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    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 4 09:48:19 2022
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    5000 years bp house foundations from the Yangshao VIllage site in Henan:

    https://english.news.cn/20221129/f1932355263d46308a31693ba7efc22f/c.html https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/5000-yr-old-house-ruins-found-in-central-china/ar-AA14FZ8V
    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/03/WS638ab45aa31057c47eba2748.html https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1280895.shtml http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-11/29/content_78542884.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/11013-221202-china-neolithic-structure

    Bronze Age finds ranging from houses to tombs to pits along with artifacts from China's Jin Province:

    https://english.news.cn/20221202/3ff59ad5a1fb4c4cac6b568707244079/c.html http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_ECISPkyy.html

    20 Han Dynasty era burials from Hunan:

    http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2022-12/04/content_78550564.htm

    More on recent finds of 'ritual pits' at Sanxingdui:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-discoveries-at-the-sanxingdui-bronze-age-site-in-southwest-china/D96494368471CF7CBA817690CDCA5A75
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/10999-221128-china-sanxingdui-ritual-pits

    More on the raising of the Yangtze No 2 shipwreck:

    http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/1129/c90000-10177908.html

    Feature on some 2400 years bp bronze bells in the Hubei Provincial Museum:

    http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/1129/c90000-10177879.html

    Overview of results of a few digs relating to Saka and other cultures in Kazakhstan:

    https://astanatimes.com/2022/12/saka-warriors-grave-ancient-city-of-craftsmen-archeologists-make-sensational-discoveries-in-kazakh-regions/

    A hidden passage connecting the Golconda fort to a burial ground:

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lost-found-hidden-passage-from-palace-to-tombs/articleshow/95804452.cms

    Indo-Greek period finds from Barikot:

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2022/nov/30/13th-century-temple-at-the-mercy-of-elements-2523558.html

    Concerns for a 13th century Malleshwara Swamy Temple at Kothuru:

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2022/nov/30/13th-century-temple-at-the-mercy-of-elements-2523558.html

    A British era (maybe) 'pygg jar' with 18 gold coins from Eduvadalapalem:

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/broken-pygg-jar-with-18-gold-coins-unearthed-in-eluru-district-of-andhra-pradesh/article66218821.ece
    https://www.catchnews.com/national-news/andhra-pradesh-gold-coins-surface-while-digging-bore-pipeline-241955.html

    Feature on the archaeological finds at Devesar over the years:

    https://www.greaterkashmir.com/todays-paper/editorial-page/exploring-the-ancient-find-of-devesar

    Evictions of 10 000 families (!) from Angkor Wat:

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/29/evictions-cambodia-angkor-wat-unesco-world-heritage-site

    Manuscripts of various kinds are missing (maybe) from the Odisha State Museum:

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bhubaneswar/2022/dec/02/manuscripts-missing-from-odisha-state-museum-raise-questions-2524347.html
    https://sambadenglish.com/rti-query-reveals-20000-palm-leaf-manuscripts-missing-from-odisha-state-museum/
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    AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
    Regarding a social media dispute over when the Maori arrived in New Zealand:

    https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nzs-first-settler-theory-is-absolutely-wrong/ ============================================================
    NORTH AMERICA
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    A shipwreck of some sort (?) from Daytona Beach Shores:

    https://www.wesh.com/article/daytona-beach-shores-shipwreck/42102667 https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/30/wooden-object-unearthed-beach-erosion-Volusia-County-Florida/5471669834185/

    A couple of hurricanes have revealed an 1800s shipwreck on Little Talbot Island:

    https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/shipwreck-from-1800s-revealed-on-little-talbot-island/77-31baf2c0-dd78-412c-b007-c6551658ad20
    https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2022-12-02/shipwreck-little-talbot-island

    More on Revolutionary War burials at Camden:

    https://carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu/14-remains-of-revolutionary-war-soldiers-found-in-camden-battlefield/

    Digging has resumed at the Alamo Plaza:

    https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/11/28/archaeological-dig-taking-place-at-alamo-plaza-for-several-weeks/
    https://www.kurv.com/archaeological-dig-scheduled-at-alamo-plaza-for-next-six-weeks/

    Efforts are being made to save Henry Ossawa Turner's childhood home:

    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/henry-ossawa-tanner-childhood-home-preservation-campaign-1234648277/

    Feature on Iowa's state archaeologist John Doershuk:

    https://www.thegazette.com/environment-nature/stone-tools-pottery-and-more-state-archaeologist-helps-uncover-iowas-past/

