Ameruddin Askarzai will receive a medal from Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, for his role in protecting the Bactrian Gold from the Taliban. Askarzai, who works for the country’s central bank, also controls the key to the presidential vault at the presidential palace, where the artifacts had been hidden. “I didn’t want them to take the […]

 A rare Bronze Age cist burial has been unearthed at the site of Forteviot in Scotland, which also has a Neolithic henge and a medieval cemetery. “The real treasure of this burial is not the metal objects in it, but the organic remains. This sort of material rarely survives in Scotland and it gives us […]