The Bowers Museum is one of the southern California museums under investigation by the federal government on suspicion of accepting looted antiquities. Its current exhibition, “Ancient Arts of China: A 5,000 Year Legacy,” reportedly includes 13 objects from a collection owned by Tei-Fu Chen and Oi-Lin Chen, who plead guilty in the 1990s to tax evasion and art smuggling. Authorities do not know at this time if the 13 artifacts on display were stolen.

Floridians will reenact the Christmas Day 1837 battle from the Second Seminole War at Lake Okeechobee this weekend. In 2006, the state purchased a large portion of the battlefield, one of the 11 most endangered historic sites in the country.  

Three Adena encampments in central Ohio offer a glimpse of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. 

A nineteenth-century shipwreck washed ashore after a storm on Cape Cod.

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