Police in Bangladesh found a 1,000-year-old statue left by a smuggler on the side of a road.

While in Italy, police announced that last year they seized 1,000 artifacts at a country home outside Rome. All of the objects had been stolen from one of Trajan’s villas, and had been incorporated into the modern home.  

Here’s another article on Rome’s subway project.  

Brian Rose of the University of Pennsylvania, and president of the Archaeological Institute of America, held a roundtable discussion with Donny George, former director general of the National Museum of Iraq; Cori Wegener, an associate curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and a major in the U.S. Army Reserve; and Micah Garen, a filmmaker and journalist who has documented the looting of Iraqi archaeological sites, for Salon. What is the state of Iraq’s archaeological heritage, five years into the war?  

Zahi Hawass says that Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities will pull 70 artifacts loaned to the Pierre Gianadda Foundation for an exhibition titled “Gifts of the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples,” if photographs “undermining Egypt and its civilization” are not removed from the show.

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