Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, traveled to Baghdad to announce that his company will create a virtual copy of the collections held at Iraq’s National Museum. The images will be available to the public for free early next year, and are promised to be more extensive than the digital project funded by the Italian […]

 Few people are traveling to Taxila, Pakistan, due to the threat of Taliban bombers and gunmen. Taxila was a center of Buddhist learning between the fifth century B.C. and the second century A.D., and has been a premier archaeological attraction. “This is the worst time for archaeology. Militancy has affected it very badly. There were […]