Italian police discovered an illegal excavation near the Via Tiburtina, leading to an investigation and the recovery of some 18,000 artifacts looted from archaeological sites near Rome. No arrests have been made, but the names of five people have been turned over to prosecutors. Some of the artifacts were found while searching suspects’ homes. Their notebooks […]

The 1,600-year-old mosaic floor of a synagogue at Tiberias Archaeological Park in northern Israel has been badly damaged by vandals, who scratched part of the floor and hammered a hole in it, smashing tiles into dust. The mosaic and rock walls were also spray painted with graffiti. “It was the best of Jewish art of its […]