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Evidence of fruit wine being made during the Zhou Dynasty:

http://www.ecns.cn/hd/2021-03-18/detail-ihainwmv2681633.shtml

Remains of Zhongdou have been revealed after two years of excavation:

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2021-03-14/detail-ihainwmv2680283.shtml http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2021-03/18/content_77322666.htm

A study of the roof tiles from the Ximing Temple in Xi'an:

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-roof-tiles-imperial-china-ximing-temple.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/ku-rii031621.php https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/03/roof-tiles-in-imperial-china-creating.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/03/19/roof-tiles-in-imperial-china/ https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/03/roof-tiles-in-imperial-china-creating-ximing-temples-lotus-pattern-tile-ends/137891
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9531-210318-china-roof-tiles

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S235222672030194X

Conservation plans for a 3 000 years bp site southwest of Beijing:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2021-03/18/content_77321476.htm

An archaeologist picnicking in Maharashtra Forest came across a 2000 years bp cave site:

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/archaeologist-unearths-centuries-old-satavahana-era-cave-while-picnicking-in-maharashtra-forest-3544271.html

A 13th century Trimurthi sculpture from Talangana:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/13th-century-trimurthi-sculpture-found-in-nalgonda/articleshow/81594483.cms

Portugues and Kannada inscription for a site at Hoigebazar:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/portuguese-kannada-inscriptions-found-at-college-of-fisheries/article34069324.ece

Chola Dynasty finds (tiles, nails) from an excavation in Ariyalur district:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/iron-nails-earthen-tiles-found-at-ariyalur-site/articleshow/81595121.cms

More on that pottery from Tamil Nadu with inscriptions similar to Indus Valley script:

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/school-teacher-discovers-pottery-pieces-in-tamil-nadu-with-inscriptions-similar-to-indus-valley-artefacts-3537134.html

Feature on Bengal and Indus Valley civilization connections:

https://www.thebetterindia.com/251144/west-bengal-chandraketugarh-archaeological-survey-of-india-history-mystery-chandragupta-maurya-indus-valley-civiisation-div200/

Feature on assorted fortresses in the Himalayas:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00685-w

Feature on Mohenjo-Daro:

https://www.dw.com/en/exploring-the-ancient-ruins-of-mohenjo-daro-a-century-after-discovery/av-56875137

A 5300-3800 years bp bone point of some sort from Murrawong:

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-rare-bone-artifact-murray-river.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/fu-aba031121.php https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/rare-bone-tool-artefact-revealed/
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/murrawong-bone-point-09463.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-bone-tool-found-australia-180977274/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9528-210317-australia-bone-point

cf: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1886893

Moa bones found during a highway excavation near Hawke's Bay (NZ):

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/moa-bones-found-during-highway-excavation-near-hawkes-bay/4QUOWPWXAG3UFC3MQTQQPMKFFE/
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NORTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned these possible Revolutionary War cannons in the Savannah River:

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/crews-find-possible-revolutionary-war-ship-cannons-savannah-river/V6LEZNZ5RBFM7FI6NFZHBZVTPY/

Another (?) cemetery site from Clearwater:

https://www.tbnweekly.com/clearwater_beacon/article_4a61b8bc-874c-11eb-898f-1baf4f5e2734.html

Possibly-significant archaeological finds from a Backbone Creek site (Texas):

https://www.dailytrib.com/2021/03/15/archaeological-find-at-backbone-creek-called-insignificant-but-historical-commission-has-final-say/

Also from Texas comes word of progress recording petroglyphs along the border with Mexico:

https://sanantonioreport.org/archaeologists-have-recorded-233-ancient-art-sites-along-texas-border-with-mexico-now-they-want-to-discover-the-meanings-behind-the-murals/

Evidence that Native Americans tried (in vain, apparently) to help the Donner Party:

https://www.californiasun.co/stories/native-americans-tried-to-help-the-starving-donner-party-research-shows-they-faced-gunshots/

Feature on early coppersmithing amon ancient Native Americans:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/ancient-native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths

