Police have recovered a sixth-century B.C. statue hidden in a goat pen near Athens. The four-foot tall statue depicts a young woman of the kore type, with elaborately braided hair and an ankle-length gown. Her extended left arm is broken. Two men have been arrested, and detectives are trying to determine where the statue was originally found.

Police recovered two first-century bronze statues in Jaén, Spain. The male figures are thought to have been taken from the Roman site of Sacilis Marcialis, and to be part of a larger sculpture. The suspected antiquities smugglers have been arrested, but agents from Interpol are still looking for the proposed buyer.

Archaeologist Carol Redmount of the University of California talks about the looting that has taken place at the Egyptian site of El-Hibeh with Marco Werman at Public Radio International. She has launched a Facebook campaign to raise awareness about looting in Egypt and to try to gain some security measures for El-Hibeh.

Lebanon has handed over 78 Sumerian artifacts to Iraq that had been seized by border guards.

Turkey has claimed a Roman sarcophagus discovered by customs officials during a check of a free port area in Geneva. Turkish officials say the second-century B.C. sarcophagus was looted from Antalya.

A box of bone fragments, the remains of eighteenth-century British soldiers killed at Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War, will be returned to New York by Waterloo University. The bones had been excavated in the 1950s. Most of the excavated bones were reburied in a ceremony in 1993.

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