German court orders return of ancient vessel to Iraq

But the gold vase is still believed to be held in Germany pending an appeal.
A German court has upheld Iraqi claims over a miniature gold vessel that for the past three years has been at the centre of a tangled dispute involving a Munich auction house, German customs, the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, an archaeologist, and a museum of classical antiquities.[...]
theartnewspaper.com

Bulgaria Archaeologists Present Unique Thracian Tomb Finds

A team of Bulgarian archaeologists led by Veselin Ignatov formally presented Tuesday their finds from the tomb of an aristocrat from Ancient Thrace near the southern town of Nova Zagora.
In October and November 2009, Ignatov’s team found a burial tomb of dated back to the end of 1st century and beginning of 2nd century AD, located outside of the village of Karanovo, in southern Bulgaria.[...]
novinite.com

Historic shipwreck discovered

A warship from the 17th century has reportedly been found on the seadbed just off the north coast of Menoría. The Argo Maris Marine Foundation has informed the Heritage Department of the Council of Menorca concerning the sighting, which it believes to be the remains of a frigate or galleon.[...]
euroweeklynews.com

Valley in Jordan inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 years

You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been successively inhabited and irrigated for more than 13,000 years. But it was not just communities that built irrigation systems: the irrigation systems also built communities.[...]
physorg.com

Dominican archaeologist closes in on Cleopatra, top Egyptologist says

“That’s the mystery of the past, we’ve found doors as small as 20 by 20 centimeters which lead to great chambers,” revealed the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, regarding the search for Cleopatra’s tomb by a Dominican-Egyptian team.[...]
dominicantoday.com

Heart Disease Found in Egyptian Mummies

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, too.[...]
sciencedaily.com

The Vanished Army: Solving an Ancient Egyptian Mystery

In 525 B.C., the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination. The punitive expedition proved to be one of antiquity's most dramatic episodes of imperial overreach. One morning, while the army was having breakfast, writes the ancient historian Herodotus in The Histories, it was set upon by "a violent southern wind, bringing with it piles of sand, which buried them." The Greek continues, "Thus it was that they utterly disappeared."[...]
time.com

Pavlopetri – alte versunkene Stadt

Archäologen haben vor kurzem die Ruinen einer alten Siedlung vor der Küste Griechenlands vermessen. Sie schätzen das Alter der heute unter Wasser liegenden Stadt Pavlopetri auf 5.000 Jahre - womit es die älteste heute bekannte Stadt ihrer Art ist.[...]
epochtimes.de

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Western Egyptian Desert

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.[...]
cais-soas.com

Myths of Babylon

Whatever other mistakes were made in Iraq, it certainly didn't help the cause of peace that the U.S. and its coalition partners were routinely blamed for the destruction of Iraq's heritage—from allowing the National Museum in Baghdad to be overrun by looters, to neglect of sundry archeological sites, including the most revered ancient site of Babylon.[...]
wsj.com