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Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
We may have mentioned these earliest Qu’ran fragments in another section:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-oldest-koran-text-fragments.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33436021 http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/worlds-oldest-koran-fragments-found-in-uk-150
722.htm


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150722-koran-quran-oldest-manuscript-birm
ingham/


http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/1-500-year-old-quran-manuscript-could-b
e-oldest-known-n396806


http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2015/07/quran-manuscript-22-07-15.aspx


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/europe/quran-fragments-university-birmingha
m.html




… related:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-33595191


Bizarre leap in logic about Shakespeare being high when he wrote:


http://phys.org/news/2015-08-shakespeare-high-penned.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/william-shakesp
eare-high-cannabis-marijuana-stoned-plays-hamlet-macbeth-romeo-juliet-stratford-10446
510.html


http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/08/10/scientist-shakespeare-marijuana/


On 16th century precedents for Darwin:


http://phys.org/news/2015-08-16th-century-paved-darwin-landmark.html


On Shelley’s politics:


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/04/429363868/how-percy-shelley-stirred-his-
politics-into-his-tea-cup?sc=17&f=1008




On the history of humans and pigs:


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/20/423865233/why-the-pig-is-the-most-loved-
and-most-loathed-animal-on-the-plate




On Hebrew-speaking Lilliputians:


http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-Lilliputians-in-Swifts-Gullivers-Travels-ma
y-have-been-speaking-Hebrew-411914




Why humans kiss:


http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150714-why-do-we-kiss


Studying the transition from hunting/gathering to agriculture:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-archaeologists-methods-explore-farming.html


Michelangelo the mathematician?:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-michelangelo-mathematics-creation-adam.html


Feature on Van Gogh:


http://www.dw.com/en/who-was-vincent-van-gogh/g-18284373


On Atticus Finch’s forebears:


http://theconversation.com/whats-in-a-name-atticus-finch-and-his-roman-forebears-44911




Another anomolous tomb find:


http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/bizarre-swiss-watch-ring-found-in-400-y
ear-old-chinese-tomb-and-34-more-amazing-historical-artifacts




Latest British Academy fellows:


http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-new-fellows-for-2015




Latest World Heritage sites:


http://www.straitstimes.com/world/a-guide-to-the-23-newly-minted-world-heritage-sites




On strange burials:


http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/15/not-all-strange-burials-are-vamp
ires-or-zombies-archaeologists-warn/




This one should have been elsewhere … claim that Chinese glyphs are found in the
Americas prior to Columbus:


http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2015-07/15/content_21293097.htm


Hacking Pliny’s style (probably should be Classics):


http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/hacking-the-humanities


Volcanic eruptions that changed history:


http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/KHVguppoOv
s/150708133858.htm


http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2015/volcanic-eruptions-that-chan
ged-human-history




On Gertrude Bell:


http://capeandislands.org/post/gertrude-bell-was-woman-worth-knowing


Nothing new on the Amelia Earhart front:


http://news.discovery.com/adventure/amelia-earhart-expedition-returns-with-no-immediat
e-answers-150707.htm




Interesting story behind a salt cellar coming to auction:


http://www.timesofisrael.com/rubbing-salt-out-of-a-wound-a-storied-artifact-goes-on-sale/




We may have had this ‘influential women’ piece in another section:


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/16/influential-women-in-history-ove
rlooked-nefertiti




On writing:


http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/words-without-borders http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/0729/Palimpsest-beautifully-charts
-the-history-of-writing




Magna Cartas are everywhere:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-33553426


… and there’s big insurance when they go on tour:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33325694


Stupid no-photo law proposal:


http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2015/06/25/why-the-eu-wants-to-stop-you-p
osting-your-vacation-photos-online/?linkId=15121723




On the history of twerking:


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/06/24/dictionary-twerking-roots/ 29255797/




Pondering Cervantes’ burial wishes:


http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/24/417117826/the-reason-cervantes-asked
-to-be-buried-under-a-convent




