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 […]

Archaeologists have returned to a mass grave in Denmark that dates to the Iron Age. The site has already yielded the bones of 200 individuals thought to have been local soldiers who were killed and thrown into the peat bog. “It was the time when the Roman Empire had its greatest expansion to the north. This […]