Archaeologist Richard Pettigrew speaks out against the upcoming auction of artifacts from the Titanic. “I don’t think the site has been treated properly. It hasn’t been treated scientifically, or with the kind of respect that it should be treated with, and that’s why I’m objecting to it,” he said.

Two men have been arrested in Indiana and charged with plundering private property for American Indian artifacts.

A California man has pleaded guilty to possession of seven American Indian baskets stolen from the Blue Lake Museum.

Heather Burke of Flinders University thinks she has found the location of Mary MacKilop’s first school. MacKilop is Australia’s first Roman Catholic saint. She set up a school in a stable in 1866.

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