Iraqi extremist groups are receiving funding from the trafficking of looted antiquities, according to an investigation by Marine Reserve Col. Matthew Bogdanos, who is also a New York assistant district attorney. But Antonia Kimbell, an art trade manager at The Art Loss Register, says “We haven’t come across a direct link.” A red sandstone sculpture […]

Archaeologist Daniel Pullen of Florida State University has discovered a well-preserved, partially submerged, Mycenaean harbor town. There is little farmland near the site, and its 900 walls are aligned on a grid, suggesting that the settlement was a naval or military base. Anthropologist Tim Weaver of the University of California, Davis, says that the differences […]