Zahi Hawass has been renamed minister of Egyptian antiquities, according to the official MENA news agency.  You can read about what he’s been up to since he resigned from the post earlier this month at his site, http://www.drhawass.com/.  A team from Cardiff University is reexamining the Egyptian tunnels known as The Dog Catacombs. As many […]

Gian Mario Spacca, president of the Italian region of Le Marche, met with officials from California’s Getty Museum and offered an agreement to share a disputed bronze statue. The “Victorious Youth” was recovered by Italian fisherman in 1964, and purchased by the Getty Museum in 1977. Last year, an Italian court ordered that the statue […]