During this year’s excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, a settlement along the ancient highway that connected Egypt to the rest of the Near East, archaeologists unearthed a fragment of a carved stone plaque. The high-quality of the Egyptian symbol on the fragment suggests that ties between the people of the Jordan Valley and Egypt’s First […]

Three men charged with trafficking in archaeological resources have been sentenced in South Dakota. A fourth has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next year. They have forfeited more than 12,000 artifacts between them. The Army Corps of Engineers cautions that a proposed floodwall at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, could dredge up American Indian ancestral bones. […]