News Round Up

The Ashmolean charts the incredible arc of creativity that saw young Rembrandt rise from mediocre also-ran to master portrait painter There is a liveliness to the portraits of Rembrandt that simply eclipses most painters of the period. And yes,…

We took a deep dive into the collections part of the British Library’s new website celebrating children’s literature and came up with these treasures Discovering Children’s Books (www.bl.uk/childrens-books), the British Library’s wonderful new…

The storms that have hit the UK in the past few months have brought flooding and disruption to many communities both on the coast and on river flood plains. Orkney has not been spared and our exposed coastal areas have… Continue reading →

NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA—The Daily Press reports that conservators at the Mariners’ Museum bored the barrel of one of the Dahlgren guns from the ironclad warship USS Monitor, which was launched by the Union Navy in 1862 and lost later that year in a…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to a statement released by UChicago Medicine, a new study suggests that Sardinians experienced less genetic turnover than populations living in mainland Europe, where large-scale migration is thought to have occurred…

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—The Daily Press reports that archaeologists led by Jack Gary are using remote sensing techniques to look for traces of the gardens at the eighteenth-century home of John Custis IV, who lived at the corner of Francis and South…

JENA, GERMANY—Cosmos Magazine reports that humans may not have been as severely impacted by the eruption of Mount Toba in Indonesia some 74,000 years ago as had been previously thought. Researchers had suggested the eruption triggered a “volcanic…

MIAMI, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of Miami, archaeologist Traci Ardren conducted a lidar survey of the ancient 60-mile road that connects the Maya cities of Cobá and Yaxuná on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Known as a…

İZMİR, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that some additional pieces of a game set first unearthed in 2012 at Başur Mound in southeastern Turkey have been recovered by a team of researchers led by Haluk Sağlamtimur of Ege University. The game is…

Rolf Loeber was a scholar of rare distinction. A distinguished psychologist and criminologist, he also had an active research interest in medieval and early modern cultural history, architecture, and literature. His death in 2017 deprived Irish…

Rolf Loeber was a scholar of rare distinction. A distinguished psychologist and criminologist, he also had an active research interest in medieval and early modern cultural history, architecture, and literature. His death in 2017 deprived Irish…

JENA, GERMANY—According to a report in Science Magazine, population geneticists Felix Key and Johannes Krause and bacterial genomicist Alexander Herbig of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History developed a technique to detect DNA…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—According to UChicago News, James Osborne of the university’s Oriental Institute and Michele Massa of the British Institute at Ankara identified an inscribed stone discovered by a farmer in an irrigation canal in southern Turkey as…

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA—Savannah Now reports that nearly 100 Girl Scouts from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina assisted archaeologist Rita Elliott with an investigation of the garden areas at Savannah’s Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace ahead of a…

This volume, comprising 12 chapters by 22 contributors, focuses on the ringwork of Carrick or Ferrycarrig, located approximately three kilometres north-west of Wexford town. It is the earliest named and dated Anglo-Norman fortification, set up in…

This volume, comprising 12 chapters by 22 contributors, focuses on the ringwork of Carrick or Ferrycarrig, located approximately three kilometres north-west of Wexford town. It is the earliest named and dated Anglo-Norman fortification, set up in…

NUNAVUT, CANADA—Parks Canada underwater archaeologists under the direction of Marc-André Bernier have recovered more than 350 artifacts from the living quarters in the lower deck of the HMS Erebus, according to a CBC Canada report. The Erebus and…

DURHAM, ENGLAND—The Independent reports that archaeologists from Durham University and the Auckland Project have found traces of a large chapel built by Prince-Bishop Bek in the early fourteenth century at northeastern England’s Auckland Castle.…

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by Flinders University, archaeologist Susan Arthure of Flinders University and geophysical archaeologist Kelsey Lowe of the University of Queensland have identified an Irish-style clachan in…

MILAN, ITALY—ANSA reports that an Egyptian-Italian team led by Patrizia Piacentini of the State University of Milan has recovered a painting of a leopard’s face from a stucco-covered wooden sarcophagus lid in Aswan’s tomb number AGH02. Piacentini…