    Feature on LSU Campus Mounds:

    https://phys.org/news/2022-11-focus-ancient-campus-mounds-insight.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/972929 ============================================================
    CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
    Stucco masks from the Tonina Maya site:

    https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/una-excepcional-coleccion-de-mascaras-de-estuco-se-conserva-en-la-zona-arqueologica-de-tonina-chiapas
    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/11/faces-from-the-past-stucco-maya-masks-unearthed-at-tonina/145371
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/11010-221201-mexico-maya-tonina

    More on the rediscovery of the Huaca Pintada in Peru:

    https://phys.org/news/2022-11-archeologists-ancient-peruvian-fresco-lost.html https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/world/article269356467.html https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/12/02/archaeology-students-uncover-long-lost-pre-hispanic-mural-in-peru
    https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archeologists-find-ancient-peruvian-fresco-lost-for-a-century-179023
    https://www.sciencealert.com/archeologists-rediscover-an-ancient-peruvian-fresco-that-we-havent-seen-in-106-years
    http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65792

    Feature on assorted boxes and a 'royal mystery' from the area of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City:

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-723224

    This month's Ancient Americas zoom events:

    https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
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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 ============================================================
    Feature on women antiquities dealers in 19th century Baghdad:

    https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2022/11/unlikely-merchants

    The British Museum is restoring a Michelangelo drawing:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/28/epifania-british-museum-restore-michelangelo-drawing

    Repeated 'secret scratching' of an old English female name in an 8th century manuscript:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/28/womans-name-and-tiny-sketches-found-in-1300-year-old-medieval-text
    https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_8904

    A possible sketch of Michelangelo at work in a 15th century book:

    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-historian-believes-a-sketch-found-in-the-margins-of-a-15th-century-book-could-show-michelangelo-at-work-on-his-colossal-david-sculpture-2170699

    An analysis of the Twa Corbies poem:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/28/poem-of-the-week-the-twa-corbies-by-anonymous

    A major collection of previously undocumented lectures by Hegel has been found:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/manuscript-treasure-trove-may-offer-fresh-understanding-of-hegel

    The French baguette has been designated as cultural heritage:

    https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-france-paris-cultures-af99d89f1aa2bf57a45c1fb96067928d

    Latest 'message in a bottle' story comes from a 135-year-old item in Scotland:

    https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-723963

    Feature on where heaven has been located:

    https://aeon.co/essays/how-heaven-became-a-place-among-the-stars

    On caring for Michelangelo's David:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/world/europe/italy-michelangelo-david.html

    Some Russian royal family photos:

    https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g41778915/romanov-russian-royal-family-photos/?

    An update on the ongoing restoration of Notre Dame:

    https://fr.aleteia.org/2022/12/02/une-premiere-voute-de-notre-dame-a-ete-reconstruite/

    Not sure about this item on 'dissident archaeologists':

    https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-rise-of-archaeologists-anonymous/

    Review of Anna Escardo, *Scientific Illustration*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/books/review/scientific-illustration-anna-escardo.html

    Review of *Empire of Ice and Stone*:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/books/review/empire-of-ice-and-stone-karluk.html
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    CURRENT EVENTS:
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    ICOM has put out an emergency red list of cultural artifacts at risk in Ukraine:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/11/28/emergency-red-list-of-cultural-objects-at-risk-ukraine/

    The history of Christmas-related items have started ... first, a feature on Krampus:

    https://www.livescience.com/who-is-krampus

    ... and the origins of wassailing:

    https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0dl578j/the-astonishing-pagan-origin-of-christmas
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    MUSEUM MATTERS
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    Kenyan Archaeology and Archaeologists:

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/27/forgotten-photos-show-how-kenyan-archaeologists-unearthed-secrets-of-their-own-country

    Uzbekistan antiquities:

    https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/604194232/face-to-face-with-a-unique-heritage-uzbekistan-introduces-its-rich-culture-to-the-western-audience

    The Colour of Anxiety:

    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/04/the-colour-of-anxiety-race-sexuality-and-disorder-in-victorian-sculpture-henry-moore-institute-leeds-review-nonstop-shocks

    cf: https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/the-colour-of-anxiety-race-sexuality-and-disorder-in-victorian-sculpture/

    Hieroglyphs:

    https://the-past.com/review/whats-on/highlighting-hieroglyphs-at-the-british-museum-and-the-petrie-museum/

    Michaelina Wautier:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/design/michaelina-wautier-artist-boston.html

    Rare Books:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/rare-book-school-grolier-exhibition.html

