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https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/archaeological-survey-of-india-team-begins-scientific-survey-of-gyanvapi-mosque-complex-in-ups-varanasi/cid/1956640

... and so far they have found remains of 'fragmented idols':

https://www.thestatesman.com/india/amid-asi-survey-hindu-side-claims-remains-of-idol-found-at-gyanvapi-1503208662.html
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/gyanvapi-mosque-survey-day-3-concludes-asi-team-discovers-remains-of-fragmented-idols-11691293340712.html

Pondering the fate of India's maharajahs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66370541

A 12th century sabre found by three brothers in Kyrgyzstan:

https://arkeonews.net/a-rare-ancient-saber-discovered-in-kyrgyzstan/ ============================================================
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
Study suggests oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-oral-stories-australia-nations.html ============================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Divers located seven shipwrecks off the Iles-de-la-Madeleine:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9870778/quebec-iles-de-la-madeleine-shipwrecks-found/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-divers-have-found-seven-shipwrecks-off-quebecs-iles-de-la-madeleine/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/very-very-unusual-divers-discover-7-shipwrecks-off-quebec-s-magdalen-islands-1.6504936

Digging will be resuming at the Alamo's Plaza de Valero this month:

https://sanantonioreport.org/alamo-to-begin-next-phase-of-archaeological-work-at-plaza-de-valero-in-august/

A human bone from a disturbed Indian mound in St Petersburg:

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/08/02/indian-mound-human-remains-

More on evidence of a human presence in Oregon some 18 000 years bp:

https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/08/archaeologists-find-new-evidence-in-southern-oregon-that-suggests-human-habitation-18000-years-ago.html

More on the Civil War coin hoard from a Kentucky cornfield:

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2023/08/03/kentuckian-shocked-to-find-civil-war-treasure-buried-in-a-cornfield/70519359007/

Feature on the Newark Earthworks:

https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/08/05/myths-and-misconceptions-damage-understanding-of-newark-earthworks/70496498007/

Feature on the Balzac site near Calgary:

https://www.airdriecityview.com/local-news/balzac-site-continues-to-amaze-archeologist-even-after-40-years-7351463
https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local/balzac-site-continues-to-amaze-archeologist-even-after-40-years-7352828
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Study suggests that 'Luzio', who lived in the region of present day Sao Paolo 10 000 years bp, was a descendent of the population that settled the Americas at least 16 000 years bp:

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-luzio-paulo-years-amerindian-indigenous.html

A Teotihuacan village site in Mexico city was (finally) excavated:

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/world/article277821383.html

Archaeologists may have discovered the lost settlement of Apancalecan in Mexico:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article277938553.html https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-lost-settlement-of-apancalecan-in-mexico/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-lost-settlement-of-apancalecan/148151

A pre-Columbian site from Chagres (Panama):

https://menafn.com/1106781069/Pre-Columbian-Site-Unearthed-In-Chagres

More on the find of a Zapotec 'entrance to the underworld' beneath a church in southern Mexico:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/zapotec-underworld-entrance-mexico-180982552/?

More on the find of the Maya settlement of Ocumtun:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191071151/maya-city-ocomtun-lasers

Concerns because Peu has more ancient sites than they're able to protect:

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/29/1190062559/peru-archaeology-lima-inca-cultural-heritage

A study of Mesoamerican urbanism:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211558120?af=R
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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 ============================================================
Another review of the 'historical accuracy' of Indiana Jones' latest:

https://theconversation.com/what-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-gets-right-and-very-wrong-about-the-historical-antikythera-mechanism-209968

A replica Viking sailing craft passed though the Bosporus this week:

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/istanbul/replica-of-iconic-viking-sailboat-passes-through-istanbuls-bosporus

A study of how babies react to Van Gogh:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/02/adults-penchant-for-van-gogh-mirrored-in-babies-study-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/art-babies-van-gogh-children-natural

A British couple found a lost John Constable painting:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-couple-constable-painting-castle-2345180

Feature on Kiyohara Yukinobu:

https://www.cnn.com/style/kiyohara-yukinobu-kano-painter-untold-art-history/index.html

