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https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/what-ended-the-black-death-historys-worst-pandemic

An early backgrounder on Christmas:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/pandemic-christmas/616925/

Interesting feature on 'The Death of General Wolfe':

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/25/arts/benjamin-west-general-wolfe.html

An Austrian village has changed its name:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name
https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967

On some Shakespearean insults:

https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21612867/thersites-troilus-and-cressida-william-shakespeare

A study of the fate of the Denmark Expedition in 1906:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201124111323.htm https://phys.org/news/2020-11-polar-explorer-hours.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uosd-nlo112420.php https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/11/26/new-light-on-polar-explorers-last-hours/

Reading a Yeats poem a hundred years later:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939561949/opinion-reading-william-butler-yeats-100-years-later

Feature on Freemasonry:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/937228086/freemasons-say-theyre-needed-now-more-than-ever-so-why-are-their-ranks-dwindling

Marking Engels' 200th birthday:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-revolutionary-socialist-200-years-of-friedrich-engels/a-55718299

Not sure where to put this item on the GCR's 'Aktion Licht':

https://www.dw.com/en/how-east-germany-seized-valuables-from-its-citizens/a-55732300

How Los Angeles avoided the 1919 epidemic's second wave:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/21/1918-flu-los-angeles-coronavirus/

More on the microbiome of DaVinci's drawings:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/11/23/the-microbiome-of-da-vincis-drawings/
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2020-11-24/hongos-bacterias-y-adn-humano-en-los-dibujos-de-leonardo-da-vinci.html

More on that recently-identified (maybe) DaVinci drawing:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-someone-just-discover-new-leonardo-da-vinci-drawing-1-180976371/

More on that old copy of Shakespeare found in Seville:

https://english.elpais.com/arts/2020-11-24/oldest-shakespeare-play-in-spain-found-in-seville.html

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AMERICAN THANKSGIVING ================================================================
On the date:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/24/thanksgiving-2020-why-thanksgiving-always-thursday/6357116002/

Rethinking what happened with the Pilgrims:

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/11/23/plymouth-400-mayflower-first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-wampanoag-massasoit/6343621002/

On what was really on the menu at the first Thanksgiving:

https://food52.com/blog/20949-what-was-actually-served-at-the-first-thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving during the 1918 pandemic:

https://www.livescience.com/thanksgiving-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic.html

Assorted Thanksgiving mythbusting:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving

On George Washington's slave who cooked a Thanksgiving meal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2020/11/19/washington-thanksgiving-hercules/

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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Studying the development of horseback riding in early China:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-record-of-horseback-riding-written-in-bone-and-teeth/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Priests of Amun:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/priests-of-amun-go-on-display-at-the-new-administrative-capitals-museum/

Latest from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/94573/The-Egyptian-Museum-in-Tahrir-displays-15-sarcophagi-for-the

Copernicus:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/23/huge-portrait-of-copernicus-to-be-seen-in-uk-for-first-time

On the 'most prominent' artifacts now in Egypt's Administrative Capital Museum:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/94641/What-are-the-most-prominent-artifacts-received-by-the-New

Folks might find the newly-created 'Curators in Quarantine' youtube channel of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9nxCPhiEchieO6DQBzXuw

Feature on some colonialism related items in Australian museums:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-5-museum-objects-that-tell-a-story-of-colonialism-and-its-legacy-150642

Hyping the Hong Kong Palace Museum:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3111308/hong-kong-palace-museum-hints-content-its-first-exhibitions

Feature on the Met at 150:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/the-metropolitan-museum-at-a-hundred-and-fifty

The British Museum wants help naming its Nero exhibition:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/the-british-museum-is-looking-for-help-with-naming-its-blockbuster-show-on-the-roman-emperor-nero

The Cairo International Airport Museum is opening soon:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/94648/Preparations-are-underway-to-officially-inaugurate-the-Cairo-International-Airport

... as is a new archaeological museum in Ermionida (Greece):

https://news.gtp.gr/2020/11/26/new-archaeological-museum-open-ermionida-greece/ ================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
How Sotheby's and Christie's are faring during the pandemic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/auction-houses-luxury-sothebys-christies.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Feature/hype for Viviane Slon's work with ancient DNA:

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/meet-the-israeli-scientist-exploring-ancient-dna-650131
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THE TECHY SIDE
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A new xray technique on a 1900 years bp Egyptian mummy revealed what is thought to be a 5-year-old child:

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-x-ray-diffraction-reveals-mummies.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/africa/mummy-x-ray-technique-intl-scli-scn/index.html
https://www.livescience.com/roman-era-mummy-x-ray-scans.html https://www.kcra.com/article/x-ray-technique-reveals-clues-about-ancient-1900-year-old-mummy/34790022

How archaeologists are making use of AI:

https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/11/how-archaeologists-are-using-deep-learning-to-dig-deeper/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intelligence-archaeology-cnn.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/consumer-reviews/sns-nyt-artificial-intelligence-archaeology-cnn-20201124-i3mdlwswjvhntpicvf2q2lkfjq-photogallery.html