    Casablanca:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/arts/design/casablanca-neue-galerie-lauder.html

    Excerpts from Islamic Art:

    https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/121030/%E2%80%98Excerpts-from-Islamic-Art%E2%80%99-temporary-exhibition-launches-in-Royal-Chariots

    Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs:

    https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/120982/%E2%80%98Ramses-the-Gold-of-the-Pharaohs%E2%80%99-exhibition-to-launch-in

    Feature on the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ancient sculptures:

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/museum-uses-technology-to-deepen-visitor-engagement-with-ancient-sculptures

    Pondering the ethics of the Museum of Mankind's human remains collection:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/arts/design/france-human-remains-restitution-skulls.html

    Feature on fakes in museums:

    https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221130-vermeers-secrets-why-were-fascinated-by-art-fakes

    Plans for a Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Larnaca:

    https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/news/local/museum-of-underwater-archeology-to-be-established-in-larnaca/

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    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
    Christos Tsirogiannis is calling for Sotheby's to withdraw some items from an upcoming auction:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/03/archaeologist-urges-sothebys-cancel-auction-illicit-artefacts/
    https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1174/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1174/pub/1174/page/46/article/NaN

    An auction of a 17th century 'shipwreck emerald' to help Ukraine:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/us/emerald-auction-perdue.html

    An auction of a Kadinsky work was halted when Poland claimed it was stolen:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/03/kandinsky-grisebach-poland-germany-stolen/

    A damaged Salvator Mundi copy (unknown artist) fetched a nice price at Christie's:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/damaged-salvator-mundi-copy-by-unknown-artist-sells-for-1m-at-christies

    Some Don Quixote rare editions are coming to auction:

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221129-rare-don-quixote-editions-sold-in-uk-go-up-for-auction

    Gold Rush-connected items from 1857 are coming to auction:

    https://phys.org/news/2022-12-gold-treasures-shipwreck-reno-auction.html

    That medieval gold ring found by a Dorset metal detectorist fetched a nice price:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-63798352 https://www.wymondhamandattleboroughmercury.co.uk/news/national/23158434.medieval-ring-sells-nearly-40-000/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-discovers-medieval-wedding-ring-worth-47000-using-metal-detector-180981185/

    More on the impending auction of a Darwin autographed document:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/12/01/document-signed-by-charles-darwin-up-for-auction/

    More on Mexico seeking to halt an auction in France:

    https://elpais.com/mexico/2022-11-30/de-piezas-aztecas-a-teotihuacanas-mexico-busca-detener-una-subasta-de-85-objetos-arqueologicos-en-francia.html

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    ON THE DNA FRONT
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    A study of medieval DNA from Germany is shedding light on the origins of Ashkenazi Jews there:

    https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ancient-dna-medieval-germany-story.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221130114431.htm https://www.livescience.com/genetics-medieval-ashkenazi-jews-germany https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/science/ashkenazi-jews-genetic-history.html https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-194780 https://www.timesofisrael.com/largest-study-of-ancient-dna-shows-medieval-ashkenazi-jewry-was-surprisingly-diverse/
    https://www.haaretz.com/00000184-c3ec-d05a-a3b4-e3ecc8940000 https://www.jpost.com/science/article-723730 https://arkeonews.net/dna-from-human-remains-found-in-medieval-well-shines-new-light-into-a-significant-historical-crime-and-into-ashkenazi-jewish-history/
    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/12/01/dna-from-medieval-germany-tells-the-origin-story-of-ashkenazi-jews/

    cf: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01378-2

    A study of DNA and migration in medieval England:

    https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ancient-dna-migration-medieval-england/

    Some Palaeolithic DNA from Britain was successfully sequenced:

    https://the-past.com/news/first-palaeolithic-dna-from-britain-successfully-sequenced/

    More on a project using DNA to find where Columbus really came from:

    https://elpais.com/espana/2022-11-28/rastreando-el-adn-de-colon-dos-exhumaciones-en-pontevedra-buscan-el-linaje-gallego-del-almirante.html

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    THE TECHY SIDE
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    Latest facial reconstruction is of the 1600 years bp Japanese noblewoman Himiko of Okitama:

    https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14769907 https://www.archaeology.org/news/11011-221201-japan-digital-recreation

