October 2011 Archeology - Museums, Looted Goods, and Crimes

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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Investigating possible looting attempts by metal detectorists around a Roman walled town in Northamptonshire:
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/ne...town_1_3091909

The drought in Texas is contributing to looting of sites:
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish...y-dinosaur-age

Some 13th century frescoes are returning to Cyprus:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/theft/13t...-home/20110925

Feature on Icelandic sagas:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/201...terary-history

Bodleian Treasures:
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/n...leian_Library/

A Day in Pompeii (Museum of Science, Boston):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50827



Civil War Portraiture (Robert Anderson Gallery):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50824

Pergamon (Berlin):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston):
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whats...f-Love/1121730

Rembrandt and the Faces of Jesus (Philadelphia Museum of Art):
http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-2...it-anti-jewish

Karanis Revealed (Kesley Museum, Michigan):
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/09/...-opens-at-u-m/

Master Painters of India:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/ar...ndian-art.html

Manifold Greatness:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/ar...er-review.html

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exh...l.dot?id=33226

David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/ar...ry-review.html

Dura Europos:
http://www.nyunews.com/life/2011/09/26/26isaw/

Book of the Dead:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50751
cf:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/commun...k-of-the-dead/

On the 'curse' of the Lydian Hoard:
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetai...?newsId=257844

The Brooklyn Museum is returning some artifacts to Costa Rica:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44734377.../#.ToeoYXK3N2I

Germany is returning some Namibian skulls:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-...an-skulls.html

More on the Getty returning items to Greece:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cult...to-greece.html

We keep hearing that the National Museum of Iraq is reopening:
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_...yid=1093446093

The Met has given its website a major do over:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...mped-web-site/

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Yet another bust in Thessaloniki:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808667.../#.TpF2jXK3N2I

A number of Bibles from various places around the world were 'rescued' and returned to Israel:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...131254,00.html

The Saudis have recovered a number of Mousterian artifacts taken by a British national:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index...20111005109989

Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50962

Warriors, Tombs, and Temples (Bowers Museum, Santa Ana):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cult...rs-museum.html

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb (Queensland Museum, Brisbane):
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...003-1l4lm.html

Athena: Goddess of the Acropolis (Acropolis Museum, Athens):
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/48495

Power Play: China's Empress Dowager (Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50848

Picasso's Drawings (Frick Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/ar...oundaries.html

Rome: From the Origins to Italy's Capital (Museum of Civilization, Quebec):
http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/20...omes_to_q.html

A Redcar museum is suddenly popular (England):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-15147976

The Greek and Roman stuff at Bonham's did quite well:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=50928

... elsewhere, estimates were a bit off:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/ar...elikian08.html

More commentary on the Met's new website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/ar...-web-site.html

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Thieves stole a relic from the Holy Cross Abbey in Thurles:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...esus-died.html

Libya is trying to protect its sites from looters:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/...eft/index.html

Iraq is still missing "thousands" of antiquities:
http://www.thenational.ae/business/t...itage-returned

A pair of Egyptian reliefs stolen in the 80s were recovered:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsCo...omb-found.aspx

A Jules Breton painting missing for over 90 years was returned to France:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...ce-discovered/

Tut (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston):
http://houston.culturemap.com/newsde...hines-at-mfah/

Georges Braque (Acquavella Galleries, NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/ar...sm-review.html

Rare display of Syrian Bibles (Israel’s National Library):
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...27bd855410a9a1

Lippi and Botticelli (Rome):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNGLI...re=uploademail

The new National Hellenic Museum looks like it might be worth a visit:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainmen...ew-museum.html

The first map of Australia is coming to auction:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-on-sale.html

A bit out of our period of purview, but of interest ... a letter of Albert Einstein fetched a reasonable price:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15278482

An account of the Art & Design London show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/ar...elikian15.html

The Musee d'Orsay is reopening after remodelling:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/ar...t-Orsay15.html

The MoMA's annual 'To Save and Protect' festival:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/ar...-festival.html

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Vandals hit a Punic tomb in Tunisia:
http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/10/...n-el-haouaria/

Felch and Frammolino were talking about the antiquities trade:
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2...peak_on_t.html

Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting (Morgan Library and Museum, NY):
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsCo...ritten-Qu.aspx

In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great (Louvre, Paris):
http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13465/49163

Les Gaulois (Cite des Sciences, Paris):
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...69fd8db7b6.3e1

Warriors of the Plains (Ulster American Folk Park, Northern Ireland):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15392681

Masters of Venice (de Young Museum, San Francisco):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PKSF1LH4KE.DTL

Imprinting the Divine (Menil Collection, Houston):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=51235

French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th Century Rome (National Gallery of Canada):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=51232

Archimedes Palimpsest (Walters Museum, Baltimore):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=51151

... an interview with one of the curators:
http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/1/2...rt-Museum.aspx

Cleopatra (Milwaukee Public Museum):
http://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/...tra.html?27979

Vermeer's Women (Fitzwilliam Museum):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/a...ge-review.html

Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture (Moretti Fine Art, NY):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=51202

War Horse: Fact and Fiction (National Army Museum, London):
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...79H4WM20111018

Johan Zoffany:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/ar...ise-baker.html

Degas and the Nude (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/ar...on-review.html

Mummy portraits (Ashmolean Museum):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/20...hmolean-museum

Did Christie's sell a 'lost DaVinci' cheap?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...old-for-21-000

The Berthouville Treasure is coming to the Getty:
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/welcomin...e-getty-villa/

Picassos are coming to the Guggenheim:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/ar...and-white.html

The British Museum is putting together an online catalogue of artifacts unearthed by Flinders Petrie:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsCo...-archaeol.aspx

The Dallas MoA has a new director:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...museum-of-art/

Nice donation for the Rubin Museum:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ief-executive/

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Two "stone slabs" dating to Assyrian times and had been stolen were returned to Iraq:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-...turned-to-Iraq

The Tourism and Antiquities Police in Egypt recovered some stolen items:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsCo...recovered.aspx

Some vandalism at a site in Nine Mile Canyon (Utah):
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52...amage.html.csp

A Picasso thief pleads guilty:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...pleads-guilty/

Islamic Manuscripts (National Library, Israel):
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition...brary-1.391637

Royal Manuscripts (British Library):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...xhibition.html

Rembrandt in America (North Carolina Museum of Art):
http://www.reflector.com/news/ground...t-opens-743479

Alexander the Great (Louvre, Paris):
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...es-review.html

DSS (Discovery Times Square, NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/ar...re-review.html

Last Days of Pompeii (Museum of Science, Boston):
http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/2049/44/

Aphrodite (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston):
http://www.wbur.org/2011/10/26/aphrodite-mfa

Res Mortis (Utah Museum of Fine Arts):
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/enterta...greek.html.csp

Davinci and Michelangelo (Rome):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSf1...re=uploademail

Olympia (Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum, Doha):
http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/...-doha-museums/

Feature on the Met's Islamic galleries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/ma...ile-times.html

... slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/ar...um-of-art.html

A restored Michelangelo painting will soon be on display:
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Resto...132455568.html

The Prado will be open seven days a week:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...n-days-a-week/

The book version of *History of the World in 100 Objects* is being published in the US this week:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/201...1030_NEIL.html

A sign language tour of the Penn Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pennmuse...17/CLCfoWgRtLE