The Slemani Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has taken the controversial position of buying back looted artifacts from smugglers. “The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don’t buy back looted objects because it encourages looting,” said Stuart Gibson of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.

Dominic Perring of University College London thinks that the hundreds of skulls unearthed in the City of London could have belonged to Queen Boudica’s rebel Iceni tribesmen. He thinks the young men may have been enslaved by the Romans and forced to build their new military base.

Using remote-sensing technologies, a team of researchers has found traces of several walls, ditches, and post pits at Ireland’s Neolithic tumulus at Knowth.

More than 20,000 Eskimo artifacts dating to 500 A.D. have been returned to Alaska from the Harvard Peabody Museum, where they have been housed since the 1950s.

Students from the University of Arizona study the variety of food remains they excavate at Montpelier, the Virginia home of James and Dolley Madison.

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