artifacts

LONDON—Two British museums are returning looted gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement as U.K. institutions face increasing demands to hand over treasures acquired at a ...

A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today, one ...

According to our conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for ...

A museum on Grand Bahama is showcasing treasured artifacts retrieved from a 17th-century Spanish shipwreck in a first-ever, ...

The United States returned 30 stolen artifacts to Cambodia on Monday after more than five years of investigation ...

A London museum agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century ...

CANTON, Mass.—Artifacts once owned by Paul Revere's family are up for auction. The items were found in the ...

BAGHDAD—Ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 were put on display ...

BAGHDAD—The United States is returning more than 17,000 ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dredged up what is believed to be pre-Civil War artifacts from ...

OTTAWA—Many of the country's priceless historical artifacts—and millions of other assorted bits—will be getting a new home just ...

The Italian government aims to crack down on the theft and trafficking of historical artifacts as it seeks ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—A massive fire tore through a 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro late Sunday, lighting up ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority has recently announced the recovery of several rare objects including a grenade estimated to ...

In February last year, a family of rabbits won some favor amongst archaeologists in England when they dug ...

Some languages have nothing in common with other known languages, their origins shrouded in mystery. Some of these ...

Vikings were some of the most capable navigators of yore, with far-flung expeditions and tales that continue to ...

Amid the once-tranquil village of Sanxingdui, in a quiet part of Sichuan province in China, a remarkable discovery ...

Shortly after the onset of the Egyptian revolution in January 2011, the police and many of the associated ...

In the early 1970s a battered copper alms dish turned up in a bundle of clothes donated to ...

When Alexey Corwin-Piotrowski, the scientific secretary of the Ukrainian Institute of Archaeology–National Academy of Sciences, saw forged artifacts ...

Thirty-six ceramic artifacts have been discovered in Croatia, Eastern Europe, dating back to the last ice age, between ...

A buckle-like object discovered in an ancient Eskimo dwelling is the first known prehistoric cast bronze artifact to ...