Feature on Brunswick Town:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/03/brunswick-town-the-abandoned-colonial-town-in-north-carolina/138101

Feature on the Slave Wrecks Project:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/history/slave-wrecks-project-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-wrecked-slave-ships/65-d9c1d575-4876-4317-bdaa-138b959e693e

Feature on the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer in 1913:

https://www.wamc.org/post/cuomo-not-first-ny-governor-face-impeachment-inquiry ================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Interesting study of 1300 years bp remains of a Maya diplomat/ambassador:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoc--aam031521.php https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ancient-maya-ambassador-bones-life.html https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/03/15/ancient-maya-ambassadors-bones-show-life-privilege-and-hardship
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/a-maya-ambassadors-grave-reveals-his-surprisingly-difficult-life/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/03/ancient-maya-ambassadors-bones-show.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/03/16/an-ancient-maya-ambassadors-bones-show-a-life-of-privilege-and-hardship/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/03/ancient-maya-ambassadors-bones-show-life-of-privilege-and-hardship/137888
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-1300-year-old-skeleton-maya-diplomat-180977259/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9529-210317-guatemala-maya-lakam

Feature on the Inca settlement which preceded Santiago de Chile:

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/nosubscription/the-missing-inca-settlement-on-which-santiago-de-chile-was-founded/

Feature on the building of Machu PIcchu:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-the-inca-built-machu-picchu

Feature on a 'mysterious' point found at Tierra del Fuego a couple years ago:

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-murky-origins-of-an-enigmatic-artifact/

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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/ ================================================================
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Feature on phrenology:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p099tghy/is-phrenology-the-weirdest-pseudoscience-of-them-all-

Feature on stories of giants in various ancient cultures:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/where-do-giants-come-from

Feature on assorted works (film and otherwise) on women overlooked by history:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ammonite-movie-mary-anning-kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-scn/index.html

On plans to lend/borrow the Bayeux Tapestry in a couple of year; there are restoration demands:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/18/bayeux-says-will-loan-fragile-tapestry-uk-restores-not-late/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/543/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/543/pub/543/page/14/article/152906
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bayeux-tapestry-should-be-restored-in-britain-v-amp-a-chief-says-sbgg60f56

Feature on Cherokee numerals:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/sequoyah-and-the-almost-forgotten-history-of-cherokee-numerals/

Feature on

On the evolution of the book review:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/insider/book-review-history.html

Feature on the filibuster:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/20/filibuster-how-got-senates-most-contentious-rule/4716702001/

A grave effigy of Shakespeare is believed to be a 'definitive likeness':

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/mar/19/shakespeare-grave-effigy-believed-to-be-definitive-likeness

In case you're wondering about the Time Team reboot:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/meet-archeologists-digging-time-team-new-generation/

They're celebrating Dante's legacy:

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/544/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/544/pub/544/page/19/article/153140

On the history of the 'nude selfie':

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210311-a-cultural-history-of-the-nude-selfie

Feature on Dhaka muslin:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210316-the-legendary-fabric-that-no-one-knows-how-to-make

Feature on knucklebones:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210318-the-ancient-invention-that-ignited-game-play

Feature on women artists of the Belle Epoque:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/rosa-bonheur-and-other-women-artists-of-the-belle-epoque/

Feature on Agatha Christie's archaeological side:

https://womenyoushouldknow.net/agatha-christie-three-decades-archaeology/

On investigating new diseases in the 16th century:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/how-new-diseases-were-investigated-in-the-16th-century/?dm_i=6P7Q,6K05,23G17H,R9WK,1

Feature on Sheela-na-gigs:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sheela-na-gigs-ireland/index.html

On archaeologists and COVID waste:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoy-cwa031221.php

On trains used by early US Presidents:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-train-car-one/index.html

On the Louvre and 'essentialism' in art history:

https://hyperallergic.com/621631/how-the-louvre-codified-essentialism-in-art-history/

Feature on sperm whales 'sharing information' about whale hunters in the 19th century:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0030

Feature on Susan Fenimore Cooper:

https://www.audubon.org/news/meet-susan-fenimore-cooper-americas-first-recognized-female-nature-writer

