A 44-year-old man has been charged with threatening the life of a federal informant after allegedly threatening to beat up “the Source” in the Utah artifacts case with a baseball bat.

An unpublished report from Canadian Heritage voices the concern that American looters will cross into Canada in order to avoid stricter penalties in the U.S. “As exotic materials find new and increased markets and enhanced values, more mundane artifacts will also increase in value to the vendor and collector,” read a statement in the report.  

A private dive company searching for Sir John Franklin’s ships in Canada’s Northwest Passage has invited the Canadian government to join them. Parks Canada archaeologists called off their plans to look for the Erebus and the Terror in the High Arctic this summer because a coast guard icebreaker could not be called away from other duties.  

A Bronze Age sanctuary has been found in Bulgaria.  

Here’s an update on the excavations at Mexico’s Templo Mayor. Archaeologists may be close to opening an intact tomb holding the remains of a succession of Aztec kings.  

A hoard of 108,000 Roman coins unearthed in Libya in 1981 has been restored with new technology. “It’s the biggest haul of coins not only in the Roman world but probably throughout all antiquity,” said Salvatore Garraffo of Italy’s Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage.  

Archaeologists have found arrowheads, spears, axes, utensils, rock art, and human remains in the lava-stone cave system on Easter Island. The caves are thought to have been used as a refuge during the sixteenth century to escape wars on the island.  

Rings made from green jasper were discovered along the banks of the Kliwang River in Central Java, Indonesia. “We believe the stones are from the Neolithic period, or the new Stone Age,” said the research team leader, identified as Sudjatmiko.

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