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https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/erased/north-greenwood-cemetery-forgotten/67-40ba74da-71d7-4130-9968-e402b18e8f08
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/archaeologists-discover-human-remains-at-north-greenwood-cemetery/
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2021/02/12/excavation-complete-at-north-greenwood-cemetery--what-s-next-

Some historically-significant 'antique portraits' were found in a hidden portrait studio in Geneva NY (we may have mentioned this place):

https://www.wamc.org/post/trove-antique-portraits-including-1-susan-b-anthony-found-attic

Feature on Nance Legins-Costley (first enslaved person freed by Lincoln):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/06/nance-legins-costley-of-pekin-the-first-slave-lincoln-freed/4373306001/

Feature on the Dorsey scrapbooks:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/02/race-save-black-history-archives/617932/

Feature on Prince Hall (an African-American abolitionist):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/prince-hall-forgotten-founder/617791/

Feature on Alexander Twilight (first African-American person to get a BA in the US):

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/02/08/complex-history-alexander-twilight-middleburys-first-black-graduate/4094045001/

Feature on the 1690 Schenectady Massacre:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Church-continues-to-remember-victims-of-1690-15944653.php

Feature on Howard Taft:

https://mailchi.mp/dailynutmeg/william-howard-taft-presidents-day-redux-2?e=2c38baa027

More on that Tlingit fortress:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/lost-alaskan-indigenous-fort-rediscovered-after-200-years/

More on Utah's 'Lehi Horse' remains and their implications:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/02/04/horse-remains-reveal-new-insights-how-native-peoples-raised-horses
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9429-210208-lehi-horse-utah ================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Evidence that ancient Amazonian communities in Brazil developed land over the centuries and eventually protected it with palisades:

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/homepage/title_842215_en.html https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ancient-amazonian-farmers-fortified-valuable.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoe-aaf020921.php https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/ancient-amazonian-farmers-fortified.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9436-210211-bolivia-village-palisade

A Chimu culture burial from Peru:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/pre-hispanic-burial-found-near-urban.html

Feature on recent Taino finds from St Thomas:

https://stthomassource.com/content/2021/02/11/taino-today-part-4-recent-discoveries-at-cinnamon-bay-show-presence-of-early-indigenous-culture/

Feature on Chile's Pereira Palace:

https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/palacio-pereira-una-historia-increible/OIMPFXNT5JAAVMP7QQ4YQOKHTU/

Feature on shark hunting in ancient Brazil:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/auctioned-pre-columbian-artefacts-seized-by-police-20210213-p5727d.html

More on that colossal mask found in the Yucatan:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/colossal-ancient-maya-stucco-mask.html
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Feature on the popularity of ostrich eggs in the ancient Mediterranean:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/02/eggstraordinary-objects

Nice feature on Cupid in art over the millennia:

https://hyperallergic.com/621221/cupid-shoots-through-millennia-of-art/

On the revival of Hanfu clothing:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3121293/hanfu-traditional-chinese-clothing-and-young-people-hong

Assorted history of Valentine's Day items:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/14-valentines-day-facts-2021-things-you-didnt-know-about-st-valentine-cupid-and-february-day-love-3133713
https://www.grossepointenews.com/articles/valentine-history-not-very-amorous/ https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-valentines-day-2021-who-was-st-valentine-and-why-do-we-celebrate-valentines-day-on-february-14-2875092
http://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/10834/20210213/heres-what-valentines-day-really-is-about.htm
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/1707/men-running-around-after-women-in-nothing-but-goatskin-loincloths-exploring-myths-of-st-valentine
https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/lifestyle/soon-it-will-be-valentines-day-the-story-behind-the-worlds-most-romantic-day/
https://www.themarysue.com/ancient-precursor-to-valentines-day-lupercalia/ https://www.ibtimes.com/valentines-day-2021-history-who-invented-holiday-3144321

'Different' feature on Presidents' Day:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/arts/design/presidents-day-museums-tours.html

On the influence of Japanese design on the West in the late 19th century:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/t-magazine/japonisme-paris-western-design.html

Soldiers killed in Napoleon's 1812 retreat were (re)buried:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56052504 https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210213-two-centuries-after-napoleon-defeat-russia-and-france-bury-their-dead
https://nypost.com/2021/02/09/remains-of-napoleons-soldiers-to-be-buried-in-russia/

Feature on 'lingerie' in the 17th and 18th centuries:

https://theconversation.com/i-die-where-i-cling-garters-and-busks-inscribed-with-love-notes-were-the-sexy-lingerie-of-the-past-154645

Feature on turtles in history:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-long-history-of-warrior-turtles-from-ancient-myth-to-warships-to-teenage-mutants-152614

Interesting 18th century 'deathbed confession' pamphlet:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/13/highwaymans-1750-confessions-reveal-unusual-ambivalence-about-gay-sex

What the Great Gatsby is really about:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel

Pondering pardoning 2500 witches who were executed in Scotland years ago:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19087966.time-pardon-2500-witches-executed-scotland/

Pondering the 150th anniversary of Darwin's 'Descent of Man':

