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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/ucfv-cha112818.php

Recreating ancient Rome in VR:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vr-experience-restores-7000-ro man-buildings-monuments-their-former-glory-180970901/ ================================================================
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Finns and Sami folk share Siberian DNA apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-ancient-dna-smi-finns-identical.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/mpif-fad112618.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181127092535.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181127092535.htm

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Himalayas:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/travel/budget-leh-india-.html

Valletta:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181129-the-last-true-knight-on-malta

Country houses of Britain:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181127-top-country-houses-of-britain

Sicily:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annabel/2018/11/27/
discovering-a-secret-sicily/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES
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Nutcracker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/arts/music/nutcracker-new-york-city-b allet-tchaikovsky.html

A Mad Love:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/books/review/vivien-schweitzer-mad-lo ve-mad-scenes-heidi-waleson.html

Celebrating Offenbach's 200th:

https://www.dw.com/en/more-than-cancan-jacques-offenbachs-200th-annivers ary/a-46490669

Review of a biography of Debussy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/books/review/claude-debussy-stephen-w alsh-biography.html

... and a biography of Bing Crosy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/books/review/gary-giddins-bing-crosby -biography.html ================================================================
CRIME BEAT
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In search of a stolen Picasso:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/world/europe/stolen-picasso-rotterdam -museum-romania.html

Investigating some Viking 'dealings' in Herefordshire:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46377071

A 16-year-old art lover/thief:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/11/16-year-old-art-lover-steals-antiq uities-worth-e150000/

Vandalism in the abandoned village in Ladybower Reservoir:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-46316985

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 ================================================================
More on the BM loaning back the Benin Bronzes:

https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/stolen-benin-bronzes-return-nigeria-tempor
arily/
https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel-arts-culture/british-museum-m akes-plans-to-loan-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria-id9142715.html https://www.withinnigeria.com/2018/11/27/uk-to-loan-benin-bronzes-back-t o-nigeria-after-being-looted-for-more-than-a-century-by-british-soldiers
/
https://qz.com/africa/1477656/british-museum-to-return-looted-benin-bron ze-artifacts/

... and Easter Island wanting their Moai back:

http://theconversation.com/easter-island-statues-international-law-is-sh ifting-against-british-museum-107726 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/01/easter-islands-moai-statue-b ritish-museum-should-treated-like/

More on the French report regarding museum returns:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/arts/design/france-museums-africa-sav oy-sarr-report.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

More on France's returning looted art:

https://www.theweek.co.uk/98031/france-to-return-looted-west-african-art https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2018/11/27/macrons-thorny-plan-f or-the-restitution-of-historical-artefacts-is-costly/ https://hyperallergic.com/473075/french-president-wants-to-return-benins -artifacts-but-will-french-law-allow-him/ https://www.ft.com/content/162c41c4-f3de-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d

... and some resistance:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/quai-branly-president-macron-africa-re stitution-report-1404364

Senegal wants items back from France:

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/senegal-demands-art-back-france

General feature on pressure on museums to return items:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/dec/02/british-museums-pressure -give-back--looted-african-art-treasures

OpEd on why museums shouldn't return things:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/25/benin-bronzes-why-wester n-museums-should-keep-treasures

Other opeds in related veins:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/27/should-museum-artefacts- be-returned-to-the-countries-they-came-from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/arts/design/macron-report-restitution -precedent.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/art-lessons-why-france-giving-countries-back- cultural-175200143.html https://frieze.com/article/looted-art-and-universal-museum-can-21st-cent ury-collections-ever-escape-colonialisms https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46344247

... and the Parthenon Marbles are brought up again:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/11/27/the-acropolis-museum-is-perfectly- capable-of-housing-the-original-parthenon-sculptures-says-sunday-times/

... and it's not just art that various people want returned:

https://news.artnet.com/market/its-not-just-art-that-indigenous-peoples- want-back-from-museums-they-want-their-ancestors-human-remains-too-13977
37

More on Canada returning items to Jordan:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2018/11/28/ jordan-retrieves-ancient-artifacts-from-canada_49cada55-bdc3-4c98-a858-8 870ac2e3852.html https://www.albawaba.com/business/jordan-retains-plethora-trafficked-art efacts-canada-1219650 https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/18/11/r12751086/the-government-of -canada-announces-the-return-of-58-antiquities-to-jor ================================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n47.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n48.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/


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OBITUARIES
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James H. Billington:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/obituaries/james-billington-dead.html


Donald White:

http://www2.philly.com/philly/obituaries/donald-white-83-internationally -known-archaeologist-and-penn-museum-curator-20181126.html https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/11/donald-white-upenn-professor-penn- museum-archaeologist-died

Olivia Hooker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/obituaries/olivia-hooker-dead.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46332474

Georg Nicolaus Knauer:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-georg-nicolaus-knauer

Randolph Braham:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/obituaries/randolph-braham-dead.html ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2792-audio-news-from-archaeologica-18-november-24-november-2018 ================================================================
CONFERENCES
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Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-ame ricas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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