This edition of Unearthed! continues, this time covering the mixed items we call potpourri, shipwrecks, edibles and potables, books and letters, and exhumations.&nbsp; Research: <ul> <li>Agencia Brasil. &ldquo;Cave Paintings Discovered in Rio de Janiero Park.&rdquo; 4/13/2025. https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/educacao/noticia/2025-04/cave-paintings-discovered-rio-de-janeiro-park</li> <li>Anderson, R. L., Salvemini, F., Avdeev, M., & Luzin, V. (2025). An African Art Re-Discovered: New Revelations on Sword Manufacture in Dahomey. Heritage, 8(2), 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8020062</li> <li>Archaeology Magazine. &ldquo;5,000-year-old Bread Buried in Bronze Age House.&rdquo; 6/4/2025. https://archaeology.org/news/2025/06/04/5000-year-old-bread-buried-in-bronze-age-house/</li> <li>Archaeology Magazine. &ldquo;Fried Thrush Was a Popular Street Food.&rdquo; 6/6/2025. https://archaeology.org/news/2025/06/06/fried-thrush-was-a-popular-roman-street-food/</li> <li>Arnold, Paul. &ldquo;Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man.&rdquo; Phys.org. 7/2/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-dentist-year-mystery-da-vinci.html</li> <li>Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). &ldquo;New revelations on sword manufacture in 19th-century Dahomey, West Africa.&rdquo; Phys.org. 5/11/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-revelations-sword-19th-century-dahomey.html</li> <li>Black, Jo. &ldquo;Cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine.&rdquo; BBC. 5/15/2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm23zjknre7o</li> <li>Boucher, Brian. &ldquo;Antique Condom on View at the Rijksmuseum Riles Christian Group.&rdquo; ArtNet. 6/26/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/antique-condom-rijksmuseum-christian-protest-2661519</li> <li>Brown, Mark. &ldquo;Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors.&rdquo; The Guardian. 4/4/2025. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/04/rare-wall-paintings-found-in-cumbria-show-tastes-of-well-off-tudors</li> <li>Carvajal, Guillermo. &ldquo;The Oldest Vanilla Pod in Europe, Used in Alchemical Experiments, Discovered at Prague Castle.&rdquo; LBV. 3/31/2025. https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/03/the-oldest-vanilla-pod-in-europe-used-in-alchemical-experiments-discovered-at-prague-castle/</li> <li>Carvajal, Guillermo. &ldquo;Thrushes Were the &ldquo;Fast Food&rdquo; of Romans in Imperial Cities, Not an Exclusive Delicacy for Banquets.&rdquo; LBV. 6/3/2025. https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/06/thrushes-were-the-fast-food-of-romans-in-imperial-cities-not-an-exclusive-delicacy-for-banquets/</li> <li>Carvajal, Guillermo. The Spectacular Tomb of the Ice Prince, a Medieval Child Buried in an Ancient Roman Villa, Frozen for Study.&rdquo; LBV. 5/25/2025. https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/05/the-spectacular-tomb-of-the-ice-prince-a-medieval-child-buried-in-an-ancient-roman-villa-frozen-for-study/</li> <li>Chen, Min. &ldquo;Roman Villa in Spain Yields More Than 4,000 Painted Wall Fragments.&rdquo; ArtNet. 4/21/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-villa-villajoyosa-wall-fragments-2634055</li> <li>Chen, Min. &ldquo;These Medieval Manuscripts Were Bound With an Unlikely Animal Hide.&rdquo; ArtNet. 4/12/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/clairvaux-medieval-manuscripts-sealskin-2630996</li> <li>Chen, Min. &ldquo;Think Shakespeare Left His Wife? This Newly Discovered Letter Tells a Different Story.&rdquo; ArtNet. 4/28/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/shakespeare-anne-hathaway-marriage-letter-2636443</li> <li>Chen, Min. &ldquo;This 6th-Century Bucket Discovered at Sutton Hoo Is More Than It Seems.&rdquo; ArtNet. 5/22/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sutton-hoo-bromeswell-bucket-not-bucket-2648124</li> <li>Dartmouth College. &ldquo;Archaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan that defy limits of farming.&rdquo; Phys.org. 6/5/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-archaeologists-uncover-massive-year-native.html</li> <li>Davis, Josh. &ldquo;Ancient humans ritually feasted on great bustards as they buried their dead.&rdquo; Phys.org. 4/17/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ancient-humans-ritually-feasted-great.html</li> <li>Drenon, Brandon. &ldquo;Tulsa plans $105m in reparations for America's 'hidden' massacre.&rdquo; BBC. 6/2/2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dqnz37v1wo</li> <li>Equal Justice Initiative. &ldquo;City Announces Reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre.