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 as Tartessos may be buried in Spain’s Donana National Park. Aerial photographs have revealed large circular and rectangular forms in the landscape.  

Writer Ben East compares the attempt to keep the Staffordshire Hoard intact and in England with the movement to repatriate objects from museums to their countries of origin in The Nation, published in the United Arab Emirates.  

Egyptologist Mark Lehner talks about the Sphinx in Smithsonian.  

Children on a field trip in Indonesia’s historic Yogyakarta may have discovered a Buddhist temple. They noticed that some of the many rocks along the Opak River were carved.  

Erosion at the confluence of the Little Tennessee and Cullasaja rivers in Georgia threatens the site of a Cherokee village called Tassee.

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