Customs authorities in New York City confiscated two red ceramic vases smuggled out of Italy. In Iran, part of a mound that may have covered a Sassanid city was destroyed by bulldozers. Earlier this year, officials from the Khuzestan Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Department visited the mound and wanted to register it on the […]

 Sgt. Ronald Peters, a geospatial analyst with Multi-National Corps-Iraq C-7, is creating new maps of 800 of Iraq’s archaeological sites. CT scans of skull fragments unearthed at the royal cemetery at Ur show that the palace attendants had died when a sharp instrument had been driven into their heads. It had been thought that the […]