&rdquo; https://eji.org/news/city-announces-reparations-for-tulsa-race-massacre/</li> <li>&ldquo;Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago.&rdquo; 6/3/2025. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086138</li> <li>Fox, Jordan. &ldquo;Anthropologist uncovers the 11,000-year history of avocado domestication.&rdquo; Phys.org. 6/24/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-anthropologist-uncovers-year-history-avocado.html</li> <li>Fratsyvir, Anna. &ldquo;Ukraine grants Poland permission to exhume 1939 war graves in Lviv.&rdquo; The Kyiv Independent. 6/11/2025. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-grants-poland-permission-to-exhume-1939-war-graves-in-lviv/</li> <li>Giuffrida, Angela. &ldquo;Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb.&rdquo; The Guardian. 4/1/2025. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/two-near-lifesize-sculptures-found-during-excavations-of-pompeii-tomb</li> <li>Guardian staff and agencies in Lima. &ldquo;Peru drops plan to shrink protected area around Nazca Lines archaeological site.&rdquo; The Guardian. 6/9/2025. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/peru-nazca-lines-protected-area</li> <li>Hamilton, Eric. &ldquo;Ancient Andes society used hallucinogens to strengthen social order.&rdquo; EurekAlert. 5/5/2026. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082461</li> <li>Hashemi, Sara. &ldquo;Ancient Chinese Poems Reveal the Decline of a Critically Endangered Porpoise Over 1,400 Years.&rdquo; Smithsonian. 5/6/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-chinese-poems-reveal-the-decline-of-a-critically-endangered-porpoise-over-1400-years-180986570/</li> <li>Hung, Hsiao-chun. &ldquo;Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300 km of Pacific Ocean.&rdquo; Phys.org. 6/26/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-remote-cave-discovery-ancient-voyagers.html</li> <li>Hunt, Katie. &ldquo;125,000-year-old &lsquo;fat factory&rsquo; run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany.&rdquo; CNN. 7/4/2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/science/neanderthal-fat-factory-germany</li> <li>Hurriyet Daily News. &ldquo;5,000-year-old bread unearthed in K&uuml;ll&uuml;oba goes on display.&rdquo; 5/23/2025. https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/5-000-year-old-bread-unearthed-in-kulluoba-goes-on-display-209487</li> <li>Jarus, Owen. &ldquo;We finally know why Queen Hatshepsut's statues were destroyed in ancient Egypt.&rdquo; LiveScience. 6/23/2025. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-finally-know-why-queen-hatshepsuts-statues-were-destroyed-in-ancient-egypt</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. &ldquo;Did a Neanderthal Who Lived 43,000 Years Ago Paint a Red Nose on a Rock That Looked Like a Face?&rdquo; Smithsonian. 6/2/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-a-neanderthal-who-lived-43000-years-ago-paint-a-red-nose-on-a-rock-that-looked-like-a-face-180986704/</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. &ldquo;How Researchers Discovered a 168-Year-Old Dutch Shipwreck Off the Coast of Australia in Underwater &lsquo;Blizzard&rsquo; Conditions.&rdquo; Smithsonian. 5/16/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-researchers-discovered-a-168-year-old-dutch-shipwreck-off-the-coast-of-australia-in-underwater-blizzard-conditions-180986637/</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. &ldquo;Tourists Are Stuffing Coins Into the Cracks of the Giant&rsquo;s Causeway, Damaging the Iconic Site in Northern Ireland.&rdquo; Smithsonian. 6/4/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tourists-are-stuffing-coins-into-the-cracks-of-the-giants-causeway-damaging-the-iconic-site-in-northern-ireland-180986745/</li> <li>Kuta, Sarah. &ldquo;Why Was a 1940s Car Discovered in the Wreck of an American Naval Ship That Sank During World War II?&rdquo; Smithsonian. 4/23/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-was-1940s-car-discovered-wreck-american-naval-ship-that-sank-during-world-war-ii-180986485/</li> <li>Larson, Christina. &ldquo;Ancient DNA confirms New Mexico tribe's link to famed Chaco Canyon site.&rdquo; Phys.org. 4/30/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-oral-histories-dna-picuris-pueblo.html</li> <li>Lawson-Tancred, Jo. &ldquo;A Life-Sized Statue of a Bejeweled Ancient Priestess Is Unearthed in Pompeii.&rdquo; ArtNet. 4/2/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-life-sized-statue-of-a-bejeweled-ancient-priestess-is-unearthed-in-pompeii-2627176</li> <li>Lawson-Tancred, Jo. &ldquo;Rare Artwork by Emily Bront&euml; Scooped at Auction by Museum.