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Saturday, 22 August 2026
What happened to Harry and Meghan's American dream?
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Friday, 21 August 2026
Rare intact 17th century drawing book donated to Rijksmuseum

The Van Eeghen Drawing Book contains about 30 full-page drawings of biblical scenes, some on blue paper, and smaller studies of figures and animals. They are in exceptional condition, because unlike drawings that were cut out of their bindings, the pages inside the book were almost never exposed to light.

Rombout Uylenburgh (1580/85–1627/28) was born in Leeuwarden, in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. His family moved to Kraków when he was still a boy and he grew up to become painter at the court of Polish King Sigismund III. He moved to Danzig in 1612 where his career continued to thrive. He specialized in grisailles, monochrome paintings in shades of grey.

There is no documentation of how the Van Eeghen family acquired the book, but there’s a hint on the binding: an inscription in gold lettering reading “Konstboeck voor Reyer Claessoon” (“Art book for Reyer Claessoon”). Reyer Claessoon was a prominent member of the Dutch community in Danzig when Rombout Uylenburgh lived there. He and Uylenburgh were both Mennonites, so almost certainly knew each other personally. The Van Eeghen family were also part of the Danzig Mennonite community. This is likely the path the book took.

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'This star is for Africa' - Angélique Kidjo on making Hollywood Walk of Fame history
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Thursday, 20 August 2026
Objects from Scotland’s richest Iron Age burial on display

The skeletal remains of a young warrior were discovered in a stone-lined cist grave opposite the town hall of Alloa in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. The site on Marshill was excavated in 2003 before construction of residential homes. Archaeologists found he was between 17 and 25 years old when he died in the 1st century A.D. The young man was marked as a warrior because of his grave goods: an iron sword with a two-foot-long blade in a leather scabbard placed across his chest, a spear by his side.
He was richly adorned with jewelry, including a glass bead pendant, a bronze fibula, a belt with bronze and iron rings and two bronze toe rings. While his shoes were either not buried or had decomposed over the centuries, the toe rings suggest he wore sandals, another indicator of his elite status.
Iron Age burials are very seldom found in Scotland, and ones with weapons are even more rare. This one was unique not just for the overall richness of its contents, but also because some of the individual pieces had never been found before. The belt with rings, for example, was unprecedented on the Scottish archaeological record.
Dr Matthew Knight, Senior Curator of Prehistory at National Museums Scotland, said:
“The remarkable objects from the Marshill burial give us a vivid insight into the mindset of prehistoric communities living in Scotland almost 2,000 years ago. Burying people with weapons may reflect the person’s role in life as a warrior, or how their community wanted them to be seen in the afterlife. These treasured objects tell us this young man was a powerful member of his community. Following extensive research and conservation, I am thrilled that visitors will have the opportunity to see these objects for the first time in Scotland’s First Warriors.”
The Scotland’s First Warriors exhibition runs through May 16, 2027. It features more than 200 objects related to conflict and violence in Scotland from the Neolithic through the Roman era, including other artifacts that have never been displayed before, such as the Carnoustie Hoard of Bronze Age weapons.
* This article was originally published here
National Television Awards pick first all-female shortlist for drama acting award
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National Television Awards pick first all-female shortlist for drama acting award
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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Update: pre-Hispanic mosaic skull repatriated to Mexico

The Wereldmuseum acquired the skull from an American antiquities dealer in 1963 for the equivalent of about $20,000. There was no provenance, very common in an era when unrestrained looting of archaeological sites was rampant and neither the market nor collectors nor museums cared about legitimate ownership histories. The elaborate adornment of the skull ranked it as one of the greatest examples of Mixtec craftsmanship from the Late Postclassic Period (1200-1521 A.D.).

The campaign for repatriation came a decade later when artist Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba found about the skull and its complex history while he was in Amsterdam doing a residency at the Rijksakademie. He teamed up with the Nchivi Ñuu Savi collective, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Ñuu Savi culture and rights, to petition the Netherlands’ government for restitution. In 2023, Mexico’s government filed a request for repatriation which was approved at the end of 2024.

Physical anthropologist Olaf Bello Cardoso, from the DRPMZAH, emphasizes that the skull offers biological and social information, which can be further studied in complementary studies, such as radiocarbon dating. He considers it feasible to obtain samples from some teeth or from the temporal bone, the hardest part of the skull, which exceptionally preserves ancient DNA.
“From an anthropological perspective, in addition to conducting physical analyses of the skull, it is important to decipher who the person behind the turquoise mosaic is. For example, it is known that the skull from Tomb 7 of Monte Albán was part of an offering dedicated to a principal figure; in the case of the now repatriated skull, it is possible that the intention was to exalt the individual with the ornamentation of his skull,” he notes.
Meanwhile, the Nchivi Ñuu Savi collective submitted a petition signed by 1,020 residents of Tututepec to INAH asking that their ancestor’s skull be displayed at the community’s own museum, not in the capital. INAH representatives visited the Yucu Saa Museum in June and worked on a plan for the Mixtec’s skull’s safe display. The museum is working to improve its security and exhibition space to make it appropriate for such a significant piece. The plan is for the skull to go on display there in April 2027 after the changes have been completed.
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What really goes on in the MasterChef kitchen
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Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Update: Royal Sovereign Trafalgar flag bought by museum
The flag flown from HMS Royal Sovereign at the Battle of Trafalgar has been saved for the nation by the North East Museums. One of only three surviving British flags from the epic 1805 battle between the English and Napoleonic navies, it sold at auction to a foreign buyer last year. The UK’s Minister of Culture placed a temporary export bar on the flag to prevent it leaving the country and giving local institutions the chance to acquire it.
Thanks to donations from organizations, including £400,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, North East Museums was able to raise the purchase price of £450,000 ($600,000) and secure this iconic emblem of Britain. They are now raising funds to create a permanent custom display for this huge flag at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle.
The flag has a specific connection to northeastern England. It is also known as the Collingwood Trafalgar flag after Vice Admiral Collingwood, commander of HMS Royal Sovereign and Newcastle upon Tyne native. He was just 13 years old when he enlisted in the British navy in 1761, and worked his way up the ranks, earing the rank of vice-admiral and serving as second in command of the British Fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Not only was Collingwood a local lad, but much of his crew was too. They were nicknamed the “Tars of the Tyne” because so many of them came from the Tyne and Wear county of northeastern England. Furthermore, they weren’t just fighting under this flag, they actually made it too. It is the only one of the three surviving Trafalgar flags that was handmade by the crew of the ship whose foremast it flew from.
The Union Flag will form the centrepiece of a new permanent display at Discovery Museum, Newcastle, that will celebrate an important regional and national figure and a significant moment in British history.
It will be located in a new section of the museum’s popular Story of the Tyne gallery, which showcases an extensive maritime collection, covering Tyneside’s shipbuilding industry, innovations in maritime technology, and one of the best ship model collections in the country.
The display will also tell the story of the local men who served in Nelson’s navy – there were over 500 ‘Geordie’ sailors at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Gillian Anderson felt 'betrayed' after The Salt Path allegations
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