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    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 3 09:18:12 2021
    [continued from previous message]

    https://hyperallergic.com/680172/wupatki-national-monument-will-be-conserved/

    Trying to reverse the previous administration's cuts to Bears Ears National Monument:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/28/bears-ears-monument-tribes-biden/

    Honouring Vermont's first black sheriff:

    https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/new-historical-marker-in-vergennes-honors-stephen-bates-vermonts-first-black-sheriff/Content?oid=33922383

    A 'suspicious' fire at the Susan B. Anthony House:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/us/susan-b-anthony-house-fire-rochester-new-york/index.html
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/09/27/fire-womens-rights-susan-b-anthony/
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/27/susan-b-anthony-museum-house-rochester-ny-suspicious-fire/5880972001/
    https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040890555/susan-b-anthony-museum-house-fire-investigation-rochester-new-york

    1000 years bp coffeetrees at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village in Kentucky:

    https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/community/history/7216610-Ancient-coffeetrees-discovered-at-Prehistoric-Indian-Village-site

    Interview with Clint Smith about some myths connected to US slavery:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/02/us/slavery-myths-clint-smith-blake-cec/index.html

    Review of Allen Guelzo, *Robert E Lee*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/books/review/robert-e-lee-allen-c-guelzo.html

    Feature on cave art in North America:

    https://theconversation.com/ancient-americans-made-art-deep-within-the-dark-zones-of-caves-throughout-the-southeast-158497
    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-ancient-americans-art-deep-dark.html

    Feature on the Chicago fire of 1871:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/10/02/1042595858/opinion-150-years-after-the-great-chicago-fire-were-more-vulnerable

    Feature on the She-She-She camps of the Great Depression:

    https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/she-she-she-camps-of-the-great-depression/

    Feature on the Bear River Massacre:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/26/bear-river-massacre-native-americans-shoshone/

    Feature on how Albany only recently became the New York capital:

    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/albany-archives/2021/10/01/albany-archives-state-capital

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    CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ===========================================================

    LiDAR has revealed a 'hidden neighbourhood' near Tikal:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-guatemala-archaeologists-uncover-hidden-neighborhood.html
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210928075015.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929725 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10033525/Natural-hills-Guatemalas-ancient-Maya-city-ruined-buildings.html
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/archeologists-uncover-hidden-neighbourhood-in-ancient-maya-city-1.5598047
    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/maya-neighbourhood-designed-to-look-like-teotihuacan-discovered-at-tikal/141514
    https://gizmodo.com/lost-foreign-neighborhood-discovered-at-ancient-maya-1847759409
    http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/teotihuacan-style-citadel-tikal-10118.html

    cf: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/teotihuacan-complex-at-the-classic-maya-city-of-tikal-guatemala/1ABD72745DB20D55493B1A47CF267E77

    More on what LiDAR has revealed about Teotihuacan:

    https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-see-ancient-teotihuacan-with-aerial-mapp-1847716948
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/10015-210927-teotihuacan-lidar-landscape

    More on architectural 'individuality' among Maya rulers:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210921134339.htm

    Feature on that 'tower of skulls' found in Mexico City over the past few years:

    https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09x1374/the-huge-tower-of-human-skulls-unearthed-in-mexico-city

    Feature on beasties and gods in Mayan cosmology:

    https://aeon.co/essays/belonging-among-the-beasts-and-the-gods-in-mayan-cosmology

    Celebrating 200 years of Mexican independence:

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210928-mexico-celebrates-200-years-of-independence
    https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-09-26/los-otros-relatos-detras-de-los-200-anos-de-independencia-de-mexico.html

    October's Ancient Americas Zoom events:

    http://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
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    Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

    http://goo.gl/1VdeA

    Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

    https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

    Ancient MesoAmerica News:

    http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ===========================================================
    OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ===========================================================
    A project to recreate an Ottoman galley:

    https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkish-volunteers-seek-to-build-first-ottoman-galley-in-centuries/news

