Vandals destroyed a field school excavation by Southern Illinois University students and stole equipment from a large, locked storage box at the site.

British army officer cadets will fire replicas of eighteenth-century weapons in order to assess their range and other capabilities. Scholars from Glasgow University will use the information to study the Battle of Culloden, fought between government and Jacobite forces in 1746.

The Tullie House museum in Cumbria, England, will open a new Roman gallery next week, without the Crosby Garret helmet. The bronze helmet, discovered by a metal detectorist, was auctioned off to an anonymous bidder. “I have written repeatedly through the auction house requesting if not a loan, at least to be able to take measurements so we could create a replica, but we have heard nothing. We still have absolutely no idea who bought it,” said Hilary Wade, director of the museum.

An investigation into the death of archaeologist Mario Bergeron at a site in Old Montreal has led to citations for his archaeological company, and the construction and engineering firms working on the project.

There’s more information on the threat to archaeological sites from the wildfire in eastern Arizona at National Geographic News.

This video at BBC News shows some of the hundreds of Inca tombs that are being recorded in the difficult terrain of Peru’s Andes Mountains.

DNA analysis of a shrunken head in the collections at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv shows that it probably belonged to an Afro-Ecuadorian man. Scientists think he was killed during battle sometime between 1600 and 1898.

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