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    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 28 09:15:35 2021
    [continued from previous message]

    https://www.deccanherald.com/state/karnataka-districts/hero-stone-from-vijayanagar-empire-unearthed-in-teggarse-1055087.html

    Feature on a Siva temple in Thiruchirapalli:

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2021/nov/22/an-ancient-siva-temple-in-chola-capital-2386433.html

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    AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
    Latest on research arising from the wreck of the Batavia:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-22/batavia-timber-resarch-dutch-shipwrights/100632280

    I think we mentioned this find of five 'non-returning boomerangs' from a dried up Australian riverbed:

    https://www.livescience.com/five-aboriginal-boomerangs-found-australia ============================================================
    NORTH AMERICA
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    Research suggests Indigenous groups in North America had to cope with climate effects of a 6th century eruption of a volcano on Iceland:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ancient-indigenous-civilization-survived-then-thrived-after-6th-century-climate-catastrophe-1.5678907

    More on the petroglyphs found at the Wanuskewin Buffalo Jump site in Saskatchewan:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/rock-art-wanuskewin-heritage-park-petroglyphs-excavated-1.6254819
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/23/ancient-archaeological-find-in-wanuskewin-heritage-park/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bison-in-canada-discover-ancient-petroglyphs-fulfilling-an-indigenous-prophecy-180979119/
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/10153-211122-canada-rock-art

    Interesting story of a 19th century cabin found in the walls of a modern house in Orem:

    https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2021/nov/09/cabin-found-in-walls-of-modern-house-in-orem-has-two-stories/

    Some Tlingit art was found in a small museum storage area in Alaska:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/11/27/1059490241/alaskan-museum-uncovers-unique-art-from-the-indigenous-tlingit-tribe

    Feature on the Battle of the Alamo:

    https://www.livescience.com/battle-of-the-alamo

    They're going to demolish the Wright Brothers' first bicycle shop:

    https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Panel-OKs-bid-to-demolish-Wright-Brothers-1st-16655096.php

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    CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
    Remains of a 5500-5100 adobe structure from Pampa de las Salinas (Peru):

    https://andina.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-oldest-adobe-construction-in-the-americas-discovered-in-libertad-870576.aspx
    https://www.laprensalatina.com/discovery-in-peru-shows-andes-adobe-architecture-dates-back-over-5000-years/
    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/archaeologists-unearth-the-oldest-adobe-architecture-in-the-americas/142116
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/26/oldest-adobe-architecture-in-the-americas-unearthed-in-northern-peru/

    A study of 2500 years bp children's teeth from Caral reveals early breastfeeding practices:

    https://www.laprensalatina.com/ancient-breastfeeding-habits-in-andes-survive-in-modern-day-peru/
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/10160-211124-peru-caral-breastfeeding

    An 800+ years bp pre-Inca mummy find from near Lima:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/27/archaeologists-unearth-mummy-estimated-to-be-at-least-800-years-old-in-peru
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/archaeologists-unearth-mummy-peru-b1965232.html
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-59446488 https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-find-800-year-old-mummy-peru-2021-11-27/
    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-find-800-year-old-mummy-in-peru-687116
    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62774

    More on finds associated with Maya saltworkers in Belize:

    https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2021/11/18ga_mckillop_residences.php https://www.archaeology.org/news/10156-211122-maya-salt-works

    Reviewish of a book on Britain's (non) involvement in thw War of the Triple Alliance in 19th century South America:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/paraguay-britain-war-of-the-triple-alliance
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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 ============================================================
    Prehistoric mothers (where?) apparently were better at caring for their kids than we thought:

    https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prehistoric-mums-cared-for-kids-better-than-we-thought
    https://phys.org/news/2021-11-prehistoric-moms-kids-thought.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211123131404.htm https://www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-mothers-were-probably-better-at-caring-for-babies-than-graves-suggest
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/24/prehistoric-mums-cared-for-kids-better-than-we-thought/

    cf: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24406

    Feature on Egyptian Blue:

    https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/11/27/egyptian-blue-a-hue-that-made-history/

    A century of Gucci fashion:

    https://www.dw.com/en/house-of-gucci-100-years-of-iconic-fashion/a-59842926

    Applying machine learning to Shakespeare:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/books/review/shakespeare-cohere-natural-language-processing.html

    On the history of secularism in France:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/france-god-religion-secularism/620528/

