News and interest items related to archaeology
The Italian Antiquities Trial – a Brief Review
During the summer of 2005, a trial began in Italy with the goal of deciding the guilt or innocence of Marion True along with Robert […]
News and interest items related to archaeology
During the summer of 2005, a trial began in Italy with the goal of deciding the guilt or innocence of Marion True along with Robert […]
Here’s what’s new in archaeology for the previous week (below the fold):2,100 year old melon… with flesh still on the rind! In Japan, archaeologists recovered […]
Belgian archaeologists of the Leuven Catholic University discovered a tomb of Henu, a high-ranking estate manager and Egyptian courtier. The tomb dates to about 4,000 […]
The Iranian government is bitching to the United Nations about a movie. I kid you not. They want the U.N., specifically, UNESCO to take action […]
Second Temple in Jerusalem in wrong spot!, Bulgarian archaeologists want higher wages, New Discovery of Old Sarcophagi in Egypt, and the 5,000 year-old embrace will […]
Pietro Casasanta spent five decades robbing his country of priceless artifacts and cultural items which he sold on the open market. According to Signor Casasanta, […]
Marion True, already on trial in Italy for dealing in looted artifacts, posted bail of $19,000 US this past Wednesday. In December, the Getty returned […]
In China, looters are robbing graves at a rate that far out-paces the ability for Chinese authorities and archaeologists to keep up. Still, public officials […]
It would seem that The J. Paul Getty Museum disagrees with the nation of Italy with regard to ownership of antiquities in their possession: Italian […]
Museums and private collectors are the motivations behind thieves that loot archaeological sites around the world, some of them never even known by archaeologists much […]
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