Feature on assorted apophthegmata from Delphi:

https://aeon.co/ideas/more-than-know-thyself-on-all-the-other-delphic-maxims

Feature on why Augustus wasn't such a good guy:

https://theconversation.com/mark-zuckerbergs-admiration-for-emperor-augustus-is-misplaced-heres-why-108172

.... similar:

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/rome-s-augustus-and-the-allure-of-the-strongman

Making connections between the UK and Antigone:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/opinion-an-ancient-betrayal-that-still-resonates-t/p06wn6dw

Feature on the Spartans:

http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-who-were-the-spartans-108606

Once again, Rome has banned 'centurions' from the Colosseum area:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bans-centurions-from-citys-historic-centre.html

Latest reiteration on the 'truth' of Homer:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/01/ciencia/1546338015_883794.html

Review of David Stuttard, *Nemesis*:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/erotic-tyranny/

More on that Nikouria inscription from Amorgos:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/12/30/missing-ancient-artifact-stone-of-nikouria-rediscovered-on-amorgos/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7272-181231-greece-resolution-of-nikouria

More on that Roman lamp from the banks of the Thames:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-46753547/roman-era-treasure-found-on-banks-of-river-thames

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A stone possibly fired from a trebuchet in the 13th century found near
Edinburgh Castle:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/catapult-ball-fired-at-edinburgh-castle-in-13th-century-siege-discovered-in-hotel-site-dig-1-4849752
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edinburgh-castle-catapult-ball-flings-archaeologists-back-to-1296-nkn5vjlts
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7271-181231-scotland-siege-trebuchet

Some medieval fishing baskets from Wales:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46730571
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7274-190102-wales-fishing-baskets

Assorted 15th/16th century finds from ore miners burials near Sofia:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/12/31/weird-15th-century-miners-burials-venetian-theriac-cap-found-in-bulgarias-kremikovtsi-monastery-near-sofia/

A 17th century pirate ship wreck off the coast of Cornwall:

https://www.livescience.com/64395-sunken-17th-century-pirate-ship-discovered.html
https://www.livescience.com/64349-pirate-shipwreck-photos.html

Questioning the existence of the Cathars:

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-france-cathars-20181231-story.html

Slovakia's top ten archaeological finds for 2018:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22018610/slovakias-top-10-archaeological-findings-in-2018.html

Feature on the Traprain Treasure:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/17337028.piecing-together-the-mysterious-past-of-the-traprain-treasure/

A letter from the last private owner of Stonehenge has turned up:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-46720499

On the roots of the 'Green Man':

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190104-the-surprising-roots-of-the-mysterious-green-man

Studying Madrid's Arab past:

https://elpais.com/ccaa/2018/10/03/madrid/1538583855_122656.html

More hype/expection of finds from the HS2-associated digs:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132110-300-biggest-archaeological-dig-in-europe-will-uncover-uks-buried-history/

More on that London 'ice house':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/london-archaeologists-unearth-subterranean-georgian-ice-store-180971146/

I think we mentioned this 'murder map' of London a while ago:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/addictive-interactive-murder-map-lets-you-explore-medieval-london-crime/

Similarly, with the Domesday Book being compiled later than previously
thought:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/study-famed-domesday-book-was-completed-later-than-historians-thought/
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A 4000 years bp cave site from the Tibetan plateau:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/03/c_137717453.htm
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1134607.shtml

Designs from at a 4000 years bp site at Shimao are being linked to similar
Shang and Zhou designs:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2180389/chinas-beastly-bronze-designs-found-stone-carvings-prehistoric

Evidence of a 3000 years bp settlement of some sort in Shaanxi:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/asia/china-guangdong-tsunami-study-intl/index.html

Plenty of pottery from a 2000 years bp tomb in Shandong:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/03/c_137717391.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7280-190104-china-han-dynasty-tombs

Evidence of a tsunami hitting southern China in 1076 or so:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/asia/china-guangdong-tsunami-study-intl/index.html
https://beta.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2180448/scientists-say-tsunami-hit-china-1000-years-ago-and-its-risk
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7276-190103-southern-china-tsunami

Petroglyphs from Andhra Pradesh are suggesting links between Neolithic
pastoralists and modern populations:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/aps-second-largest-treasury-of-rock-art-in-kurnool/article25913937.ece

A pair of 16th century red sandstone sculpture from Veerlapalem:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/sculptures-dating-back-to-16th-century-found-in-veerlapalem/articleshow/67340624.cms

Plans to rebury (for time capsule purposes) the Kazakh 'Golden Man':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-46757349

Struggling to figure out Maori populations at the time of Captain Cook:

https://theconversation.com/250-years-after-captain-cooks-arrival-we-still-cant-be-sure-how-many-maori-lived-in-aotearoa-at-the-time-107707

On the politics of archaeology in India:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2162694/why-4500-year-old-skull-key-politics-indias-hindu-muslim-divide

Mammoth tusks from Siberia are apparently in demand in China right now:

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-siberia-chinese-demand-prehistoric-tusks.html

.... which makes an ivory seizure in Cambodia interesting:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/woolly-mammoth-dna-ivory-illegal-discovery-cambodia-wildlife-conservation-a8711241.html

Feature/TV hype about Empress Fucha (and others):

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2164033/how-one-concubine-rose-become-empress-using

On wealthy Asians in Imperial China:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2162825/when-being-crazy-rich-asian-could-be-dangerous

Review of David Gilmour, *British in India*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/books/review/david-gilmour-the-british-in-india.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbook-review
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b917a20ae5
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Searching for an Acadian cemetery in Nova Scotia:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/national-historic-site-fort-anne-acadian-1.4952098
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7275-190102-canada-acadian-cemetery

A site associated with the 'Lost Colony' is now part of a North Carolina
nature preserve:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article223879475.html
https://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/a-site-thought-to-be-linked-to-the-lost-colony/article_569d3c47-83fc-537a-a3a9-85de7e6b03a0.html

Feature on mounds in Wisconsin:

https://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/news/local/in-depth-authors-strive-to-decode-meaning-of-ancient-mounds/article_5a094624-2521-5076-a2bd-5941ad5a4ad6.html

What C. Dean Wilson is up to:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/decoding-the-clay-archaeologist-c-dean-wilson/article_1aee9ec3-997e-53f4-9a0e-c23d0833b95b.html

Another explanation for Salem 'witch hysteria':

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181221-can-an-auto-immune-illness-explain-the-salem-witch-trials

Review of Delcanco, *The War Before the War*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/books/review/andrew-delbanco-war-before-the-war.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts
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Three burials from Loma Atahualpa are the oldest human remains from
Ecuador
to date:

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-archaeologists-oldest-burials-ecuador.html

A 5900 years bp burial of a 'muscular' woman from Nicaragua:

https://www.livescience.com/64403-oldest-human-burial-in-lower-central-america.html
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-oldest-known-human-burial-was-just-discovered-in-lower-central-america/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-identify-oldest-known-human-burial-lower-central-america-180971166/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7277-190103-nicaragua-ancient-remains