An unknown Monet:


http://www.itv.com/news/2015-06-24/art-dealer-finds-unknown-monet-pastel-hidden-behin
d-another/




On Matisse’s fading yellows:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-matisse-bright-yellow-pigments-beige.html


Solstice stuff:


http://www.livescience.com/51290-summer-solstice-science-traditions.html


Big spending on Italian tourist sites:


http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2015/08/04/italy-culture-sites-to-get-80-mln-euro
s_37e1d9a0-5a1c-469d-8c32-5f7f0eac701b.html




We may have had this item on Moussaieff in another section too:


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.669009



Suggestion that the colonial types should have plundered more:


http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.664166


Pondering a handprint on the Declaration of Independence:


http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/politics/being-moody-handprint-declaration-of-independe
nce/


Archaeology Podcast Network:


http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Egyptian underwater treasures:


http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/ancient-egyptian-artefacts-thonis-herac
leion-canopus-paris


http://www.thecairopost.com/news/156900/topnews/egypts-sunken-treasures-exhibit-to-to
ur-europe-in-september


Power and Pathos:


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-knight-bronze-sculptures-getty-review
-20150731-column.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/arts/design/in-power-and-pathos-faces-frozen-in-time
-and-bronze-at-the-getty-museum.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss




Gladiators:


http://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/29/only-in-ottawa-rome-on-show-this-summer




Cleopatra:


http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/vox/AJ201507270017


Greek Inventions:


http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/07/26/flashback-to-ancient-greeces-brilliant-inventi
ons/




17th century selfies:


http://newsdaily.com/2015/07/selfies-of-the-17th-century-highlighted-in-dutch-exhibition/


http://www.npr.org/2015/07/08/420570486/do-it-like-a-deity-a-dutch-artist-depicts-gods-go
ne-wild


Celts:


http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2015/celts-art-and-identity


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156195/Vikings-CELTS-wore-horned-helm
ets-Exhibition-reveals-history-stunning-beauty-ancient-Celtic-culture.html http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/10/from-monsters-to-manga-golden-ag
e-of-art-by-the-celtic-race-that-never-was http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33463151


Nature and Myth:


http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/150775/-Nature-and-myth--exhibit-features-wo
rks-from-Pompeii.html


Xochipilli:


http://phys.org/news/2015-08-mexican-museum-artistic-aztec-god.html


Suez Canal:


http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2015/08/07/Exhibition-of-antiquiti
es-unearthed-during-Suez-Canal-1859-excavation-opens-.html


http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/136983/Heritage/Museums/Ismailia-Muse
um-inaugurates-exhibit-of-antiquities.aspx




Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander:


http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/field-museum-offer-glimpse-life-ancient-greece-3
2178672




Food distribution in Rome:


http://www.culturekiosque.com/chef/news/food_distribution_in_ancient_rome930.html




Pompeii:


http://thevarsity.ca/2015/06/27/pompeii-in-the-shadow-of-the-volcano/


The British Museum has a VR tour of the Bronze Age or something like that:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33772694 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/museums/11783034/British-Museum-trials-virtual-real
ity-headsets.html


Opening of a museum in Basrah has been delayed:


http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/08072015-basrah-museum- opening-is-delayed-bp-oil-funds-redevelopment


On the dilemma of displaying looted art:


http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1840809/how-museums-deal-eth
ical-dilemma-displaying-looted-art




A strike at London’s National Gallery:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/museums/11796959/National-Gallery-strike-majority-o
f-paintings-off-limits-to-visitors.html




The British Museum has upgraded its Ashurbanipal Library display:


http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2015/07/01/no-more-dog-biscuits-a-new-life-for-ashurbanip
als-library/




On ISIS and the BM:


http://rt.com/uk/271189-isis-target-british-museum/


Renovations at the Ephesus Museum:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/more-artifacts-at-ephesus-museum-after-renovation-.a
spx?PageID=238&NID=84352&NewsCatID=375




