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Feature on some metal detectorists:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/14/meet-the-real-life-detectorists-of-the-english-countryside

Feature on abortion in the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman worlds:

https://www.thetorah.com/article/abortion-in-the-ancient-near-east-and-greco-roman-world

Feature on the use of nuclear technology in heritage contexts:

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/studying-and-preserving-cultural-heritage-using-nuclear-science-and-technology

Feature on Elizabeth Siddal:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/elizabeth-siddal-tate-britain-untold-art-history/index.html

Feature on the evolution of modern singing:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230511-how-singing-has-changed-over-the-centuries

Feature on Nancy Hale:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/books/review/nancy-hale-the-prodigal-women.html

This year's Pulitzer Prizes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html

More on the search for Nazi treasure in a Dutch village coming up empty:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/treasure-map-nazis-ommeren-180982137/ ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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On the history of Mother's Day:

https://www.williamsonherald.com/features/w_life/mother-s-day-dates-back-centuries-has-evolved-over-time/article_8cbf2e44-ef85-11ed-a748-6b079f19ddc4.html
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/happy-ancient-roman-mother-s-day https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/14/mothers-day-ancient-greece/ https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/05/14/history-of-mothers-day-2-2-2/

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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A database tracking languages that die off:

https://news.yale.edu/2023/05/04/new-database-offers-insight-consequences-language-loss

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
On Plato and 'heretical' music theory in his philosophy:

https://www.iflscience.com/did-plato-hide-heretical-music-theory-in-his-philosophy-68793

On Aristotle and leisure:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/202305/aristotle-on-leisure

On Neoplatonism:

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-neoplatonism/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece:

https://www.theweek.co.uk/arts-life/culture/art/960807/luxury-and-power-persia-to-greece-exhibition-review

Manet/Degas:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manet-olympia-travels-us-first-time-met-1234667493/

Livorno Hoard:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67236

Picasso:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/design/picasso-becoming-picasso.html

Sarah Bernhardt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/design/sarah-bernhardt-petit-palais.html

Van Gogh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/design/van-gogh-cypresses-met-museum.html

John Soane drawing office:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/12/john-soanes-drawing-office-opens-to-public-for-first-time

Feature on the reopening of the Mosul Museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65548395 https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/restoration-of-mosuls-cultural-legacy-damaged-by-daesh-nearing-completion-13208375
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/iraqi-museum-damaged-plans-reopen-2026.1030982
https://thearabweekly.com/mosul-museum-reopen-after-20-year-closure-iraq-war-and-isis-ravages-0

The Met museum is putting together a provenance research team to figure out what looted art it possesses:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/arts/met-museum-looted-art.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/10/metropolitan-museum-provenance-research-squad
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/yorks-met-museum-probe-possibly-211318278.html https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1210677/metropolitan-museum-sets-plan-to-probe-collections-for-looted-art/
https://www.icij.org/investigations/hidden-treasures/in-response-to-scandals-and-stolen-art-seizures-the-met-plans-to-scour-its-own-collections-for-looted-artifacts/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-met-provenance-researchers-collecting-practices-229999

A clumsy visitor damaged a Chinese bronze at the Minneapolis Institute of Art:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/visitor-damages-chinese-bronze-minneapolis-institute-of-art-2298006

The Poole Museum is moving a number of items prior to renovations, including an Iron Age longboat:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-65551360

The Abenaki First Nation is asking a Burlington museum to remove a photo of its ancestors:

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2023-05-10/odanak-first-nation-requests-burlington-museum-remove-photo-of-ancestors-from-exhibit
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Howard Carter's 'address book' is up for sale:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12060045/Address-book-owned-Howard-Carter-naming-Tutankhamun-backer-Earl-Carnarvon.html

High auction expectations for some Qing-era jars found in a London thrift store:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/thrift-store-qing-dynasty-jars-gbr-intl-scli/index.html

A 123 years bp schooner will be leaving Maine after auction:

https://apnews.com/article/victory-chimes-historic-schooner-maine-auction-e89e46dc8d6e1444e48082f3ff56dc2a

