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    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 24 08:59:27 2021
    [continued from previous message]

    https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/bone-fragments-found-during-dig-at-the-baker-and-wyndham-street-parking-lots-4542466
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    CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
    1000 years bp burials of 29 people who were apparently 'offerings' associated with the construction of a Wari temple in northern Peru:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-discovery-ancient-peruvian-burial-tombs.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10121397/Remains-29-people-buried-offerings-1-000-years-ago-discovered.html

    Plenty of Mayan sites and artifacts found along a train construction route in Mexico:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-100s-archaeological-sites-mexico-route.html https://www.rawstory.com/discovery-of-ancient-peruvian-burial-tombs-sheds-new-light-on-wari-culture/
    https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/100s-more-archaeological-sites-found-on-Mexico-16552690.php
    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/mayan-civilization-artifacts-discovery-train-mexico-scn-scli-intl/index.html
    https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/100s-archaeological-sites-found-mexico-train-route-80714392
    https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/100s-more-archaeological-sites-found-on-mexico-train-route/
    https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/numerous-new-ancient-sites-discovered-on-mexico-train-route

    Not sure if we mentioned this 'scaled down' version of the Teotihuacan's Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Guatemala:

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lasers-lidar-mexican-pyramid-maya-teotihuacan-temple-feathered-serpent-tikal

    Feature on Inca mummies:

    https://www.history.com/news/inca-mummies-afterlife

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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 ============================================================
    Pondering race and skeletons:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/science/anthropology-skeleton-race.html

    A stoneware dish, previously thought to be Korean, at the British Museum is now identified as Northern Song dynasty Ru ware:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-cutting-edge-forensic-analysis-rare-ceramic.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/19/very-dishy-small-bowl-in-british-museums-collection-revealed-to-be-extremely-rare-chinese-ru-ceramic
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10107637/Archaeology-Korean-dish-revealed-rare-Imperial-Chinese-Ru-ware-ceramic-crafted-900-years-ago.html
    http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/767/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/767/pub/767/page/19/article/232030
    https://cranfieldandmarstonvale.co.uk/cranfield/cutting-edge-forensic-analysis-identifies-rare-ceramic-dish-for-the-british-museum/
    https://todayuknews.com/science/archaeology-korean-dish-revealed-as-rare-imperial-chinese-ru-ware-ceramic-crafted-900-years-ago/

    Israel's National Library has given the public access to the notebooks of 'Mr Shushani':

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/notebooks-of-mysterious-influential-teacher-mr-shushani-opened-to-public-682493

    A study suggests that gold 'went out of fashion' for a while from 1500-800 BCE:

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/gold-bling-fell-out-of-fashion-in-ancient-times/141725

    Pondering what drove the invention of assorted military technologies:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-drove-military-technologies.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931988 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/21/what-drove-the-invention-of-military-technologies/

    Using AI to reconstruct some Klimt paintings:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/20/klimt-paintings-reconstructed-by-artificial-intelligence/

    Feature on Constantinople becoming Istanbul:

    https://www.livescience.com/istanbul-not-constantinople

    Feature on queer royals and aristocrats throught the ages:

    https://www.dw.com/en/queer-royals-and-aristocrats-through-the-ages/g-59517208

    Feature on the restoration of a Bernini chapel in Rome:

    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/ap-online/2021/10/21/berninis-dazzling-chapel-even-brighter-after-restoration

    A lost sculpture by William Edmondson was rediscovered:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/arts/design/william-edmondson-sculpture.html

    Feature on Rubens:

    https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2021/10/20/8965-innovating-from-antiquities-rubens-masterfully-took-inspiration-f

    Feature on prehistoric religion:

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/prehistoric/prehistoric-religion-a-riddle-we-will-never-solve/

    Feature on ghost stories:

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/why-we-share-stories-of-local-ghosts

    Feature on the origins of vampire stories:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vampire-disease-origins

    Feature on assorted grotesque faces in various locations in Coventry:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58979395

    Feature on 'male collectors':

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/19/men-need-collections-bring-order-chaotic-world/

    Feature on the Reign of Terror:

    https://www.livescience.com/reign-of-terror.html

    Feature on gospels that didn't make it into the Bible:

    https://www.baslibrary.org/collections/gospels-didnt-make-cut

    Feature on mermaids:

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/early-modern/mermaids-legends-sirens-myths-folktales-hans-christian-andersen-disney/

    Feature on cities built on top of cemeteries:

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/cities-built-on-secret-cemeteries

    Feature on the Liberty Cap:

    https://daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-liberty-cap/

    Feature on alchemy:

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/turning-lead-into-gold

    ... and an alchemical cipher:

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/culture/alchemy-cipher-philosophers-stone/

