Skeletal remains excavated in Gloucester, England, in the 1970s turn out to have belonged to a large man born east of the Danube River. Historians theorize that he was a Goth mercenary in the Roman Army ca. 400 A.D. Here’s a little more information on the two middens discovered along the banks of New Zealand’s […]

 The French government has agreed to relinquish five wall-painting fragments that Egyptian antiquities officials say were looted from a tomb in Luxor. Yesterday, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told the press that Egypt would no longer cooperate with the Louvre Museum until the murals were returned.   There’s more information on the dispute and a photograph of […]