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/13/how-should-we-address-charles-darwin-complicated-legacy

Suggestion that Alfonso de Zamora was 'secretly Jewish':

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/was-one-of-catholic-spains-most-famous-scholars-secretly-jewish-658235

On the history of the 'nervous breakdown':

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/bring-back-the-nervous-breakdown/617788/

Feature on Rotwelsch language:

https://psyche.co/ideas/how-a-secret-european-language-made-a-rabbit-and-survived

Feature on 'lost' cities:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/incredible-lost-cities-we-ve-rediscovered/ss-BB1dtzF1?li=BBnbklE

On the history of pizza:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pizza-day-history-naples/index.html

Feature on what happened when Brooklyn renumbered its streets 150 years ago:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/incredible-lost-cities-we-ve-rediscovered/ss-BB1dtzF1?li=BBnbklE

Feature on rethinking 'goddess statues':

https://www.popsci.com/story/science/ancient-statues-misinterpreted-by-historians/

Carnival in Venice is tourist-free this year:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3120930/venetians-keep-magic-alive-tourist-free-carnival-kicks

Feature on the lost continent of Zealandia:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210205-the-last-secrets-of-the-worlds-lost-continent

Another feature on ancient perception of 'blue':

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2021/02/09/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-color-blue/

Feature on almond milk in the Middle Ages:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/people-went-crazy-for-almond-milk-in-the-middle-ages

Pondering Shakespeare's villains:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/theater/shakespeare-all-the-devils-are-here-review.html

The human eye is apparently better at 'archaeological colour tests' than machines:

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-human-eye-machine-archaeological-identification.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/fmon-heb020921.php

Feature on the 10 'greatest movie archaeologists':

https://screenrant.com/netflix-the-dig-best-movie-archaeologists/

The remains of Khaled al-Asaad have been located (maybe) by Syrian authorities:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55977964 http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/syria/2021/02/08/syria-remains-of-palmyra-archaeologist-found_ef2e819c-d262-45a8-b1f8-90343696c946.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/body-of-antiquities-scholar-beheaded-by-is-in-2015-believed-to-be-found/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/08/syria-finds-body-famed-archaeologist-beheaded-islamic-state/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-palmyra-khaled-asaad-archeologist-remains-possible-found
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/body-of-archaeologist-who-died-defending-palmyra-from-isis-has-been-found-says-syrian-media
https://hyperallergic.com/620601/khaled-al-asaad-archaeologist-beheaded/

More on children's identity tags being found at Sobibor:

https://www.livescience.com/nazi-death-camp-sobibor-children-id-tags.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/9430-210208-children-id-tags

More on evidence that Richard III murdered the princes in the tower:

https://www.livescience.com/richard-iii-nephew-murders.html https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/historian-bolsters-case-that-richard-iii-murdered-the-princes-in-the-tower/
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CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
COVID-19 has contributed to the worst UK economy in 300 years, apparently:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/economy/uk-gdp-record-fall/index.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-economy-suffers-biggest-slump-in-300-years-amid-covid-19-lockdowns-11613118912
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-12/u-k-recession-risk-averted-as-economy-grows-more-than-forecast

How Florence Nightingale would deal with COVID-19:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/11/florence-nightingale-covid-fresh-air-britain-ventilated
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii (Houston):

https://www.kvue.com/article/travel/pompeii-exhibit-houston-museum-of-natural-science/269-70c5b62c-e4de-474b-91b2-d8a8db11d546
https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2021/02/houston-museum-of-natural-science-pompeii-exhibition

Pompeii (Colosseum):

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2021/02/08/rome-and-pompeii-star-together-in-colosseum-show_5f75c2cb-c273-44b4-80ff-2a861526ebf9.html

Galen (online):

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2021/february/TheEmpirePhysician.html

Goya:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/arts/design/goya-met-museum.html

Kings of the Sun:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/98471/Egypt-s-Kings-of-the-Sun-exhibition-in-Prague-extended

Rembrandt and Slavery:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/09/rembrandt-slavery-slave-trade-marten-soolmans-oopjen-coppit
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/slavery

Hokusai:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/these-rediscovered-drawings-by-hokusai-are-extraordinary
https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2021/02/11/4000-103-lost-drawings-represent-hokusai-at-peak-of-his-powers-in-late

Black Art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/arts/design/black-art-hbo-review.html

Islamic Art:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1808206/middle-east

Attic Red-Figure Squat Lekythoi:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/2600-year-old-ancient-perfume-bottles-go-on-display-for-1st-time/news

The Paphos Museum has (finally) opened:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/02/11/after-years-of-delays-paphos-museum-finally-opens-its-doors/

Folks visiting the Troy Museum can watch restorations as they happen:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/events/troy-museum-visitors-to-watch-restorations-live

Feature on the National Museum of African American Music:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/national-museum-african-american-music-opens-nashville-180976960/

Latest transfers to the GEM:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/98425/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Grand-Museum-receives-artifacts-from-Egyptian-Museum-in-Tahrir