Nice overview piece on Italy’s efforts and successes:


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150618-carabinieri-morgantina-italy-art-theft
-antiquities-trafficking/




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THE TECHY SIDE
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Technology reveals a Bible verse in a damage Ein Gedi scroll:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-21st-century-technology-deciphers-ancient.html http://www.livescience.com/51610-burned-hebrew-scroll-deciphered.html http://uknow.uky.edu/content/seales-research-team-reveals-biblical-text-damaged-scroll
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/45614/charred-remains-rare-ancient-biblical-scroll-de
ciphered-jerusalem/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/1500-year-old-scrap-of-bible-found-near-dead-sea-decipher
ed/


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4682359,00.html http://www.haaretz.com/life/archaeology/.premium-1.666983 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/20/us-israel-archaeology-scroll-idUSKCN0PU20H
20150720?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/21/scientists-were-astonished-to-find-bible-quot
es-on-most-ancient-hebrew-scroll-since-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2015/parts-of-burnt-ein-gedi-scroll-
deciphered




… see also a conference video on same:


http://www.foundationstone.org/


On using 3d printing to save threatened artifacts:


http://www.tctmagazine.com/3D-printing-news/monuments-woman-3d-printing-ruined-relic
s/




On close-range LiDAR (pdf):


http://www.lidarmag.com/PDF/LiDARMagazine_Gilbert-CloseRangeLidar_Vol5No5.pdf




… and a nice feature on LiDAR:


http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/20/lidar-radar-archaeology-central-america




A techy approach to preventing stone theft:


http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2015/july/stone-theft.html


Rising CO2 levels is apparently messing with C14 dating (didn’t it always?):


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/icl-ffe072015.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33594658 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-fuel-burning-obscures-radiocarbon-dates/


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0723/Global-warming-is-messing-with-the-accura
cy-of-radiocarbon-dating


http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/07/22/Rising-CO2-emissions-confounding-carbo
n-dating/5831437591341/




Using tech to reconstruct Michelangelo’s bronzes:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-reconstructing-michelangelo-bronzes.html


Hyperspectral cameras reveal details in Brandenburg frescoes:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-revealing-frescos.html


On drone use in Peru:


http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-drones-monitor-huaca-archaeological-sites-107259




Plans to laser scan and digitally preserve St Roch:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/st-roch-to-be-scanned-with-lasers-and-di
gitally-preserved-1.3159386




Similar sort of treatment, it seems, for African petroglyphs:


http://allafrica.com/stories/201507132560.html


Latest facial reconstruction: a ‘copper age Scotsman’:


http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/face-revealed-of-4-000-year-old-copper-age-s
cotsman-1-3842411


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3176232/Face-Thankerton-Man-revealed-C
opper-Age-skull-finally-given-face-showing-Scots-looked-like-4-000-years-ago.html?ITO=1
490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490




Multispectral imaging applied to a Yale map:


http://news.yale.edu/2015/06/11/hidden-secrets-yale-s-1491-world-map-revealed-multisp
ectral-imaging




In case you missed the Siberian child warrior mummy … they did an MRI on him:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3165505/Siberia-s-mystery-child-warrior-u
nwrapped-MRI-scans-glimpse-inside-medieval-mummy-revealing-bronze-axe-Persian-to
ols-bear-pendant.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490




CT scan for a BM Egyptian child mummy:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3162711/A-glimpse-beneath-bandages-Egy
ptian-child-mummy-gets-CT-scan-bid-uncover-secrets.html




… and an ibis mummy at Brown:


http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/3929/31/


… and a Scandinavian bishop’s coffin CT scan reveals a fetus too:


http://news.discovery.com/history/fetus-found-inside-17th-century-mummified-monks-coff
in-150622.htm


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/21/scan-mummified-body-swedish-bishop-re
veals-baby




