An American tour guide has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of illegally selling artifacts to members of his tour group. Some historic buildings in the path of the rising Mississippi River may have been spared by the diversion of water through the Morganza Spillway. Flooding and silt from the spillway could damage rural archaeological […]

In Bulgaria, archaeologists have uncovered a temple dedicated to Demeter and her daughter Persephone near the Black Sea town of Sozopol. A church and fortress wall had been built near the site during the Byzantine period. Road workers in southwestern Turkey unearthed a 2,000-year-old tomb made up of two rooms. “We found many ceramic, porcelain […]