Twelve artifacts stolen from the Egyptian Museum on January 29 have been recovered, according to Ahram Online. Antiquities police and military forces found the objects in the possession of three accused thieves. 

The U.S. government has demanded that the St. Louis Art Museum hand over the 3,200-year-old death mask of Egyptian noblewoman Ka-Nefer-Nefer. A federal complaint states that the mask was stolen sometime between 1966 and 1973. The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities requested the return of the mask in 2006. 

Two altar stones unearthed in East Lothian, Scotland, bear inscriptions dedicated to the god Mithras, indicating that Mithraism had spread further north than previously thought. “This is the first evidence for the god Mithras in Scotland, and changes our view of Roman religion on the northern frontier,” said Fraser Hunter of the National Museums Scotland. 

A modern analysis of the remains of an explorer from the Franklin Expedition suggests that the young officer was misidentified in the nineteenth century, when his remains were first exhumed from a grave in the Canadian Arctic and transported to England. 

In Guam, ancient human remains were uncovered by a backhoe digging for a bridge project. “It had gone through several layers of old road fill and sand deposit and we suddenly came across a burial so because it would be damaged by the road construction we have recorded where it is,” said Sandy Yee of International Archaeological Research on Guam. She adds that a whole village site is located in the area. 

France will return the 297 royal books looted from Korea in the nineteenth century.

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