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    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 11 08:09:44 2020
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    https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/us/leif-erikson-day-other-historical-inaccuracies-trnd/index.html

    Feature on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-story-summary-what-about-who-wrote-bertilak/

    Feature on some ancient symbols being transformed in modern contexts:

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-modern-lives-of-ancient-symbols

    Feature on Lucy Diggs Slowe:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/obituaries/lucy-diggs-slowe-overlooked.html

    Pondering 'evil empires' or not:

    https://thecritic.co.uk/are-empires-always-evil/

    Feature/reviewish on assorted shipwrecks:

    https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/10/07/paco_nadal/1602092167_341161.html

    Mexico is seeking an apology from the Pope:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/11/mexico-asks-pope-francis-for-apology-for-churchs-role-in-spanish-conquest

    On the history of osteopathy:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/what-makes-osteopathy-different/616621/

    On smelly Victorian London:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p08tj5pg/why-was-victorian-london-so-smelly-

    On the Covid threat to endangered languages in Brazil:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54445289

    Folks might be interested to know the tide barriers in Venice actually worked:

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-flood-barrier/index.html

    ... and this item on 5000 years bp 'penguin mummies' recently revealed on Antarctica:

    https://www.livescience.com/ancient-penguin-mummies-antarctica.html

    Reassessing Marco Polo:

    https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3103692/marco-polos-book-china-omits-tea-chopsticks-bound-feet

    This year's MacArthur Genius grants:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-2020.html

    Review of Sabar, *Veritas*:

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2020/1006/The-papyrus-the-professor-and-a-scandal-that-ensnared-Harvard-Divinity-School

    Review of Strevens, *The Knowledge Machine*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/books/review-knowledge-machine-irrationality-created-modern-science-michael-strevens.html
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    MUSEUM MATTERS
    ================================================================
    Chinese Porcelain at the Topkapi Palace:

    http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/05/c_139420361.htm

    Guests:

    https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-10-05/el-retrato-oficial-de-la-mujer-espanola-en-los-siglos-xix-y-xx.html

    Queen Victoria's Goddaughter:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-54445289 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/english-heritage-presents-portrait-queen-victorias-black-goddaughter-180976008/

    Funding to restore the Chinatown Museum in the wake of a fire:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/design/museum-of-chinese-in-america-grant.html

    Latest on the Gweagal Shield dispute:

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-daily/world/2020-10-04-british-museum-in-row-over-aboriginal-shield-taken-by-captain-cook/

    An award for the Archaeological Museum of Pella:

    https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/10/05/archaeological-museum-of-pella-receives-prestigious-award/
    https://www.thenationalherald.com/culture/arthro/the_archaeological_museum_of_pella_receives_2020_traveler_s_choice_award-957267/
    https://www.argophilia.com/news/greeces-archaeological-museum-of-pella-wins-travelers-choice-award/227359/

    More on the Myth Museum in Enna:

    https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/tempi-moderni/2020/10/05/news/dal-rapimento-di-persefone-alla-leggenda-di-kore-nasce-a-enna-il-museo-del-mito-1.39385334
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    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
    Some Egyptian artifacts are coming to auction at Christie's (Egypt seems to be keeping an eye on this):

    https://egyptindependent.com/photos-christies-sets-initial-price-for-13-egyptian-artifacts-to-be-auctioned-at-us1-2-million/

    An Ides of March gold coin coming to auction is causing some excitement:

    https://www.coinnews.net/2020/10/09/ngc-ancients-certifies-eid-mar-aureus-of-brutus/
    https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/business/2020/10/11/numismatic-guaranty-corp-authenticates-coin-minted-caesars-assassin/5927511002/
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8820045/Rare-2-000-year-old-Roman-gold-coin-expected-fetch-5-MILLION-auction-London.html
    https://news.justcollecting.com/ancient-roman-ides-of-march-gold-coin-julius-caesar-auction/
    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59762

    An unknown Ben Enwonwu has come to market:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54463851

    A first edition of one of Isaac Newton's works found during a lockdown clearout fetched a nice price:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-54452971

    Folks might be interested in the price fetched by a T-Rex skeleton the other day:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/design/t-rex-skeleton-brings-31-8-million-at-christies-auction.html
    https://phys.org/news/2020-10-t-rex-fossil-record-breaking-mn.html ================================================================
    ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
    Poking around medieval cesspits in Latvia and Israel to see what DNA reveals about intestinal health:

    https://phys.org/news/2020-10-tale-cesspits-dna-reveals-intestinal.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/uoc-ato100120.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201005005927.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/09/scientists-hands-dirty-research-medieval-poop-microbiomes
    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/medieval-jerusalem-latrine-may-hold-secrets-of-modern-era-gut-diseases-644611
    https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/a-tale-of-two-cesspits-14th-century-latrines-are-revealing-the-medieval-european-lifestyle/
    https://cosmosmagazine.com/uncategorized/a-tale-of-two-cesspits/ https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/10/05/dna-reveals-intestinal-health-in-medieval-europe-and-middle-east/
    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-tale-of-two-cesspits-dna-reveals.html
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/archaeologists-delved-into-medieval-cesspits-to-study-old-gut-microbiomes/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-mine-medieval-toilets-clues-gut-biome-180976016/
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/9080-201006-medieval-human-microbiome

