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.

The wreck of a German submarine dating to World War I has been discovered by the Dutch navy. It will be designated a war grave. 

Global Heritage Fund has launched a new monitoring system for tracking endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries. Professional site monitors, experts, locals, and travelers are able to report threats. 

Pottery, leather shoes, and timber beams from a medieval mill have been uncovered in Dublin, Ireland. 

Prompted by the release of a new movie entitled The Eagle, archaeologist Miles Russell of Bournemouth University reviews what is known (and not known) about the disappearance of the Ninth Legion in Roman Britain during the second century A.D. 

A hearing is being conducted in Honolulu for a lawsuit that seeks to stop a $5.5 billion rail project because its fourth phase could endanger ancient Hawaiian burials. David Kimo Frankel, an attorney for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, said that an archaeological survey of the entire project area should have been completed before the project was approved. 

A list of artifacts missing from the Cairo Museum has been released by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. 

Researchers from the Netherlands experimented with x-ray equipment dating to 1895. “Our experience with this machine, which had a buzzing interruptor, crackling lightning within a spark gap, and a greenish light flashing in a tube, which spread the smell of ozone and which revealed internal structures in the human body was, even today, little less than magical,” they wrote in Radiology.