    On a possible Scottish 'cop' in 15th century Bologna:

    https://www.medievalists.net/2021/10/scotsman-cop-bologna/

    Feature on Lovett Fort-Whiteman:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/a-black-communists-disappearance-in-stalins-russia-lovett-fort-whiteman-gulag

    Feature on Stephen Crane:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/the-miracle-of-stephen-crane-red-badge-of-courage-burning-boy

    Review of Graeber and Wengrow, *The Dawn of Everything*:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
    https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/our-ancient-ancestors-may-have-been-more-civilized-than-we-are/

    .... and a feature by the authors of the book:

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past

    Some King George revisionism:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-defense-of-king-george-180978852/

    Feature on the history of New York Times book reviews:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/review/new-york-times-book-review-first-issue.html

    On Switzerland's 'Chimney Sweep Mafia':

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/switzerland-chimney-sweep-mafia

    What Henry Louis Gates Jr is up to:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/henry-louis-gates-jr-black-writers.html

    Review of Kevin Birmingham, *The Sinner and the Saint*:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/dostoyevsky-crime-punishment-birmingham-sinner-saint/620175/

    More on John Dee's Aztec obsidian mirror:

    https://www.apollo-magazine.com/john-dee-mirror-aztec-obsidian/

    Ohio messed up license plates honouring the Wright Brothers:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/us/wright-brothers-license-plate/index.html

    A 'charred and blackened' nut cake from WWII was found in a German town:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10120399/Heavily-charred-blackened-nut-cake-baked-World-War-II-preserved-German-town.html

    Volcanic eruptions in Japan revealed some WWII warships:

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qx8m/iwo-jima-japan-volcano-eruption https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/10/22/sunken-wwii-warships-exposed-after-volcano-activity-japan/6136230001/
    https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/japanese-wwii-ships-sunk-by-us-emerge-after-volcano-tremors-lift-seabeds/
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    CURRENT EVENTS:
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    New York City is removing a statue of Jefferson from City Hall:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047258467/thomas-jefferson-statue-removal-new-york-city-council-chamber

    Feature on the search for burials of Indigenous children in Canada:

    https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000007893602/indigenous-graves-children-canada.html

    Ben Gurion University has closed its Bible studies department:

    https://www.jpost.com/opinion/dropping-bible-studies-is-highly-problematic-opinion-682386

    Comparing Covid-19 to other epidemics:

    https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/a-historical-perspective-how-covid-19-compares-to-other-epidemics/2602525/

    Mary Beard's views on statue toppling were in the news this week:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/19/dame-mary-beard-pleased-edward-colston-statue-toppled/
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10107213/Dame-Mary-Beard-66-says-pleased-Edward-Colsons-statue-pulled-down.html
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mary-beard-is-happy-to-see-statues-fall-w3rkh89xg
    https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/do-as-the-romans-do-and-replace-disgraced-statues-mary-beard-says-296178/

    ... but they didn't get it right:

    https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/statue-abuse-and-fake-news-blog-post-mary-beard/

    Review of Alex von Tunzelmann's *Fallen Idols*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/books/review/fallen-idols-alex-von-tunzelmann.html
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    ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
    Study suggests the 'modern' horse was domesticate around 2200 years BCE in the Caucasus region:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-domestic-horses.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/horse-domestication-russia.html https://www.dainst.blog/archaeology-in-eurasia/origin-of-domestic-horses-finally-established/
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/world/domestic-horses-origin-scn/index.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-genes-modern-domestic-horses-origin-russia
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/do-we-finally-know-where-horses-evolved
    https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/civilisations/giddy-up-origins-of-the-domestic-horse-uncovered/
    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62511 https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-horses-might-originate-from-powerful-and-docile-breed-in-ancient-russia
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02858-z https://www.archaeology.org/news/10095-211021-horse-domestication-caucasus

    cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04018-9 ============================================================
    MUSEUM MATTERS
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    Sanhedrin Trail:

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/what-was-jewish-life-in-israel-like-at-the-time-of-the-mishna-and-talmud-682627

    Nebra Sky Disk:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-british-museum-world-oldest-stars.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58946633 http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/761/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/761/pub/761/page/18/article/229337
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10102907/Archaeology-Worlds-oldest-map-stars-display-British-Museum.html
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-nebra-sky-disc-map-b1940327.html

    Poussin:

    https://hyperallergic.com/685760/poussin-and-the-dance-national-gallery-london/ https://www.apollo-magazine.com/poussin-dancers-time-national-gallery/

    Live Forever, Welcome to the Underworld:

    https://www.reading.co.uk/university-of-reading-museum-event-exploring-ancient-greek-and-egyptian-beliefs-about-life-after-death/

