In Pakistan, archaeologists announced they had discovered a city that is at least 5,500 years old, and could be 9,000 years old. A huge, stone-lined hangi pit used for cooking meat has been discovered at the site of New Zealand’s oldest building. “We have never seen one like this before on any archaeological site in […]

Iraq’s new minister of tourism and antiquities, Qahtan al-Juburi, has fired the acting head of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), Amira Edan. Edan had argued against the minister’s proposal to reopen the Iraq Museum in Baghdad to the public by mid-February. “If the museum is open, that is a message to the […]