Greece sues for Mycenaean gold

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Michael Ward of the Michael Ward Gallery, New York, New York, is being sued by the government of Greece for return of a collection of Mycenaean gold jewelry. The items in the collection, acquired from a European collector, have never before been published or publicly exhibited and were unknown to scholars. Some specialists believe the jewelry came from Aidonia in Greece and must have been illegally exported. However, Ward points out that many Mycenaean objects have been found outside Greece, and that the government did not respond to an earlier inquiry about the objects' provenance.

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Queen of the novel

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Eminent scholar and best-selling author, Barbara Mertz has written many of the best selling mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody, set in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century and at the opening decades of the twentieth. She describes her career, current undertakings and the state of Egyptology.

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Fallen heroes; Bones of Pericles' soldiers come to New York for analysis

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Excavations conducted in 1997 in downtown Athens which found bones of as many as 250 people now at a forensic laboratory of New York's Adelphi University are described. The initial dating of the pottery found there suggests 430 BC, the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.

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