This feature on forgery seems to go in this section:


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/art-forgery/395282/


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
A DNA link between Australia and Amazonians was subsequent to a single migration to
the Americas, apparently:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-genomes-story-native-american-biological.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150721134827.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoc--gap072115.php http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/one-migration-from-siberia-peopled-the-amer
icas-study-15072.htm


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/science/tracing-routes-to-america-through-ancient-dn
a.html?_r=0


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0721/Where-did-the-first-Americans-come-from-N
ew-studies-offer-clues


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33612869 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/07/21/424813708/two-gene-studies-sugge
st-first-migrants-to-americas-a-complex-mix


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-first-americans-links-amazo
n-indigenous-australians-180955976/


On the Tarim Mummies:


http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/18/these-red-haired-chinese-mum
mies-come-from-all-over-eurasia-dna-reveals/






Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:


http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
An asteroid event triggered a global cooling episode some 12 800 years b.p.:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3181425/Asteroid-impact-triggered-sudden
-cooling-Earth-12-800-years-ago-killed-mammoths.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns
_campaign=1490




Global warming shaped the Middle East some 5000 years b.p.:


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150723181308.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3172764/Did-climate-change-rock-cradle-ci
vilisation-Global-warming-shaped-Middle-East-5-000-years-ago-claims-study.html?ITO=1
490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


Meanwhile, mammoths don’t appear to have had a chance:


http://phys.org/news/2015-07-mammoths-abrupt-climate.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoa-mkb072015.php


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CRIME BEAT
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Rethinking the Gardner Museum heist:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/design/25-years-after-gardner-museum-heist-vid
eo-raises-questions.html




How to smuggle things out of India:


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/26/arts/design/kapoor_graphic.html




… and a report on how often it happens:


http://www.ptinews.com/news/6334061_8-theft-cases-of-antiquities-reported--Govt.html




On the sale of looted antiquities in Germany:


http://www.news24.com/World/News/Looted-in-Mosul-sold-in-Munich-20150731


… via Lebanon:


http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/07/middle-east-smuggling-antiquities-leba
non.html




In a similar vein:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/arts/design/the-ultimate-temple-raider-inside-an-anti
quities-smuggling-operation.html




A foiled smuggling attempt in Egypt:


http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/136975/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-foils
-smuggling-of--law-books.aspx




Apparently plenty of items are being smuggled out of Pakistan:


http://nation.com.pk/national/07-Aug-2015/large-number-of-artifacts-smuggled-to-us-eu-pe
rvaiz




30 month sentence for a pair of illegal excavators in Tennessee:


http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/8/5/305580/Pair-Sentenced-To-Serve-30-Months-In.as
px


http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/two-men-sentenced-30-months-st
ealing-civil-war-artifacts-marion-county-19217.shtml






A few weeks’ worth of Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime news (most recent first):


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/08/culture-crime-news-3-9-august-2015.h
tml


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/08/culture-crime-news-27-july-2-august-2
015.html


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/07/culture-crime-news-20-26-july-2015.ht
ml


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/07/culture-crime-news-13-19-july-2015.ht
ml


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/07/culture-crime-news-6-june-12-july-201
5.html
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/07/2214.html


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 stolen Rubens and Goyas were returned to a Danish castle:


http://newsdaily.com/2015/07/stolen-rubens-goya-paintings-returned-to-danish-castle/




A 35 000 years b.p. skeleton was returned to Egypt:


http://www.thecairopost.com/news/162561/topnews/egypt-repatriates-35000-year-old-ske
leton-from-belgium


The UK also returned an item to Egypt:


http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=95245 http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/134591/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/A-part-of-T
utmosis-Karnak-column-arrives-home-from.aspx


The BM was involved in a Nazi loot repatriation:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/11718641/Museum-hands-back-Renaissance-riche
s-linked-to-Nazi-looters.html




