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https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/23765322.coroner-declares-ring-found-doctor-near-tetbury-treasure/

A hoard of 12 silver coins, most from the reign of Boleslaw the Bold, from Poland:

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/king-coin-coins-dating-back-to-the-reign-of-king-boleslaw-the-bold-found-buried-in-ancient-fortress-40845

A 17th century 'vampire' child burial from Pien:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/science/archaeology-burial-ampires-revenants.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/08/vampire-child-grave-discovered-in-17th-century-cursed-cemetery/

Three unusual burials near an 18th century execution site in Germany:

https://www.newsweek.com/bound-skeletons-discovered-gallows-germany-1823353

Hyping the search for a 'lost' medieval palace in the Scottish Borders:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-66730551

Some experimental archaeology involving neolithic canoes on the Thames:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/dr-theresa-emmerich-kamper-ancient-skills-stone-age-living

A new legal challenge to the Stonehenge tunnel:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-england-a-renewed-battle-over-a-tunnel-beneath-stonehenge-180982808/?

Specialists were conducting a survey of the stone in Westminster Abbey's West Towers:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66681260

Restoration of Salisbury Cathedral is almost complete:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/05/salisbury-cathedral-prepares-for-final-topping-out-after-37-years-of-repairs

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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 ============================================================
3200+ tombs (1500-1000 BCE) from China's Qinghai province:

https://english.news.cn/20230828/65f98eac4ca647ba9348f63674c08ecb/c.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-08/29/content_109300683.htm https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202308/1297219.shtml

A large and well-preserved lake shell midden (Shang and Zhou Dynasty) from Yunnan:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0904/c98649-20067129.html

2000 years bp chime bells from Henan:

https://arkeonews.net/well-preserved-2000-year-old-chime-bells-bianzhong-discovered-in-china/

Wei Kingdon-Jin Dynasty burials and domestic building foundations from Liaoning:

https://english.news.cn/20230905/1de5324c627c410f8a12495570c74083/c.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-09/06/content_112744504.htm

Assorted Ming Dynasty finds from Changchun:

https://english.news.cn/20230902/1804b284f56247aa903ae7c53cf0db84/c.html

People using an excavator to 'make a path' did some major damage to China's Great Wall:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66714547 https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/china/china-great-wall-damage-excavator-intl/index.html

Feature on Fang Beisong's work with bamboo slips:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_1Vi4D0Gv.html http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0905/c90000-20067888.html

... related:

https://english.news.cn/20230907/241629e3a47545048199ea41b43f6f25/c.html

A 4000 years bp pyramidal structure from Kazakhstan:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article278062057.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/11678-230811-kazakhstan-stone-structure

Paintings on the walls of Gua Sireh cave (Malaysia) have been dated to the 17th-19th centuries:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/gua-sireh-cave-rock-art/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-malaysian-rock-drawings-depict-a-violent-history-180982814/

A Bronze age burial of a girl, along with 150 animal ankle bones, from Kazakhstan:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/bronze-age-girl-buried-with-more-than-150-animal-ankle-bones-potentially-to-help-her-to-the-next-world
https://arkeonews.net/astonishing-discovery-in-kazakhstan-bronze-age-girl-buried-with-more-than-150-animal-ankle-bones/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/bronze-age-burial-found-in-kazakhstan/148492
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11729-230907-kazakhstan-burial-mound

Neolithic (?) finds from near Khajaguda:

https://telanganatoday.com/hyderabad-neolithic-remains-found-near-lanco-hills-at-khajaguda
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/2000-bce-neolithic-remains-found-at-khajaguda/article67255324.ece
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/hyderabad/archaeologists-discover-2000-bc-neolithic-remains-near-khajaguda/articleshow/103262937.cms

A 2000 years bp 'gold foil' and a lotus relief of some sort from Purana Qila:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/dug-up-2000-yr-old-gold-foil-engraved-lotus-at-delhis-purana-qila/articleshow/103446948.cms

A 19th century stepwell is being excavated in Hyderabad:

https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2023/sep/03/19th-century-stepwell-rediscovered-experts-urge-extreme-care-during-restoration-2611226.html

