WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (TNSFR) -- The California State University Stanislaus campus and East Bay Municipal Utility District are preparing to repatriate 204 objects of cultural patrimony. The items have been determined to have a cultural connection to the Miwok Tribe and the Ione Band. These cultural items were removed in 1993 from a site in Calaveras County. The collection includes lithic flakes, shatters, a scraper, quartz minerals and soil samples. The items were removed from a site known as CA  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Harvard Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Administrative Director Bahadir Yildirim submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of State Cultural Property Advisory Committee in support of renewing a bilateral agreement with Turkiye. The agreement is designed to protect the cultural heritage of Turkiye from illegal importation into the United States. The letter stated the archaeologist has been conducting fieldwork in Turkiye since 1993 and has an understa  more

LONDON, England, Sept. 10 (TNSjou) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news: * * * 'Rogue' DNA rings reveal earliest clues to deadly brain cancer's growth An international team of scientists has revealed how rogue rings of DNA that float outside of our chromosomes - known as extrachromosomal DNA, or ecDNA - can drive the growth of a large proportion of glioblastomas, the most common and aggressive adult brain cancer. * The discovery could open the door to much-needed new  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- University of Illinois Chicago Art History Professor Peri Johnson submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of State Cultural Property Advisory Committee regarding the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Turkiye. The professor, who has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Turkiye for decades, expressed unconditional support for the MOU's renewal but called for changes to one of its articles. The letter stated that Article I of the MOU h  more