Global economic problems stifling construction have hit contract archaeologists, the ones who work in advance of building projects. Roland Smith of Wessex Archaeology says their firm has laid off 60 diggers.

Statues of Amenhotep III and Hatshepsut were uncovered by Egyptian archaeologists at Luxor.

Chinese archaeologists have excavated an Eastern Zhou period tomb in Luoyang, Henan province, that held remains of two horses and two chariots.

A follow up on the lawsuit just filed by descendants of Geronimo against the Yale society Skull and Bones.

This review of The Lost City of Z, a book about the explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925, is probably correctly filed under “entertainment.” Fawcett was looking for “a legendary city he called Z, a glittering oasis of civilization supposedly sequestered deep in the jungle.” The book’s author camped in the Amazon and met an “American archaeologist who lives, Kurtz-like, with a tribe of Indians deep in the jungle.”

The story of two Chinese bronzes taken from the imperial Summer Palace outside Beijing nearly 150 years ago took an odd twist. Chinese is seeking to stop Christie’s from auctioning them next week on behalf of Pierre Berge, the partner of the late Yves Saint Laurent. Berge has now stated that “I am ready to give these Chinese heads to China if they are ready to recognize human rights.”

University of West Florida Archaeology Institute graduate students and faculty members showed King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain artifacts excavated from one of Don Tristan de Luna’s ships that sank in Pensacola Bay in 1559. UWF Maritime Studies Program director John Bratten hopes the royal visit encourages students and faculty exchange programs with Spain.

Harlyn Geronimo, great-grandson of the legendary Apache warrior, and others brought suit under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in an effort to resolve whether or not Geronimo’s skull is at Skull and Bones, a club at Yale University.

The Brooklyn Museum is highlighting its fakes in an exhibition “Unearthing the Truth,” which displays real fourth-century A.D sculptures alongside fakes bought on the art market after WWII.

Does the “excavation” of a 1991 Ford van by Bristol University archaeologists mark thee beginning of a new field of study?

A new edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing has been launched online. “Some of the data are especially worrying: out of the approximately 6,000 existing languages in the world, more than 200 have become extinct during the last three generations, 538 are critically endangered, 502 severely endangered, 632 definitely endangered and 607 unsafe.”

Among a huge number of Pleistocene fossils unearthed at the site of an old parking structure in Los Angeles is a nearly intact mammoth, named Zed by researchers. “This gives us the opportunity to get a detailed picture of what life was like 10,000 to 40,000 years ago,” says John Harris of the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits.

The American Anthropological Association has changed its code of ethics to strengthen protections of people who are studied and promote free dissemination of scholarship.