    On sentimentalizing war in the US:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/the-cost-of-sentimentalizing-war-elizabeth-d-samet-looking-for-the-good-war

    On the debate over teaching evolution in US schools:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/failed-school-ban-evolution-conservatives/620779/

    A 17th century celestial globe in the Museo Galileo has been restored:

    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62746

    A scientific history of glass:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-brief-scientific-history-of-glass-180979117/

    ... on a similar subject:

    https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/ancient-origins-glass

    On why the art market is so appealing to fraudsters:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/26/a-swindlers-playground-con-artists-art-market

    Feature on a recently-acquired watercolour of a Black Woman in 18th century Edinburgh:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-18th-century-watercolor-of-a-black-woman-acquired-by-scottish-national-gallery-180979098/

    Feature on the preservation of the Faddan More Psalter:

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/nov/21/it-was-terrifying-ancient-books-journey-from-irish-bog-to-museum-treasure

    Feature on one of John Jay's enslaved women:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/travel/john-jay-paris-abigail-slavery.html

    Feature on Brian May's stereoscopic photo collection:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-59262795

    Feature on the history of Jewish women publishing Hebrew books:

    https://www.jpost.com/judaism/is-there-a-secret-history-of-jewish-women-publishing-hebrew-books-687043

    Feature on Lincoln's role in defining US holidays:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/how-lincoln-redefined-thanksgiving-and-christmas/620800/

    Feature on ten myths about the Crusades:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-many-myths-of-the-term-crusader-180979107/

    Feature on George Sand:

    https://aeon.co/essays/how-aurore-dudevant-put-on-mens-boots-to-become-george-sand

    Feature on the Orient Express:

    https://aeon.co/essays/the-tempietto-in-rome-should-be-a-full-body-experience

    Feature on the Tempietto in Rome:

    https://aeon.co/essays/the-tempietto-in-rome-should-be-a-full-body-experience

    Feature on a reallllly overdue book being returned:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/overdue-book-returned-anonymously-idaho-library-111-years-later-rcna6856

    In case you've ever wanted to roleplay as a Pict:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5nnr99r9jdo

    More on the rethinking of the Justinianic Plague:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211119085132.htm

    Review of Lena Cowen Orlin, *Private Life of William Shakespeare*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/books/review/private-life-of-william-shakespeare-lena-cowen-orlin.html

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    CURRENT EVENTS:
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    History of American Thanksgiving items (various spins):

    https://aleteia.org/2021/11/22/a-tale-worth-telling-the-400th-anniversary-of-thanksgiving/
    https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/25/the-roots-of-thanksgiving-in-ancient-greece/
    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/thanksgiving-turkey-s-history-actually-starts-southern-hemisphere-dinosaurs-ncna1284508

    Feature on the 'ecology' of the first Thanksgiving:

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ecology-of-the-first-thanksgiving/

    Feature on Pueblo domestication of turkeys:

    https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/turkey-droppings-reveal-a-lot-about-how-ancient-pueblo-people-domesticated-turkeys/article_9cfb5e08-4726-11ec-96cc-872ef4d7ba96.html

    ... and Ben Franklin's purported desire to have the turkey as the US National Bird:

    https://www.livescience.com/benjamin-franklin-turkey-national-bird

    Feature on wishbone traditions:

    https://www.freep.com/story/life/food/2021/11/24/thanksgiving-wishbone-what-know-furcula/8747422002/

    Feature on Squanto and his possible burial beneath a Cape Cod golf course:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/25/squanto-death-murder-golf-course/

    A backgrounder to Hanukkah:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/26/when-is-hanukkah-2021-jewish-holiday-explained/8672190002/
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/11/27/hanukkah-channukah-hanukah-thanksgiving-christmas-antisemitism/

    What archaeology in Israel reveals about Hanukkah:

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/what-does-archaeology-in-israel-tell-us-about-hanukkah-686979

    ... feature on Judith as a Hanukkah heroine:

    https://www.jns.org/how-judith-became-a-hanukkah-heroine/

    Protests at USheffield regarding archaeology:

    https://www.thestar.co.uk/education/university-of-sheffield-protest-planned-against-cultural-vandalism-after-archaeology-department-closure-3467299

    A statue of Jefferson was removed from NYC city hall:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/thomas-jefferson-statue-removed/index.html

    The Taliban is apparently touristifying the site of the Bamiyan Buddhas:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307

