National Geographic Daily News has a selection of photographs taken in the aftermath of the fire at Cairo’s nineteenth-century Institut d’Egypte. “It wasn’t very comfortable, because there was no air conditioning, and the projection facilities weren’t ideal. But just to be there – it was really hallowed ground,” commented Willeke Wendrich of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Navajo Nation has filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service for the return of human remains and funerary objects removed from Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly. The land is tribally owned, but the Park Service is in charge of preserving it. “We all want to have the remains repatriated, that’s what all the tribes and the Park Service have all stated. That is our goal. I guess the disagreement is in the process to get there,” said Tom Clark, Superintendent of Canyon de Chelly.

A Byzantine-era bathhouse has been unearthed in Israel.

Sixth graders from Delaware’s Milford Middle School won an archaeology essay contest and were awarded the prize of assisting in the excavation of a colonial-era farmstead.

More than 450 people are expected to process from Stonehenge to Amesbury this evening. “In daylight you can do it in an hour – in the dark it may take up to two hours but it’s proving extremely popular and we’ve even got a stilt-walker signed up,” said Andy Rhind-Tutt, mayor of Amesbury.

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