More than 800 artifacts stolen during Afghanistan’s years of civil war in the 1990s have been returned to the Kabul Museum. Many of the artifacts were seized by airport police in London. One was recovered in Japan. British soldiers who had been injured in Afghanistan participated in a rehabilitation program known as Operation Nightingale, in […]

Traces of chocolate have been found for the first time on a 2,500-year-old plate at the Paso del Macho site in Mexico. “This indicates that the pre-Hispanic Maya may have eaten foods with cacao sauce, similar to mole,” according to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. It had been thought that […]