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A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artefacts ...

Yet in 2006 the Turkish government officially began work on a giant dam across the Tigris River that will lead to the drowning of an estimated 80 percent of Hasankeyf and the displacement of its ...

Cyprus is showcasing Christian artworks that were recovered after being stolen from churches in the Turkish-occupied north of ...

Today, the antiquities department is primarily responsible ... Since 1974, the village has been primarily inhabited by Turkish Cypriots from the Larnaca district village of Tochni.

CNN's Jim Bittermann reports historians claim U.S. troops could have done more to protect Iraqi museums. PARIS, France (CNN) --A panel of antiquities experts said Thursday it suspected some of the ...