Feature on El Greco:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/03/20/el-greco-greece-genius-changed-art-world/

France has donated a tapestry version of Raphael's School of Athens to Greece:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/03/21/france-donates-raphaels-masterpiece/

Feature on Charles Edward Ives:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/03/having-dual-career-can-make-you-happier/618311/

On the construction of race:

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/race-scientific-taxonomy/

Feature on aboriginal star names:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/the-stories-behind-aboriginal-star-names-now-recognised-by-the-worlds-astronomical-body/

How Van Gogh funded his sister's illness treatment:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/21/how-van-gogh-paid-for-his-mentally-ill-sisters-care-decades-after-his-death

Marking World Poetry Day:

https://www.dw.com/en/poetry-is-one-of-the-oldest-cultural-forms-of-humankind/a-56849583
https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-poetry-day

Feature on the 'menstrual taboo' in Australian ads for the past century:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-i-looked-at-100-ads-for-menstrual-products-spanning-100-years-shame-and-secrecy-prevailed-152685

Feature on women warriors in various cultures and ages:

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179551 https://www.rawstory.com/the-long-history-of-women-warriors/

Review of Annalee Newitz, *Four Lost Cities*:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/four-lost-cities-book-review-urban-archaeology

Review of Nicholas Saunders on T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/406188.aspx

More on medieval 'birthing girdles':

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/childbirth-medieval-birthing-girdles/2021/03/19/57645c86-8751-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html
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Queens of Egypt:

https://ottawastart.com/queens-of-egypt-coming-to-canadian-museum-of-history-this-may/

Golden Mummies of Egypt:

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/03/arts-golden-mummies-exhibition

The Secrets of Sunken Egypt artifacts have returned to Egypt:

https://egyptindependent.com/sunken-egyptian-antiquities-return-to-egypt-following-tour-in-europe-us/
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/03/16/secrets-of-sunken-egypt-exhibition-artefacts-return-home-after-overseas-tour/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/99744/%E2%80%98Secrets-of-Sunken-Egypt%E2%80%99-exhibition%E2%80%99s-artifacts-return-to-Egypt-after
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1826621/middle-east

More Tut-related transfers to the GEM:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/03/14/grand-egyptian-museum-receives-4th-shrine-from-tutankhamun-collection/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/99674/What-happens-to-Tutankhamun%E2%80%99s-belongings-that-remain-in-Tahrir%E2%80%99s-Egyptian

The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization received six items recently found at Saqqara:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/99867/National-Museum-of-Egyptian-Civilization-receives-6-newly-discovered-artifacts

On the folks behind the creation of the Walters art collection:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-pr-fe-walters-confederacy-ties-20210315-57vs4x4bf5bp7dvfaguahhwsny-story.html

Apparently we don't know how many items have gone missing from assorted museums:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/design/stolen-armor-louvre-returned.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/03/we-dont-know-how-much-art-has-gone.html

Controversy over the 'Hitler Balcony':

https://www.dw.com/en/should-the-hitler-balcony-in-vienna-be-open-to-the-public/a-56887522

The deaccessioning debate continues:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/arts/design/deaccession-museum-directors.html
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Big bucks for that Chinese bowl from a yard sale that's been hyped for almost a month:

https://www.livescience.com/yard-sale-bowl-sold-auction.html https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973274695/yard-sale-bowl-revealed-to-be-rare-chinese-artifact-worth-up-to-500-000
https://www.dw.com/en/ming-dynasty-bowl-spotted-at-yard-sale-fetches-720000/a-56909663
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/chinese-bowl-yard-sale-sothebys-auction/index.html
https://news.artnet.com/market/chinese-bowl-from-yard-sale-auction-1952881 ================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
What DNA from a 6200 years bp mass burial in Croatia is revealing (we may have had this):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/6200-year-old-mass-grave-suggests-evidence-indiscriminate-killing-180977249/

Another one making the rounds again for unknown reasons ... on modern Greeks having DNA links to the Myceneans:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/43831-media-report-study-evidence-suggests-modern-greeks-have-dna-links-to-mycenaeans.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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A new technique to determine diet via tooth remains:

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19173630.bradford-tooth-fairy-solved-mystery-800-year-old-westminster-bones/

More on the facial reconstructions of a pair of medieval Czech ruler types:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-reconstruct-faces-two-premyslid-dynasty-dukes-180977228/
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CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Using dendrochronology to study droughts in Europe over the past 2000 years:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/climate-crisis-recent-european-droughts-worst-in-2000-years
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00698-0

What leaves in Greenland ice reveal about climate change:

https://theconversation.com/ancient-leaves-preserved-under-a-mile-of-greenlands-ice-and-lost-in-a-freezer-for-years-hold-lessons-about-climate-change-157105
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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Ur:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210320-discover-ur-iraq/

Ash:

https://www.kentlive.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/ash-historic-kent-village-dating-5185022

Devil's Dyke:

https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/exquisite-herts-village-home-one-5178142

Aigai:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/travel/discovering-aigai-aeolians-city-of-goats-in-western-turkey
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Iliad:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/190786/homers-the-iliad-a-triumph-at-fairfields-amphitheatre/

Romeo y Julieta:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/theater/romeo-y-julieta-review-lupita-nyongo.html

Midsummer Night's Dream:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/theater/dream-royal-shakespeare-company-motion-capture.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Authorities are investigating vandalism/looting at assorted sites and museum in Azerbaijan:

https://www.azernews.az/karabakh/177202.html

Spain is looking into the theft of a book by Galileo from the National Library a while ago:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-03-15/cultura-analizara-las-medidas-de-seguridad-en-la-biblioteca-nacional-tras-el-robo-del-libro-de-galileo.html

... and an interesting thing to come out the investigation:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-03-15/una-copia-del-galileo-robado-se-vendio-en-sothebys-en-2005.html

A tourist is paying a fine for climbing Chichen Itza's pyramid:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/03/tourist-climbs-chichen-itzas-pyramid-and-will-pay-100000-pesos-fine/
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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 ================================================================
In the last five years, the UK , US, and Australia have returned 36 ancient idols to India:

https://theprint.in/india/governance/36-antique-idols-artefacts-returned-to-india-by-us-australia-uk-in-last-5-yrs-govt-says/623304/

Fears provenance research will delay returns of looted African artifacts:

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1067847/will-provenance-research-delay-restitution-of-loot.html

France will return a Nazi-looted Klimt:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/16/france-to-return-klimt-painting-looted-by-the-nazis-in-1938
https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-03-15/francia-restituira-un-klimt-expoliado-por-los-nazis-a-una-familia-judia-austriaca.html

Feature on Chile's efforts to recover assorted indigenous artifacts:

https://chiletoday.cl/chiles-efforts-to-recover-indigenous-treasures/

Another side to the Benin Bronzes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56292809

Assorted items returned to Egypt this week:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/406193/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Egypt-Artefacts-repatriated.aspx

Native American remains were return to the Chickasaw Nation:

https://www.wjtv.com/news/state/mdah-completes-transfer-of-native-american-remains-to-chickasaw-nation/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n11.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n12.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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James A Sanders:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/in-memory-james-a-sanders/

Sinclair Hood:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sinclair-hood-obituary-p09dd2ghl

Carole McCartney:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/03/18/obituary-for-the-loss-of-carole-mccartney/

David Raeburn:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/18/david-raeburn-obituary

Kenneth Cooper:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/arts/music/kenneth-cooper-dead.html

George Bass:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/us/george-bass-dead.html https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/shanks-leaves-behind-scholarly-legacy/article_86f0529e-95a5-5ff5-a870-9e6e2406dd0e.html

Herschel Shanks:

https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/shanks-leaves-behind-scholarly-legacy/article_86f0529e-95a5-5ff5-a870-9e6e2406dd0e.html

Richard H. Driehaus:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/arts/design/richard-h-driehaus-dead.html

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https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3030-audio-news-from-archaeologica-march-7-through-march-13-2021
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/

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https://www.heritagedaily.com/

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

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