Workers found 240 British-era gold coins in Gujarat (with 239 being 'stolen by cops'):

https://www.news18.com/india/240-british-era-gold-coins-unearthed-by-labours-at-construction-site-in-gujarat-239-stolen-by-cops-8552980.html

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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
3d maps of the Swan River led to the find of an unknown sunken barge (100 years bp?) near Perth:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-02/shipwreck-found-perth-swan-river-maritime-archaeologists/102798982

An unnamed company has admitted damaging an archaeological site in New Zealand:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/marlborough-top-stories/132831608/company-admits-damaging-nationally-significant-archaeological-site
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2023/09/04/company-admits-damaging-nationally-significant-archaeological-site/
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NORTH AMERICA
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3000 years bp woven grass mats from Alaska's Kodiak Island:

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/video/2023/09/05/archaeologists-uncover-weavings-ancestral-artifacts-dating-back-thousands-years/
https://arkeonews.net/3000-year-old-weavings-discovered-in-alaskas-alutiiq-settlement/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-uncover-3000-year-old-ancient-weavings-in-alaska/148437

Analysis of salmon bones reveals the Tsleil-Waututh Nation sustainably fished for salmon for 2500 years:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-salmon-bones-sustainable-chum-fishery.html

An early 1100s CE macaw breeding site from New Mexico:

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/health_and_science/southwest-new-mexico-ruins-reveal-ancient-macaw-breeding-site/article_9fc9a5d6-44ea-11ee-b274-5bca586b64a0.html

A 'copper dome' found back in 1980 near the wreck of the Santa Margarita might be a 17th century diving bell:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-17th-century-cauldron-may-be-primitive-submarine-used-to-salvage-treasure-from-a-sunken-galleon

An 1881 shipwreck found in Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin:

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-shipwreck-trinidad-discovered-lake-michigan-687b68a5a1572dcb9089d8cf2b3d438b
https://ktar.com/story/5534925/schooner-that-sank-in-lake-michigan-in-1881-found-intact-miles-off-wisconsin-coastline/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/shipwreck-trinidad-lake-michigan-wisconsin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-12471065/Schooner-sank-Lake-Michigan-1881-intact-miles-Wisconsin-coastline.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-an-almost-entirely-intact-142-year-old-shipwreck-in-lake-michigan-180982848/

Drought in Texas has exposed five sunken WWI era ships in the Neches River:

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2023/08/29/sunken-world-war-i-vessels-found-beaumont-texas-drought-neches-river/70700205007/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drought-in-east-texas-reveals-world-war-i-shipwreck-180982807/

... and there are thought's a town 'hidden under lake' might soon be revealed:

https://www.newsweek.com/could-texas-lake-water-drop-reveal-hidden-town-sparta-1824074

There was hype for the opening of a 195 years bp time capsule from West Point:

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2023/08/28/west-point-ny-time-capsule-opening-kosciuszko-monument-mystery-livestream/70669019007/

... but then we were told it was empty:

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/west-point-kosciuszko-time-capsule-18331364.php
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66641401 https://www.wamc.org/news/2023-08-28/west-point-time-capsule-turns-up-empty-stumping-historians
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/29/west-point-time-capsule-opening/
https://apnews.com/article/west-point-time-capsule-75d882ce97926fc1680b693a8dc8c7af
https://fortune.com/2023/08/29/west-point-time-capsule-kosciuszko-empty-dirt-silt/

... and then we were told there were some coins:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66667189 https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/artifacts-west-point-time-capsule-18338842.php
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/national/23757385.time-capsule-appeared-contain-silt-yields-centuries-old-coins/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/e32a0419044a48fdb5bbedae4b5da8f8/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300961713/time-capsule-that-appeared-to-contain-nothing-yields-centuriesold-coins

... and a related feature on Thaddeus Kosciuszko:

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/article/thaddeus-kosciuszko-history-west-point-18352264.php

No evidence of a hoped-for 1631 Dutch fort at the Lewes Dairy site in Delaware:

https://www.capegazette.com/article/no-evidence-found-dutch-fort-was-located-lewes-dairy/263690

