Police in Italy have seized more than 16,000 artifacts and ten metal detectors while investigating 70 people for trading looted objects on eBay. Most of the artifacts came from the Calabria region of southern Italy and had been sold to private collectors. A shipwreck discovered in 2003 in the Solent, the strait separating the Isle of […]

While cleaning a ceramic vessel excavated from a Canaanite residential area of Israel’s Tel Megiddo, researchers found that it contained a collection of jewelry wrapped in textiles. The jewelry dates to the eleventh century B.C., is Egyptian in style, and includes a ring, earrings, and beads made from carnelian. One of the earrings, which is […]