    Claims that a 14th century monk wrote about the Americas:

    https://mymodernmet.com/manuscript-america-markland/

    Feature on some UK metal detectorists:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/01/id-like-to-find-a-roman-fibula-brooch-watching-the-detectorists-a-photo-essay

    Feature on how to make alcohol like they used to some 4000 years bp:

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqewv/how-to-make-booze-like-its-4000-bc

    Feature on an eagle's head made from Lincoln's hair:

    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62327

    On the history of kite flying:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/t-magazine/kites-art-history.html

    A medieval cookie recipe:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-cookie-recipe

    Feature on Charles Sanders Peirce and his polymathic interests:

    https://aeon.co/essays/charles-sanders-peirce-was-americas-greatest-thinker

    Interesting feature on Marie Aymard and the history of slavery in a French town:

    https://aeon.co/essays/family-history-and-the-problem-of-slavery-in-everyday-life

    Feature on five 'apocalypses' humanity managed to survive:

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/five-apocalypses-humanity-has-survived

    Feature on Dante's version of Hell:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/dantes-enduring-vision-of-hell-11633028575

    AI suggests a Rubens in the National Gallery is a fake:

    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-national-gallery-rubens-not-authentic-2013830#.YVKzmdyrPvU.twitter

    On a 'hidden skull' in Holbein's Ambassadors:

    https://bigthink.com/high-culture/optical-illusion-hans-holbein-skull-ambassadors/

    Suggestion that Leonardo's assistant who did the Prado Mona Lisa also did he Salvator Mundi:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/09/28/leonardos-unidentified-assistantwho-painted-the-prados-mona-lisaalso-copied-saint-anne-and-the-salvator-mundi-new-research-suggests

    Restoration of Michelangelo's Bandini Pieta is complete:

    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62345

    Review of Colin Thubron, *The Amur River*:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mysterious-neolithic-stone-balls

    Pushing back the dates for the beginning of the Anthropocene:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-deep-roots-anthropocene-tropical-forests.html

    cf: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2109243118

    Feature on how Europeans' arrival in the Americas is taught in Spain:

    https://elpais.com/educacion/2021-09-27/descubrimiento-conquista-y-colonizacion-con-luces-y-sombras-asi-se-ensena-en-espana-la-llegada-de-los-europeos-a-america.html

    This year's MacArthur Geniuses:

    https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-2021.html

    More on the Vinland map being a 20th century fake:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/yale-vinland-map-fake.html https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1042029881/the-vinland-map-thought-to-be-the-oldest-map-of-america-is-officially-a-fake
    https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/09/30/the-vinland-map-thought-be-the-oldest-map-of-america-officially-fake
    https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/09/famous-viking-map-of-north-america-is-totally-fake/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-map-of-north-america-identified-as-20th-century-forgery-180978751/

    More on medieval gunpowder recipes:

    https://www.wired.com/story/west-point-chemists-recreate-medieval-gunpowder-recipes
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/scientists-test-medieval-gunpowder-recipes-with-15th-century-cannon-replica/

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    CURRENT EVENTS:
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    An archaeology society in Sheffield is looking for a new home:

    https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/outdoors/why-sheffield-archaeology-society-is-searching-for-a-new-home-after-109-years-3399391

    Albuquerque will be looking for remains of missing Indigenous children:

    https://news.yahoo.com/first-step-understand-albuquerque-mayor-002607343.html

    OpEd on the search for African American burial grounds:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/when-black-history-is-unearthed-who-gets-to-speak-for-the-dead

    San Jose has apologized for historic racism against Chinese immigrants:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58729097

    Another example of fallout from academic freedom concerns:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/yale-grand-strategy-resignation.html

    On why universities need to teach 'civics':

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/universities-cant-dodge-civics/620261/

    Ongoing concerns for antiquities in Afghanistan:

    https://www.dawn.com/news/1648529/culture-the-war-on-afghan-antiquities https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/02/afghanistan-art-iraq-germany-cambodia-khmer-rouge/

    A timely study of the subjects of monuments in the US:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/arts/design/National-Monument-Audit.html

