Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass announced today that cooperation with the Louvre Museum in Paris would end until certain antiquities, said to be stolen, were returned. A “French source” is quoted as saying, “there is no real obstacle and a solution should be found soon.” Argentina’s diplomat to Iran allegedly tried to ship almost six […]

 Scholars have created a model using hoards of Roman coins and ancient census data to determine that the population of the Roman Empire declined after the end of the first century B.C. to about 4 to 5 million people. “Hoards are an excellent indicator of internal turmoil. This is a general phenomenon, not just in […]