Gian Mario Spacca, president of the Italian region of Le Marche, met with officials from California’s Getty Museum and offered an agreement to share a disputed bronze statue. The “Victorious Youth” was recovered by Italian fisherman in 1964, and purchased by the Getty Museum in 1977. Last year, an Italian court ordered that the statue be returned. 

Two 8,500-year-old skeletons have been unearthed in the Yenikapi area of Istanbul. “Such remains have not been discovered during the excavation before; these are the oldest graves in Anatolia,” said archaeologist Yasemin Yilmaz. 

Officials in Jordan want an Israeli Bedouin to hand over some 70 codices made of lead that are thought to be 2,000-year-old records of early Christianity. The man who has the books says that he did not smuggle them out of Jordan, but that they have been in his family for 100 years. 

Scholars have different ideas about the bonds between dogs and American Indian groups living in California’s Central Valley over the past several hundred years. “Some people had very warm relationships with their animals,” said Paul Langenwalter of Biola University. 

Langenwalter pulled his students from a commercial dig on county-owned land in downtown Los Angeles because of the way human remains were reportedly mishandled by the contractor. 

This travel article about the Folsom Museum in Folsom, New Mexico, chronicles the discovery of 12,000-year-old bison bones and fluted points in the small town some 90 years ago. It had been previously thought that people had lived in the New World for only 4,000 years. 

Cavanaugh Mound, located in western Arkansas, will be mapped using ground-penetrating radar. The mound is thought to have been built by Caddo Indian ancestors between 1100 and 1300 A.D.

Archaeologist Perry Blomquist says he has rediscovered the first outpost that belonged to explorer, map maker, and fur trader David Thompson at Sipiwesk Lake in northern Manitoba.

Here’s a photograph of the gramophone recovered from the Klondike Gold Rush-era steamboat found at the bottom of Canada’s Lake Laberge. 

Man-made caves sit beneath Iowa City, Iowa, where nineteenth-century brewers fermented their beer in vats. 

In Virginia, the Alexandria Archeology Commission wants to find the boundaries of an African-American cemetery located beneath Fort Ward Park. The families of freed slaves used the land until the 1960s, when the park was built. 

The Adena people of what is now Ohio had different burial practices but similar beliefs, according to Christopher Hays of the University of Wisconsin. 

You can listen to an interview with archaeologist Michael B. Collins at NPR. He talks about the stone tools and manufacturing debris dated to 15,000 years ago that were uncovered in Texas, and when and how people might have first arrived in the Americas. 

A trench dug at the seventeenth-century San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, New Mexico, yielded disarticulated human bones, pottery from the 1300s, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, and a twentieth-century school-tax token. 

Foreign tourists have not returned to Egypt, so the locals are taking in the sights.