In Egypt, an 18^th Dynasty tomb (1570 to 1315 B.C.) has been discovered on Luxor’s west bank, in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga. The entrances to two other tombs, mummy fragments, and Ushabti figures have also been found.

Stonehenge was a burial ground for 500 years, and possibly for just one ruling family, according to researchers with the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project. “Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid-third millennium B.C.,” said Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield.  

Learn more about how federal agents carried out the arrests of alleged looters and artifact traffickers in Utah in The New York Times. Some have complained that the government was “heavy handed in the raids,” but the agents knew that most of the homes they were entering contained firearms. “The arrests that were done were felony arrests, and as best as I can tell, they were done in accordance with the FBI and Bureau of Land Management standard operating procedures,” said Attorney General Eric Holder.  

Thailand’s government will continue to object to the Preah Vihear temple being listed as a Cambodian World Heritage site at the World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, Spain. The issue has sparked border clashes near the temple between the two countries.  

Was Meriwether Lewis murdered? His descendants want to have his body exhumed from its grave in Tennessee to see if any evidence is left. “What we want is the truth,” said Howell Lewis Bowen, Lewis’ great-great-great-great nephew.  

The Neolithic burial of a child and adult was uncovered in western Serbia. “It is unusual because the double grave is within the village – they emptied a mud hut and used it as a burial site,” said archaeologist Radivoje Arsic.

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