The plaintiffs were injured in a 1997 attack by Hamas in Jerusalem and received a federal court ruling that the government of Iran, as a funder of Hamas, was liable for their injuries. In 2003, plaintiffs won a $71 million default judgment against Iran (which refused to participate in the case), and they tried to […]
Illegal digs by metal detectorists have caused damage in the Roman town of Corbridge, Northumberland.
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An Iraqi archaeologist braved ISIS snipers and booby-trapped ruins to rescue cultural treasures in the city and nearby legendary Nineveh and Nimrud.
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A feature on Sara Parcak’s platform for detecting archaeological looting from space.
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Dhi Qar province created the force but there are questions as to if it is properly provisioned for the task.
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Accused of looting a Roman shipwreck at Limeni.
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The headlines got ahead of the actual news in this case, but here’s what the archaeologists did find: the site of an ancient city on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee that they believe was Bethsaida, named in the Gospel of John as the hometown of …
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120,000-year old-elephant tooth stolen from Buckfastleigh cave system.
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Alleging inaccurately that those scholars who are upset about the Greens buying looted antiquities are so because they are Evangelical Christians.
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Judge says that neither Christie’s nor the bidder presented anything that showed that their privacy could not be maintained via a protective order.
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