Ancient World Bloggers Group

Ancient World Bloggers Group is a place for posts and discussion about blogging the Ancient World.

Latest from Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG) [RSS]:

• Lost World of Old Europe Exhibition Website
• University of Chicago Press ebook givaway
• 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
• New Digital Humanities Journal: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
• Brill's new open access policy
• When on Google Earth 78
• Good news on open access publication from De Gruyter
• Looking for a particular type of ancient hillside city
• Open Access Week
• When on Google Earth 76

Archaeolog

Latest from Archaeolog [RSS]:

• Tara 2009 Symposium: Live Webstream
• Michael Shanks' intervention into Tara 2009
• ‘Epistemography’ and Archaeological Assembling. A Manifesto for Media.
• Gardner, A. 2007. An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain, Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
• Island of Abandonment
• Some Problems and Potential in Community Engagement and Making Archaeology Public
• Present absences: The 'Home' Project is installed in Dublin
• WAC Artist in Residence Kevin O'Dwyer's installation at UCD
• Innovation, future(s) making and archaeology
• Archaeology, Science Fiction, and Pop Culture

Archaeology News from Archaeology Magazine

Latest from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine [RSS]:

• Friday, November 20
• Thursday, November 19
• Wednesday, November 18
• Tuesday, November 17
• Monday, November 16
• Friday, November 13
• Thursday, November 12
• Wednesday, November 11
• Tuesday, November 10
• Monday, November 9

Archaeopop

Archaeopop is a blog by Dan Shoup about archaeology in society. It covers popular approaches to the past, the politics of the discipline, looting and the antiquities trade, and weird takes on the field.

Latest from Archaeopop [RSS]:

• Riding Anatolia with Evliya Çelebi
• Shockumentary filmmakers find vanished army; or how not to report archaeology news
• List of Archaeological Film Festivals
• Please Excuse the Interruption
• Nefertiti Overshadowed
• Ajda Pekkan Plays Hasankeyf
• Monday News Roundup
• Adventures in colonial archaeology: a Senegalese regiment excavates at Gallipoli
• Nero’s Dining Room?
• The Staffordshire Hoard Revealed

Looting Matters

Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities.

Latest from Looting matters [RSS]:

• "Germany has become a hub for the illegal international art market"
• Looting Matters: Are Import Restrictions on Italian Antiquities Working?
• Head from the Keros Haul at Auction
• The CPAC review of the MOU with Italy
• "Cuno risks coming across as a bad loser"
• Identifications and the Medici Dossier
• The Portable Antiquities Scheme cited in Washington
• Is the "Bulldog" on the Minneapolis case?
• Battle of Ideas: James Cuno speaks
• "The Italian MOU creates a 'one way street' in terms of trade"

SAFE Saving Antiquities for Everyone

Latest from Saving Antiquities for Everyone News [RSS]:

• China opposes sale of looted cultural relics
• Myths of Babylon
• Artful Sleuthing 
• Antiquities smugglers warned of tough action
• N.C. Guard Soldiers Help Preserve Iraqi History
• Return of Benin stolen artifacts: Edo seeks UN intervention
• Three charged in theft of Viking treasures
• Indictment on Avdat vandalism cites Bedouin revenge
• Debate over ancient artifacts reaches Penn
• Met agrees to return Pharoanic relic to Egypt