Digging up the Past
In June 1964, a group of fishermen off the northern Adriatic coast pulled a dull gray mass, shaped like a man, covered in barnacles, out of the water. It was the statue now known as Victorious Youth, believed to be the work of Lysippus-Alexander the Great's personal sculptor.
Michael H. Miller, The New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2010/digging-past
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Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over heaps of limestone blocks hammered into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis more than 1,600 years ago.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37338772/
Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside.
Associated Press, CAIRO
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AMERICAN COUNCIL OF CULTURAL PROPERTY: Who Owns the Past: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law
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Cultural catastrophe: ancient tepes plowed in Susa
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/3/2005&Cat=10&Num=2