A man has received jail time after pleading guilty to looting thousands of artifacts from the Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Illinois. He will also perform community service and pay a fine. More than 13,000 artifacts were seized from his home by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2007. The 3,000-year-old city known […]

 Queen Eadgyth’s bones may have been found in Magdeburg Cathedral. Eadgyth was brother of Athelstan, thought to be the first King of England, and wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. “In the Middle Ages bones were often moved around, and this makes definitive identification difficult,” explained Harald Meller of Bristol University.    Here’s a photograph […]