

Assorted 4500 years bp structural and tomb remains from the site of Mobolla in western Anatolia:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-ancient-life-come-to-surface-in-mobolla-182848
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11423-230508-mobolla-ancient-settlement

A call for more research of possible sites in eastern Jerash:

https://jordantimes.com/news/local/research-jerashs-eastern-side-%E2%80%98necessary%E2%80%99-says-french-archaeologist

Followup to that Mount Ebal 'curse tablet' find from a while ago ... now published in a peer reviewed (but not specialist) journal:

https://biblearchaeology.org/current-events-list/5048 https://www.jns.org/scholars-expound-on-mount-ebal-curse-tablet-with-oldest-hebrew-text/

cf: https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-023-00920-9

Feature on the Mesha Stele:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/does-the-mesha-stele-really-reference-the-dynasty-of-king-david-of-the-bible/

Israel plans to turn biblical Sebastia into an archaeological park (!):

https://www.jns.org/israel-to-turn-biblical-sebastia-into-archaeological-park/

A Neolithic 'cattle cult site' from Saudi Arabia:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-05-07/ty-article/standing-stones-bones-archaeologists-excavate-neolithic-cattle-cult-site-in-saudi-arabia/00000187-e66e-d230-abc7-f77e018b0000

Dozens of skeletons found in a 7 000 years bp stone tomb in Oman:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/7000-year-old-tomb-in-oman-holds-dozens-of-prehistoric-skeletons
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11426-230509-oman-burial-chambers

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https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ============================================================
A metal detectorist came across a Roman coin in Poland:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article275264736.html

Overview of finds from the past weeks digging at a Romano-British site in Cockermouth (more detail than previous accounts):

https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/23511980.archaeologists-discover-exceptionally-rare-find-cockermouth-site/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11434-230512-england-bacchus-balsamarium

A metal detectorist's Iron Age/Roman finds from Monmouthshire back in 2019 have been declared treasure:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/immaculate-2000-year-old-carvings-26876428
https://news.yahoo.com/unique-buried-treasures-unearthed-2-191617813.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article275311886.html https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/world/article275311886.html https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/iron-age-ancient-roman-pottery-metal-detectorist-wales-1234667905/
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-iron-age-and-roman-treasures-found-in-wales-could-point-to-an-unknown-roman-settlement/

Archaeologists have discovered 2000 more fragments of a mural which once adorned the theater in Cartagena:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fragments-roman-mural-ancient-theater-2290356

Remains of a Late Roman watchtower located near the Schaaren am Hochrhein (Switzerland):

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/world/article275319011.html https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ancient-roman-bricks-coins-lead-213812730.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/late-roman-watchtower-discovered-on-swiss-border/147245

A 3rd century CE mosaic depicting Aeneas and company from a site in Turkiye:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/hero-of-trojan-war-aeneass-peerless-mosaic-discovered-in-turkiye/news
https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/11/stunning-mosaic-trojan-hero-aeneas-unearthed/
https://arkeonews.net/the-mythical-hero-of-troy-and-rome-aeneass-peerless-mosaic-discovered-in-turkiye/

A study of a late 3rd century CE Roman purse excavated at Merida:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/archaeologists-analyse-remains-of-roman-purse-found-in-merida/147279

The Vatican is restoring a gilded statue of Hercules once struck by lightning:

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-hercules-statue-restoration-7ef7141d4d8abde9f473d6a9134a11db
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/vatican-experts-uncovering-gilded-glory-hercules-statue-struck-99300699
https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/may/13/hercules-gilded-glory-uncovered-in-vatican/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/13/vatican-hercules-statue-restoration/3ee3c568-f156-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/14/restoring-the-majesty-of-the-hercules-mastai-righetti-uncovering-the-largest-known-bronze-statue-of-the-ancient-world/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1210895/vatican-experts-uncovering-gilded-glory-of-hercules-statue-struck-by-lightning/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67257

Something about a dispute over burial mound excavations in Ukraine:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrainian-nationalists-battle-archaeologists-over-burial-mound-excavations-7lrhf32vm