    DNA suggests a pair of skeletons in a Viking burial who met a violent end were mother and son:

    http://cphpost.dk/?p=119053 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-test-reveals-famous-viking-grave-contained-mother-and-son-180976032/
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/9088-201008-denmark-gerdrup-grave ================================================================
    THE TECHY SIDE
    ================================================================
    Feature on drone use in archaeology:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drone-archaeology-finds-underground-earthworks
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    CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
    Correlating climate data to the 1918 flu epidemic (via ice corse):

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/study-offers-clues-to-how-climate-affected-1918-pandemic/
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/9086-201007-climate-war-pandemic

    More on 'ice discharge' triggering the last Ice Age:

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/ice-discharge-in-north-pacific-set-off.html
    ================================================================
    TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
    Roman London:

    https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/lost-city-londinium-how-ruins-19083047

    Tubingen:

    https://www.dw.com/en/germany-from-a-to-z-t%C3%BCbingen/g-48063107

    Stromboli and Filicudi:

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-fertility-islands/index.html

    Lesbos:

    https://neoskosmos.com/en/177104/beautiful-lesbos-10-things-to-know-about-sapphos-island/
    ================================================================
    PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
    Haunting of Bly Manor:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/arts/television/haunting-bly-manor-henry-james.html

    Odyssey:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/odyssey-jermyn-street-theatre-review-homers-tale-times-brought/

    Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro:

    http://news.getty.edu/getty-museum-and-center-theatre-group-present-greek-trilogy-luis-alfaro.htm

    Collectors:

    https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2020/10/689_297117.html

    Good Lord Bird:

    https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/good-lord-bird-showtime-accuracy-fact-fiction.html
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    CRIME BEAT
    ================================================================
    Cambodia recovered a large number of jars taken from a 15th/17th century shipwreck:

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/cambodia-recovers-artefacts-plundered.html

    An illegal detectorist in an archaeological part in Gosbecks:

    https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/18780664.detectorist-caught-scouring-roman-site/
    https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18780664.detectorist-caught-scouring-roman-site/

    A scroll written by Mao Zedong which was stolen last month was recovered (after being cut in half):

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mao-zedong-scroll-was-cut-half-180976033/
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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/ ================================================================
    REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
    A committee in the Netherlands is suggesting looted art should be returned to former colonies:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/design/dutch-restitution-report.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/dutch-museums-agree-to-return-of-stolen.html

    Germany returned some ancient coins destined for auction to Greece:

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/10/06/five-rare-ancient-silver-coins-returned-to-greece/
    https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/10/05/five-ancient-greek-coins-saved-from-auction-repatriated-from-germany/
    https://news.gtp.gr/2020/10/06/germany-returns-smuggled-ancient-greek-coins-to-greece/
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/10/07/repatriation-of-ancient-greek-coins/
    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/five-rare-silver-coins-returned-to.html
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/9089-201008-greece-coins-repatriated

    Germany also returned some items to Egypt:

    https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/92788/Egypt-s-Ambassador-to-Germany-receives-4-smuggled-Egyptian-artifacts

    The V&A is pondering returning looted Ethiopian items:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/07/va-in-talks-over-returning-looted-ethiopian-treasures-in-decolonisation-purge

    The French parliament voted to return stolen artifacts to Benin and Senegal:

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/10/french-parliament-votes-to-return.html

    Algeria is seeking the return of a cannon taken by the French a couple centuries ago:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54432571

    The British Museum is returning those tiles smuggled in a 'dirty suitcase' a while ago:

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/11/british-museum-to-repatriate-ancient-tiles-smuggled-into-uk-in-a-suitcase

    ================================================================
    NUMISMATICA
    ================================================================
    Latest e-Sylum:

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n40.html

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

    http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n41.html ------------------------

    Coin Week:

    http://www.coinweek.com/

    ================================================================
    OBITUARIES
    ================================================================
    Maynard Solomon:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/arts/music/maynard-solomon-dead.html

    W. Raymond Wood:

    https://www.columbiatribune.com/obituaries/20201006/w-raymond-wood-1931-2020

    George Frison:

    https://buckrail.com/famed-wyoming-archaeologist-remembered/

    Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr.:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/grandson-10th-president-john-tyler-dies-180975992/

    ================================================================
    AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
    Audio News from Archaeologica:

    https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2995-audio-news-from-archaeologica-september-27-through-october-3-2020
    ================================================================
    GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
    Archaeology Magazine News Page:

    http://www.archaeology.org/news/

    About.com Archaeology:

    http://archaeology.about.com/

    Archaeology Briefs:

    http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

    Atlas Obscura:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/

    Heritage Daily:

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/

    Sapiens Archaeology:

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

    Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

    http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
    Archaeosoup:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

    Archaeology Podcast Network:

    http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
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