Two men arrested in Pakistan for carrying hundreds of looted Buddhist artifacts in a truck told police where to find additional artifacts stored in a warehouse in Karachi. All of the Gandhara objects have been handed over to archaeologists to be unpacked and recorded. “We are handling [the relics] with care since pieces were broken during […]

Officials in Pakistan have seized dozens of artifacts that were plundered from the “Taliban-infested” northwestern section of the country. The police found the 2,000-year-old Gandhara statues, bronzes, and plaques mixed in with plastic and wooden objects while searching a flat-bed truck in Karachi. An investigation is underway, but Qasim Ali Qasim, director of the Sindh province […]