An unnamed Jaipur artifact dealer has been dubbed “India’s Medici,” suggesting that he has been selling so-called “toxic antiquities” on the world market. Experts expect that more stolen objects will be identified during the Indian investigation known as “Operation Blackhole.”

A sixth-century sculpture of the Hindu goddess Gajalakshmi was unearthed in Kashmir. The goddess, seated on a lotus throne between two lions, was carved in the Gandhara style.  

Hunter-gatherers and early farmers lived side-by-side in Europe, according to Joachim Burger, a molecular archaeologist at the University of Mainz. The farmers may have come from as far away as Anatolia and the Near East.   

An 11,000-year-old fluted point was unearthed beneath a rock overhang in eastern Ohio.  

Ohio’s Shawnee Lookout Park could be the home to the largest continuously occupied hilltop Native American site in the U. S. Carbon-dates for earthwork building materials suggest that the Shawnee people built earthworks, just as the Hopewell people did 2,000 years ago.  

Pilgrims will walk the 70 miles from Chillicothe to the Newark Earthworks on the Great Hopewell Road whenever possible.  

Archaeological discoveries have been made in the path of the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail in Indiana. “This is a historic preservation district we’re in, so we want to preserve it,” explained Cheryl Ann Munson of Indiana University.  

A mass grave at the site of a former tobacco factory in Alicante, Spain, may hold the remains of early nineteenth-century yellow fever victims.

Blood-stained obsidian and flint blades from the top of a Maya pyramid at El Mirador may mark a final battle between its ruling family and invaders from Teotihuacan, according to Richard Hansen of Idaho State University. He says that crude graffiti was also left by the Teotihuacan warriors.

New dates for stone tools from Spain suggest that human ancestors fashioned double-edged hand axes 900,000 years ago. It had been thought that the oldest tools in Europe were made between 500,000 and 200,000 years ago.  

Relics of medieval Christian saints have been uncovered at two churches in Bulgaria.  

A cemetery dating to the late nineteenth century was discovered in Suffolk, Virginia, during a construction project. “It’s very likely that they may have been part of the working class tenants who lived in the area or tenants who worked on the farm in the late 19^th, early 20^th century,” said Tom Higgins of the James River Institute for Archaeology.  

An Australian Army Recovery Team has determined that skeletons and World War II-era artifacts found in Papua New Guinea belonged to Indian soldiers held as prisoners of war by Japanese forces. Certain items from sewing kits found at the site were used exclusively by the Indian Army.  

Last year, a special police unit was established in Sri Lanka to protect its archaeological sites. The department has recorded more than 350 incidents of damage and theft, and has collected fines from the offenders.   

Learn about Istanbul’s Greek heritage at Today’s Zaman.  

Archaeologists will continue to work for a few more weeks at the Links of Noltland, where they have already uncovered the earliest representation of a human face and body ever found in Scotland, and a Neolithic farm house constructed with a line of cattle skulls in one of its walls.