U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups has sentenced Jeanne Redd and Jerrica Redd of Blandings, Utah, to probation and fines after they pleaded guilty to ten felonies between them for the illegal trafficking in ancient American Indian artifacts. The “prosecution in this case provides sufficient deterrence,” he said.

Three men were arrested in Bulgaria with Roman coins, rings, and other artifacts in their possession.  

Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov says he has unearthed an enormous cult complex of at least nine altars at the Thracian city of Perperikon.  

Carvings inside a Neolithic tomb on an Orkney island may represent human eyes and eyebrows. The carvings resemble the face of a tiny sandstone human figurine uncovered this summer.  

A 4,500-year-old arrowhead was unearthed in the Burren, County Clare’s “stony place.”  

Earlier this summer, the bones of at least 51 young men, who had been decapitated and buried in a pit in southwest England about 1,000 years ago, were found. Were they Vikings killed by Saxons? Osteologist Ceri Boston has been examining the bones and has shed some light on the story.  

A Viking hoard of silver, discovered in a muddy field in 2007, is on display at the Yorkshire Museum.  

Discovery News has picked up the story of the tiny gemstone engraved with an image of Alexander the Great that was discovered at Tel Dor, once a major port on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.  

Artifacts from Lady Dai’s tomb, opened in the 1970s, are traveling around the United States. Lady Dai was a wealthy noblewoman in the Han Dynasty. “We are looking at a tomb in southern China from a very important cultural region that contributed some of the greatest literature and mythology and art to China,” said curator Susan Tai for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  

A prisoner of war camp where German soldiers were kept during World War II has been unearthed in England at a landfill site.   A former prisoner at the camp remembers his time there.  

Restoration of a monastery in northwest Hungary has revealed a Gothic passageway and some murals that decorated a seventeenth-century dining hall.

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