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  • explorator 24.15 (2/2)

    From david meadows@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 1 09:26:10 2021
    [continued from previous message]

    https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-we-couldnt-sleep-out-of-excitement-archaeologists-who-unearthed-georgian-queens-relics-in-goa/389428

    An irrigation project in Sagar will submerge a number of sites from various periods:

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/pre-historic-archaeological-sites-to-be-submerged-in-sagar/articleshow/84762578.cms

    An apparently missing metal idol of Lord Arthanareeswarar found in 2017 was located in the house of a priest:

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/idol-recovered-from-priests-house/article35611513.ece

    Feature on Polynesian navigation methods:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210726-polynesias-master-voyagers-who-navigate-by-nature

    A study of metallurgy in Southeast Asia:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-metal-artifacts-southeast-asia-long-held.html https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-Museum-metal-artifacts-Thailand-challenge-archaeological-theory

    UNESCO World Heritage sites in Asia include (among others) the Harappan city of Dholavira:

    https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/harappan-city-of-dholavira-becomes-fourth-site-in-gujarat-to-get-unescos-world-heritage-tag-all-you-need-to-know-about-it

    ... and Quanzhou:

    https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3142545/chinas-maritime-silk-road-port-city-quanzhou
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    AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ================================================================
    Evidence of a 9200 years bp Noongar habitation site from West Australia:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-27/noongar-history-unearthed-at-augusta-archaeological-dig/100324450
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    NORTH AMERICA
    ================================================================
    The dig at a Timucua site on Talbot Island (which we've mentioned before) is wrapping up:

    https://unfspinnaker.com/93097/features/unf-archaeology-team-wraps-up-uncovering-timucua-artifacts-in-local-talbot-island-state-park/

    Feature on an onging dig at a former tenant house in Hope Welfers National Historic Site:

    https://pennsylvanianewstoday.com/archaeologist-digging-hope-welfare-to-uncover-the-lives-of-african-american-peasants-news/196447/

    Another feature on the students digging at the Fort Vancouver site:

    https://www.koin.com/local/clark-county/archaeology-students-dig-for-history-at-fort-vancouver/

    Feature on the excavations in Rock Springs (WY) Chinatown:

    https://www.sweetwaternow.com/digging-up-history-in-chinatown/?fbclid=IwAR13ug7L7lIRGc02bbwZB5lSaJV7_67QR0Q0_GQy1z3UphdGHWdjfRH431I

    I think we mentioned this evidence of a 'forgotten' road beneath a Civil War cemetery in Virginia:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-discover-buried-road-civil-war-cemetery-180978264/

    Feature on the so-called 'Nephite coin' found in 19th century Utah:

    https://www.ksl.com/article/50210543/the-discovery-of-the-nephite-coin-a-pioneer-mystery

    Trying to figure out how a jar of Lorraine jam made it to Texas in the 19th century:

    https://presstories.com/2021/07/30/a-jar-of-lorraine-jam-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-texas/

    Plans to reinter bodies found during the Tulsa Race Massacre dig:

    https://www.normantranscript.com/oklahoma/tulsa-to-reinter-bodies-exhumed-as-part-of-tulsa-race-massacre-investigation/article_ad16bf20-d467-5525-b6b0-2308af754c7c.html
    https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/tulsa-to-reinter-bodies-exhumed-as-part-of-tulsa-race-massacre-investigation/article_6c38aa06-efb9-11eb-8034-d3e0af094cf3.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/31/bodies-tulsa-race-massacre-oklahoma-reinterred

    Reviewish of Deborah Willis, *The Black Civil War Soldier*:

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/black-civil-war-soldiers-photos/index.html https://nyupress.org/9781479809004/the-black-civil-war-soldier/

    Reviewish of Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez *Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts*:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/31/wake-review-hidden-history-of-women-led-slave-revolts-rebecca-hall-hugo-martinez

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    CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
    Peru has a contender for 'oldest known shark attack victim':