More on the use of muography to identify a 2500 years bp burial/settlement at Naples:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/cosmic-rays-reveal-2500-year-old-subterranean-burial-in-ancient-greek-necropolis
https://interestingengineering.com/science/2500-year-old-hidden-underground-greek-settlement
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/cosmic-rays-reveal-mystery-chamber-from-ancient-greece
https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/cosmic-ray-study-finds-ancient-greek-burial-chamber-in-italy/
https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/09/ancient-greek-tomb-discovered-italy-cosmic-rays/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/10/cosmic-rays-reveal-the-presence-of-a-2500-year-old-hidden-underground-greek-settlement/
https://arkeonews.net/particle-physics-and-archeology-collaboration-uncovers-secret-hellenistic-underground-chamber-in-naples/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11418-230504-naples-greek-tomb

More on the use of Google Earth to identify three Roman camps in the Jordanian desert:

https://jordantimes.com/news/local/archaeologists-discover-three-roman-camps-maan-using-satellite-imagery
https://cherwell.org/2023/05/08/oxford-archaeologists-find-roman-military-camps-in-northern-arabia-using-google-earth/

More on the find of a burial of a Roman-era doctor (with instruments) in Hungary:

https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/hjtyg7iv3

More on the 'fortlet' recently found along the Antonine Wall:

https://the-past.com/news/roman-fortlet-rediscovered-on-scotlands-antonine-wall/

More on protected status being given too three sections of a Roman wall revealed in London over the years:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roman-wall-london-londominium-found-1234667126/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-barricade-london-new-sections-2295230

More on the Roman temple to Mars (and others?) at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz:

https://theconversation.com/roman-temple-thought-to-be-dedicated-to-mars-could-actually-have-been-used-to-worship-many-gods-expert-explains-205071

Restoration efforts at Stratonicea (the 'city of gladiators') continues:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/restoration-at-muglas-ancient-city-of-gladiators-continues

The Wiltshire Museum has acquired a Roman bronze vessel hoard found in Wilcot back in 2017:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67218 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/09/hoard-of-roman-bronze-vessels-from-wilcot/

The Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis as opened to some visitors in a limited sort of way:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/08/macedonian-kasta-tomb-in-greece-opened-to-limited-visitors-after-nine-years/

Plans to restore the temple of Asklepios in Trikala:

https://greekherald.com.au/news/ancient-greek-healing-temple-in-trikala-to-be-resto/

Review of Honor Cargill-Martin's biography of Messalina:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/messalina-the-truth-about-romes-killer-whore-empress-l3qv9qv6q
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-messalina-empire-adultery-slander-honor-cargill/

Review of James Porter, *Homer: The Very Idea*:

https://thirdcoastreview.com/2023/05/08/review-the-epic-question-mark-of-western-lit-homer-the-very-idea-by-james-i-porter/

Review of Jennifer Saint, *Atalanta*:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8174668/the-heroic-story-of-the-only-female-argonaut/

Feature on Stefania Giudice's conservation work at Pompeii:

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/pompeii-conservator-stefania-giudice-hands-on-1234667197/

Feature on mothers' lives in ancient Greece:

https://theconversation.com/mothers-lives-in-ancient-greece-were-not-easy-but-celebrations-of-their-love-have-survived-across-the-centuries-204449
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2023/may/mothers-day.html https://news.yahoo.com/mothers-lives-ancient-greece-were-193215991.html

Feature on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/romes-most-devastating-military-defeat-was-masterminded-from-within

Mary Beard on the search for Cleopatra's daughter:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/cleopatra-selene-daughter-book-draycott-biography/673786/

Feature on the maritime transport of sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/05/maritime-transport-sculptures

Feature on Scotland in Roman times:

https://news.yahoo.com/tracing-scotlands-unique-place-roman-082431846.html

Feature on Oedipus:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/11/oedipus-tragic-greek-myth/

