Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, and head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass have made a request to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation for the return of the famed bust of Queen Nefertiti, exhibited at the Neues Museum in Berlin. The bust was discovered on the banks of the Nile in 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt. There’s a follow-up story at ABC News.

The US Department of Homeland Security and Italy have renewed the bilateral agreement to restrict imports of archaeological material from Italy, including coins for the first time.  

Archaeologists in England are investigating the Coleshill estate, secret headquarters of Winston Churchill during World War II, and home to a guerrilla volunteer force. “We feel it is crucial that the site is surveyed completely and this forms part of our ongoing commitment to researching these brave men and women,” said Tom Sykes, leader of the project.  

In Bangladesh, 1,700-year-old brick structures were damaged when local people used dirt and bricks from the archaeological zone to build a road.  

A crowd of people gathered at the St. Augustine Lighthouse hoping to learn the name of a shipwreck discovered off the Florida coast. Archaeological conservator Starr Cox removed concretions from the ship’s bronze bell, but no inscription was found.

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