    In case you missed all the 'omicron' discussion:

    https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/why-is-the-new-coronavirus-variant-called-omicron-687165
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/omicron-who-skip-letters-greek-alphabet-nu-xi.html
    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/27/the-inherently-political-task-of-assigning-appropriate-greek-letters-to-covid-19-variants/
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    ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
    Feature on dogs in antiquity:

    https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/programs/self-improvement-wednesday/siw-dogs-of-antiquity/13646900

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    LANGUAGE RELATED
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    On the origins of Pildowner:

    https://wordsmith.org/words/piltdowner.html

    On centuries-old plays helping to revitalize Cornish:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ordinalia-play-revitalize-cornish

    On translating Chinese into English during a failed embassy in 1793:

    https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3157400/when-translating-chinese-english-could-be-dangerous

    More on the origins of Japanese, Turkish, and assorted other languages:

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2296962-origins-of-japanese-and-turkish-language-family-traced-back-9000-years/
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    MUSEUM MATTERS
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    Mycenae:

    https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/22432

    Matisse:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/27/speaking-back-to-matisse-art-gallery-of-nsw-dazzles-with-comprehensive-complicated-show

    Ancient Roman Childhood:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/23/uffizi-kids-children https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2021/11/22/uffizi-shows-kids-lives-in-ancient-rome_79613bf0-6b01-4d12-9953-35045eb24463.html
    https://www.ansa.it/toscana/notizie/2021/11/22/mostre-a-uffizi-30-opere-raccontano-vita-bimbi-antica-roma_1794a76b-6a06-4863-b5bb-341cf0a1ff80.html

    Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs:

    https://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-ramses-the-great-and-the-gold-of-the-pharaohs-inaugurated-in-houston/
    https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-science-museum-HMNS-Ramses-exhibit-16641926.php

    Peru:

    https://www.apollo-magazine.com/peru-british-museum-review/

    Nazi looted art:

    https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211123-the-masterpieces-stolen-by-the-nazis

    cf: https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/exhibitions/afterlives-recovering-the-lost-stories-of-looted-art

    Holbein:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/hans-holbein-getty-center/2021/11/23/d40dfe44-4bdd-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html

    cf: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/holbein/index.html

    Questions about looted art at the Kunsthaus Zurich:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59320514

    Feature on a botched restoration of some Cambodian statues at the CMA:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museums-swap-stone-limbs-and-restore-two-cambodian-masterpieces-to-their-former-glory-180979072/

    There's a new Red Cross museum:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/florence-nightingales-lamp-and-coded-wartime-quilt-star-in-new-red-cross-museum

    The Met made a loan exchange agreement with Nigeria:

    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-nigeria-loan-exchange-agreement-benin-bronzes-1234611007/

    The Getty acquired a Caillebotte:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/23/getty-museum-acquires-caillebottes-young-man-at-his-window/

    Feature on the Smithsonian's 'secret storerooms':

    https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/11/a-rare-look-inside-the-smithsonians-secret-storerooms

    The British Museum isn't embarrassed by its treasures, we are told:

    http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/800/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/800/pub/800/page/18/article/244775

    The Smithsonian is dealing with climate change:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/climate/smithsonian-museum-flooding.html

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    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
    The Hamilton Aphrodite is heading to auction after being mia for 70 or so years:

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/24/ancient-roman-marble-statue-aphrodite/ http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/798/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/798/pub/798/page/46/article/244332
    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/hamilton-aphrodite-statue-sothebys-auction-1234611128/
    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/23/sothebys-to-offer-the-hamilton-aphrodite-an-ancient-roman-marble-last-sold-70-years-ago-now-expected-to-sell-for-up-to-pound3m
    https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/homes-gardens/arts-antiques/lost-hamilton-palace-sculpture-goes-to-auction/

    A Celtic carnyx found by a metal detectorist in Suffolk is coming to auction:

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/rare-celtic-warhorn-to-be-auctioned-8511634

    Much hype for an Einstein manuscript coming to auction:

    https://www.livescience.com/rare-einstein-relativity-manuscript-auction

    ... and it did fetch a nice price:

    https://www.livescience.com/albert-einstein-record-selling-manuscript-relativity

    Big bucks for Dame Edith Sitwell's address book:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-59314410

    The last of the Gurlitt Collection was auctioned:

    https://www.dw.com/en/gurlitt-collection-last-of-14-nazi-looted-artworks-auctioned/a-598