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/peru-skeleton-oldest-known-shark-attack-victim

    More on COVID leading to the reburial of an Aztec site in Mexico City:

    https://www.sciencealert.com/mexican-archaeologists-to-rebury-unusual-discovery-made-in-old-aztec-capital
    https://gizmodo.com/tunnel-discovered-with-aztec-carvings-will-be-reburied-1847361500
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tunnel-filled-aztec-petroglyphs-1993579
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexican-archaeologists-rebury-aztec-tunnel-after-project-loses-funding-180978299/

    More on there being no 'civilization collapse' on Easter Island:

    https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/easter-island

    Feature on the 'warrior princess' of Tingambato:

    https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-07-26/la-princesa-guerrera-de-tingambato-el-tesoro-de-la-arqueologia-mexicana-enterrado-entre-campos-de-aguacate.html

    Feature on Actun Tunichil Muknal:

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/07/actun-tunichil-muknal-the-maya-cave-of-the-crystal-sepulchre/139755

    Feature on Q'enqo Grande:

    https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/07/qenqo-grande-the-sacred-inca-huaca-complex-cave/139782

    UNESCO World Heritage status has been given to the Chankillo site:

    https://www.wionews.com/world/americas-oldest-solar-observatory-finally-gets-unesco-world-heritage-status-401087
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/chankillo-oldest-solar-observatory-in-the-americas-awarded-unesco-world-heritage-status
    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210727-ancient-peruvian-sun-calendar-declared-un-heritage-site
    https://elpais.com/internacional/2021-07-28/unesco-declara-patrimonio-mundial-al-chankillo-el-complejo-astronomico-mas-antiguo-de-america.html

    ... as have the Chinchorro mummies:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-chile-ancient-mummies-added-heritage.html

    ... and the monastery and cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tlaxcala:

    https://elpais.com/mexico/2021-07-28/la-catedral-de-tlaxcala-el-monasterio-a-los-pies-de-un-volcan-que-se-convirtio-en-patrimonio-de-la-humanidad.html

    Handy listing of ancient Americas lectures this month:

    https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/
    http://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 ================================================================
    Dutch Elm Disease has killed Europe's oldest (maybe) elm:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58013952

    Feature on Thomas Harriot:

    https://lens.monash.edu/@science/2021/07/26/1383475/the-scientific-genius-who-eschewed-fame-remembering-thomas-harriot-400-years-on

    Feature on Francois Poulain:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/francois-poulain-radical-feminism/619499/

    Feature on George Washington and the first mass military inoculation:

    https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html

    Arguing over putting Nikola Tesla on a coin:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57969489

    On problems medicine had with female anatomy:

    https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/misguided-history-female-anatomy-sexuality

    One of Lord Kelvin's theories doesn't seem to be panning out:

    https://www.livescience.com/was-lord-kelvin-theory-wrong.html

    Reconstructing a 12th century pipe organ from Bethlehem:

    https://aleteia.org/2021/07/24/reconstructing-a-12th-century-pipe-organ-discovered-in-the-holy-land/

    Interesting story of a 140 years bp violin found in a thrift store:

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/mystery-140-year-old-violin-solved/index.html

    Feature on women as collectors of Middle Eastern artifacts:

    https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/07/women-collecting-the-middle-east-collaborators-and-collections

    Feature on a Jewish American couple's collection of Jewish artifacts:

    https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/this-jewish-american-couple-collected-13000-jewish-artifacts-675246

    An interesting 18th century folly:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-garden-folly-teeth

    Interesting feature on some fake Buddhist statues:

    https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3143047/chinese-buddhist-statues-german-indiana-jones-and-his

    Feature on a detail in Van Gogh's last painting:

    https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/discovered-a-very-early-photograph-of-the-trees-in-van-gogh-s-final-picture-painted-just-hours-before-he-fired-the-fatal-shot

