GENEVA, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - It's not quite 'One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing', let alone 'Jurassic Park', but Swiss archeologists were in a state of high anxiety Friday after thieves stole traces of a dinosaur footprint from an excavation site.

The footprint, left by a three-tonne Allosaurus dinosaur around 152 million years ago, is about 40 centimetres wide by 70 centimetres long, said Wolfgang Hug, chief archeologist at the dig site in Courtedoux, Jura in northwestern Switzerland.

COPENHAGEN, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - One of Denmark's national treasures, a set of two horns made in the 1800s, was recovered by police Tuesday after being stolen in the early hours of Monday, local television station TV2Syd reported.

Police inspector Steen Edeling told the station in the central town of Vejle that the horns had been found. He did not give any details, but a press conference was to be held in Vejle at 0800 GMT Wednesday.

COPENHAGEN, Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) - One of Denmark's national treasures, a set of two horns made in the 1800s, was stolen in the early hours of Monday, Danish police said.

Called 'Guldhornene' in Danish, or the Golden Horns, the pieces are silver replicas of two original gold horns made in 400 A.D. which were stolen in 1802 and destroyed.

The replicas, with a thin gold coating, were on loan from the National Museum of Denmark for an exhibit in Jelling, near the central Danish town of Vejle, when they were stolen by thieves who smashed a display case.

NEW YORK, Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) - Yale University is to return to Peru thousands of artifacts taken from the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by a real-life Indiana Jones nearly 100 years ago, the top US university said.

Archaeologist Hiram Bingham, a Yale history professor, stumbled across the Machu Picchu ruins while exploring the Peruvian Andes in 1911, rediscovering an ancient city first built in the 1500s but long-since abandoned.

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept 1, 2007 (AFP) - Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, took on a new role as international tourist when she went on public display this week for the first time outside Ethiopia since her discovery in 1974.

Lucy is no longer the oldest-known member of the human family tree, but dating back 3.2 million years and with 40 percent of her skeleton recovered, she is the oldest, most complete specimen of an early human species.

ORESHETZ, Bulgaria, Aug 22, 2007 (AFP) - Could the Balkans, rather than previously accepted areas such as the Strait of Gibralter, have been the entry point for the first men in Europe?

A team of 20 Bulgarian and French archeologists are trying to prove this theory after 11 years of excavation and research in the Kozarnika cave in northwestern Bulgaria.

The digging up at this mountainous site of traces of human activity dating back 1.4 to 1.6 million years throws into question theories about when and where man first set foot in Europe.

THESSALONIKI, Greece, July 23, 2007 (AFP) - A group of paleontologists have discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, or large mammoth-like mammal, that lived some three million years ago, the head of the team told AFP Monday.

The Greek paleontologists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, along with Dutch specialists from the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, discovered the remains in the northern Milia region near Grevena.