Plus: the power of Nefertiti; fashionable face masks; first possible deer-to-human COVID spread detected
|  | Monday, March 7, 2022 | | | | |
| In today’s newsletter, new refugees from Ukraine seek peace; first possible deer-to-human COVID transmission found; scholars find a bigger role for Egyptian queen Nefertiti … and artful face masks that you might like. | |
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| | By Amy Briggs, Executive Editor of HISTORY magazine, co-host of Overheard at National Geographic
It’s no secret that there’s been an Amelia Earhart project cooking in my brain for about as long as I’ve been working at History magazine. I had only been on the job a little while as I listened in a “Stones and Bones” meeting (where we discuss ongoing work in archaeology and history) to Archaeologist-in-Residence Fred Hiebert talking about an upcoming expedition. He needed to fly forensic-sniffing dogs to the South Pacific—in business class—to search for ... Amelia Earhart.
Flying dogs aside, I had just caught a bad case of “Amelia Fever”—whose main symptom was a burning desire to figure out what happened to the aviator over the Pacific in July 1937.
And why not? Amelia Earhart’s disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. National Geographic was trying to solve it with clue-sniffing canines alongside our own “big dogs”—Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard and Hiebert.
Years of following their work and diving deep into just about every Amelia Earhart rabbit hole led to a two-part episode of our podcast, Overheard, devoted to all things Amelia. That includes not only the intriguing disappearance theories (one involving New Jersey), but also how Amelia’s daring adventures shaped American life—in big ways, like trailblazing women astronauts, to the everyday, like the kind of luggage a lady packs for a weekend jaunt. Part One, “The Lady Vanishes” dropped last week, and you can catch, Part Two, “The Lady’s Legacy,” starting tomorrow. It’s a great way to kick off Women’s History Month.
But beware! You might just catch Amelia Fever yourself.
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 | | COURTESY OF RAHUL MISHRA | | A ‘Breath’ of fresh air: Museums worldwide have curated exhibits on one of the faces of the pandemic: the mask. One virtual exhibition, Clothing the Pandemic, highlights 100 contributions from cultural institutions around the world. There’s the anti-authority mask with a raised middle finger, a kente cloth face covering from Ghana, Chhau dance masks from eastern India, and salmon skin from Alaska. Then there’s the more creative, such as “Butterfly People” by designer Rahul Mishra (pictured above). The butterflies, Mishra says, symbolize the artisans who turn his creative flights of fancy into wearable art.
Related: The lessons learned from the 1918 flu fatigue
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| | The mystery of Nefertiti: Her face may be on the cover of many art history books, but new scholarship indicates the Egyptian royal had a bigger role than as a civil, passive adornment to the king. In fact, she may have ruled in her own right more than 3,000 years ago as a pharaoh. The research shows the role of Queen Nefertiti “to be far more complex, involving her in affairs of state,” especially in moving ancient Egypt toward monotheistic worship, Nat Geo’s History magazine reports. (Pictured above, this limestone bust of Nefertiti was discovered in 1912.)
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Today's newsletter was curated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, and Monica Williams. Have an idea or link to a story you think is right down our alley? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com.
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