A shipment of antiquities said to be worth $6 million was seized by Sharjah Port authorities in the United Arab Emirates. “The shipment was coming from Turkey and was expected to be received by Sharjah-based antique dealers who planned to transport it to Switzerland,” said Sabbah Jasem, head of the Sharjah Archaeology Museum.

A Roman marble sculpture stolen from a storage facility in Libya was found at an auction house in Paris. 

Former first lady of Peru, Eliane Karp-Toledo, has written an article for the New York Times on the negotiations between Peru and Yale University over artifacts from Machu Picchu.   Yale University faculty members and general counsel respond to her claims in the Yale Daily News. 

 A medieval church in northeastern England sits on the foundations of earlier churches. “It’s thought the first church here was late Saxon or early Norman, but there’s stong evidence of a prehistoric ritual site,” said archaeologist Peter Ryder.  

Will Antarctica become a hotspot for archaeologists?  

Vandalism and looting threaten the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bagamoyo in Tanzania. In the eighteenth century, Bagamoyo was a center for the East African slave trade.

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