    A facial reconstruction of a 500 years bp Icelandic woman suffering from syphilis:

    https://www.livescience.com/syphilis-facial-reconstruction-iceland

    I think we mentioned this recreation of the medieval woman dubbed 'Tora':

    https://www.livescience.com/tora-reconstruction-medieval-woman-norway

    A facial reconstruction of St Isidore:

    https://aleteia.org/2022/11/30/forensic-study-reconstructs-st-isidores-face/

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    TOURISTY THINGS
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    Roman ruins in Romania:

    https://www.thetravel.com/is-there-roman-ruins-in-romania/

    Mythological sites in Greece:

    https://greekreporter.com/2022/11/27/greece-top-mythological-sites-ancient-greek/

    Saint Malo:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221127-saint-malo-the-first-asian-settlement-in-the-us
    https://www.history.com/news/first-asian-american-settlement-filipino-st-malo

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    TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ============================================================
    A review of a couple of episodes of 'Ancient Apocalypse':

    https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2022/11/graham-hancocks-ancient-apocalypse-a-review-of-episodes-three-and-four/

    ... and a call for Netflix to classify the program as fiction:

    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-graham-hancocks-ancient-apocalypse-fiction-2222060

    Related item about 'Atlantis':

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/27/atlantis-lost-civilisation-fake-news-netflix-ancient-apocalypse
    https://www.iflscience.com/why-archaeologists-are-not-looking-for-atlantis-66263
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    CRIME BEAT
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    Some looters were apprehended in a well near Rahat:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/11/30/looters-caught-in-an-ancient-well-near-rahat/

    Some details of that smashing of artifacts thing at the Dallas Museum of Art a few months ago:

    https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2022/11/30/what-happened-minute-by-minute-in-the-dallas-museum-of-art-as-an-intruder-called-911/
    https://kdhnews.com/news/crime/911-calls-reveal-dallas-museum-of-art-intruder-called-police-on-himself-during-break-in/article_621cd1bc-70ed-11ed-8b4b-f7a323065385.html

    A very interesting three part feature on Emma C. Bunker and her role in Douglas Latchford's illegal activities:

    https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/01/colorado-denver-art-museum-stolen-art-cambodia-thailand-emma-bunker/

    ... related feature on stolen art practices:

    https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/01/stolen-art-heist-looted-antiquities-smuggling-false-provenance/

    Feature on Douglas Latchford:

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/02/who-is-douglas-latchford-asian-khmer-art-smuggler/

    Followup to that incident where someone damaged some busts at the Vatican Museum:

    https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2022/11/30/us-tourist-who-damaged-vatican-busts-risks-trial_45d6dc7c-b99a-42bf-84b7-bac2a1716e15.html

    I think we mention Al Thani's court victory over a British dealer's sale of fake items:

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/12/01/qatari-sheikh-wins-49m-fake-antiquities-case-against-british-artefact-dealer/
    https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sheikh-and-fakes-159-page-judgment-probes-asian-antiquities/5114467.article
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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 National Museum of Scotland is returning a totem pole to the Nisga'a Nation:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/01/national-museum-scotland-repatriating-looted-totem-pole
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-nisgaa-totem-on-display-at-scotland-museum-since-1930-is-heading/

    An Oregon university has return some Tlingit objects to Alaska:

    https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2022/11/27/southeast-alaska-village-of-kake-welcomes-artifacts-some-over-200-years-old-back-home/
    http://www.archaeology.org/news/11014-221202-alaska-repatriation-kake

    The Horniman Museum returned several Benin Bronzes:

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/28/london-museum-returns-looted-benin-city-artefacts-to-nigeria
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63783561 https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/benin-horniman-museum-nigeria-british-museum-london-b1043294.html
    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/london-museum-returns-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria-42180267.html
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11478603/London-museum-returns-looted-Benin-bronzes-Nigeria.html
    https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/11/29/london-museum-starts-return-of-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/in-a-first-for-the-u-k-a-public-museum-has-repatriated-its-collection-of-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria-2219136

    A Nazi-looted original Beethoven score with be returned to heirs from a Czech museum:

    https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-travel-music-europe-0e9635e4e460f45e7c3af267d8c896b4

    Feature on the Lysippos of Fano statue at the Getty Villa:

    https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2022/12/01/precious-and-rare-lysippos-of-fano-statue-in-getty-villa-the-efforts-to-repatriate-it/

    Feature on looted antiquities from Shelby White being returned to Turkey:

    https://hyperallergic.com/785118/looted-antiquities-seized-by-da-belonged-to-met-trustee/
    https://news.yahoo.com/two-dozen-potentially-looted-artefacts-203305623.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/looted-antiquities-returned-to-turkey-and-italy-were-seized-from-new-york-home-of-met-trustee-shelby-white

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    NUMISMATICA
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    Latest e-Sylum:

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