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Wednesday, March 18
March 18, 2009

Critics in Scotland are calling police “clumsy and incompetent” after they destroyed a rare 4,000-year-old burial chamber, thinking it was a crime scene. “If they were dealing with a real crime, they shouldn’t disturb the scene in any case,” said Jim Crow of the University of Edinburgh. The police officers investigating bones uncovered in a […]

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Tuesday, March 17
March 17, 2009

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen is reluctant to return bronze Etruscan artifacts to Italy, despite evidence that they were looted from a tomb in the Colle del Forno necropolis. “For now we have to evaluate the good or bad faith of the buyer. The sin has almost been ascertained, let’s see if we will […]

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