Feature on Sulla:

https://www.thecollector.com/lucius-cornelius-sulla-dictator/

Feature on the Riace bronzes:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/11/mystery-ancient-greek-masterpieces-recovered-off-italy/

Feature on the Venus de Milo and her missing arms:

https://www.scienceabc.com/social-science/why-is-venus-de-milo-missing-her-arms.html

Feature on the popularity of Greek mythology on TikTok:

https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-05-06/why-is-greek-mythology-so-popular-on-tiktok.html

Feature on Thucydides:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/08/thucydides-economics-and-war/

Feature on plaster casts of victims of Pompeii:

https://www.iflscience.com/the-stone-bodies-of-pompeii-arent-what-you-think-68838

Feature on the Battle of Thermopylae:

https://www.thecollector.com/battle-of-thermopylae/

Feature on the Battle of Plataea:

https://www.thecollector.com/battle-of-plataea/

Feature on Hannibal and his elephants:

https://www.history.com/news/hannibal-crosses-alps

Interesting 'declassified' account of efforts to return the Parthenon sculptures back in 1983:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/british-museum-parthenon-marbles-declassified-documents-lobbying
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/parthenon-marbles-declassified-documents-1234667317/

... meanwhile, the current Greek PM is looking for an 'innovative' 'win-win' solution to the dispute:

https://apnews.com/article/greece-parthenon-sculptures-british-museum-mitsotakis-elgin-3008789585bf7edde016341377962774
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-elgin-marbles-uk-museum-athens-b2337904.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-want-win-win-solution-on-elgin-marbles-says-greek-pm-brlfdr03k
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/greek-pm-seeks-innovative-solution-decades-parthenon-sculpture-99276919
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/greek-pm-seeks-innovative-solution-073559887.html https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/13/greece-seeks-win-win-solution-for-parthenon-sculptures-rules-out-loan-says-pm-mitsotakis/

... and India will be backing Greece in its efforts:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/14/india-to-ally-with-greece-on-elgin-marbles/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1338/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1338/pub/1338/page/22/article/NaN
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Roman Archaeology Blog:

http://romanarc.blogspot.com/

Rogueclassicism:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ============================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ============================================================
Hyping a just-starting (?) dig at a Mesolithic site in Dartmoor:

https://www.themoorlander.co.uk/archaeology-aims-to-uncover-more-about-dartmoors-hunter-gatherer-past/

A Neolithic 'ritual cache' of figurines of women from the Verteba Cave in Ukraine:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-05-09/ty-article/female-figurines-sheltered-by-boar-tusks-discovered-in-ukraine-cave/00000188-002e-dc7e-a3fe-22ef62e30000
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/ritual-hoard-found-in-ukraines-verteba-cave/147285
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11436-230512-ukraine-verteba-cave

Remains of a 7000 years bp (!) road underwater off the coast of the Croatian island of Korcula:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-stone-road-croatia-coast-b2336779.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65555682 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12067821/Stone-Age-road-uncovered-underwater-Croatian-island-7-000-years.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/road-built-7000-years-ago-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-mediterranean-sea
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/travel/67124-7-000-year-old-road https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/news/dubrovnik/item/14919-archaeologists-unearth-7-000-year-old-submerged-road-on-korcula-island-revealing-ancient-neolithic-connection
https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/11/road-bottom-mediterranean-sea/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xgb5/archaeologists-spot-strange-structures-underwater-find-7000-year-old-road
https://www.iflscience.com/7000-year-old-submerged-road-discovered-under-the-mediterranean-sea-68830
https://arkeonews.net/underwater-archaeologists-discover-a-7000-year-old-road-in-croatia/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67226 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/archaeologists-discover-submerged-road-from-the-neolithic-period/147225
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11425-230509-croatia-neolithic-road

A study of the copper trade in Neolithic Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-copper-artifacts-reveal-prehistoric-europe.html

A study suggests Neolithic items in Orkney may have had colour:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/orkneys-neolithic-wonders-may-have-been-painted-with-colour-4137760

