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https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-sistine-chapel-of-ancients.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tens-thousands-12000-year-old-rock-paintings-found-colombia-180976427/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9244-201201-colombia-rock-art

... and a related editorial:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/04/the-guardian-view-on-amazonian-cave-art-a-story-about-the-environment-too

More on Maya water filtration:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/11/researchers-uncover-2000-year-old-maya-water-filtration-system/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/maya-water-system-discoveries-show-the-ancient-civilization-in-a-new-light

More on women as hunters:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/female-hunters/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-female-huntress

Feature on San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/12/san-lorenzo-tenochtitlan-the-first-olmec-centre/136352

A handy list of some upcoming Zoom-hosted lectures on the ancient Americas:

https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/

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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Divers in the Baltic brought up a Nazi Enigma machine:

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-divers-nazis-enigma-code-machine.html https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-germany-war-enigma/divers-discover-nazi-ww2-enigma-machine-in-baltic-sea-idUKKBN28D257
https://www.cnet.com/news/divers-retrieve-enigma-code-machine-the-nazis-sank-in-baltic-sea-in-1945/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/enigma-cipher-machine-used-by-the-nazis-in-wwii-found-in-the-baltic-sea/

... and there are plans to restore it of course:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/germany-museum-to-restore-enigma-machine-found-seabed

The British Library has acquired a 400 years bp copy of John Donne's work:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/the-book-of-love-400-year-old-tome-of-john-donnes-poems-is-unveiled

On previous cancelled Christmases:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/christmas-was-cancelled

A feature on Hanukkah:

https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/12/06/the-myths-of-hanukkah/

Interesting feature on the ceiling of the archbishop's palace at Seville:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-12-02/las-instrucciones-del-inquisidor-estan-en-el-techo.html

Venture Smith is providing a new look at the slave trade:

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2020/1201/Storied-narrative-s-translation-prompts-a-fresh-look-at-the-slave-trade

How captive peoples benefitted their captors:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-captive-peoples-enriched-the-cultures-of-their-captors

Feature on Religion and Archaeology:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-complicated-history-of-religion-and-archaeology

Interesting feature on an Italian rabbi who tried to talk Henry VIII out of divorce:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dont-divorce-her-rabbis-letter-to-henry-viii-at-heart-of-british-library-show/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2020/12/the-italian-rabbi-who-tried-to-talk-henry-viii-out-of-his-first-divorce/

Feature on a dozen 'enduring places':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/twelve-ancient-and-enduring-places-around-world-180976362/

Feature on methods archaeologists use to determine where to dig:

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-archaeologists.html

Feature on a long-lived presidential grandson:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/29/president-john-tyler-grandson-harrison/

Feature on when Frederick Douglass met his former enslaver:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/12/not-lesson-forgiveness-why-frederick-douglass-met-former-enslaver/

Feature on all the 'dead people' we've been digging up lately:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34825606/mummy-excavation-egypt-muslim-crypt-spain/

Feature on Tolkien and Lewis at Oxford:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-oxford-school-of-fantasy-literature

Studying 'women and swearing' in Australia:

https://theconversation.com/from-common-scolds-to-feminist-reclamation-the-fraught-history-of-women-and-swearing-in-australia-150615

Feature on the ancient beer recreation trend:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-beer-in-history

A possible relaunch of Time Team:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/12/the-return-of-time-team/136345

A 'mystery smudge' in explorer Jorgen Bronlund's diary:

https://www.livescience.com/greenland-explorer-diary-black-spot.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/9253-201203-greenland-diary-explorer

Tolkien's house is up for sale:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/realestate/tolkien-house-sale-oxford.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-55187161

In case you were wondering about the Kraken:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55090145

On the numerous copies of Newton's Principia that have been recently identified:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/newton-principia-census

Interesting find of some Great Western Railway posters in an attic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-55094176

More on microbes and the like on DaVinci drawings:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microbes-fungi-discovered-da-vinci-drawings-180976416/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/da-vinci-microbiome

Review of *The Age of Wood*:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03378-y

Review of *The Glorious American Essaey*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/books/review-glorious-american-essay-phillip-lopate.html

Review of *A Question of Freedom*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/books/review-question-of-freedom-families-challenged-slavery-william-thomas.html

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/living-in-ancient-judah/

Buddhist art:

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/india/online-int---l-exhibition-held-on-wealth-of-buddhist-art-and-antiquities.html
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/virtual-exhibition-on-shared-buddhist-heritage-of-sco-countries-launched/article33214191.ece

Roman gold:

https://ashmolean.org/event/lasers-hoarding-and-roman-gold-coinage

Slavery:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/02/dyckman-farmhouse-museum-new-york-slavery-art-exhibition
https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/unspoken-voices-honoring-a-legacy-of-black-america/

Mesopotamia:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/mesopotamia-tales-from-a-delayed-exhibition/

Trojan Cups:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2020/12/02/bizarre-3rd-millennium-bc-trojan-cups-imported-from-troy-become-november-2020-exhibit-of-the-month-in-bulgarias-national-museum-of-archaeology/

Feature on the underwater museum at Alonissos:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/12/diving-into-the-first-underwater-museum-in-greece/

In case you wondered about the British Museum's Great Court:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-great-court/

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is doing a live restoration of a Roman sarcophagus:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/12/04/live-restoration-in-the-museum/ ================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
One of the first commercially-printed Christmas cards is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/04/first-commercially-printed-christmas-card-up-for-sale