Criticism over a Nazi-linked jewellery sale:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65541822 ============================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
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More on the DNA found on a pierced deer tooth pendant from the Denisova Cave:

https://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/14485 https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ancient-dna-from-a-25-000-year-old-pendant-reveals-intriguing-details-about-its-wearer-1.6382351
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/12/traces-from-the-past/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Canakkale:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/canakkale-troy-turkey/index.html

Temple of Artemis:

https://www.thetravel.com/what-to-know-about-the-temple-of-artemis-where-to-see-its-ruins/

Tourists were arrested at Machu Picchu for taking nude photos:

https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-742885

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
Some scholarly reactions to the Netflix Cleopatra kerfuffle:

https://theconversation.com/cleopatras-skin-colour-didnt-matter-in-ancient-egypt-her-strategic-role-in-world-history-did-205240
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/05/10/dialogue/opinion/how-netflixs-cleopatra-got-it-wrong-a-greek-americans-call-to-correct-presentism-historical-negationism-and-appropriation/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/opinion/black-cleopatra-netflix.html https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175403682/egyptians-and-others-are-upset-a-black-actress-stars-in-netflixs-queen-cleopatra
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/12/queen-cleopatra-looks-netflix-controversy/

Other opinions/coverage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/world/middleeast/cleopatra-netflix-race-egypt.html
https://www.dw.com/en/netflixs-cleopatra-criticized-in-egypt-over-skin-color/a-65493802
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/12/queen-cleopatra-looks-netflix-controversy/
https://tvpworld.com/69813310/i-watched-netflixs-race-baiting-cleopatra-schlockumentary-so-you-wont-have-to
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-black-queen-cleopatra-this-is-why-i-cant-trust-history-on-netflix-k78hg2pw8
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cleopatra-black-excuse-my-greek-but-youre-talking-out-of-your-asp-bkwkb37qq
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/14/egypt-netflix-queen-cleopatra-race-history-heritage-imperialism-afrocentrism/

Reviews of the actual program:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/10/queen-cleopatra-review-a-fun-drama-weighed-down-by-the-self-serious-need-to-educate
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12067911/Netflixs-controversial-Queen-Cleopatra-drama-panned-critics.html

Zahi Hawass's Cleopatra documentary was posted:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/500588.aspx https://see.news/hawass-cleopatra-documentary-to-be-streamed-on-may-10 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230510-race-row-as-egyptian-archaeologist-releases-cleopatra-documentary
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/124299/Discover-the-true-Cleopatra-A-90-minute-documentary-by-Curtis

... and an Egyptian-government-owned broadcaster in Egypt announced they were making a new one:

https://variety.com/2023/global/news/black-cleopatra-netflix-docudrama-egypt-broadcaster-light-skinned-1235608434/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12069547/Egyptian-broadcaster-makes-Cleopatra-documentary-following-Netflixs-blackwashing-series.html
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-05-10/queen-cleopatra-black-egypt-state-media-netflix-african-queens

... and a feature on the search for Cleopatra's tomb in Alexandria:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/egypt/queen-cleopatra-netflix-egypt-alexandria-travel-guide/
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CRIME BEAT
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A gang of thieves is blowing up church safes in search of silver:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1335/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1335/pub/1335/page/40/article/NaN

A number of historically-significant jewellery items were stolen from a Rotherham museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-65547420

Plenty of convictions in Egypt for antiquities smuggling:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/cairo-court-convicts-american-11-egyptians-over-antiquities-trafficking/

Nice feature on the backstory to that attempted sale of an Eid Mar aureus:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sandhurst-graduate-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-coins-and-a-3m-fraud-2sj76kw22

A Ukraine MP was found in possession of a large collection of antiquities:

https://news.yahoo.com/police-ex-mps-illegal-collection-095300179.html

More on this year's Operation Pandora finds:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/operation-pandora-seized-more-than-11000-artifacts-2022-2299136
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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 ============================================================
Britain returned 6000 artifacts to Iraq:

https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/after-a-century-iraq-recovers-6000-artifacts-from-britain/
http://www.aina.org/news/20230508145055.htm http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2023-05/10/content_85276715.htm https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/31409-Iraq-recovers-%E2%80%98second-largest%E2%80%99-batch-of-artifacts-from-UK,-says-president
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Iraq-Recovers-6000-Antiquities-From-Britain-20230510-0004.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/2023/05/09/uk-hands-back-6000-antiquities-borrowed-from-iraq-100-years-ago/