... and the construction is 98% complete, we are told:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/grand-egyptian-museum-has-finalized-98-of-engineering-work-says-official/

The Louvre has a new storage facility:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/arts/design/louvre-lievin-conservation-center.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Some auctioned pre-Columbian items in a Rio di Janeiro gallery were seized by police:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-crime-artifacts/pre-columbian-artifacts-auctioned-in-brazil-recovered-by-police-idUSKBN2AC2LU
https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/auctioned-pre-columbian-artefacts-seized-by-police-20210213-p5727d.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
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A project showing the potential of extracting DNA from remains of owl pellets:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/02/12/ancient-owl-vomit-helps-researchers-unpack-prehistoric-bone-secrets/
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Using indigenous oral history to study climate in Alaska:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-indigenous-oral-tradition-is-guiding-archaeology-and-uncovering-climate
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Romans in Augsburg:

https://www.prudentpressagency.com/augsburg-art-in-public-on-the-trail-of-the-romans-in-augsburg/

Pangalanes Canal (Madagascar):

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/feb/09/the-fabulous-folly-of-madagascars-pangalanes-canal

Patara:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/turkeys-ancient-city-patara-to-shine-as-film-set

Provence:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/south-france-painters-cezanne-van-gogh/2021/02/04/1f395836-60bc-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html

Milan:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210208-milan-italys-lost-city-of-canals

Baiae:

https://www.king5.com/video/tech/science/amaze-lab/check-out-the-las-vegas-of-the-roman-empire-an-ancient-sunken-city/609-86147394-ca29-404e-9aae-28a04690efc3
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Electra:

https://www.twulasso.com/redbud-theatres-electra-revives-greek-classic/

On Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy':

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/arts/music/beethoven-ninth-ode-joy-classical-music.html

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
Lot 448 (on recovering looted Etruscan antiquities):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccahughes/2021/02/09/lot-448-the-race-to-recover-italys-looted-etruscan-treasures/
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CRIME BEAT
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Not sure where to put this story of a Brazilian pensioner being forced by 'raiders' to move after the discovery of 200 years bp coins in her back yard:

https://www.zenger.news/2021/02/08/old-age-pensioner-senior-flees-thugs-after-digging-up-treasure-trove-of-ancient-coins/

Trying to curb increasing looting in Asdrubal in Cartagena:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-02-10/cultura-investiga-los-trabajos-para-urbanizar-el-yacimiento-arqueologico-de-asdrubal-en-cartagena.html

I think we mentioned this bust in Istanbul:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-71-historical-artifacts-seized-in-istanbul/2131244
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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 ================================================================
A missing artifact was found and returned to the Temagami First Nation:

https://www.nugget.ca/news/missing-artifact-returns-to-temagami-first-nation https://ca.news.yahoo.com/missing-artifact-returns-temagami-115513941.html

Another story involving heirs of a collector, this time returning a looted Celtiberian helmet:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-02-11/los-herederos-de-un-coleccionista-devuelven-uno-de-los-cascos-celtiberos-expoliados-en-aratis.html

A San Francisco museum will be returning some Thai objects:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Asian-Art-Museum-agrees-to-return-allegedly-15941285.php

Feature on Mwazulu Diayabanza's efforts to recover "pillaged" African artifacts:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/07/mwariches-african-activist-stealing-europes-museums?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

More on guilty tourists returning items to Italy:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/sorry-italy-tourists-return-looted-treasures.html

More on dead-art-dealer returns of items to Cambodia:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cambodia-khmer-artifacts-douglas-latchford/index.html
https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-art-dealers-daughter-will-return-over-100-antiquities-to-cambodia-172091/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9427-210208-cambodia-looted-artifacts

... and a related opEd on Cambodia and repatriation:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/13/cambodia-looted-statues-ancient-khmer-objects

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coinage of ancient Numidia:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-coinage-of-ancient-numidia/

Feature on counterfeiting:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/counterfeiting-the-oldest-profession

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n06.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n07.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Herschel Shanks:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/dead-sea-scrolls-liberator-hershel-shanks-passes-away-at-90-658457
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/february/died-hershel-shanks-biblical-archaeology-review-dead-sea-sc.html
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2021/02/remembering-the-man-who-liberated-the-dead-sea-scrolls-and-popularized-knowledge-of-ancient-israel/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hershel-shanks-dead/2021/02/09/944dbe2c-6a22-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html
https://aleteia.org/2021/02/09/biblical-archaeology-review-founder-dies-at-age-90/
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/hershel-shanks-popularizer-of-biblical-archaeology-dies-at-90
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/hershel-shanks-popularizer-of-biblical-archaeology-dies-at-90/article_5b39b473-afe2-5dfe-87ad-d000e26391ce.html

Robert L Herbert:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/arts/robert-herbert-dead.html

Brenda Ballin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/obituaries/brenda-ballin-virus-lost.html

Flory Jagoda:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/12/966942550/remembering-flory-jagoda-who-preserved-sephardic-jewish-music-and-language
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3022-audio-news-from-archaeologica-january-31-through-february-6-2021
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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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