Feature on European artists focusing on peasants in the 16th century:

https://aeon.co/videos/why-european-artists-shifted-their-focus-from-power-to-peasants-in-the-16th-century

Feature on some historical conspiracy theories:

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-have-conspiracy-theories-changed-course-history

Feature on buying antiquities:

https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/how-to-collect-antiquities-1234865819/

Feature on the creation of Paul Bunyan:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/books/review/paul-bunyan-the-invention-of-an-american-legend-noah-van-sciver.html

Feature on the origins of x as a variable in math:

https://www.rawstory.com/x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery/

More on women doing hunting in hunter-gatherer contexts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/science/anthropology-women-hunting.html

Review of Jonathan W. White, *Shipwrecked*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/shipwrecked-jonathan-w-white.html

Review of Peter Heather, *Christendom*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/books/review/christendom-peter-heather.html

Review of Janet Wallach, *Flirting With Danger*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/janet-wallach-flirting-with-danger.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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A project to identify First Nations burials in a forgotten Toronto cemetery:

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/03/work-underway-to-identify-indigenous-graves-at-forgotten-toronto-cemetery/

The war in Ukraine is sparking the revival of some Cossack traditions:

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/08/01/1189938185/the-cossacks-traditions-live-on-near-the-front-lines-in-ukraine

More on the search for antiquities in the wake of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/world/europe/ukraine-kakhovka-dam-artifacts.html
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Feature on when cats started hanging out with humans:

https://theconversation.com/cats-first-finagled-their-way-into-human-hearts-and-homes-thousands-of-years-ago-heres-how-208909

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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
What Socrates would have thought about AI:

https://time.com/6299631/what-socrates-can-teach-us-about-ai/

Feature on the philosophers depicted in Raphael's *School of Athens*:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/01/ancient-greek-philosophers-raphael-school-of-athens/

Feature on Epictetus:

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/The_Three_Disciplines_of_Epictetus

Feature on Duns Scotus:

https://aeon.co/essays/duns-scotus-was-no-fool-but-a-brilliant-enigmatic-thinker

Feature on Aristotle's six 'most important' works:

https://www.thecollector.com/aristotle-most-important-works/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Luxury and Power:

https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/what-the-british-museum-reveals-about-the-torah's-view-of-beauty-2RXjwVwlJiwUmw9fEUGkLT
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/all-glitters-not-gold-emulating-luxury-ancient-greek-world

Ancient Lives:

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/beauty-wine-and-death-in-the-ancient-world

Tracing Freud on the Acropolis:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/06/tracing-freud-on-the-acropolis-freud-museum-london-review-freuds-big-fat-greek-guilt-complex

Scythian Gold:

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/20020

Plans for the 'biggest museum of the world' in Delhi:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-the-works-worlds-largest-museum-with-indias-story-of-5000-yrs-8868446/

Plans for a Parthian cemetery in western Iran to become an open-air museum:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/487459/Archaeologically-rich-Parthian-cemetery-to-become-open-air-museum

Plans for a revamp of a nautical museum in Castletown:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-66399477

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Feature on an EID MAR denarius coming to auction:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-ides-of-march-dagger-coin-minted-by-brutus-after-julius-caesars-murder-goes-to-auction

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genomics study of Holocene shell mound builders in Brazil:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/11621-230801-brazil-sambaquis-dna

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02134-5

A DNA study of kinship relationships between Europeans and enslaved persons from Rehoboth Beach (Delaware):

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-dna-delaware-site-kinship-european.html

A study of DNA links of descendants of enslaved persons in Maryland:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230803141708.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/science/catoctin-african-americans-dna.html https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-08-04/ty-article/ancient-dna-study-reveals-descendants-of-enslaved-african-americans/00000189-ba88-ddac-a3cd-bff91cb30000
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/08/tracing-slaves-to-modern-descendants https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191914142/a-landmark-study-opens-a-new-possible-way-for-black-americans-to-trace-their-anc
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/08/04/living-people-linked-to-enslaved-and-free-african-americans-at-iron-forge/

cf: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00551-1

A DNA study reveals a Bronze Age shift of population in East-Central Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-dna-reveals-shift-bronze-age.html