    Galloway Hoard:

    https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/galloway-hoard-illuminates-past-power-and-wealth-of-area-as-it-returns-home-3425400

    Syrian Antiquities:

    http://sana.sy/en/?p=251650

    Rubens:

    https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2021/10/20/8965-innovating-from-antiquities-rubens-masterfully-took-inspiration-f

    The Stories we Wear:

    https://www.inquirer.com/arts/marian-anderson-penn-museum-clothing-stories-20211020.html

    The Cleveland MoA helped to reassemle a broken Cambodian Krishna statue:

    https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/10/cleveland-museum-of-art-spotlights-collaboration-with-cambodia-in-reassembly-of-fragmented-krishna-statue.html
    https://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2021/10/19/cleveland-museum-of-art-spotlights-collaboration-with-cambodia-in-reassembly-of-fragmented-krishna-statue/

    A Herefordshire museum is fundraising to get the hoard found there back from the BM:

    https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/regional-news/viking-treasure-find-could-change-6098671

    Controversy arising from plans for a museum at the Alamo:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/phil-collins-sets-off-a-new-battle-over-the-alamo-11634486400

    Chania is getting a new archaeological museum:

    https://news.gtp.gr/2021/10/19/crete-getting-ready-to-welcome-new-archaeological-museum-in-chania/

    How museums are using technology:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/boston-museum-fine-arts-technology.html

    Feature on the Pavilion in Ticonderoga:

    https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/the-pavilion-in-ticonderoga

    On a haunted history museum in Saratoga Springs:

    https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Saratoga-Springs-History-Museum-is-haunted-16555381.php

    Feature on the Hispanic Society's museum:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/arts/design/hispanic-society-grolier-club.html

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    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
    Big bucks for some Picassos:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59026220 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/24/picasso-paintings-displayed-at-las-vegas-hotel-sell-for-more-than-100m

    Not sure if we mentioned this Nazi-looted Van Gogh:

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/van-gogh-meules-de-ble-painting/index.html

    A microscope Charles Darwin gave to his son is coming to auction:

    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62501

    Big bucks for the Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor:

    https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/10/20/ancient-jewish-prayer-book-sells-for-record-breaking-8-3-million/

    High expectations for portraits of Ottoman sultans:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/23/you-can-sense-selim-the-grims-anger-portraits-of-ottoman-sultans-go-on-show

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    ON THE DNA FRONT
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    Ancient DNA researchers are setting ethical guidelines for their work:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-10-proceeding-caution-global-guidelines-ancient.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/ancient-dna-archaeology-ethics.html

    DNA suggests mammoths and other megafauna lived on longer than previously thought:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/24/world/mammoth-steppe-dna-scn/index.html https://scitechdaily.com/new-dna-research-shows-humans-did-not-cause-woolly-mammoths-to-go-extinct-climate-change-did/
    https://www.cnet.com/news/woolly-mammoth-extinction-blamed-on-climate-change-and-not-human-hunting/
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04016-x

    More on DNA from Arabia revealing human migration out of Africa:

    https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/21/arabian-dna-africa/

    More on HepB DNA and human migration:

    https://www.shh.mpg.de/2058101/hbv-evolution?c=1935799 http://www.archaeology.org/news/10086-211018-hepatitis-b-migration

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    CLIMATE MATTERS
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    Climate change is causing concerns for shipwrecks in the New York area:

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211015-how-climate-change-is-threatening-new-yorks-shipwrecks

    Using driftwood to track 500 years of Arctic warming:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/20/ancient-driftwood-tracks-500-years-of-arctic-warming-and-sea-ice/

    Blaming the extinction of woolly mammoths on climate change:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211020135914.htm ============================================================
    TOURISTY THINGS
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    Doncaster:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211019-the-scottish-town-stranded-in-england

    Istria:

    https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/europe/incredible-istria-aromas-artefacts-and-architecture-on-croatias-perfect-peninsula-40966175.html

    Pakistan's PM was highlighting the nation's Buddhist tourism potential:

    https://www.samaa.tv/news/2021/10/pm-highlights-pakistans-potential-for-buddhist-tourism/

    Some English estates near London:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/historic-homes-outside-london-england-downton/2021/10/21/e57c10dc-2d0e-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html

    St Kilda:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/travel/st-kilda-scotland.html

    Agrafa:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211017-the-greek-region-too-remote-for-maps

    Chicago's African American Heritage Water Trail:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/bespoke/untold-america/chicago/ ============================================================
    TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
    More commentary on 'The Last Duel':

    https://slate.com/culture/2021/10/the-last-duel-hairstyles-historical-accuracy.html
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    CRIME BEAT
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    Vandalism at two Pembrokshire archaeological sites:

    https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/19656754.damage-caused-two-pembrokeshire-monuments-national-archaeological-importance/

