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Members of an antiquity robbing gang were detained near Tzippori, North Israel, after a hiker spotted suspicious digging in the area of  an antiquities site.

Thanks to the research on a Jewish girl’s pendant recently found at the German death camp in Sobibór, East Poland, it was possible to establish the name of the owner, Karoline Cohn, and her potential fate.

A trove of artefacts was discovered in Boston, north-eastern USA, during excavations at Old North Church. Archaeologists have found items revealing a snapshot of English, Irish, Jewish and Italian immigrant life in the second half of 19th century.