Dutch Archaeologist Arrested After Secret Dig for Musketeer's Remains

In the Netherlands, a Dutch archaeologist named Wim Dijkman was arrested after secretly excavating inside a church without authorization, believing he had uncovered the bones of a seventeenth-century musketeer. His arrest places him at the intersection of two ancient human impulses — the hunger to recover lost history and the need for institutions to protect what the past leaves behind. Whether his discovery is genuine or not, the method of its making has cast a long shadow over any truth it might contain.