This in-depth article about the FBI’s art crime squad includes some discussion of Iraq, but it is fascinating for what it says about the scale of art theft in general. Is 58-year-old teacher Manfred Huchthausen’s DNA really a “match” of that extracted from 3,000-year-old skeletons found in the Lichtenstein Cave “a short drive away from […]

Little new information is available about Peru’s move in U.S. District Court in Tampa to make a claim to finds from the shipwreck known as the Black Swan. Spain and Peru have yet to comment. “My adrenaline was through the roof,” says UDOT archaeologist Pam Higgins about discovery of a “pristine” 1,200-year-old Anasazi dwelling in […]