In Myanmar, construction of a railroad has damaged the ancient stone pagodas, stupas, walls, libraries, moats, and city walls at Mrauk U, which was once a trade hub and religious center, and is now an open-air museum and tourist destination. Egypt’s Al-Ahly Bank has handed over more than 200 artifacts that had gone unclaimed in […]

A storeroom in the Sutton Hoo Visitors Center has yielded a couple of cardboard boxes packed with more than 400 amateur photographs taken during the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939. “We assume that whoever received the boxes didn’t know what was in them and they were just put away in a […]