... similar:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/how-are-archaeologists-using-hi-tech-during-the-coronavirus-era-650245

... and also similar:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/scientists-artificial-intelligence-babylonian-tablets-cuneiform-script-israel-1.9284653
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Climate change is raising concerns about Lebanon's cedars:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/22/935885394/climate-change-closes-in-on-lebanons-iconic-cedar-trees

Something about photography and climate change:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/photography-has-never-known-how-handle-climate-change/617224/
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
On plans to turn some Scottish castles into hotels:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/22/ruins-with-a-view-plan-to-turn-scottish-castles-into-enchanting-hotels

Bavaria:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-16-states-bavaria/a-45148071

A 'haunted' Sicilian castle:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08ylwrm/one-night-in-a-haunted-sicilian-castle

Gordion:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/travel/ankara-travels-a-day-in-gordion-the-capital-of-ancient-phrygians

Sparta:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/food_travel_travel/arthro/my_great_greek_adventure_sparta_the_city_of_legends-1297525/

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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Bakkhai:

http://www.villanovan.com/culture/villanova-theatre-takes-on-euphrides-bakkhai/article_eadc974a-2f6c-11eb-81ac-b7e7d229e0a1.html

Ammonite:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/15/934692843/kate-winslets-ammonite-takes-on-paleontology-patriarchy-and-passion

A documentary is raising questions about Chopin's sexuality:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/chopins-interest-in-men-airbrushed-from-history-programme-claims
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/29/europe/chopin-sexuality-poland-lgbtq-debate-scli-intl/index.html
cf: https://www.srf.ch/kultur/musik/spaetes-outing-chopin-war-schwul-und-niemand-sollte-davon-erfahren

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================ Feature/reviewish thing on that Saqqara documentary (which is excellent, by the way):

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-secrets-of-ancient-egypt-as-told-by-today-s-egyptians-1.9330241

A documentary on the challenges of restoring Notre Dame:

https://www.livescience.com/documentary-rebuilding-notre-dame-cathedral.html ================================================================
CRIME BEAT
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A pair of Darwin notebooks may have been stolen 20 years ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55044129 https://www.livescience.com/darwin-lost-stolen-notebooks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/europe/darwin-notebooks-stolen-cambridge.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/charles-darwin-stolen-notebooks-intl-scli-gbr-scn/index.html
https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/11/25/mundo_global/1606305603_909059.html https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938361814/missing-ink-darwin-notebooks-long-unseen-now-believed-stolen
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-darwin-notebooks-quietly-went-missing-20-years-ago-were-they-stolen-180976400/

Not sure why there isn't more about this find of a network of European auction houses selling stolen Greek artifacts:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/11/28/auction-houses-illegally-selling-stolen-artifacts/

Israeli police confiscated a 450 years bp Torah klafim from a house in a Druze village in northern Israel:

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1922591/shocking-450-year-old-torah-klafim-found-in-druze-village.html
https://worldisraelnews.com/israeli-police-find-450-year-old-torah-during-drug-raid-in-druze-village/

Egyptian authorities at the Rafah Land Port seized 9 antiquities:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/94683/Archaeological-Unit-of-Rafah-Land-Port-Custom-Authorities-succeeded-in

Vandalism at a Roman site in Finistere (Italian):

https://www.finestresullarte.info/archeologia/vandalizzata-necropoli-plougonvelin-finistere
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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 ================================================================
The Netherlands returned a 600 years bp Ife artifact to Nigeria:

https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/11/26/nigerian-government-receives-repatriated-600-year-old-ife-tarrecotta/
https://punchng.com/fg-receives-repatriated-600-year-old-ife-artefact/ https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/netherlands-returns-smuggled-600-year-old-ife-terracotta-to-nigeria/

Canada is returning an item stolen from India over a century ago:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy87ym/canada-returning-statue-of-hindu-goddess-stolen-from-india

A German museum is returning a Native American scalp:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-wild-west-museum-to-repatriate-native-american-scalp/a-55713597

More on the US returning a Late Period Egyptian relief which was for sale online:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/394156/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/A-Late-Period-relief-recovered-from-New-York.aspx
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-york-authorities-return-ancient-stele-to-egypt

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the coins of Phanes:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-ancient-coins-of-phanes/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n47.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n48.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Daniel Cordier:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/daniel-cordier-dies-/2020/11/23/3986156e-2d98-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

Maria Moscholiou:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/11/25/greece-mourns-legendary-high-priestess-of-the-olympic-flame-ceremony/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/11/26/high-priestess-maria-moscholiou/

Patrick Beckett:

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2020/11/25/patrick-beckett-archaeologist-and-coas-books-founder-passes-age-79/6425262002/

Roberto Junco:

https://www.thefloridastar.com/articles/roberto-junco-the-mexican-archaeologist-who-searched-for-underwater-treasures/

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3006-audio-news-from-archaeologica-november-15-through-november-21-2020
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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 ================================================================
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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