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on dendrochronology:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/if-you-really-want-to-know-how-old-a-historical-house-is-look-to-the-tree-rings/2020/12/05/7e157348-3679-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

... and its application to climate shift studies in East Asia:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/tree-rings-provide-evidence-for-climate.html

A grant to create a VR experience around a medieval book of hours:

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3348/virtual-reality-manuscript/

On applying neural nets to archaeological finds:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intelligence-archaeology-cnn.html

On finding sites with satellites:

https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-archaeologists-are-using-lasers-and-satellites-to-uncover-invisible-human-remains

Feature on wood preservation:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/science-notes-a-new-approach-to-wood-preservation.htm

On making 3d photos of buildings available on the internet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54597241

More on the examination of those mummies found back in 1615:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/archaeologists-finally-peer-inside.html

More on Egyptian ink:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/lead-based-inks-likely-used-as-a-drying-agent-on-ancient-egyptian-papyri/

More on the CT scan of that mummy of a five-year-old girl:

https://www.livescience.com/roman-era-mummy-x-ray-scans.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/9241-201130-mummy-ct-scans

More on archaeologists in the time of COVID:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/how-are-archaeologists-using-hi-tech-during-the-coronavirus-era-650245
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
What finds from Utah's Danger Cave reveal (portend?) about climate change:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/30/why-utah-cave-may-hold/

On the effects of climate change at Cahokia:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/12/cahokia-study-reveals-impacts-of-climate-change-on-human-history/136327
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/12/when-rains-stopped-climate-change-as.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/12/04/when-the-rains-stopped/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Hamburg:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-16-states-hamburg/a-45215303

Patmos:

https://www.travelpulse.com/opinions/blog/discover-the-charming-greek-island-of-patmos.html

Pyrgi:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pyrgi-greece ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Messiah:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/arts/music/handel-messiah-trinity-church.html

Tantalus:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/denver/article/DCPA-Theatre-Company-to-Stream-TANTALUS-Behind-The-Mask-20201202

Feature on four American composers:

https://www.carnegiehall.org/explore/articles/2020/11/13/four-american-composers-to-know-better

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
Reviewish thing of Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-the-secrets-of-ancient-egypt-as-told-by-today-s-egyptians-1.9330241
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CRIME BEAT
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Turkish police seized a stolen relief depicting a gladiator (article in Turkish):

https://www.dha.com.tr/yurt/2-bin-yillik-gladyator-rolyefinin-sirri-cozuldu/haber-1801248

... no picture, but the same thing in English:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-12/01/c_139556198.htm

A Turkish official arrested for smuggling artifacts out of Syria:

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-forces-arrest-officer-responsible-for-smuggling-antiquities-out-of-syria/

European auction houses caught selling stolen Greek artifacts:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/11/28/auction-houses-illegally-selling-stolen-artifacts/

A woman on Kalymnos arrested for trafficking antiquities:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/archive_general_news_greece/arthro/greek_woman_arrested_on_kalymnos_for_antiquities_trafficking-1340602/

A bag found with illegally excavated items from the Valle of the Templi (articles in Italian):

https://sicilianews24.it/ritrovato-borsone-con-reperti-trafugati-dalla-valle-dei-templi-634312.html
https://www.agrigentonotizie.it/cronaca/borsone-reperti-abbandono-agrigento-traffico-illecito-.html

Some illegal metal detectorists were arrested in Crotone (article in Italian):

https://www.crotonenews.com/costume/crotone-sorpresi-a-cercare-reperti-archeologici-con-metal-detector-denunciati/

How German librarians caught a book thief:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-german-librarians-caught-a-book-thief

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2020/12/culture-crime-news-23-20-november-2020.html

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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 ================================================================

Some background on the Benin bronzes:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/benin-bronzes-stuff-the-british-stole-museum-history/12837940

A Greek monastery is seeking the return of some items from Bulgaria:

https://www.voanews.com/europe/greek-monastery-seeks-return-stolen-religious-objects-bulgaria

Opeddish thing on the (non) return of some Indian idols:

https://indianexpress.com/article/research/from-kohinoor-to-goddess-annapoorna-why-some-stolen-objects-return-and-others-dont-7082126/

A Bronze horse taken during the Second Opium War has been returned to China:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/12/bronze-horse-bust-looted-in-second.html

A Nazi art case is heading to the Supreme Court:

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/ap-top-news/2020/12/05/high-court-to-decide-whether-nazi-art-case-stays-in-us-court

More on the Netherlands returning an Ife terracotta to Nigeria:

https://guardian.ng/art/the-netherlands-repatriates-600-year-old-ife-terracotta/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/11/ancient-ife-artefact-returned-to.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coinage of Rhegium:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-coinage-of-rhegium/

Feature on coining houses:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-coining-house

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n48.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n49.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Irina Antonova:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/europe/irina-antonova-dead-cornavirus.html

Edda Bresciani:

https://www.luccaindiretta.it/cronaca/2020/11/29/lucca-lutto-per-la-morte-dellegittologa-edda-bresciani/209071/

John Coles:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/01/john-coles-obituary

David Hackett:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/obituaries/david-hackett-dead-coronavirus.html

Tom Winnifrith:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/nov/29/tom-winnifrith-obituary

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3007-audio-news-from-archaeologica-november-22-through-november-28-2020
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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 ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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