    More on high hopes for that sketch which might be a Durer:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drawing-purchased-for-30-turns-out-to-be-an-authentic-durerand-could-be-worth-millions-180979109/

    I think we mentioned this letter of Catherine the Great regarding smallpox vaccinations coming to auction:

    https://www.livescience.com/catherine-the-great-smallpox-letter ============================================================
    CLIMATE MATTERS
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    Climate change is being implicated in the collapse of the Liangzhu culture some 5000 years bp:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-11-collapse-ancient-liangzhu-culture-climate.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/researchers-determine-what-caused-the-liangzhu-culture-collapse/142106
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/25/collapse-of-ancient-liangzhu-culture-caused-by-climate-change/

    Opeddish thing on what remains of Mesoamerican cities can teach about climate change:

    https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/ancient-cities-climate-change-urban-resilience-adaptation.html
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    TOURISTY THINGS
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    Masada:

    https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/masada-israel/

    Hiking in the Adirondacks:

    https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/from-haystack-to-nye-100-years-later

    Poitiers:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/poitiers-france-eleanor-aquitaine--history-trail/2021/11/24/3c24faf8-489d-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html

    Canterbury Cathedral:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211125-the-age-old-mystery-of-a-uk-cathedral

    Fenelon Falls sunken train wreck:

    https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10526827-16-year-old-diver-gives-us-a-glimpse-of-a-legendary-fenelon-falls-sunken-train-wreck/

    Veria:

    https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/22/discover-centuries-history-in-greeces-city-of-veria/

    Saarland:

    https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-16-states-saarland/a-45259835

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    CRIME BEAT
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    Spanish police recovered a 2000 years bp Iberian sword that was up for sale online:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/25/spanish-police-recover-rare-2000-year-old-iberian-sword

    Illegal digging at the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site:

    https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Artifact-thief-digs-holes-at-South-Carolina-16641766.php

    Roman-era artifacts (and others) were seized in southern Turkey:

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211123-roman-era-artefacts-seized-in-south-eastern-turkey/
    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/11/24/roman-era-artefacts-seized-in-south-eastern-turkey/

    Very interesting feature on Michael Bogdanos and his work recovering antiquities:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/bogdanos-antiquities-new-york/620525/

    Followup to that 47 years after the fact Revolutionary War rifle theft story:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-stole-revolutionary-era-rifle-museum-decades-ago-sentenced-1-day-rcna6571

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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 US returned 1000 or so looted artifacts to Mali:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/us-mali-looted-antiquities-returned.html
    https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15563-us-returns-nearly-1-000-looted-artifacts-to-mali
    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/23/us-customs-return-stolen-artefacts-mali

    The University of Aberdeen is returning skulls collected by James Audubon:

    https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/797/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/797/pub/797/page/41/article/244089

    Switzerland returned some looted items to Syria:

    https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/switzerland-returns-looted-palmyra-relics-to-syria/47136184
    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/24/three-looted-palmyra-sculptures-seized-in-geneva-freeport-return-to-syria
    http://sana.sy/en/?p=255572

    Some 18th century documents relating to the Stockbridge-Munsee people are being returned:

    https://www.vpr.org/npr-news/2021-11-21/pignatelli-expects-no-hiccups-when-lawmakers-consider-returning-tribal-documents

    A stolen letter of Christopher Columbus has been returned to the National Library of Catalonia:

    https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2021-11-23/la-carta-de-cristobal-colon-robada-de-la-biblioteca-nacional-de-cataluna-vuelve-a-casa.html

    Cyprus received some items from a collector:

    https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/11/24/dozens-of-cyprus-ancient-artefacts-returned/ http://famagusta-gazette.com/2021/11/26/handing-over-of-38-antiquities-to-the-embassy-of-the-republic-of-cyprus-in-washington-usa/
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/11/24/handing-over-of-38-antiquities-at-the-embassy-of-the-republic-of-cyprus/

    Feature on a former Cambodian looter working to recover it:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/arts/design/toek-tik-cambodian-artifacts.html

    More on the British Museum returning items to Ethiopia:

    https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/after-century-half-ethiopian-artefacts-return-home-2021-11-22/

    More on the Met returning Benin bronzes:

    https://hyperallergic.com/694341/met-museum-officially-returns-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/
    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/22/met-returns-looted-benin-works https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211123-met-returns-three-artworks-looted-under-british-colonial-rule-to-nigeria

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