The Slemani Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has taken the controversial position of buying back looted artifacts from smugglers. “The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don’t buy back looted objects because it encourages looting,” said Stuart Gibson of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project. Dominic Perring of […]

At the core of Mexico’s Pyramid of the Sun, archaeologists have found what could be the original foundation dedicatory cache, in addition to seven human burials. The cache contained a green serpentine stone mask, ceremonial pots, and the bones of an eagle and other animals. The Tehran Times reports that ancient coins smuggled out of […]