The head of a statue of Agrippina the Younger, Nero’s mother, has been recovered by Italian police. The terra cotta artwork was stolen more than twenty years ago from Pompeii. An art trafficker in Piacenza had reportedly tried to sell statue for a dentist. Human remains buried in twelve basalt boxes were uncovered in western Mexico […]

Eight-thousand-year-old carvings in stone have reportedly been destroyed in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains by Salafists, Muslims who strictly prohibit idolatry. The carvings depicted the sun as a divinity. “One of the carvings, called the ‘plaque of the sun,’ predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco,” said Aboubakr Anghir of the Amazigh League for Human Rights. […]