Garden makeover programmes are being blamed for an increase in the theft of ancient artefacts from Dartmoor.
Electronic tags are being used to help protect valuable stone crosses and troughs in the area.
Officials from the Dartmoor National Park Authority say the popularity of TV garden series could be triggering more thefts.
New security measures follow a recent attempt to remove a granite cross.
And in related (old) news Farmer builds own burial chamber
A Devon farmer has realised his dream by building a Bronze Age burial chamber on his land.
Gavin Dollard transported four huge pieces of granite from Dartmoor to his estate near Ivybridge to carry out the construction.
It is thought to be the first time in 2,000 years that a cromlech - defined as a prehistoric monument made of stones and thought to be a burial tomb - has been built in the UK.
News from Egypt Reopening, restoring Kalabsha Island temples
The temples of Kalabsha Island in Aswan will be opened next month for visitors following a comprehensive restoration that covered the archaeological site.
The temples and chapels on the island bad not been restored since their transfer under the UNESCO campaign to rescue monuments from drowning in Lake Nasser.
The Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said that the island is considered an open museum for monuments of different ages.
Teens discover monk's remains
A GROUP of teenagers have unearthed the remains of an ancient monk after spending their Easter holidays working on an archaeological dig.
Seven youngsters, aged 13 to 19, from the CYDS project have been hard at work on the dig at Leiston Abbey for the past fortnight.
And this week their efforts have been rewarded with the discovery of a skeleton thought to date back as far as the 13th century.
Warrior's grave points to Druid site
THE discovery of the body of a warrior - thought to have died in battle more than 2,000 years ago - could help archaeologists to pinpoint the site of an ancient Druid holy site, experts said yesterday.
The young warrior, aged about 30, with his spear, a sword, his belt and scabbard, stunned archaeologists who found his stone coffin.
The discovery on Marshill, Alloa, last year was hailed as one of the most significant Iron Age finds for decades in Scotland.
Titanic news Discoverer of Titanic to return for study
Nineteen years after discovering the Titanic, underwater explorer Robert Ballard announced yesterday that he's returning to the luxury liner to document its deterioration and to push for international backing to preserve it and other shipwrecks as permanent memorials.
The goal of the $1 million expedition, set to begin May 30, is to confirm reports that the Titanic is deteriorating more rapidly than previously thought from natural causes and from damage done by scores of dives to the ship.
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited the Titanic in June and reported that the ship was quickly degrading at its grave 2 1/2 miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
Shell beads from South African cave show modern human behavior 75,000 years ago
Perforated shells found at South Africa's Blombos Cave appear to have been strung as beads about 75,000 years ago-making them 30,000 years older than any previously identified personal ornaments. Archaeologists excavating the site on the on the coast of the Indian Ocean discovered 41 shells, all with holes and wear marks in similar positions, in a layer of sediment deposited during the Middle Stone Age (MSA).
"The Blombos Cave beads present absolute evidence for perhaps the earliest storage of information outside the human brain," says Christopher Henshilwood, program director of the Blombos Cave Project and professor at the Centre for Development Studies of the University of Bergen in Norway.