    Feature on Bernini:

    https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/gian-lorenzo-bernini-most-famous-works-1234600353/

    ... and a related book review:

    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/gian-lorenzo-bernini-alexander-vii-the-artist-and-the-eternal-city-review-1234600264/

    Feature on Goya:

    https://elpais.com/eps/2021-07-24/goya-del-pintor-aragones-al-genio-universal.html

    Confirmation (I think) that Ecce Homo is by Caravaggio:

    https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-07-28/el-primer-informe-cientifico-sobre-el-eccehomo-concluye-que-es-de-caravaggio.html

    Features on Gertrude Stein:

    https://www.dw.com/en/gertrude-stein-a-complex-pioneer-of-modernism/a-58591036 https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210726-the-scandalous-memoir-of-the-lost-generation

    Feature on the evolution of Hindu/Arabic numerals:

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/hindu-arabic-numerals-history-evolution-mathematics/

    Feature on the HMS Association:

    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210729-the-british-shipwreck-that-changed-the-world

    On the weirdness of English spelling:

    https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent

    On why Oscar Wilde was in prison:

    https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/berkshire-history/oscar-wilde-reading-prison-irelands-21131090

    Pondering the reputation of La Malinche, Cortes' Indigenous interpreter:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-la-malinche-indigenous-interpreter-conquistador-hernan-cortes-traitor-survivor-or-icon-180978321/

    More on a possible Michelangelo fingerprint:

    https://www.livescience.com/michelangelo-fingerprint-found-statue.html

    On the need for archaeologists to be activists:

    https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-activists/

    General coverage of new World Heritage Sites around the world:

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/ https://www.dw.com/en/latest-additions-to-unesco-world-heritage-list/g-58649309 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nine-new-sites-join-unesco-world-heritage-list-180978282/
    https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020685867/iranian-railway-thai-national-park-among-new-unesco-world-heritage-sites
    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/cultural-sites-inscribed-on-unescos.html
    ================================================================
    CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================
    Archaeologists from Memorial University are offering to help in the search for unmarked burials at residential schools:

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mun-archaeology-team-offering-help-110000489.html

    ... and a feature on Kisha Supernant's involvement in the search:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/world/canada/indigenous-archaeologist-graves-school-children.html

    Feature on ancient Greek athletes eating cheesecake at the Olympics:

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/07/31/ancient-greek-cheesecake-2/

    Feature on the history of the Olympics:

    https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/a-foot-race-of-only-192-28-meters-in-length-thats-how-the-olympics-began-in-greece/703331/

    Feature on the first modern Olympics:

    https://www.wfmz.com/sports/photos-from-the-first-modern-olympics-in-1896/collection_a03810ce-62a8-5118-8dd2-e006c320b805.html

    ... and the Olympics in 776 BCE:

    https://kvoa.com/news/2021/07/28/what-were-the-olympics-like-in-776-bc/

    Feature on the ancient Olympics (written by a Classicist):

    https://theconversation.com/not-everyone-cheered-the-ancient-olympic-games-but-the-sacred-games-brought-together-rival-societies-165062

    On what ancient Greeks would have thought of an Olympics without an audience:

    https://neoskosmos.com/en/205924/ancient-greeks-would-view-the-ghostly-version-of-the-modern-olympics-as-absurd/

    Assorted 'fun facts' about the ancient Olympics:

    https://denvercatholic.org/did-christians-ban-the-games-tales-myths-and-other-fun-facts-about-the-ancient-olympics/

    A history of gymnastics:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-gymnastics-ancient-greece-tokyo-2020-180978270/

    On what history relates about the efficacy of vaccines:

    https://theweek.com/coronavirus/1003164/tk-bill

    ... and a smallpox anti-vaxxer story:

    https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/immanuel-pfeiffer-smallpox-antivaxxer-covid-vaccines-history.html
    ================================================================
    ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
    More on why rabbits in the New World weren't domesticated:

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/why-werent-new-world-rabbits.html
    ================================================================
    MUSEUM MATTERS
    ================================================================
    Exclusham Hoard:

    https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/19467295.hidden-treasures-show-wrexham-museum-exciting-new-exhibition-revealed/

    Doggerland:

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets
    https://www.rmo.nl/tentoonstellingen/tijdelijke-tentoonstellingen/doggerland/

    Coffee:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jerusalem-exhibit-traces-coffees-travels-180978286/

    Colors of the Romans:

    https://hyperallergic.com/663347/dazzling-corrective-to-ancient-rome-whitewashing-centrale-montemartini/
    https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/top-lifestyle/2021/07/27/new-mosaic-exhibit-show-off-colours-of-ancient-rome/
    https://sg.news.yahoo.com/exhibition-celebrating-colors-ancient-rome-121248500.html

    Painters of Pompeii:

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/2021/08/01/frescoes-oklahoma-city-museum-art-bring-ancient-life-pompeii-alive/5404817001/

    Syrian mosaics:

    https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1165446/valuable-syrian-mosaics-on-show-in-athens/

    Michelangelo:

    https://dailygazette.com/2021/07/28/albany-capital-center-offers-michelangelo-in-a-different-view/

    Shropshire sun pendant:

    https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/shrewsbury-entertainment/2021/07/28/delight-that-shropshire-sun-pendant-is-going-on-display-in-the-county/

    Francisco Javier de Balmis:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/27/spanish-museum-celebrates-pioneer-who-took-smallpox-vaccine-to-colonies

    The new Trimontium Museum opens this week:

    https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/people/so-what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us-3323461

    In case you missed the opening of the underwater museum at Alonissos:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-greece-underwater-museum-ancient-world.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/27/the-underwater-%CE%BCuseum-at-alonnisos-in-an-afp-press-release/

    Pondering 'colonial collections' that weren't looted:

    https://www.apollo-magazine.com/northcote-thomas-nigeria-sierra-leone/ ================================================================
    AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
    A high price is expected for an Anglo Saxon coin from the Wiltshire and Hampshire border area last year:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-58028670 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/anglo-saxon-coin-wiltshire-penny-mancus-b1894608.html
    https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19479624.detectorist-finds-ancient-coin-worth-200k---made-southampton/
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/anglosaxon-penny-king-wiltshire-hampshire-b948338.html
    https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/19478574.gold-coin-discovered-west-dean-sale-auction/

    Pondering how an 19th century pinkas ended up at auction:

    https://jewishjournal.com/news/339158/a-jewish-librarys-treasure-surfaced-at-auction-how-did-it-get-there/

    I think we mentioned this 'Ides of March' coin coming to auction a while ago:

    https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/eid-mar-denarius-offered-by-heritage-auctions-at-ana-worlds-fair-of-money/

    ================================================================
    THE TECHY SIDE
    ================================================================
    Assorted tech approaches are revealing sites in the Dubai desert:

    https://www.esquireme.com/content/54288-uae-scientists-discover-ancient-native-settlements-buried-deep-in-dubai-desert

    Paper on 'image sonification' at Dura Europos:

    http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/8/index.html

    On how 'ancient diets' are figured out from potsherds:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-diets-pottery-shard-archaeology-discovery/2021/07/30/75d5fd0c-efd2-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html

    cf: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-did-ancient-people-eat

    On the ethics of remote sensing:

    https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/27/the-ethics-of-remote-sensing-in-archaeology/
    ================================================================
    CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
    A study of lake sediments in Japan is creating links between climate and the origin of agriculture:

    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-sediments-lake-japan-reveal-stable.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/07/sediments-from-lake-in-japan-reveal.html
    ================================================================
    TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
    Ancient Roman cities that aren't Rome:

    https://www.artandobject.com/news/want-see-ancient-roman-city-dont-go-rome

    Pamukkale:

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210731-discover-pamukkale-turkey/