Italy returned four smuggled artifacts to Egypt:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/500322.aspx https://www.arabnews.com/node/2300596/art-culture https://see.news/four-smuggled-abroad-artifacts-brought-back-to-egypt https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/124240/In-pic-Egypt-handed-over-four-rare-Egyptian-artifacts-from

Latest twist in the Benin Bronzes return saga is a presidential decree assigning ownership of the bronzes to a royal person:

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/return-benin-bronzes-delayed-after-nigerian-presidents-decree-2023-05-10/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65531736 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/berlins-benin-bronze-return-a-fiasco-as-artefacts-vanish-jq9xsn9cf

... leading to Cambridge delaying its returns:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cambridge-uk-benin-bronzes-nigeria-tribe-2023-wv5txgjhx
https://www.herald.co.zw/return-of-relics-postponed/

... and an OpEd:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/14/should-we-send-the-benin-bronzes-back-to-slave-traders-desc/

A US citizen has returned antiquities to Italy after reading about looted items:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/may/08/us-man-returns-antiquities-italy-after-reading-guardian-report-on-looted-relics
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/man-repatriates-ancient-artifacts-italy-2298204

The US returned some looted antiquities that had been loaned to the Met to China:

https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-two-7th-century-antiquities-to-china/ https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2023/0510/1382752-stolen-artefacts/ https://www.artdependence.com/articles/manhattan-da-bragg-returns-two-7th-century-antiquities-to-china-from-the-met/
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3220169/looted-relics-loan-new-yorks-met-museum-returned-china
https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/05/11/news/world/us-returns-two-stolen-7th-century-antiquities-to-china/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stolen-ancient-tomb-carvings-storage-met-repatriated-2299182
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/12/two-7th-century-antiquities-to-be-returned-to-china/

Australia will be returning an 800 years bp temple relief to Nepal:

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/art-culture/sydney-to-repatriate-800-year-old-looted-temple-carving-to-n
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-gallery-of-new-south-wales-nepal-temple-strut-repatriation-1234667962/

The US returned 40 illegally exported items to Nepal:

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2023/05/13/united-states-returns-40-illegally-exported-artefacts-to-nepal

Italy is starting to deal with Fascist-era colonial collections:

https://apnews.com/article/italy-restitution-parthenon-pope-colonial-fascism-ae23503c6847f0c36dcff5f88e894048
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/10/italy-restitution-parthenon-pope-colonial-fascism/1a288624-eefd-11ed-b67d-a219ec5dfd30_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/italy-begins-reckon-fascist-era-colonial-collections-99218231
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/italy-begins-to-reckon-with-fascist-era-colonial-18090129.php
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/italy-begins-to-reckon-with-fascist-era-colonial-collections-183029

India is expecting a number of returns from various countries:

https://theprint.in/india/nearly-72-antiquities-in-process-of-being-repatriated-from-various-countries-govt/1562692/

... and they plan to put pressure on the UK to return items (especially the Kohinoor diamond):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/12/india-demand-colonial-treasures-koh-i-noor-britain/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/13/inevitable-indias-jewels-taken-by-british-empire-will-be-returned-says-author

More on US returns of items to Yemen:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/05/09/three-antiquities-repatriated-to-yemen/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11422-230508-yemen-looting-repatriation ============================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Coverage of the Rome and Coinages of the Mediterranean conference:

https://coinweek.com/rome-and-the-coinages-of-the-mediterranean-conference-part-ii/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n19.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n20.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Jane F Gardner:

https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2023/05/12/remembering-prof-em-jane-f-gardner-1934-2023/

George Pepe:

https://source.wustl.edu/2023/05/obituary-george-pepe-expert-on-roman-history-and-political-theory-83/

Ludwig Koenen:

https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/southfield-mi/ludwig-koenen-11284970

Donald Heldman:

https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/southfield-mi/ludwig-koenen-11284970

Chris Strachwitz:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/arts/music/chris-strachwitz-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3276-audio-news-from-archaeologica-april-30th-through-may-6th-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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