{"id":89913,"date":"2026-03-02T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/4000-year-old-36-swords-seized-at-a-us-port-in-philadelphia-in-a-bizarre-smuggling-case\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:00:15","slug":"4000-year-old-36-swords-seized-at-a-us-port-in-philadelphia-in-a-bizarre-smuggling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/4000-year-old-36-swords-seized-at-a-us-port-in-philadelphia-in-a-bizarre-smuggling-case\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000-year-old 36 swords seized at a US port in Philadelphia in a bizarre smuggling case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128931310,width-1280,height-720,imgsize-1236722,resizemode-6,overlay-toi_sw,pt-32,y_pad-600\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"4,000-year-old 36 swords seized at a US port in Philadelphia in a bizarre smuggling case\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">4,000-year-old 36 swords seized at a US port in Philadelphia in a bizarre smuggling case<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">US Customs and Border Protection seized 36 Bronze Age short swords and 50 arrowheads, nearly 4,000 years old, at the Port of Philadelphia. The ancient Iranian artifacts were misdeclared as &#039;metal decorations&#039; and routed through multiple countries, likely destined for the illicit antiquities market. Archaeologists confirmed their authenticity and cultural heritage value.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/4000-year-old-36-swords-seized-at-a-us-port-in-philadelphia-in-a-bizarre-smuggling-case\/articleshow\/128931238.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts 4,000-year-old 36 swords seized at a US port in Philadelphia in a bizarre smuggling case US<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":89914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}