A three-day strike by guards at the Athens Acropolis has shut it down to tourists. “I’m sure they are getting the short end of the stick, but I came a long way only to see half of Athens closed,” said archaeology student Paul Jones.

Four wooden coffins have been unearthed at Saqqara by a Japanese team of archaeologists. The 3,300-year-old tomb had been looted in antiquity. 

Italy will offer a virtual look at some of Iraq’s Mesopotamian and Islamic artifacts, some of which were stolen from the National Museum in 2003, on its National Research Council website.  

Protein residues on Clovis stone tools show that they were used to butcher camels, horses, sheep, and bears. The 83 tools had been discovered last year in a cache in Colorado. “The evidence I’ve seen gives me no reason to believe the cache has been disturbed since the items were placed there for storage about 13,000 years ago,” said anthropologist Douglas Bamforth.  

The two bronze animal heads plundered from Beijing’s Summer Palace were purchased yesterday by an anonymous telephone bidder.

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