    Portugal has granted citizenship to descendents of Jews expelled during the Inquisition:

    https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2021/09/portugal-concede-cidadania-a-descendentes-de-judeus-expulsos-na-inquisicao.shtml
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    ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ===========================================================
    Not sure if this counts as 'domestication', but 18 000 years bp people in New Guinea were raising Cassowaries (!):

    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-late-pleistocene-humans-hatched-cassowary.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210927150526.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929543 https://altoona.psu.edu/story/40641/2021/09/27/late-pleistocene-humans-may-have-hatched-and-raised-cassowary-chicks
    https://www.livescience.com/ancient-cassowary-rearing https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/world/early-humans-raised-cassowary-chicks-scn/index.html
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/science/most-dangerous-bird-cassowary.html https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.6196350/humans-raised-deadly-cassowary-birds-18-000-years-ago-researcher-suggests-1.6196354
    https://www.sciencealert.com/dangerous-cassowaries-may-have-been-the-first-birds-raised-by-humans
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cassowaries-were-raised-by-humans-18000-years-ago-180978784/
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/10022-210929-new-guinea-eggshells

    cf: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2100117118

    More on the long distance trade of dogs in medieval Siberia:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/27/ancient-humans-traded-dogs-for-their-usefulness/
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    MUSEUM MATTERS
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    Kallos:

    https://neoskosmos.com/en/2021/09/28/life/arts/ancient-greek-kallos-ideal-takes-centre-stage-in-major-athens-museum-exhibition/
    https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/events/45396-kallos-the-ultimate-beauty-opens-at-the-museum-of-cycladic-art-in-athens.html
    https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1168677/ancient-greek-notion-of-kallos-explored-in-show-at-cycladic-museum/

    Lost Jewish Collections:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/afterlives-looted-art-jewish-museum.html

    Chinese Porcelain:

    https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3150544/how-chinese-porcelain-went-global-hong-kong-exhibition-full

    Chinese 'reverse glass' paintings:

    https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/3150669/chinese-reverse-glass-paintings-hong-kong

    Gold of the Great Steppe:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/gold-great-steppe-review-dazzling-display-riches-plains-ancient/

    Morozov Collection:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/design/morozov-collection-louis-vuitton-foundation.html

    Quilts:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/american-history-quilts-180978586/

    Yale Women:

    https://mailchi.mp/dailynutmeg/on-the-basis-of-art-yale-university-art-gallery-long?e=2c38baa027

    Pompeii:

    https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/how-mummies-from-pompeii-made-their-way-to-pittsburgh/

    Epidemics:

    https://www.dw.com/en/from-the-plague-to-covid-how-epidemics-shaped-history/a-59360351

    cf: https://www.seuchen-ausstellung.de/

    Hokusai:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/28/hokusai-the-great-picture-book-of-everything-review
    https://londonist.com/london/museums-and-galleries/hokusai-at-british-museum https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210929_05/

    Repatriated Mexican objects:

    https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Mexico-displays-pre-Hispanic-artifacts-recovered-16503355.php

    Egypt is sending assorted items to Dubai:

    https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/426147.aspx https://www.egyptindependent.com/what-visitors-can-expect-to-see-inside-egypts-pavilion-at-expo-2020-dubai/
    https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/egypt-sends-display-artifacts-dubais-expo-2020

    Feature on decolonizing efforts at the Fleming Museum of Art:

    https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2021-10-01/fleming-reimagined-a-university-museums-journey-to-decolonize-its-collection

    Feature on the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/brand-new-museum-oklahoma-city-honors-indigenous-people-at-every-turn-180978742/

    Feature on the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan:

    http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_OKDBBD22.html

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    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ===========================================================
    Big bucks for a broken Qing vase:

    https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2021/october/2511/news/broken-qing-vase-still-takes-2m-hammer-at-us-auction/

    Those 17th century gold coins found in the walls of a French mansion we mentioned a while ago fetched a nice price:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/rare-gold-coins-dug-out-of-walls-of-french-mansion-sold-for-12m
    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62364

