The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a 2,700-year-old clay seal bearing the name of Bethlehem in a Hebrew script that dates to the First Temple period. The seal, or fiscal bulla, was found near Jerusalem’s Old City walls and had probably been placed on shipment of goods sent from Bethlehem. It is said […]

Police in Italy have seized more than 16,000 artifacts and ten metal detectors while investigating 70 people for trading looted objects on eBay. Most of the artifacts came from the Calabria region of southern Italy and had been sold to private collectors. A shipwreck discovered in 2003 in the Solent, the strait separating the Isle of […]