Early this morning, thieves wielding hammers broke into the Ancient Olympia Museum and stole between 60 and 70 artifacts after tying up the one employee on duty. Greece’s culture minister, Pavlous Geroulanos, has tendered his resignation over the lack of security.

An Iron Age army made up of life-sized stone warriors has been reassembled from thousands of fragments discovered on the island of Sardinia. The 2,700-year-old statues had been placed over the graves of elite individuals from the Nuragic culture, and may have been intended to represent them, or to act as their body guards.

The excavation of  “the old meetinghouse,” the first Tabernacle of the LDS church in Provo, Utah, continues. The nineteenth-century building had been torn down in 1919. “All of the descriptions you read in their journals say it was built with love, that they were also excited about building this, about having a meeting place where they could come,” said Richard Talbot of Brigham Young University.

More than 100 sets of human remains that were excavated from Niah Cave in the 1950s could be returned to Borneo. The skeletons were taken to the United States for study.

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