Muppet of the Month: Easter Island Anger after Truck Crashes into Sacred Statue! - WB March 2020
Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Welcome to Archaeoscoop, the place to find heritage and archaeology related news stories from around the world!
With today's top three, we examine a the hanging garden of Babylon, a school-access scheme and the ongoing debate surrounding Richard III:
1) Babylon's hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder:
http://archaeosoup.com/babylons-hanging-garden-ancient-scripts-give-clue-to-missing-wonder/
2) English Heritage bus scheme to fund school trips:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22424606
3) Video: Richard III 'relative' heads burial row march through York:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22427495
Audio: Unearthing History: How technology is transforming archaeology:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/06/181636289/how-technology-is-transforming-archaeology
Digs, Delays and Secret Bunkers: Berlin's Tech Epicentre the factory one year on:
http://venturevillage.eu/berlin-the-factory-tech-startups
Neolithic huts built at Old Sarum by English Heritage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22424880
El Paso Museum of Archaeology gets new curator:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_23178720/el-paso-museum-archaeology-gets-new-curator?source=most_emailed
Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found in Ga:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/05/2872455/frontier-fort-from-revolutionary.html
8 Famous people who missed the Lusitania:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/8-Famous-People-Who-Missed-the-Lusitania-205849981.html
From Industrial toil to tourism in Wales (in pictures):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22255818
Art: Contemporary Archaeology:
http://theforescope.com/2012/06/20/contemporary-archaeology/
Why did Ancient Civilizations build such massive monuments?
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/01/the-ancient-past-as-a-window-to-the-future-part-2-of-3/
Making a History Lesson out of dirt:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-esu-allown-students-archaeology-20130504,0,569301.story
Ancient paintings discovered in Aydun:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-paintings-discovered-in-aydin.aspx?pageID=238&nID=46107&NewsCatID=375
European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue:
http://archaeosoup.com/european-and-asian-languages-traced-back-to-single-mother-tongue/
Eleanor Winter's illustration:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=462440760502243&set=pb.108738502539139.-2207520000.1367932992.&type=1&theater
Eleanor Winter's website featuring the other illustrations:
http://www.eleanorwinter.com/gallery.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDug0Bpvjcw
Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Link of the Month:
Heritage Watch App: http://heritagewatch.co.uk/
Links:
Stonehenge Update: By-Pass is the Best Option:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cCNiZQTOTo
Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage.
Today we examine the origins of Archaeology.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOMav9UqXg
Hurrah! We made it to video 500.
As promised, this is your chance to win an Archaeosoup Tin. Just watch this video for your chance to win!
Thanks for watching.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Ik5-luy-8
Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Link of the Month: Pull Tab Archaeology:
https://youtu.be/-yHbcVw13D0
Links:
Rise of the Nazis (BBC Two):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00084td
https://www.whatsontv.co.uk/events/rise-nazis-bbc2-2-september/
Why doesn’t television believe in its audience’s intelligence any more?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/doesnt-television-believe-audiences-intelligence/?fbclid=IwAR1SGgcsduVvRoCubvA7c7jm83PB9bDDAYvJtpRxgA_PRnq1XaXVfPGUOWs
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey PC Gameplay Launch Trailer:
https://youtu.be/BIuuLBhDt9s
Archaeos0up Twitch: Starting soon...
https://www.twitch.tv/archaeos0up
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEhb7AxVwqQ
This is a follow up to our recent news video about National Geographic's 'Nazi War Diggers' TV series.
In this video we examine, more closely, the reasons why archaeologists are up in arms over this controversial television show.
For more on Andy's perspective check out this article:
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/03/springtime-for-hitler-and-nazi-war-death-porn-diggers/102632
Note:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqYTMNo7Ow
For more information about BA Archaeology at Durham University:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/courses/info/?id=8394&title=Archaeology&code=F400&type=BA&year=2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXXTyoZ1ihw
Our resident Archaeological legend is fresh, (well not so much fresh as gin soaked) from his explorations in the grounds of Archaeosoup Towers!
Today, 'Gin' conducts the long-awaited debrief interview with Andy Brockman of the 'spitfires in Burma' expedition!
"The Lost Spitfires of Burma- Anatomy of a Legend"
Wednesday 19 June 2013 at 19.30
Venue: Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACH96kic1M