Overview/plans for a Beothuk site in central Newfoundland:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/beothuk-lake-artifacts-house-pit-erosion-1.6956767

What a buffalo processing site near Calgary is revealing:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2259738179928

Feature on bellmaking in Watervliet (NY):

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/watervliet-claims-historic-spot-center-bell-making-18306636.php

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Remains of a 4000+ years bp adobe wall from Huaca Tomabal (Peru):

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ancient-polychrome-wall-found-northern-peru-likely-over-4000-years-old-2023-08-24/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11715-230830-peru-huaca-tomabal

A 3000 years bp priestly burial ('Priest of Pacopama') from northern Peru:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ancient-priest-first-of-a-kind-peru-team.html https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/3000-year-old-tomb-of-shaman-who-may-have-mediated-between-spiritual-and-earthly-worlds-found-in-peru
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66645621 https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-30/the-priest-of-pacopampa-archaeologists-discover-3000-year-old-tomb-in-the-peruvian-highlands.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/archaeologists-unearth-3000-year-old-priestly-tomb-northern-peru-2023-08-27/
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-3-000-old-priest-122402489.html https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-priests-remains-first-kind-185730288.html https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/29/archaeologists-unearth-ceramic-filled-tomb-of-3000-year-old-priest-in-peru
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230827-ancient-priest-s-remains-are-a-first-of-a-kind-find-for-peru-team
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-priest-tomb-found-peru-archaeologists-1234677715/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68145 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/tomb-of-3000-year-old-priest-found-at-pacopampa/148426
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11714-230830-peru-pacopampa-tomb

An 1100 years bp 'nose ornament' made of human bone from Palenque:

https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-maya-nose-bone-ornament-scn-tan/index.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/30/maya-nose-ornament-discovered-palenque-mexico
https://arkeonews.net/inah-archaeologists-discovered-a-nose-ornament-made-of-human-bone-in-the-mexican/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68172 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/nose-ring-made-from-human-bone-found-by-archaeologists-at-palenque/148417

A 1000 years bp mummified person with long hair from the Huaca Pucllana site in Lima:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-unearth-1000-year-old-mummy-peru-residential-neighborhood-2023-09-06/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/07/peru-mummy-found-ychsma/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/08/peru-lima-1000-year-old-mummy-head-of-hair-huaca-pucllana/
https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/archaeologists-discover-1000-year-mummy-peru/story?id=102991562
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologist-find-1000-year-old-mummy-buried-top-huge-pyramid-1825575
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11731-230908-peru-yschma-mummy

A 1000 years bp War burial site (two chambers) and more from Peru's Cajamarca region:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230903-pre-incan-site-for-ancestor-worship-found-in-peru-1
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/archaeologists-uncover-1000-year-old-ancestral-site-in-peru/news
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/archaeologists-discover-extensive-settlement-during-excavations-in-peru/2982635
https://www.sciencealert.com/sacred-burial-site-discovered-in-peru-predates-the-inca-empire

Burials of 13 males (600-900 CE) near a Maya pyriamid at Moral-Reforma:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/deformed-skulls-and-ritual-beheadings-found-at-maya-pyramid-in-mexico
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11711-230829-maya-pyramid-skulls

Heavy rains helped to expose an 800 years bp burial near the El Tlatoani archaeological zone:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article278738084.html

A Late Post-Classic chacmool statue from Patzcuaro:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-discover-chacmool-statue-in-patzcuaro/148461

A pit of offerings of various dates (?) from the Templo Mayor in Mexico City:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/stone-human-effigies-unearthed-at-aztec-temple-in-mexico-city-were-likely-looted-in-battle-and-offered-to-the-gods
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-have-unearthed-a-stone-chest-containing-the-ritual-deposit-of-15-anthropomorphic-figurines/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/68161 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/offerings-of-anthropomorphic-figurines-found-at-aztec-templo-mayor/148401
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11718-230831-templo-mayor-case

An 'Atlantean' sculpture from Chichen Itza:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/atlantean-type-sculpture-discovered-in-the-archaeological-zone-of-chichen-itza/148407

More on the find of Ocumtun:

https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-756396

Feature on the history of cochineal dye:

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-historic-natural-red-dye-6e6b998a78deb12e2b99a42f23358f08

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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 ============================================================
Identifying the first person to raise the alarm about London's Great Fire:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66671399 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/01/museum-of-london-identifies-man-who-raised-alarm-over-great-fire
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1447/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1447/pub/1447/page/8/article/NaN

On Henry Ford's Cotswolds cottage:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-66546779

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Des Cheveux et des Poils:

https://www.cnn.com/style/history-of-hair-museum-paris/index.html

cf: https://madparis.fr/Des-cheveux-et-des-poils-2304

Egyptian Writing:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/507988/Antiquities/Museums/Kafr-ElSheikh-Museum-to-host-exhibition-on-ancient.aspx

Tunisia is reopening the Bardo Museum:

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisia-reopen-national-museum-closed-2021-power-seizure-2023-09-05/

The Hermitage Amsterdam has cut ties with Russia and is now the H'ART Museum:

https://www.dw.com/en/hermitage-amsterdam-cuts-ties-to-russia-and-rebrands-as-hart/a-66686537

News from the British Museum continues ... first the claim that they're recovering missing items:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-66626872 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-recovered-2000-missing-stolen-artifacts-1234677748/

... but that more may be missing:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inside-the-british-museum-where-more-treasures-may-be-missing-zhlgjtn9q
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-nine-in-ten-lost-treasures-never-recovered-mgmprvzbp

... and the BM should tell us what is missing:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/british-museum-must-list-missing-objects-so-antiquities-dealers-can-help
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/30/its-time-to-publish-the-british-museums-list-of-stolen-items

... and opEds on the BM's stance on returning items:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/27/thefts-expose-british-museums-ridiculous-stance-on-return-of-artefacts-says-mp
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-contested-artefacts-benin-bronzes-b2394754.html

... of which Wales wants the Mold Cape back:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/29/welsh-nationalists-call-on-british-museum-return-artefacts/
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/bring-mold-gold-cape-back-27603919
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12460411/Now-Welsh-nationalists-demand-return-ancient-treasures-say-theft-hit-British-Museum-trusted-look-it.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/01/british-museum-thefts-welsh-politicians-join-the-queue-in-calling-for-objects-to-be-repatriated

... and China wants things back:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66636705 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/28/british-museum-china-return-treasure-theft-global-times/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1444/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1444/pub/1444/page/35/article/NaN
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/british-museum-stolen-artifacts-james-cleverly-b2400975.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chin-demands-british-museumrestitution-2354921
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/29/chinese-state-newspaper-demands-return-of-british-museum-artefacts-in-pointed-editorial

... and Egypt:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-following-up-with-british-museum-regarding-stolen-artifacts/
https://see.news/zahi-hawass-calls-for-international-conference-to-retrieve-egyptian-items-from-british-museum

... and Nigeria:

https://hypebeast.com/2023/8/multiple-countries-renew-repatriation-efforts-british-museum-security-breach

... and the Scots and Cornish:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12466563/Scotland-Cornwall-Wales-Celts-British-Museum-thefts.html

... and lots of chatter about the Parthenon sculptures:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/british-museum-stolen-artefacts-elgin-marbles/
https://www.thenationalherald.com/thefts-show-british-museum-cant-keep-parthenon-marbles-mp-says/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/28/parthenon-marbles-deal-still-on-the-table-despite-british-museum-theft-scandal
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1218682/association-of-greek-archeologists-announcement-on-the-british-museum-debacle/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-museum-london-give-back-elgin-marbles-b1103473.html
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1219020/british-musem-arguments-for-keeping-sculptures-shattered/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1443/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1443/pub/1443/page/35/article/NaN

... and items such as an Iron Age torc from Worcester:

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23752576.worry-fate-ancient-torc-british-museum-thefts/

... and concerns for the BM's reputation:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/08/28/exp-british-museum-thefts-christos-tsirogiannis-intv-082801aseg3-cnni-world.cnn

