The Cleveland Museum of Art will hand over 14 looted artifacts to Italian authorities today. The museum will receive long-term loans of similar objects in return.

View 2,000 years’ worth of renovations, demolitions, and additions at Digital Karnak, the creation of UCLA’s Experiential Technologies Center in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. “We rely on architectural transformations and depictions on contemporary reliefs to provide invaluable information about Egypt’s rich history,” said Diane Favro, principal investigator for the project.  

Bob Genheimer, curator of archaeology at the Cincinnati Museum Center., found no evidence of shaping or manufacturing by ancient people on the turtle-shaped boulder from Oregonia, Ohio.  “There is no doubt that it appears to be a turtle head, but I believe that is an artifact of nature, not culture,” he said.  

Two historic walls have been unearthed in Rochester, England, near the Elizabethan mansion known as Restoration House. “The Tudor wall may have formed a backdrop to prestigious gardens that swept down towards the River Medway, offering a grand vista to people arriving by water. The latest discovery, while being a defense structure, could also have provided a raised walkway linking that part of the gardens with those that have already been restored by the owners of Restoration House,” explained archaeologist Peter Rumley.  

Avocational archaeologists discovered a World War II-era bomb in another historic wall in England.

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