German authorities returned a 4,500-year-old ax head recovered from an antiques dealer to Iraq this week. An international team of scientists has met near the Ngorongoro crater to witness the excavation of the 3.6 million-year-old footprints discovered in the Laetoli riverbed in the 1970s. “After that the experts may decide on the best way they […]

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has agreed to return eight objects to the T’akdeintaan Clan, Snail House, in Hoonah, Alaska. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee decided that the objects belong to the clan, which will pursue the return of 42 additional artifacts.  NPR has more on the […]