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    ON THE DNA FRONT
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    More on the DNA study of the 'Segorbe Giant':

    https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2021/september/martin-richards-ancient-dna-analysis-segorbe-giant/
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/10019-210928-spain-al-andalus

    More on what DNA is revealing about Polynesian migrations:

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-genetics-how-polynesia-settled-migration-islands-pacific-ocean
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/10014-210927-polynesia-dna-migration ===========================================================
    THE TECHY SIDE
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    Xrays reveal Marie Antoinette's secret correspondence:

    https://www.livescience.com/marie-antoinette-redacted-letters-revealed https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/science/marie-antoinette-letters.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/x-ray-technology-reveals-marie-antoinettes-censored-secret-correspondence-180978796/

    cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg4266

    Infrared scans have revealed all sorts of things about Munch's 'Madonna':

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/03/strike-a-pose-infrared-scans-reveal-the-method-in-munchs-madonna

    On AI being able to spot art forgeries:

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/this-ai-can-spot-an-art-forgery ===========================================================
    CLIMATE MATTERS
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    What the collapse of various ancient cities reveals about climate change:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-climate-collapsed-ancient-cities.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210928102247.htm

    cf: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2022211118

    Connecting climate cycles to the rise and fall of a Tibetan dynasty:

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3149990/study-sediment-finds-climate-cycles-may-have-caused-rise-and

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    TOURISTY THINGS
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    Iovia Archaeological Park:

    https://www.total-croatia-news.com/travel/56390-iovia-ludbreg

    Archaeological sites in Greece:

    https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/30/all-the-must-see-archaeological-sites-in-greece/

    Cyclades:

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/10/02/sunset-lovers-guide-to-the-cyclades/

    Copenhagen:

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/copenhagen-fairy-tale-capital-world/index.html

    Celtic culture in Newfoundland:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/travel/irish-loop-newfoundland.html https://pressnewsagency.org/following-the-shamrocks-on-a-canadian-road-trip/

    Mount Ziria:

    https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/29/greeces-beautiful-mount-ziria-home-of-the-god-hermes/

    Puebloan sites in the Four Corners region:

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/30/lifestyle/exploring-sacred-recesses-indigenous-southwest/

    Feature on the changing nature of plantation tourism:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/10/01/charleston-plantation-tourism-magnolia-middleton-mcleod/
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    PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ===========================================================
    Pondering whether Chopin suffered from epilepsy:

    https://www.classical-music.com/composers/was-chopin-epileptic/

    Using AI to finish Beethoven's 10th:

    https://www.wamc.org/2021-10-02/team-uses-ai-to-complete-beethovens-unfinished-masterpiece
    https://bigthink.com/high-culture/beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony/

    Bringing Beethoven to life (kinda sorta):

    https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3150668/beethoven-played-period-costume-songs-and-narrator-bonn-man

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    TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ===========================================================
    Bettany Hughes on Istanbul:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/istanbuls-hidden-roman-cisterns-taught-human-survival/

    Assorted items on the 'rebirth' of Time Team:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/28/time-team-television-show-revived-fans-new-host/
    https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/time-team-could-unearth-future-public-engagement

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    CRIME BEAT
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    Five Bedouin caught in an antiquities theft in southern Israel:

    https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/bedouin/police-catch-5-bedouin-during-antiquities-theft-in-southern-israel/2021/10/03/

    Another big bust in Turkey:

    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271353390/turkish-police-seize-5829-historical-artifacts-detain-11-suspects

    Eight arrests connected to illegal excavations in North Macedonia:

    https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/macedonia-holds-antiquities-smuggling-illegal-digs-80330756
    https://www.coastreporter.net/the-mix/n-macedonia-holds-8-for-antiquities-smuggling-illegal-digs-4473671
    https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/entertainment/article254648717.html

    Bust of a guy running a 'fake antique' business in Kochi:

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/crime-branch-busts-fake-antique-racket-in-kochi/article36682988.ece
    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/fraudsters-arrest-puts-top-leaders-officers-in-a-spot/article36703360.ece
    https://www.indiatimes.com/explainers/news/explained-how-a-kerala-conman-ran-a-multi-crore-fraud-with-his-fake-antiquities-collection-550516.html
    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/fake-antique-dealer-case-exposes-the-denigration-of-the-value-of-heritage-kerala-history-congress/article36789341.ece