More on DNA suggesting a diverse population at precolonial Machu Picchu:

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-machu-picchu-dna-analysis-diversity.html https://news.yale.edu/2023/07/26/dna-analysis-offers-new-insights-diverse-community-machu-picchu
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ancient-workers-traveled-from-all-over-to-reach-machu-picchu
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/machu-picchu-servants-diversity-ancient-dna-180982625/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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This week's facial reconstruction is the 45 000 years bp Zlaty kun woman:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/see-stunning-likeness-of-zlaty-kun-the-oldest-modern-human-to-be-genetically-sequenced

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tigris River:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230731-the-tigris-the-river-that-birthed-civilisation

Lalish:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230803-in-pictures-the-protectors-of-a-7000-year-old-faith

The Acropolis of Athens:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/08/06/a-360-tour-of-the-acropolis-bbc/

This week's installment of 'Tourists behaving badly' involves German tourists who toppled a 150 years bp Italian fountain statue while taking a photo:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/german-tourists-blamed-toppling-italian-statue/index.html
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/04/german-tourists-accused-of-destroying-150-year-old-italian-statue
https://themessenger.com/news/tourists-topple-150-year-old-italian-fountain-statue-while-posing-for-social-media-photo

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CRIME BEAT
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A guilty plea from a Mississipi man accused of taking artifacts from a protected site:

https://apnews.com/article/artifacts-stolen-de-soto-national-forest-457da39e00053a2108dc6844c6d19159

A 19th century monstrance was stolen from a church in Saint-Gall (Switzerland):

https://christianophobie.fr/carte/dans-le-monde/europe/saint-gall-suisse-vol-dune-croix-monstrance-de-1830

Suggestion that blockchain could protect antiquities from being looted:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/world/ancient-treasures-are-being-looted-but-blockchain-could-help-protect-them/index.html

Feature on protecting Baltic shipwrecks from looters:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/01/baltic-sea-swedish-coastguards-saving-shipwrecks-from-looters

Feature on the search for Cambodia's stolen antiquities:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/treasure-hunters/102686256
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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 ============================================================
A Rochester museum has returned Native American remains to the Oneida Nation:

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-native-american-remains-repatriation-oneida-04c7644861aba35f4860a9a50d6b3db5

The US retuned a large Olmec item to Mexico:

https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-return-of-antiquity-from-the-olmec-civilization-to-the-people-of-mexico/

Feature on returning Nazi-looted art:

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-753637

More on the National Gallery of Australia returning sculptures to Cambodia:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/world/asia/australia-cambodia-looted-sculptures.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/03/national-gallery-of-australia-hands-back-ninth-century-cambodian-sculptures-it-believes-were-stolen
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/stolen-cambodian-statues-in-national-gallery-handed-back/102659730
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66368076 https://www.cnn.com/style/australia-national-gallery-returns-looted-statues/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/03/australia-national-gallery-cambodia-statues/
https://www.icij.org/investigations/hidden-treasures/national-gallery-of-australia-to-return-bronze-artifacts-believed-stolen-to-cambodia/

... and perhaps more will follow:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/cambodia-over-100-stolen-artefacts-in-australian-museums/102684646
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-02/treasure-hunters/102680620

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the earliest coins in Kashmir:

https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/op-ed/punch-mark-rediscovering-the-earliest-coins

Feature on ancient Greek coins of Aiolis:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-greek-coins-of-aiolis-aigai-cyme-and-myrina/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n31.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n32.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Dan Tompkins:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-dan-tompkins

Kate Fielden:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/31/kate-fielden-obituary

Alice L. Laffey:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/alice-laffey-obituary?id=52607926

John Wallace O'Hear:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/starkvilledailynews/name/john-o-hear-obituary?id=52623671

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3302-audio-news-from-archaeologica-july-23rd-through-the-29th-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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