&rdquo; 4/11/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-artwork-by-emily-bronte-scooped-at-auction-by-museum-2631133</li> <li>Lawson-Tancred, Jo. &ldquo;Vatican Brings &lsquo;God&rsquo;s Architect&rsquo; Antoni Gaud&iacute; One Step Closer to Sainthood.&rdquo; ArtNet. 4/15/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vatican-antoni-gaudi-one-step-closer-to-sainthood-2632185</li> <li>Leahy, Diana. &ldquo;Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery.&rdquo; 4/30/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-depictions-milky-ancient-egyptian-imagery.html</li> <li>MacKay, Mercedes. &ldquo;'It's a mystery that's hung over our area for 50 years': Salem, Illinois, exhuming grave of unknown Amtrak train derailment victim.&rdquo; KDSK. 3/13/2025. https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/salem-illinois-exhuming-grave-of-unknown-amtrak-train-derailment-victim/63-2770a303-4e54-4647-8b13-dff304b93e30</li> <li>net. &ldquo;Magna Carta at Harvard dates to the Year 1300, historians find.&rdquo; 5/2025. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/magna-carta-at-harvard-dates-to-the-year-1300-historians-find/</li> <li>net. &ldquo;Medieval Merlin Manuscript Fragment Revealed Through Digital Unfolding.&rdquo; 5/2025. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medieval-merlin-manuscript-fragment-revealed-through-digital-unfolding/</li> <li>net. &ldquo;Medieval Mystery Solved: Sutton Hoo Bucket Was a Cremation Vessel.&rdquo; 6/2025. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/06/medieval-mystery-solved-sutton-hoo-bucket-was-a-cremation-vessel/</li> <li>net. &ldquo;Rethinking Rye: Study Reveals Medieval Cultivation Was Intensive and Strategic.&rdquo; 5/2025. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/rethinking-rye-study-reveals-medieval-cultivation-was-intensive-and-strategic/</li> <li>net. &ldquo;Tudor Wall Paintings Uncovered in Northern England Lodge.&rdquo; 4/2025. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/tudor-wall-paintings-uncovered-in-northern-england-lodge/</li> <li>Mira, Chad. &ldquo;Multiple bodies found in exhumed Salem, Ill., grave.&rdquo; Fox2. https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/multiple-bodies-found-in-exhumed-salem-ill-grave/</li> <li>Organization of American Historians. &ldquo;Statement in Response to Secretary Order 3431 and Censorship of History in the National Park Service.&rdquo; 6/18/2025. https://www.oah.org/2025/06/18/statement-in-response-to-secretary-order-3431-and-censorship-of-history-in-the-national-park-service/</li> <li>Oster, Sandee. &ldquo;New Holocene Aboriginal rock art style identified in recent study.&rdquo; Phys.org. 4/29/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-holocene-aboriginal-art-style.html#google_vignette</li> <li>Oster, Sandee. &ldquo;Study provides new insights into medieval sex workers and childcare.&rdquo; Phys.org. 5/22/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-insights-medieval-sex-workers-childcare.html</li> <li>&ldquo;Exhumations in Volhynia. Wr&oacute;blewska on the beginning of work in Zboiska.&rdquo; 6/23/2025. https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/ekshumacje-na-wolyniu-wroblewska-o-poczatku-prac-w-zboiskach</li> <li>org. &ldquo;Race to save Sweden's 17th century warship in preservation project.&rdquo; 4/9/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-sweden-17th-century-warship.html</li> <li>Pinotti, Thomaz et al. &ldquo;Picuris Pueblo oral history and genomics reveal continuity in US Southwest.&rdquo; Nature. 4/30/2025. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08791-9</li> <li>Public Library of Science. &ldquo;Italians spent thousands of years perfecting grape cultivation, ancient seeds show.&rdquo; Phys.org. 4/23/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-italians-spent-thousands-years-grape.html</li> <li>Radio Prague International. &ldquo;Rare Roman soldier&rsquo;s wrist purse discovered in South Moravia.&rdquo; 6/24/2025. https://english.radio.cz/rare-roman-soldiers-wrist-purse-discovered-south-moravia-8854920</li> <li>Shams, Housnia. &ldquo;Work begins to exhume remains of 800 dead babies at unwed mothers&rsquo; home in Ireland.&rdquo; 6/17/2025. https://www.irishstar.com/news/ireland-news/work-begins-exhume-remains-800-35409145</li> <li>SO 3431 - Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history</li> <li>Sweeney, Rory Mac. &ldquo;Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery.