Australia’s Herald Sun provides news from Beijing about damage sustained by China’s cultural heritage in the May 12 earthquake. Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,400-year-old Lombard camp in Testona, Italy, where a warrior had been buried with his horse, a “treasure chest,” a pair of pincers, a bronze belt buckle, a ring, a short sword, and armor.    […]

While searching for the tomb of Cleopatra near Alexandria, a team of archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic discovered an alabaster sculpture of the queen’s head, a mask thought to belong to Mark Antony, a bronze statue of Aphrodite, and bronze coins stamped with an image of Cleopatra’s face. A Maori village raided and […]