... and assorted other OpEds:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/28/british-museum-theft-cash-strapped-collections-sold
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-museum-theft-jewels-parthenon-marbles-b2400503.html
https://unherd.com/2023/08/the-age-of-the-museum-is-over/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/architecture/dan-hicks-how-to-fix-the-british-museum/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1444/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1444/pub/1444/page/70/article/NaN
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30082023-why-irony-of-british-museum-thefts-not-lost-on-nations-awaiting-return-of-looted-artifacts-analysis/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/30/art-detective-simple-solution-british-museum-fiasco
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hunt-for-british-museum-stolen-artefacts-raises-questions-sjs0306t2
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/british-museum-thefts-security-hartwig-fischer-peter-higgs-b1103948.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/31/we-must-recognise-the-true-worth-of-museum-collections-to-society
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/01/british-museum-curators-thefts-funding
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1219020/british-musem-arguments-for-keeping-sculptures-shattered/
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/british-museum-thefts-crisis-leadership-director-trustees/
https://hyperallergic.com/843150/the-sun-is-setting-on-the-british-museum/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-cataloging-debacle-2356464 https://www.thenationalherald.com/letter-from-athens-thefts-of-the-british-museum-antiquities-were-creative-acts/

The BM is calling Christos Tsirogiannis in to check for looted items:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1453/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1453/pub/1453/page/46/article/NaN

The BM also appointed a new interim director:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/british-museum-interim-director-theft-crisis-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/09/08/sir-mark-jones-appointed-interim-director-of-the-british-museum/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of the genome of a family who lived in the Urals some 3800 years bp:

https://arkeonews.net/bronze-age-family-systems-deciphered-paleogeneticists-analyze-3800-year-old-extended-family/

Matching human remains in German museums to living relatives in Tanzania:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/germany-links-skulls-stolen-from-african-colony-to-living-relatives

Identifying the origins of 'liberated' Africans who were taken to St Helena:

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dna-analyses-st-helena-liberated.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230907130348.htm

More on what we've learned from Otzi's DNA:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/a-dna-analysis-upends-what-we-thought-oetzi-the-iceman-looked-like
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using AI to argue over a Raphael:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/09/battle-ai-rival-tech-teams-raphael-painting-uk-gallery-old-master

Using 3d imaging technique to reveal 'hidden' animals in La Pasiega petroglyphs:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/centuries-old-technique-reveals-hidden-3d-animals-in-paleolithic-cave-art

Using various technologies to study cremated remains in some Bronze Age urns from Austria:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-multiple-reveal-bronze-age-cremation.html

Feature on Julie Dunne's work studying ancient biomolecules:

https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/art-&-artifacts/Archaeologist-Julie-Dunne-mines-millennia/101/i28

Feature on use of Raman spectroscopy to study wall paintings at Pompeii:

https://www.spectroscopyonline.com/view/using-raman-to-analyze-ancient-murals-in-pompeii

Feature on how Hew Morrison does facial reconstructions:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-forensic-artist-brings-dead-to-life-180982728/

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Wartburg Castle:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-wartburg-castle-world-cultural-heritage-site/video-66693777

Magdala:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-758314

This week's 'tourists behaving badly' includes three tourists being fined for damaging stones at Sarmizgetusa Regia:

https://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/three-foreign-tourists-fine-for-allegedly-scratching-the-stones-at-sarmizegetusa-regia/

... and a German tourist damaging a 16th century Fountain of Nepture in Florence:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/german-tourist-florence-statue-intl-scli/index.html
https://www.euronews.com/video/2023/09/06/german-tourist-damages-florences-neptune-fountain-to-take-photo
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Penelope:

https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-09-01/reaching-out-and-waiting-hudson-valley-shakespeare-festival-presents-the-world-premiere-of-penelope

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CRIME BEAT
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Richard Beale has pleaded guilty to charges arising from the attempted auction of that EidMar aureus (and more) a few months ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66594076 https://www.arabnews.com/node/2362341/world

A man 'filmed' himself damaging a Bronze Age monument in Wales:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-66659415

Evidence of clandestine digging at Heraclea Minoa:

https://www.agrigentonotizie.it/cronaca/cattolica-eraclea-buche-scavi-clandestini-reperti-inchiesta.html

Feature on three 'infamous' antiquities dealers:

https://hyperallergic.com/830328/three-antiquities-traffickers-and-their-fall-from-grace/

