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I see the auction houses aren't the only ones laundering things:The British press continues to launder the British Museum's reputation as a fighter against looted antiquities.https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/sep/27/ancient-s

Around Mt. Hermon, Charles Warren hears the story of the mosquito that got into Nimrod's brain and killed him.Apparently this is a variant of a very popular story.(PEF Quarterly Statement

Tracing the development of the link between cultural heritage and foreign policy objectives (often euphemized as "national security") is really important, but why do these discussions always have to treat

Looking into tombs of Abu Hurayra in Palestine and look it's the ubiquitous @cobbpasha https://www.academia.edu/20719909/_The_Umayyad_Mosque_of_Tiberias_Muqarnas_26_2009_pp._37-61 For those keeping score at home I'm at 3 tombs of Ab

Ancient mikveh uncovered near kibbutz Hannaton in the Galilee in salvage excavation preparing for a new highway intersection.Hannaton residents trying to raise money to transport the mikveh to the kibbutz.https://www.jpost.com/health-scienc

Times of Israel reports (as do Haaretz & NatGeo) on a new genetic study of dozens of individuals from the Bronze Age Levant.Some initial observations . . .https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-shows-canaanites-israelites-biblical-frenemie

For #WorldHeritageDay, a thread on the houses on top of the Temple of EdfuInspired by @malfy_c, I decided to find out what happened to them.(Image from Description de l'Égypte, vol.

The Jerusalem Post does a feature on the University of Haifa's Byzantine Negev project and, as you might expect, it doesn't go well.https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/the-enigma-behind-the-1500-year-old-christian-communities-in-the-n

How did funerary reliefs and other ancient artifacts from Palmyra make their way around the world? And what, if anything, should be done about it today?A thread for #MuseumsUnlocked Left:

Haaretz reports on a new study on division of labor at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath: fingerprints indicate pottery-making was mostly a male occupation.https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-making-bowls-in-biblical-gath-was-man-s-work-fin

"Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics"NY Times weighs in on the latest Museum of the Bible forgery and repatriation announcements, but I feel like I've seen this

Reading this, you'd never know:*several* groups looted Palmyra (despite the obligatory lead image);most looting in Syria was probably *not* done by ISIS;"blood antiquities" in Syria are a much bigger problem