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The Weekly Round-up | 24 September 2026 (opens the original)
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In the News:From being played in a 1939 BBC broadcast to being stolen and then dumped in the Cairo metro after the 2011 uprising, Tutankhamun’s trumpets find a new state-of-the-art home in the Grand Egyptian Museum. Read more at CNN or listen to the 1939 recording here. Excavators at Hattusa, ancient capital of the Hittite Empire, have found a new fragment of the cuneiform version of the Kadesh Peace Treaty. <a href="https://www.heritagedaily.com/202
From Trash to Treasure: Nahal Omer and the Virtual Silk Road | 17 Sep 2026 (opens the original)
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From Trash to Treasure: Nahal Omer and the Virtual Silk RoadBy Guy Bar-Oz, Gideon Avni, and Nofar Shamir-Shafir<div class="image-link-
The Weekly Round-up — 10 September 2026 (opens the original)
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In the News:The controversial study about hidden structures inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, published in the journal of Remote Sensing in 2022 (with substantial) media attention, has been retracted by the journal. Read more at Newsweek.An ancient villa owner at ancient Adramytteion (Aegean coast of Türkiye) seems to have immortalized his cat “Emerald” and his dog “Okyanos” in a floor mosaic dated to 2nd/3rd centuries CE, proving that the human obsession with making images o
Who Were the Sea Peoples? And Did They Bring About the End of the Bronze Age? - 3 Sep 2026 (opens the original)
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Who Were the Sea Peoples? And Did They Bring About the End of the Bronze Age?By Eric H. Cline<div c
In Search of Wes Anderson's “Phoenicia” — 20 Aug 2026 (opens the original)
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In Search of Wes Anderson’s “Phoenicia”By Helen Dixon<div class="image-link-expa
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