Feature on Stefan Guericke:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/10/antiquities-smuggler-greece/

The US has signed an agreement with Yemen regarding trafficking of artifacts:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/08/30/washington-lifts-efforts-to-deter-illegal-trafficking-of-yemen-artefacts/

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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 'emperor as philosopher' statue (maybe Marcus Aurelius) at the Cleveland MoA was seized (and probably headed for Turkiye):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/arts/design/marcus-aurelius-seized-cleveland-museum.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/01/roman-emperor-statue-seized-from-cleveland-museum-in-looting-investigation
https://apnews.com/article/roman-statue-cleveland-museum-turkey-f89b0a7b70295cf63b82e5d43e2947f9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66678563 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12472003/Manhattan-prosecutors-seize-20M-headless-bronze-STATUE-Ohio-museum-fears-artwork-showing-Roman-emperor-Marcus-Aurelius-looted-Turkey.html
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/new-york-authorities-order-seizure-of-ancient-statue-at-cleveland-museum-of-art-possibly-connected-to-looting-trafficking-of-antiquities-in-turkey.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/statue-believed-depict-marcus-aurelius-seized-cleveland-museum-102842865
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/looted-from-turkiye-us-authorities-seize-marcus-aurelius-statue-185961
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marcus-aurelius-bronze-seized-turkey-2357047 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/31/cleveland-museum-art-roman-bronze-turkey-loot-seized
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/roman-statue-seizure-cleveland-museum-of-art/ https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197229128/roman-emperor-statue-seized-cleveland-museum-marcus-aurelius

... and an opEd:

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/09/seizure-of-ancient-sculpture-at-cleveland-museum-of-art-signals-a-global-shift-over-returning-looted-contested-artworks.html

Similarly, a 'Portrait of a Lady' was seized from the Worcester Art Museum:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/arts/design/manhattan-prosecutors-seize-3rd-century-bust.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/06/stolen-art-massachusetts-worcester-museum
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/us-seizes-roman-bronze-bust-linked-to-smuggled-antiquities-from-turkiye/news
https://apnews.com/article/roman-statue-seized-worcester-massachusetts-museum-turkey-6b6c7ac2cffdfaef3e767a17f88b07f4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/09/06/worcester-art-museum-roman-bust/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ancient-roman-bust-seized-massachusetts-museum-looting-probe-102916333
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2023/09/02/worcester-art-museum-gives-likely-stolen-roman-bust-to-manhattan-da/70742896007/
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/worcester-art-museum-turns-over-bronze-bust-to-manhattan-district-attorney/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ancient-roman-bust-seized-massachusetts-museum-looting-investigation-rcna103335
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/manhattan-prosecutors-seize-roman-bust-from-massachusetts-museum-in-smuggling-investigation-27b6a286
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roman-bust-seized-worcester-art-museum-trafficking-investigation-1234678474/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/06/manhattan-district-attorneys-office-seizes-bronze-bust-in-turkish-repatriation-sting
https://hyperallergic.com/842867/authorities-seize-5m-roman-bust-from-massachusetts-museum/

The Boston MFA is checking its collection for looted bronzes too:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-09-06/mfa-investigating-possibly-looted-ancient-bronzes-in-its-collection

A Scottish museum returned a totem pole to the Nisga'a Nation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66615589 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-nisgaa-memorial-pole-scotland-national-museum/
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ceremony-marks-start-journey-home-indigenous-totem-pole-102617335
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/28/artefacts-row-stolen-totem-pole-set-to-return-from-scotland-to-canada
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12453623/Ceremony-held-prepare-totem-pole-return-Canada.html

A dozen items from the Met and a New Jersey storage unit were returned to Lebanon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/arts/looted-artifacts-lebanon.html

A sacred stone that had been moved to Lawrence (Kansa) was returned to the Kaw Nation:

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-08-30/a-sacred-boulder-taken-to-honor-white-settlers-is-leaving-lawrence-and-returning-to-the-kaw-nation
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278739914.html https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2023/aug/30/prayer-rock-loaded-up-and-returned-to-kaw-nation/

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