People aren’t happy with a Chinese repatriation:


http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13624/return-of-chinese-antiquities-sparks-collectors
----fury/




France returned some items to China:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11721440/France-discreetly-re
turns-looted-gold-antiquities-to-China.html




The US continues to return items taken by ISIL to Iraq:


http://www.talkradionews.com/world-news/2015/07/17/u-s-returns-700-antiques-stolen-by-
isil.html


http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/us-delivers-iraqi-antiquities-seized-raid-isis-11320
6


http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/07/15/us-delivers-iraqi-treasures-seized-in-ra?videoI
d=364961905&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=LatestVideosUS&videoChannel=1


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3162073/U-S-delivers-Iraqi-antiquities-sei
zed-raid-Islamic-State.html





… but the authenticity of some was questioned:


http://observer.com/2015/07/us-returns-looted-artifacts-to-iraq-discovered-in-military-raid/


Germany and Namibia are involved in a dispute:


http://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-return-skulls-of-colonial-victims-in-namibia/ a-18575293




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NUMISMATICA
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On the Judaea Capta coin:


http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46016/2000-year-old-coin-sheds-light-on-roman-conq
uest-of-jerusalem/




A Tricentennial Royal shows up in a shipwreck:


http://news.yahoo.com/million-dollar-shipwrecks-golden-treasure-includes-very-rare-123
209365.html


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/28/treasure-hunters-reco
ver-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-coins-from-a-300-year-old-shipwreck/


An important Carausius hoard:


http://www.fromestandard.co.uk/Coins-promise-unlock-wealth-information-emperor-s/
story-26906509-detail/story.html




Should mention this Nazi gold hoard:


http://www.thelocal.de/20150715/amateur-archaeologist-finds-nazi-gold-hoard http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/15/us-germany-gold-idUSKCN0PP22B20150715




A few weeks’ worth of e-Syla:


http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n33.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n32.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n31.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n30.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n29.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n28.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:


http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/


Ancient Coins:


http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/


Coin Week:


http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
OBITUARIES
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Martin West:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11753589/Professor-Martin-West-OM.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/martin-west-prolific-scholar-whose-book
s-shed-new-light-on-the-archaic-and-earlyclassical-periods-of-greek-literature-10436163.
html
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25699 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4506605.ece


Barbara McManus:


http://caas-cw.org/wp/2015/06/26/in-memoriam-barbara-f-mcmanus-1942-2015/


Patricia Crone:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/us/patricia-crone-scholar-of-islamic-history-dies-at-7
0.html




Charles Goldstein:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/nyregion/charles-goldstein-dies-at-78-sought-return-
of-art-looted-by-nazis.html




Shahryer Adle:


http://en.mehrnews.com/news/108104/Iran-s-Chevalier-of-Archaeology-dies-at-72




Jack Goody:


http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/664018/s/48c558e3/sc/32/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0C
science0C20A150Caug0C0A60Cjack0Egoody/story01.htm




Owen Chadwick:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/world/europe/owen-chadwick-british-scholar-of-christ
ianity-dies-at-99.html




Fred Wendorf:


http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/fred-wendorf---renowned-archaeolo
gist-conducted-key-excavations-in/article_ba290d10-7818-5b0f-912a-2dd142e0b6ac.html


http://www.mrt.com/news/state_and_national/article_6446cbd8-2b3f-11e5-b75c-b38ecdb3
f4e7.html




John Maxtone-Graham:


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/books/john-maxtone-graham-an-authority-on-ocean-li
ners-dies-at-85.html




John Cottier:


http://www.theplainsman.com/article/2015/07/father-of-auburn-archaeology-true




Eric Lawes:


http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/664018/s/4860ce52/sc/32/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0C
uk0Enews0C20A150Cjul0C230Ceric0Elawes/story01.htm




Remembering Barbara Mertz:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-lehr/remembering-barbara-mertz_b_7948084.htm
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