&rdquo; Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 3/28/2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2507568</li> <li>The History Blog. &lsquo;Installation of Vasa&rsquo;s new support structure begins.&rdquo; 4/14/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72910</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;16th c. mural found on the Grand Canal.&rdquo; 4/15/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72918</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;3,500-year-old bronze daggers found in corn field.&rdquo; 4/1/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/72799</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;First English cheese treatise digitized, transcribed.&rdquo; 5/1/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73045</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;Life and death of little &ldquo;Ice Prince&rdquo; revealed.&rdquo; 5/26/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73246</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;Oldest baked bread flying off the shelves.&rdquo; 5/29/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73273</li> <li>The History Blog. &ldquo;Roman soldier&rsquo;s bronze wrist purse found in Czech Republic.&rdquo; 6/25/2025. https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73467</li> <li>University of Leeds. &ldquo;Curd your enthusiasm: Secrets of oldest book on cheese revealed.&rdquo; Phys.org. 4/28/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-curd-enthusiasm-secrets-oldest-cheese.html</li> <li>University of St. Andrews. &ldquo;New tool to identify toxic pigments in historic books.&rdquo; Phys.org. 6/6/2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tool-toxic-pigments-historic.html#google_vignette</li> <li>Vargas Ariza, Daniela et al. &ldquo;The Cobs in the Archaeological Context of the San Jos&eacute; Galleon Shipwreck.&rdquo; Antiquity (2025): 1&ndash;6. Web. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/cobs-in-the-archaeological-context-of-the-san-jose-galleon-shipwreck/66532DCA302A8C08A1EBFE4AC7E4E6C1</li> <li>Wexler, Ellen. &ldquo;The Only Black, All-Female Unit to Serve Overseas in World War II Receives the Congressional Gold Medal.&rdquo; Smithsonian. 4/30/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-only-black-all-female-unit-to-serve-overseas-in-world-war-ii-receives-the-congressional-gold-medal-180986528/</li> <li>Whiddington, Richard. &ldquo;A 19th-Century Condom With a Bawdy Print Makes Its Museum Debut.&rdquo; 6/3/2025. ArtNet. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/old-condom-erotica-rijksmuseum-show-2652526</li> <li>Whiddington, Richard. &ldquo;A Lost WWI Submarine Is Discovered &lsquo;Remarkably Intact&rsquo; After 100 Years.&rdquo; ArtNet. 5/27/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-lost-wwi-submarine-is-discovered-remarkably-intact-after-100-years-2649437</li> <li>Whiddington, Richard. &ldquo;Archaeologists Identify France&rsquo;s Deepest Shipwreck.&rdquo; ArtNet. 6/20/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/france-deepest-shipwreck-camarat-4-2659029</li> <li>Whiddington, Richard. &ldquo;Nazca Lines Under Threat? Peru&rsquo;s Downsizing Plan Sparks Alarm.&rdquo; Artnet. 6/3/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazca-lines-reduced-reserve-plan-2652342</li> <li>Whiddington, Richard. &ldquo;Who Designed the Bayeux Tapestry? Its 93 Penises Offer Clues.&rdquo; 5/2/2025. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bayeux-tapestry-93-penises-offer-clues-2639001</li> <li>Wizevich, Eli. &ldquo;By Shoving a Bed Frame Against the Door, This Pompeii Family Tried to Survive Mount Vesuvius&rsquo; Eruption.&rdquo; Smithsonian. 5/13/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/by-shoving-a-bed-frame-against-the-door-this-pompeii-family-tried-to-survive-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180986608/</li> <li>Wizevich, Eli. &ldquo;It could take years for archaeologists to properly excavate and preserve the delicate wooden vessel, which likely became shipwrecked.&rdquo; 4/30/2025. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-rare-medieval-boat-discovered-over-18-feet-below-sea-level-in-barcelona-180986524/</li> <li>Wong, Jun Yi. &ldquo;The Afterlife of Hatshepsut&rsquo;s Statuary.&rdquo; Antiquity 99.405 (2025): 746&ndash;761. Web. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/afterlife-of-hatshepsuts-statuary/F22D001E29438008136B6DA04F57C627</li> <li>Zeilstra, Andrew. &ldquo;Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers.&rdquo; EurekAlert. 4/9/2025. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079385</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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