A metal artifact that may have been a war shield has reportedly been found at what is believed to be an Inca citadel in northern Peru. Rangers at the Cordillera de Colan Reserved Zone in Amazonas made the discovery while on patrol. Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the mass graves of Japanese soldiers recently unearthed […]

Turkey’s Roman city of Allianoi has been completely buried with sand and will soon be submerged by waters from a new dam. “The method is obsolete and it will destroy, rather than protect, the ancient site,” said Ilker Ertugrul of the Istanbul Chamber of Architects. The excavation of one of the few colonial-era steel mills […]