Deforestation, air travel, and satellite imagery have allowed archaeologists to spot the signs of an ancient civilization in the Amazon basin. “Every week we find new structures,” said Denise Schaan of the Federal University of Pará in Brazil. Here’s a photograph of France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, during the hand-over of […]

 Five fragments of a wall painting from Luxor’s Valley of the Kings will by returned to Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak during a luncheon with France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Louvre Museum in Paris purchased the stolen artifacts in good faith in 2000 and 2003. The Archaeological Institute of America, ARCHAEOLOGY’s parent organization, has affirmed its […]