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French tourist detained in Egypt over ‘4,500-year-old’ souvenir statue

The woman was held by police after buying the statuette for €250 at a luxury store

Dinosaur-era tree found, heroic baker: 5 feel-good French news stories

We try and prove it was not all bad news this week in France

Dozens of executed WW2 German soldiers possibly found in France

Excavations at the site in Corrèze are set to begin next month

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Search begins in France to find 47 executed German soldiers

The executions in June 1944 were in part retribution for German massacres elsewhere in Corrèze

Bellegarde dig shows France’s evolving approach to archaeology

The discovery of 20,000 BC artefacts highlights how the treatment of archaeological sites has changed

Works at French train station uncover Roman-era cemetery

It was found as part of a project to build a new exit at RER B station Gare de Port Royal in Paris

Metal detectorists in France reject ‘looter’ label in French crackdown

It is illegal to use a metal detector without permission from the prefecture or risk seven years in prison for pillaging heritage

French man finds bracelet of American WWII soldier in a field

The bracelet has been loaned to D-Day Experience, an immersive museum that already had some of the soldier’s possessions in its collection

Climate change threatens ancient drawings inside French cave

Archaeologists and divers are working to preserve and record the Palaeolithic paintings and engravings, as a new replica exhibition opens this week

A new Stonehenge-like site set to be built in central Brittany

‘Megalithic practices must come back to where they originated,’ the co-founder of the association behind the project told The Connexion .

Metal detecting can be a legal minefield in France

Are there any rules on using a metal detector in France? LF

Giant 3D map is being made of France using lasers

The project is aimed at preventing natural disasters and identifying areas which are potentially suitable for agriculture as well as archaeological sites

British team leads dig to recover WW2 US airmen in tiny French village

The archaeological team has been contracted by the US government to search the site on which the plane went down in 1944, killing six of the eight crew on board

First music from prehistoric French shell in 17,000 years

A prehistoric conch shell found in southwest France had been deliberately crafted into a horn-like instrument - and it still works

See Nice from the air – 409 years ago

Those who love Riviera capital Nice – and history buffs generally – may be interested to see a spectacular video by the city’s archaeology service which shows how it looked 400 years ago as if flying over it by helicopter.