National Geographic Daily News has a selection of photographs taken in the aftermath of the fire at Cairo’s nineteenth-century Institut d’Egypte. “It wasn’t very comfortable, because there was no air conditioning, and the projection facilities weren’t ideal. But just to be there – it was really hallowed ground,” commented Willeke Wendrich of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Navajo Nation has filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service for the return of human remains and funerary objects removed from Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly. The land is tribally owned, but the Park Service is in charge of preserving it. “We all want to have the remains repatriated, that’s what all the tribes and the Park Service have all stated. That is our goal. I guess the disagreement is in the process to get there,” said Tom Clark, Superintendent of Canyon de Chelly.

A Byzantine-era bathhouse has been unearthed in Israel.

Sixth graders from Delaware’s Milford Middle School won an archaeology essay contest and were awarded the prize of assisting in the excavation of a colonial-era farmstead.

More than 450 people are expected to process from Stonehenge to Amesbury this evening. “In daylight you can do it in an hour – in the dark it may take up to two hours but it’s proving extremely popular and we’ve even got a stilt-walker signed up,” said Andy Rhind-Tutt, mayor of Amesbury.

Violence in Cairo set fire to the Institute d’Egypte, a research center founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in the late eighteenth century. The institute housed more than 190,000 books, including handwritten descriptions of Egypt’s monuments by French scholars. Volunteers are sifting through the debris, looking for items that can be saved. “The burning of such a rich building means a large part of Egyptian history has ended,” said the director, Mohammed Al-Sharbouni.

Four men were arrested in southeastern Bulgaria for looting a Thracian burial mound. They had entered Bulgaria from Greece in order to dig.

Dog domestication occurred without significant human intervention, and probably happened in different times and places around the world, according to evolutionary biologist Susan Crockford. She was part of the team that examined a 33,000-year-old canine skull discovered in Siberia’s Altai Mountains.

Modern European and American dogs are descended from dogs imported from Southeast Asia, according to a new study of DNA conducted by an international team of scientists. The dogs probably traveled west along ancient silk trade routes.

Archaeologist Maja Djordjevic led an excavation of an Iron Age site in southern Serbia, but found that it had been heavily damaged by torrential rains and intensive agriculture. The team did uncover pottery and traces of a Roman villa.

Archaeologist Alice Gorman specializes in space archaeology. “I’m actually looking at rockets and planetary landing sites and orbital debris,” she explained.