A mass grave that may hold the remains of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is being exhumed at the request of relatives of the other men who may be buried there. “This country had an appalling civil war. There are 130,000 people out there still in common graves, ditches, fields, and gullies,” said historian Ian […]

 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 […]