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    The Basiliscoe Mercury331


    TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


    Some cracking good stories this week: Danes (and their swords) in Poland, walls of Chester come tumbling down, the king under the tennis courts, Scythian warrior women and more on the Viking ship in Norway. And Jan van Eyck digitalized….


    Arms and armour in the news


    Ancient arms


    Iron-age warrior with weapons and chariot found in Italy https://www.livescience.com/princely-tomb-iron-age-italy.html


    Gladiator chamber found in Cartagena

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/gladiator-chamber-found-at-roman.html


    Update with lots of illustrations of the fourViking/Danish graves found in Poland

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/scandinavian-warrior-graves-unearthed.html


    And detailed photographs of two Viking swords inPoland

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/eqgmcs/2_viking_age_swords_unearthed_in_ciep%C5%8http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200106-did-the-trojan-war-actually-happen


    Photographs and reconstructions of the Roman frontier in Scotland

    https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/how-life-was-on-the-roman-frontier-in-scotland-1-5072248?page=2


    Chester’s Roman wall comes tumbling down

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/17/roman-wall-collapses-chester-private-building-work


    Beasts of assorted varieties…


    Mammoth steaks all round

    https://siberiantimes.com/other/oth...idence-yet-of-human-slaughter-and-butchering/


    Viking fishing in Scotland

    https://museumcrush.org/the-centuries-old-scottish-viking-tradition-of-haaf-net-fishing/


    Grave stories


    How Roman emperors died

    https://www.livescience.com/roman-emperors-violent-deaths.html


    Latest news from Sutton Hoo

    https://www.apollo-magazine.com/sutton-hoo-redevelopment/


    Looking for King/Saint Edmund under the tennis courts

    https://aleteia.org/2020/01/21/archaeologists-search-for-the-grave-of-st-edmundhttps://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18154584.unwanted-spoils-war-mystery-millport-cannons-explained/


    Miscellany


    Some of the medieval treasures coming to London this year

    https://museumcrush.org/the-beautiful-medieval-treasures-that-tell-the-story-of-thomas-becket/



    Discoveries in crusader castles in Tartous

    https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=183005


    Princesses and Amazons


    Three generations of warrior women in one grave

    https://edition.cnn.com/20https://news.yale.edu/2019/12/20/elizabeth-i-portraits-hold-court-yale-center-britishhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidn...tad-ship-is-from-the-viking-age/#7b7319f19bb2


    And should it be excavated?

    https://www.newsinenglish.no/2020/01/20/rot-hastens-viking-ships-excavation/


    Background to La Trinity and its discovery

    https://www.hakhttps://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/shipwreck-venice-gagiana-exhibition-1747992


    Update on the wrecks from the Black Sea-part1

    https://divernet.com/2020/01/11/frozen-in-time/


    Update on the search for the survivors camp of the Nieuw Haarlem, Capetown, SA

    http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200113-the-shipwreck-that-forever-changed-south-africa



    Museum news and exhibitions


    Future of Iranian loans to museums in doubt

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/iran-exhibitions-in-germany-put-on-ice-amid-political-tensions


    China closes sections of the Great Wall and other visitor attractions

    http://artdaily.com/news/120349/Bei...-Great-Wall--other-tourist-sites#.XiwLgG52uUk


    New museums


    Czartoryski collection in Krakow re-opens

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ection-back-on-display-after-decade-long-wait


    Museum developments


    All of Jan Van Eyck digitalized- a real treat

    http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/verona/#home

    http://artdaily.com/news/120096/The...ures-of-Jan-Van-Eyck-now-online-#.XiAeajFCd9A


    Museum musings


    How the Bargello built up its ivory collections

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/bargello-collection-ivories


    Decolonizing British museums?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/17/uk-museums-may-have-follow-decolonisation-checklist/


    Cold war meets art theft- more like a film or novel, but a fascinating read! https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/five-old-masters-return-to-german-castle-40-years-after-theft


    Conservation corner


    Photographing church interiors and monuments

    https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-to-photograph-every-parish-church-in-england


    Objects


    VC on loan to Dublin

    https://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Ar...ent-Exhibitions/Martin-O-Meara-Victoria-Cross


    Exhibitions


    Last chance to see Edinburgh’s winter exhibition

    https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-war-museum/


    History of games in Zurich

    https://www.landesmuseum.ch/fr/expositions/temporaire/2020/games/games


    Crossbows in Berlin

    https://www.dhm.de/en/ausstellungen/the-crossbow-terror-and-beauty.html


    Peter the Great in Moscow

    https://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibiti...r-i--issledovatel--khudozhnik--kollektsioner/


    Kalashnikov in Moscow

    https://www.kreml.ru/en-Us/exhibiti...ns/vystavka-k-yubileyu-m-f-kalashnikova-2019/


    Canadians in Normandy at Ottawa

    https://www.warmuseum.ca/event/invasion-canadians-and-the-battle-of-normandy-1944/


    Making Marvels at the met

    https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/making-marvels-science-splendor



    Books


    M.C. Bishop: The Spatha; The Roman Long Sword

    https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/available-this-month/the-spatha


    Die Armbrust - Schrecken und Schönheit

    http://dhm-shop.de/index.php?c=detail&artikelnr=4491


    Joachim Meyer: The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 (re-issue)

    https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Art-of-Combat-Hardback/p/8092


    New publication from Suhl

    https://www.waffenmuseumsuhl.de/news/96-publikation-zum-jubilaeum.html


    Online book


    Williams, Mike: The Steel Industry in England – An Historical Overview

    https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16398&ru=/Results.aspx?n=10&ry=2019&p=4



    Popular culture


    A lot of love for the late Terry Jones

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/terry-jones-historian-and-monty-python-member-passes-away/


    Events


    Diary Dates


    6 Feb Arms and armour Society: Spanish fencing

    https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/to-be-announced/


    Things to do, places to visit

    https://www.hgm.at/

    https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/

    https://www.dhm.de/en/besuch und service/



    Websites and downloads


    Australian War Museum

    https://www.awm.gov.au/


    Imperial War Museum

    https://www.iwm.org.uk/


    Royal Collections of Spain

    https://www.patrimonionacional.es/real-sitio


    Historial

    https://www.historial.fr/


    1066 etc: Teutonic Knights, 100 Years War & Byzantine spies

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/0...tory-of-knights-pagans-traitors-and-miracles/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/0...ow-captains-used-trickery-to-profit-from-war/

    https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/byzantine-spies-espionage/


    Finally


    This fortnight I tweetedlost cannon of Sevastopol; next month Andrew Schalch and Woolwich.

    https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



    Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –26 January 2020


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