    A smuggling attempt at Bengaluru airport was foiled:

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/exporter-trying-to-smuggle-idol-through-kia-cargo-held/articleshow/87192484.cms

    Items looted from Syria were spotted in the office of a Lebanese official:

    https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2021/10/artifacts-looted-from-syrian-national-museums-seen-in-the-office-of-a-lebanese-official/
    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/looted-syrian-artefact-spotted-lebanese-officials-office

    INTERPOL says cultural property crime has risen during the pandemic:

    https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2021/Cultural-property-crime-thrives-throughout-pandemic-says-new-INTERPOL-survey
    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/interpol-art-crime-survey-2021-illegal-excavations-1234607580/

    A Spanish court has thrown out a lawsuit against Odyssey Marine which began a decade ago:

    https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/oct/19/spanish-court-throws-out-lawsuit-against-us-treasu/
    https://www.seattletimes.com/business/spanish-court-throws-out-lawsuit-against-us-treasure-hunters/

    Mehrdad Sadigh pleaded guilty to make a pile of forgeries:

    https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-dealer-behind-one-of-the-biggest-antiquities-forging-operations-in-the-us-pleads-guilty

    Interesting feature on how a Kim Kardashian photo revealed a stolen Egyptian sarcophagus:

    https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kardashian-met-gala-egyptian-coffin ----------
    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 ============================================================
    The Denver Art Museum is returning four items connected to Douglas Latchford to Cambodia:

    https://hyperallergic.com/685543/denver-art-museum-will-restitute-four-looted-artifacts-to-cambodia/
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50954539/four-cambodian-antiquities-to-be-returned-after-the-pandora-papers-exposed-their-illicit-origins/
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/16/denver-museum-cambodia-pandora-papers/
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/denver-art-museum-pandora-papers-restitution-2021888

    ... while Cambodia says the Met has "dozens" of its looted antiquities:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/arts/cambodia-met-museum-looted-antiquities.html

    Canada will be returning a stone knife found beneath Parliament to the Algonquin people:

    https://torontosun.com/news/national/knife-found-beneath-parliament-to-be-returned-to-algonquin-nations-in-historic-move
    https://www.thestar.com/politics/2021/10/17/knife-found-beneath-parliament-to-be-returned-to-algonquin-nations-in-historic-move.html

    A Berlin museum 'returned' and then bought back a Nazi-looted Pissaro painting:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/18/berlin-museum-restitutesand-then-buys-backnazi-looted-pissarro-painting

    Cambridge will be the first UK institution to return a Benin Bronze:

    https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/benin-bronzes-the-uk-s-first-institutional-return-of-looted-artifacts-50925
    https://culturecustodian.com/after-124-years-stolen-bronzed-okukor-is-finally-returning-to-nigeria/

    Cambridge will also be returning things to Uganda, we are told:

    https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/people-power/cambridge-university-to-return-uganda-s-historic-artefacts-3593386

    Apparently plenty of Benin Bronzes are to be returned this month:

    https://www.africa.com/benin-bronzes-to-be-returned-this-month/

    Scottish museums are 'more likely' than English to repatriate culturally-significant items:

    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/19667895.scottish-museums-likely-english-re-patriate-items-cultural-significance/

    France returned some angel sculptures which were stolen back in 1989 to Italy:

    https://www.cosmosonic.com/la-france-rend-des-anges-de-marbre-voles-dans-une-eglise-en-italie-en-89/

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    Feature on the 'tribute penny':

    https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/guises-of-the-tribute-penny/

    Feature (reviewish) of depictions of music on ancient coins:

    https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/music-on-ancient-coins/

    Latest e-Sylum:

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n42.html

    ... and the one which should appear later today:

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n43.html ------------------------

    Coin Week:

    http://www.coinweek.com/

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    https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologists-biblical-scholars-works/memoriam-tom-parker-archaeologist-of-roman-jordan/
    https://www.technicianonline.com/news/history-professor-thomas-parker-unexpectedly-passes-away-at-71/article_c1eac430-3176-11ec-bb22-73de56e10897.html

    Alban Forcione:

    https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/10/18/alban-forcione-unequalled-interpreter-don-quixote-and-infinitely-generous-mentor

    Jack Dunitz:

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jack-dunitz-obituary-35x9pml2w

    Joe Schork:

    https://caneweb.org/new/?p=4727

    Norman Rice:

    https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-museum-giant-Norman-Rice-dies-at-95-16554917.php

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    Atlas Obscura:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/

    Heritage Daily:

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/

    Sapiens Archaeology:

    https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

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    http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ============================================================
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