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While claims were made that harm had come to sites in Libya, such as the Leptis Magna (above), the damage was negligible.(Rob Walker/Flickr)
No discussion of the year 2011 can be complete without a reference to what's been termed Arab Spring. The political phenomenon has the potential to have an extraordinary impact on archaeology for years to come.
In Libya, a Russian journalist broadcast that thieves plundered the country's museums and NATO bombed the ancient Roman sites of Leptis Magna
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