Bureau of Reclamation archaeologists exhumed a cemetery near Fort Craig in New Mexico after receiving a tip that the site had been looted over the past 30 years. The article glibly refers to Dee Brecheisen, who reportedly kept the remains of a Civil War soldier he’d dug up on display in his house, as an “amateur historian.”

Here’s an update from the BBC on the first dig at Stonehenge in 40 years. Archaeologists have located two sockets where the site’s original bluestones once stood. Be sure to watch the three videos for the most information.   

A large fragment of a marble equestrian statue was uncovered at the Colosseum, and is thought to have once adorned an archway above the Imperial entrance to Rome’s amphitheater.  

A vacant lot in southwest Florida that was once a campsite for Tequesta Indians is being excavated before the area is developed any further.  

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.  

A Michigan man found a copper celt, or ax blade, while looking for coins with a metal detector. “I was about to throw it in the garbage, and I held it up and I saw the honed edge on it,” he said. The blade could be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old.  

More than 150 Chinese artifacts smuggled to Denmark will be returned tomorrow.

This entry was posted by Jessica E. Saraceni on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Discussion of this blog entry is now closed.

Comments posted here do not represent the views or policies of the Archaeological Institute of America.