Inscribed copper plates and bronze statues dating to the eleventh or twelfth century A.D. were unearthed from a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu, a state on the southern tip of India. R. Nagaswamy, former director of the state department of archaeology, called them a “fantastic discovery and the find of the century.” Al-Ahram Weekly offers […]

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced that discovery of a 2,000-year-old incense altar at an ancient cemetery site in Ashkelon. Protesters claim the graves are Jewish and should not be moved to make way for a hospital emergency room, but the archaeologists say that the site is pagan. Erosion threatens archaeological sites along Alaska’s Arctic […]