Reports from Karachi suggest that some of the Gandhara antiquities and fakes seized last month have been stolen from the police station where they were being held. Mohammad Shah Bokhari, director of Pakistan’s National Musuem, documented some 330 artifacts, but now the count is 308. “It is untrue that artifacts have been stolen [from the police […]

A joint Guatemalan and American team of archaeologists has discovered a 1,600-year-old temple decorated with massive stucco masks depicting the phases of the sun as it moves across the sky. The temple rests beneath a pyramid at the Maya site of El Zotz, and was dedicated to Pa’Chan, the founder of the city’s first dynasty, who […]