Polish authorities have ended a Russian archaeologist's European lecture tour with a stop in jail. Authorities in Warsaw say ...

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

Elizabeth M. Greene and collaborators are investigating the Roman Empire’s leather economy thanks to $2.4M CDN in grant funding.

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

The discovery is the only known early Christian-era example of its kind outside Italy, revealing an ancient past when ...

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum returns four ancient Thai bronzes to Thailand, ending their possession since the 1960s.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has returned 41 ancient polychrome terracotta reliefs to their original home in Düver ...

Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...