This undated photo provided by Fitton family shows Jim Fiittin with his wife Sarijah. Geologist Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested last month at Baghdad airport after Iraqi customs officials found him and a ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Fitton family shows Jim Fiitton with his wife Sarijah. Fitton, a British national accused by Iraq of collecting small archaeological fragments will be tried ...

Pottery shards, coins, and bones can survive for millennia beneath the soil, but the scents of antiquity typically escape archaeological recovery. Now, for the first time, an interdisciplinary team of ...

Iraq’s felony court has delivered a crushing sentence in the case of Jim Fitton, a retired British geologist who was detained and arrested in March for attempting to smuggle ancient pottery shards out ...

Civilisation in Iraq dates back thousands of years but the country's rich heritage has suffered from decades of looting and war — Zaid AL-OBEIDI A Briton and a German allegedly found with ancient ...

James Fitton, a retired geologist who took the objects as souvenirs of a guided tour, is expected to be released soon. The family of retired British geologist Jim Fitton (third from left) has launched ...

Lachish park hikers found a potshard, thinking it was a prank. Archaeologists were also misled, identifying it as a “receipt,” photos show. Photo from the Israel Antiquities Authority UPDATE AND ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel acknowledged on Friday that an inscription in clay found in the country’s south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic.

Research is revealing hidden writing on nearly 2,000-year-old shards of pottery which were discovered in the Levant half a century ago. Chris Rollston from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern ...

Over 16 years, multiple people gave or sold the Met museum pottery shards that surprisingly came from the same ancient drinking cup. The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as ...