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A compilation of today's items on the Louvre and Antiquities summgling …

Former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez charged in connection with antiquities trafficking investigation

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/26/former-louvre-director-jean-luc-martinez-charged-in-connection-with-antiquities-trafficking-investigation

Paris: Ex-leader of Louvre charged with money laundering – ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/paris-leader-louvre-charged-money-laundering-84989581

Former Louvre director charged over suspected antiquities trafficking ring

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220526-former-louvre-director-charged-over-suspected-antiquities-trafficking-ring

Former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez indicted in art trafficking case | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/05/26/former-louvre-director-jean-luc-martinez-indicted-in-art-trafficking-case

Louvre ex-director charged of hiding origin of Egyptian artefacts – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/466885/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Louvre-exdirector-charged-of-hiding-origin-of-Egyp.aspx

Former head of Louvre charged in Egyptian artefacts trafficking case | France | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/former-louvre-head-jean-luc-martinez-charged-egyptian-antiquities-trafficking-case

Former Head of Louvre Is Charged in Artifact Trafficking Case – The New York Times

Former Louvre President Charged in Antiquities Trafficking Case

Former Louvre President Charged in Antiquities Trafficking Case

Ex-Louvre director charged with fraud in acquisition of ancient Egyptian artifacts | The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-louvre-director-charged-with-fraud-in-acquisition-of-ancient-egyptian-artifacts/

Jean-Luc Martinez, Former Louvre Director, Indicted on Art-Trafficking Charges

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jean-luc-martinez-former-louvre-director-indicted-on-art-trafficking-charges

Jean-Luc Martinez accused over Tutankhamun Stela Trafficking Case

Jean-Luc Martinez accused over Tutankhamun Stela Trafficking Case

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1101720943/former-president-of-louvre-faces-charges-linked-to-alleged-antiquities-smuggling

Originally tweeted by rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) on May 27, 2022.

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In the News

• Pompeii: Proteins in human bones survived temperatures of 500°C | New Scientist
• Dagli scavi di Tharros riemerge il quartiere artigiano – Sardegna – ANSA.it

In Case You Missed It

• 2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found ‘frozen in time’ after owners disappeared | Live Science
• This Man Was Encased in Volcanic Ash in Pompeii. Here’s What His DNA Reveals | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE HODIERNIS

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Your Good News
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Required Reading
• Seneca on Life’s Ups and Downs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Accelerated Onset of Old Age
• Kickstarter launch at 6pm GMT tonight! | Greek Myth Comix
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Open Access Journal: Itinera: The Journal of the Roman Roads Research Association
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border
• We Don’t Have Justice, But We Still have Hope – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Summer is Coming – Classical Studies Support
• Het koninkrijk Urartu – Mainzer Beobachter
• Kickstarter initial launch funded! | Greek Myth Comix
• Ancient Greek Mythical Creatures ABC and Colouring Books! | Greek Myth Comix
• Busy Week | Ancient History Ramblings
• Spencer Alley: Battista Franco Veneziano, called il Semolei (ca. 1510-1561)

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: The Luis Alfaro Residency Project | Society for Classical Studies

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on some coins of Vitellius

Fresh Podcasts

• Nuntii Latini: diē vīcēsimō septimō mēnsis Māiī on Apple Podcasts

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Fresh Youtubery

• Rehearsal, Word Dance Theater. Apollo’s temple. Delphi Museum. Enjoy. music: Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• Khufu’s Great Pyramid – Seven wonders of the ancient world #shorts #fyp #documentary #history – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• The Odyssey Summarised – Context, Themes and Importance – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Michael Gagarin, Democratic law in classical Athens. Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Emilio Capettini, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Classics and prison education in the US. Classics in and out of the academy: classical pedagogy in the twenty-first century. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021

Exhibition Related Things

• Review: Ancient agitprop from Persia comes to Getty Villa – Los Angeles Times
• “Pompeii in Color” Offers a Fresh View of Gender in Ancient Rome – ARTnews.com

Dramatic Receptions

• International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns | Cyprus Mail

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Salvage Excavation in Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The Concepts of Heaven and Hell in Ancient Greece
• Ancient road trip! If the Romans had Google Maps – Big Think

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends the same (as yesterday?)   

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a northern war that doesn’t affect commerce.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)