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.

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