    Trieste:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/07/30/1020828045/a-once-forgotten-port-of-italy-is-alive-with-a-diverse-cultural-and-literary-leg

    Jiangmen:

    https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3142328/unesco-heritage-sites-famous-birdwatching-spot-named-ba-jin
    ================================================================
    PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
    The Green Knight:

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/26/the-green-knight-review-dev-patel-takes-a-magical-and-masterly-quest
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/movies/the-green-knight-clip.html

    Feature on Nadia Boulanger:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/arts/music/nadia-boulanger-bard-music.html

    ================================================================
    CRIME BEAT
    ================================================================
    CPB officers intercepted some artifacts coming into the US from Mexico:

    https://www.kwtx.com/2021/07/31/cbp-officers-intercept-shipment-ancient-artifacts/
    https://www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/cbp-seizes-shipment-of-ancient-artifacts/417-59218b55-f33b-4ecd-ab8a-46a361530c51

    More on a British art restorer being implicated in the Kapoor case:

    https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/subhash-kapoors-london-restorer-extradited-indicted-in-antiquities-smuggling-conspiracy/

    Opeddish thing on dealing with antiquities trafficking:

    https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/30/how-can-we-end-antiquities-trafficking
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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/

    ================================================================
    REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
    A Buddha head was returned to China from Japan:

    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229662.shtml

    Egypt is recovering a statue of an Old Kingdom priest from the Netherlands:

    https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/417748/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Statue-of-Old-Kingdom-priest-recovered-from-Nether.aspx
    https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/106317/Egypt-succeeds-in-retrieving-legless-statue-of-Old-Kingdom%E2%80%99s-priest
    https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2021/07/26/ancient-egyptian-priest-statue-returned-home/
    https://allafrica.com/stories/202107270279.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/29/old-kingdom-statue-returned-to-egypt/
    https://www.archaeology.org/news/9868-210727-smuggled-statue-repatriated

    Australia's National Gallery is returning 14 items to India:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/29/national-gallery-of-australia-to-return-14-artworks-worth-3m-to-india

    US authorities have taken control of the Gilgamesh Tablet:

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/rare-cuneiform-tablet-bearing-portion-epic-gilgamesh-forfeited-united-states
    https://www.newsweek.com/us-obtains-gilgamesh-dream-tablet-after-court-orders-forfeiture-hobby-lobby-1613727
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57992957 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/29/national-gallery-of-australia-to-return-14-artworks-worth-3m-to-india
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/gilgamesh-tablet-seized/2021/07/29/1b3d8d5a-efec-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html
    https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article253083123.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/doj-seizes-hobby-lobbys-stolen-piece-of-epic-of-gilgamesh.html
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/government-forfeiture-hobby-lobby-gilgamesh-tablet-1993303
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hobby-lobby-forfeits-rare-gilgamesh-tablet-smuggled-iraq-180978314/

    ... and Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible is returning 17 000 apparently-looted antiquities to Iraq:

    https://hyperallergic.com/666174/us-restitutes-17000-looted-artifacts-to-iraq/ https://www.dw.com/en/17000-ancient-looted-artifacts-returned-to-iraq/a-58707252
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210729-us-to-return-17000-ancient-looted-artefacts-to-iraq/
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    https://www.trtworld.com/art-culture/us-to-return-some-17-000-looted-antiquities-to-iraq-48742
    https://www.jpost.com/international/thousands-of-ancient-archaeological-pieces-return-to-iraq-from-us-675498
    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2021/Jul-28/522168-us-returns-to-iraq-treasure-trove-of-antiquities-baghdad.ashx
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/unprecedented-restitution-us-returns-antiquities-to-iraq

    ... and the reopening of Iraq's national museum is somehow being connected to this:

    https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/iraq-to-reopen-national-museum-after-recovery-of-17000-looted-artefacts-from-the-us

    ... related OpEd:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/29/epic-gilgamesh-hobby-lobby/

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