Egyptian authorities are investigating the theft of an ancient statue of the goddess Hathor from a museum in South Sinai. The statue was found in the desert five days after it went missing.

Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, secretary general of Europa Nostra, defends the Roman spa site of Allianoi in an editorial for The Art Newspaper. Workers from the Turkish State Waterworks are currently burying the site in sand as part of the preparation to release water from the controversial Yortanli dam. “What will be lost is not only a site of archaeological importance, but also a tremendous opportunity for sustainable development,” writes Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic.  Here’s more information on the fight to save Allianoi.  

Why do the Clovis people seem to disappear from the archaeological record? Were they wiped out by a comet 12,900 years ago? David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University, and Vance Holliday of the University of Arizona, don’t buy it. “Single-occupation Paleoindian sites – Clovis or post-Clovis – are the norm. That’s because many Paleoindian sites are hunting kill sites, and it would be highly unlikely for kills to be made repeatedly in the exact same spot,” explained Holliday.  

A review of the furnishings belonging to President Calvin Coolidge at his Vermont home turned up the cloth that covered the table when he took the oath of office in 1923, after the sudden death of Warren Harding.  

Evolutionary biologist Walter Neves of the University of São Paulo thinks that the Americas were colonized by at least two different populations: one from Asia that crossed the Bering Strait, and one related to Australia’s Aborigines.

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