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Monday, 26 October 2026
Final James Bond screen tests to take place this weekend, reports say
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Sunday, 25 October 2026
1,500-year-old female shaman figure found in Japan
An excavation of a late 5th century burial mound in central Japan has uncovered a clay figurine representing a female shaman (miko). The figurative clay sculpture, a haniwa, is well-preserved, with its features still finely detailed and extensive surviving red paint.
Excavations at the Nishikaminomiya Site began in 2020 as part of a Tone River improvement project. Since then 11 burial mounds from the Kofun period have been discovered. The largest mound is Tumulus No. 1 at approximately 160 feet long. It is surrounded by a moat is 60 feet wide. The haniwa was discovered in this year’s excavation of the southern end of Tumulus No. 1 adjacent to the Tone River. It had rolled down a protruding section of the mound into the moat.
Haniwa were made of unglazed earthenware and placed on grave mounds as protective markers. The figural haniwa were typically sculpted on top of a simple cylinder that had been the earliest form of the statue in the 3rd century. The cylinder was buried leaving the figure above ground to mark the burial sites.
The newly-discovered example is only a torso and head (the buried base has broken off) and is about 16 inches high. It depicts a woman wearing a sash with her hair styled in the Kofun Shimada (topknot) identifying her as a shaman. The top of the head is made of clay cord, conveying with its texture the tied hair. The face, sash lower section of the garment and bracelet on her right wrist are painted red. She holds a rod-shaped object in her left hand that was used in religious rituals. Made in the second half of the 5th century, it is one the earliest anthropomorphic haniwa to have been found in the Gunwa Prefecture.
Miko were popular subjects for haniwa. In the Kofun period, miko performed religious rituals at Shinto shrines and temples, falling into ecstatic trances to relay the words of the gods to worshipers. Historians believe miko held significant religious and political authority in Kofun society, and their visibility on the tombs of the elite confirms they figures of importance and authority.
Excavation is now complete. The haniwa will go on display next week at the Gunma Prefectural Museum of History.
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The rise of new black spaces in music
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जयपुर में छाईं ‘गुलाबी क्वीन’ जैस्मीन सैंडलास:‘केसरिया बालम’ की दी प्रस्तुति; बंधेज ड्रेस में आईं नजर, सिंगर के गानों पर नाची मां
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Saturday, 24 October 2026
Long-lost Marie Antoinette breast bowl found

King Louis XVI commissioned the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory to make an 108-piece service for the Queen to serve the fresh products of her dairy in royal finery while ensconced in her fake bucolic fantasy. Only 65 pieces were ever produced, delivered to Rambouillet in 1787 and 1788. The four breast-shaped bowls consist of a creamy pink-white bowl shaped like a breast, completely with a realistic colored nipple, on a tripod of goat heads. Goats were a symbol of fertility and apparently Marie Antoinette’s favorite animal among the stock at her dairy. The base of the tripod is decorated with black and purple with foliate scrolls and egg-and-dart friezes against an ochre-orange background.

Three of the bowls are now in public collections. Two are held at the National Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres, one with a pale aqua background with purple decoration on the tripod and one with a lavender background with purple and black decoration. Another with a light blue background and black decoration, is in the collection of the Duca di Martina Museum in Naples. The orange background of the recently found bowl is markedly different from the pastels of its three siblings.
According to a handwritten document found with the breast bowl, it went from the Rambouillet dairy to Marie Josephe Rose, Marquise de Chanaleilles, (1784-1867), who was the sister of Marie Louise Zélie, Comtesse de Bouillé, one of the ladies-in-waiting to the Duchesse of Berry. The Marquise de Chanaleilles gave it to her grandson, General Ferdinand de Salles (1831-1925). He sold it to the Galerie Meyer in Paris.
Marie Antoinette’s rediscovered breast bowl will go up for auction at Hôtel Drouot on November 26th. The pre-sale estimate is €1,000,000–€2,000,000. Any foreign buyer will almost certainly be subject to an export bar, so I imagine there will be an effort to secure it for a French institution.
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Trump ordered to answer questions under oath in BBC lawsuit
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Friday, 23 October 2026
Bronze Age Blyth Hoard has unique ingot, moulds

The Blyth Hoard was discovered in 2022 just seven miles from the Peebles Hoard, the most diverse agglomeration of Bronze Age artifacts in Europe. Amazingly enough, the same metal detectorist, Mariusz Stępień, discovered both hoards, and while he is apparently a magical Bronze Age hoard magnet, he is also so archaeologically conscientious that as soon as he found a socketed axe, he stopped digging and reported it to the Treasure Trove Unit.

The copper ingot is complete and is the first of its kind from Scotland. Ingots are more common in southern Britain, particularly on the south coast, but have never been found north of the Border. It is important evidence that raw material was being imported into Scotland 3000 years ago. People weren’t simply recycling existing objects – there was a supply of fresh metal into the area.

It is rare to find any moulds that link to specific objects from the Bronze Age. This makes the discovery at Blyth quite exceptional. Given the unique nature of the Peebles Hoard fittings, it is highly probable that whoever buried the Blyth Hoard may have been involved in making some, or all, of the Peebles Hoard fittings. This is especially striking given the presence of an ingot.
The survival of metalwork and the remains of manufacturing materials together is rare in Britain, and previously unknown in Scotland. The Blyth Hoard is an opportunity to examine some of the relationships between metal objects, production and deposition. The socketed axeheads and ingot may represent the raw material for casting into new objects, such as the Peebles-style fittings. The person (or people) who buried the Blyth Hoard may have been a metalworker, skilled at making moulds and casting objects.
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Big Brother fans still not happy as housemate called out on behaviour
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