Arts Mar 02 U.S. returns billionaire’s plundered artifacts to Jordan By Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press
Arts Dec 08 Looted Gilgamesh tablet, one of world’s oldest surviving works of literature, returns to Iraq The Gilgamesh tablet is part of a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world’s oldest works of literature, and one of the oldest religious texts. By Associated Press
World Sep 04 Out of the ashes of Brazil’s National Museum fire, fragments of hope Firefighters found bone fragments from a collection in the still-smoldering National Museum, an official said Tuesday, raising hopes that a famed skull might somehow have survived a massive blaze that turned historic and scientific artifacts to ashes. By Mauricio Savarese, Marcelo Silva de Sousa, Associated Press
World Dec 06 Amid regional instability and rising demand, a historic agreement could protect priceless cultural artifacts A new agreement lays the groundwork for the U.S. to impose import restrictions on Egyptian archaeological items to reduce the incentive to traffic antiquities. By Sandy Petrykowski
World May 17 Watch 1:03 Divers find ancient Roman shipwreck — and its treasure — off Israel’s coast By PBS NewsHour
Sep 02 Watch 7:57 Palmyra, where East met West, is symbolic target for Islamic State By PBS NewsHour Satellite images released by the U.N. confirmed the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra by Islamic State forces, part of a pattern of targeting ancient sites in Syria and Iraq. Jeffrey Brown talks to Michael Danti of Boston… Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch 4:07 Destroy, sell, hide: How Islamic State exploits antiquities By PBS NewsHour Archaeologist Khaled al-Assad was an iconic figure associated with the study of the ancient cultural site of Palmyra in Syria. In the wake of Assad’s murder at the hands of the Islamic State, Amr Al Azm of Shawnee State University… Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch 2:17 A protector of Syria’s ancient past executed by Islamic State militants By PBS NewsHour For world-renowned scholar Khaled al-Assad, the ancient site of Palmyra was his home and his life. Then the Islamic State came for him, wanting to know where valuable artifacts from the site had been hidden. The 81-year-old, who didn’t give… Continue watching
May 19 Watch 9:06 How war has robbed Syria of its history By Marcia Biggs There’s a battle being waged for Syria’s history, where four years of war have devastated cultural heritage sites and looting occurs by all sides of the conflict. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports on the flagrant destruction of relics, the big… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch Protecting ancient treasures from becoming casualties in Iraq and Syria By PBS NewsHour Northern Iraq boasts thousands of archaeological sites dating to the beginning of civilization, and they are being destroyed by the Islamic State militants. Meanwhile, more than three years of civil war in Syria has laid waste to much of the… Continue watching