A 3700 years bp flint dagger find by an 8-year-old in Norway:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/8-year-old-girl-unearths-stone-age-dagger-by-her-school-in-norway
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-schoolgirl-in-norway-found-a-3700-year-old-dagger-buried-at-her-schoo-180982163/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11432-230511-norway-neolithic-flint

A 3500 years bp bronze dagger find by a metal detectorist in a forest near Krasnystaw (Poland):

https://www.modbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article275261486.html http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67206

A 3000 years bp bakery (with flour remains!) from a dig in Armenia:

https://news.yahoo.com/3-000-old-bakery-still-203515856.html https://www.mahoningmatters.com/news/nation-world/world/article275358616.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/columned-building-containing-large-amounts-of-flour-found-at-ancient-metsamor/147272

A Viking-era buckle/brooch from a dig in Norway:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/viking-buckle-was-found-in-norway-1234666826/

Spanish researchers are trying to figure out the backstory of six skeletons from the Caleta de Arriba site on Gran Canaria:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-scientists-seek-crack-mystery-canaries-skeleton-cave-2023-05-09/
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/science/mysterious-skeletons-with-tied-hands-baffle-archaeologists-in-spain
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-742513 https://news.yahoo.com/spanish-scientists-seek-crack-mystery-100814683.html

Remains of a 16th century fortress at the Arenberg Castle site in Leuven:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/500102/archaeology-students-unveil-a-16th-century-fortress-at-arenberg-castle

19th century burials/crypts from Tbilisi:

https://jam-news.net/nineteenth-century-crypts-in-tbilisi/

In case you missed the Egyptian and Roman figurines found in Lublin (Poland):

https://arkeonews.net/a-surprising-discovery-in-lublin-countryside-ancient-figurines-of-egyptian-and-roman-gods-found/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/ancient-egyptian-figurines-depicting-osiris-found-in-poland/147216
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11435-230512-poland-egyptian-figurines

More on the identification of a coin depicting Charlemagne's Queen Fastrada:

https://arkeonews.net/a-coin-of-queen-fastrada-and-charlemagne-found-first-of-its-kind/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/08/a-coin-of-queen-fastrada-and-charlemagne/

High expectations for an upcoming dig in Lincoln:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-65533101

A project documenting a recently-found 'lost village' (medieval) in Yorkshire:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/archaeology-project-is-documenting-yorkshires-lost-medieval-village/147200

Feature on a dig at the 12th century Stavanger Cathedral (Norway) back in the 1960s:

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-religion/heres-what-archaeologists-found-under-the-floor-of-the-12th-century-stavanger-cathedral/2196389

Feature on Time Team and the 'Band of Brothers' dig in Wiltshire:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-65493780

Feature on Germany's Pommelte site:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/discover-germanys-prehistoric-stonehenge-pommelte/news

Feature on Bosnia and Herzegovina's stecci stones:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230509-bosnia-and-herzegovinas-mysterious-steci-stones

A papal bull of Boniface IX which was found in a Polish cemetery in 2021 has been restored and will go on display:

https://arkeonews.net/papal-bull-discovered-in-a-former-cemetery-dated-to-the-14th-century/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67231

Delapre Abbey has acquired a sword used by a local resident at Waterloo:

https://the-past.com/news/rare-sword-used-at-waterloo-acquired-by-northamptonshire-abbey/
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Archaeology in Europe News:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

Medievalists.net:

https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/

Viking Archaeology Blog:

http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ============================================================
Plenty of ceramics in a Northern Wei Dynasty official's tomb in Shanxi:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290500.shtml https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/11/WS645cac62a310b6054fad273f.html

Hyping a new branch of the Project to Trace the Origins of Chinese Civilization:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290427.shtml

Feature on the Confucian Canon Project:

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/09/WS64599afaa310b6054fad1cd8.html

Study of the impact of Mongol conquests on cities in Central Asia:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/the-impact-of-the-mongol-conquests-on-earthen-cities-in-central-asia/147265

cf: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijia_00118_1

A pair of Buddhist stupas from Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/two-buddhist-stupas-found-in-bandhavgarh/articleshow/100058250.cms

