UNESCO has urged all sides to preserve Libya’s cultural heritage, including the archaeological sites of Leptis Magna, Sabratha, and Cyrene.   There’s no new information in this story from NPR, but you can listen to Tarek al-Awadi, director of the Egyptian Museum, and deputy director Mahmoud el Halwagi, talk about what happened in Cairo in January […]

High-resolution scans of the face of an Egyptian mummy thought to be Queen Tiye, King Tut’s grandmother, suggest that she had a wart or other small growth on her forehead, right between her eyes.  Scientists at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in South Carolina are ready to set the H.L. Hunley upright. Once it has […]