In Egypt, armed robbers broke into the antiquities warehouse at the site of Tel El-Dabaa. Archaeologists are taking an inventory in order to determine exactly what was stolen.  Scholars weigh in on the lead codices said to have been created in Jordan during the early decades of Christianity. “This is not going to pass the smell […]

A new study of a 3,500-year-old clay tablet unearthed in Greece determined that its marks are the oldest-known decipherable text in Europe. The tablet was found in a trash heap near an early Mycenaean palace. A US federal appeals court has ruled that Persian artifacts from Iran that were targeted in a lawsuit in 2004 […]