    Mexico has put together a 'special team' to recover stolen artifacts:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/01/mexican-crime-unit-hunt-illegally-trafficked-artworks
    https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-orders-creation-of-special-team-to-recover-stolen-archaeological-pieces/

    The US Treasury Department is focusing on the art trade to combat money laundering, apparently:

    https://news.yahoo.com/treasury-department-focusing-art-trade-164914168.html

    On the difference between art criminals and 'regular' criminals:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/two-enemies-one-mindset

    More on the antiquities-possession arrest in Kalymnos:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/30/arrest-on-kalymnos-for-possession-of-antiquities/

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    conflict antiquities:

    http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

    anonymous swiss collector:

    http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

    Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

    http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

    Looting Matters:

    http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

    Illicit Cultural Property:

    http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

    SAFE:

    http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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    REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ===========================================================
    Colonial-era papers stolen from Mexico's National Archive were returned:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-documents-colonial-cortes-stolen-recovered-180978767/

    Tibet received a dozen items from 'overseas':

    http://www.news.cn/english/2021-09/26/c_1310211115.htm http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2021-09/27/content_77776738.htm

    The Met is returning a sculpture to Nepal:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/arts/design/met-museum-nepal-sculpture.html https://observer.com/2021/10/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-is-sending-a-sculpture-of-lord-shiva-back-to-nepal/

    Belgium returned a pair of objects to Egypt:

    https://egyptindependent.com/belgium-sends-two-ancient-egyptian-artifacts-back-to-egypt/
    https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/10/03/egypt-recovers-two-antiquities-from-belgium/

    The UK returned 'at least five' artifacts to Cambodia:

    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50944605/at-least-five-cambodian-artefacts-from-england-returned-to-cambodia/
    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271361320/5-lost-cambodian-artifacts-returned-to-cambodia-from-britain
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-five-latchford-antiquities-returned-kingdom

    So some NIgerian artist(s) proposed a trade of art for the Benin Bronzes with the British Museum:

    https://hypebeast.com/2021/9/nigerian-artists-ahiamwen-guild-proposes-artwork-exhchange-british-museum-benin-bronzes

    ... and apparently the BM took the art but didn't do any returning:

    https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/british-museum-accepts-nigerian-artists-gift-keeps-looted-bronzes-2021-09-30/
    https://www.news24.com/arts/Culture/nigerian-artist-says-british-museum-accepts-his-gift-keeps-looted-bronzes-20211001
    https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/01/british-museum-accepts-nigerian-artist-s-gift-but-keeps-looted-bronzes
    https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/news/british-museum-accepts-nigerian-artists-gift-but-keeps-looted-bronzes-100640507/
    https://whbl.com/2021/09/30/british-museum-accepts-nigerian-artists-gift-but-keeps-looted-bronzes/

    A court decision is coming on a Nazi-looted Pissarro:

    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nazi-looted-pissarro-owners-united-states-supreme-court-1234605489/

    More on the US returning 157 items to india:

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-modi-to-bring-home-157-artefacts-handed-over-by-us/articleshow/86521833.cms
    https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-thanks-new-york-authorities-for-returning-over-150-antiquities-2554965
    https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-thanks-new-york-returning-over-150-antiquities-7536908/
    https://www.wionews.com/india-news/behind-the-scenes-story-of-how-india-recovered-157-idols-artefacts-from-the-us-416688

    ... related OpEd:

    https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/easy-pickings-antiquities-and-art-treasures/cid/1832930

    General features on repatriation:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/restitution-what-s-really-going-on https://www.news18.com/news/explainers/explained-how-antiques-are-returned-to-their-country-of-origin-and-why-it-still-remains-a-long-way-home-4253156.html
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    Feature on the 'last ancient coin':

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    Latest e-Sylum:

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n39.html

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    Fred Woudhuizen:

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