... this seems related to the previous item:

https://www.localsamosa.com/2023/05/09/modern-society-dating-back-to-2000-years-discovered-at-bandhavgarh-national-park-in-madhya-pradesh/
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
Plenty of Aboriginal stone tools excavated at a future hospital site in New South Wales:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-10/hundreds-of-aboriginal-artefacts-found-at-site-of-hospital/102322822

Latest research into the Batavia shipwreck:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-silent-witnesses-dark-secrets-batavia.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/new-horrors-unravelled-in-the-story-of-the-batavia-shipwreck/147258
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/12/further-dark-secrets-of-batavia-shipwreck-laid-bare/

More on the Electric Resistivity Tomography examination of the Red Lily Lagoon region:

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2023/05/05/archaeologists-map-hidden-nt-landscape/
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-3d-map-red-lily-lagoon-the-hidden-northern-territory-landscape-where-first-australians-lived-more-than-60000-years-ago/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11427-230509-australia-madjedbebe-coastline ============================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Some of the first migrants to the Americas apparently had Chinese origins, and there were (at least) two migrations:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-evidence-ice-age-human-migrations.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230509122008.htm https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/some-of-the-1st-ice-age-humans-who-ventured-into-americas-came-from-china-dna-study-suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/09/prehistoric-migrations-china-americas
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11433-230511-america-migrant-genome

A bone fragment from Alaska's Lawyer's Cave found in the 1990s has been identified as belonging to a woman 3000 years bp:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/3000-year-old-bear-bone-from-alaska-isnt-what-it-seems
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/11/searching-for-ancient-bears-in-alaskan-cave-led-to-important-human-discovery/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11428-230510-alaska-bone-fragment

Plenty of 18th century finds from the Swan Tavern site in Charlottesville:

https://www.wvtf.org/news/2023-05-08/a-feeding-frenzy-for-archaeologists-in-downtown-charlottesville

Hyping a just-started dig by Bard archaeology students at Fisher Center's Maya Lin Building site:

https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-archaeology-students-work-on-excavation-at-fisher-centers-maya-lin-building-site-2023-05-09

Musket balls from the Fort Necessity battlefield:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/musket-balls-fort-necessity-battlefield-jumonville-glen/

More on the quarantine hospital and cemetery site found underwater off the coast of Florida:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/dry-tortugas-tombstone-underwater-florida/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-742464 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/quarantine-hospital-cemetery-underwater-fort-jefferson-180982123/

Feature on the most endangered historic places in the US:

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1173035888/heres-the-latest-list-of-the-11-most-endangered-historic-places-in-the-u-s

cf: https://savingplaces.org/stories/11-most-endangered-historic-places-2023

A 19th century military quarters in Albany may be destroyed:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/watervliet-arsenal-s-historic-military-quarters-18088418.php

Hopes for more digs at the site where a Henry VI coin was found in Newfoundland:

https://vocm.com/2023/05/07/208384/

Feature on the (now stolen) Old Chatham Bell:

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/historic-old-chatham-bell-missing-reward-18089099.php

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
A possible 12 000 years bp skeleton find from Brazil:

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/miscellaneous/a-human-fossil-that-may-be-12000-years-old-is-found-in-central-brazil/

A 4000 years bp temple find from Peru:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-13/archaeologists-discover-4-000-year-old-temple-discovered-in-peru/102342980
https://tvpworld.com/69826685/peruvian-archaeologists-unearth-4000yearold-temple

Feature on what they learned from a 2000 years bp pile of condor excrement in the Andes:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/scientists-discovered-a-2200-year-old-condor-poop-pile-in-the-andes-heres-what-it-told-them

Part two of a feature on the ancestors of the Taino people on St Thomas:

https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/05/07/the-first-people-to-call-our-islands-home-2/

Latest on the approval of the Maya Train construction:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/inah-close-to-approving-all-maya-train-construction/
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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/ ============================================================
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