The restoration of the Roman Colosseum is set to begin in March. The controversial project will be paid for with private funds, in exchange for advertising rights. “You can do wonderful restoration works but you haven’t yet tackled the things that will continue to cause damage and this is an issue at the level of the urban management of the city,” added Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General of Europa Nostra.

UNESCO will assist with the preservation and protection of Roman sites in Tunisia.

Here’s more information on the origins of Stonehenge’s bluestones. “We need archaeologists. If they can show the rocks were quarried, that would suggest those rocks were transported by man,” said geologist Robert Ixer of the University of Leicester.

Last month, a man walked into Tennessee’s Battles for Chattanooga Museum an hour before closing time and stole Civil War belt buckles and other artifacts from a display case. “He knew what he was doing. He was smart enough to smudge his prints on the glass afterwards,” said Lookout Mountain Police Chief Randall Bowden.

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