Five fragments of a wall painting from Luxor’s Valley of the Kings will by returned to Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak during a luncheon with France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Louvre Museum in Paris purchased the stolen artifacts in good faith in 2000 and 2003. The Archaeological Institute of America, ARCHAEOLOGY’s parent organization, has affirmed its […]

 One of the largest slave graveyards in the world is being excavated on the island of St. Helena, in preparation for airport construction. Many of the 10,000 people buried here had been found dead in slave ships by British Royal Navy patrols between 1840 and 1874.   Excavation of a village at the site of a […]