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Two stolen ancient artifacts are being returned to Italy from New York City.
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the antiquities trafficking conviction of an Italian art dealer whose case led Italy to launch a global search for looted ancient artifacts.
The Dutch government turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador on Thursday and urged other countries to clamp down on the illicit trade of artifacts.
Italian officials on Thursday unveiled 14 artifacts spanning from antiquity to the Middle Ages that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently returned by The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Thousands of Italian artifacts — including a handwritten document by Benito Mussolini and antiquities dating to 900 B.C. — were found in the home of a late collectibles dealer, the FBI announced Monday.
Italian cultural authorities said Tuesday they had recovered two precious Byzantine-era frescos ripped from a church in southern Italy by looters 27 years ago that ended up at the home of a shipping heiress on a remote Greek island.
Egypt will soon file an official request with U.S. authorities to return a 3,000-year-old wooden coffin illegally smuggled out of the country more than a century ago, the country's top archaeologist said Sunday.
Egyptian officials says archaeologists have found ancient golden jewelry in a pharaonic-era tomb that belonged to a senior official under Egypt's most powerful queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities says five golden earrings and two rings were found in the tomb of Gahouti, the head of the treasury under Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago.
Greek police arrested a veterinarian with more than 2,000 illegally excavated antiquities, including a small clay statue from pre-Columbian America, officials said Friday.
Egypt's antiquities chief unveiled Sunday a bronze statue of what he described as an ancient Mesopotamian goddess that had been looted from Iraq.
Dozens of ancient artifacts stolen by a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot were returned to the Egyptian government on Wednesday during a ceremony in Manhattan.
A new exhibit of Greek and Roman antiquities at Berlin's Pergamon museum puts 170 sculptures, vases and other works on display in Germany for the first time in six decades.
The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed Wednesday to return 14 ancient treasures ranging from Etruscan jewelry to a Medieval cross that authorities say were looted or stolen from Italy.
Switzerland is returning 4,400 ancient artifacts stolen from archaeological sites in Italy, including ceramics, figurines and bronze daggers dating as far back as 2,000 B.C., prosecutors said Thursday.
Police in northern Greece say they have arrested two men, including a museum employee, for allegedly trying to sell dozens of illegally excavated antiquities.
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica — a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.
Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.
Authorities have seized dozens of stolen ancient artifacts after raiding the homes of two suspected antiquities smugglers in southern Macedonia.
Hungary has offered to return a collection of antiquities on display in a leading Budapest museum that were illegally exported from Greece, the Hungarian foreign minister said Thursday.
Italy's Culture Ministry says France has handed over 50 pieces of pottery dating back to as far as the fourth century B.C. that were looted from southern Italy.
Jordan turned over Sunday nearly 2,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts to Iraq's top antiquities official, in the latest effort to recover the war-torn nation's stolen heritage.
Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said Friday.
Taoist Master Dan Jia picks through the wreckage of the 1,500-year-old Erwangmiao Temple, piling books in a stack and dusting off altarpieces.
The smuggling of stolen antiquities from Iraq's rich cultural heritage is helping finance Iraqi extremist groups, says the U.S. investigator who led the initial probe into the looting of Baghdad's National Museum.
An Army helicopter pilot faces charges of selling stolen Egyptian antiquities dating to 3000 B.C., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Zola's Roman relic sells for $1.6mA Roman sarcophagus panel that once belonged to French writer Emile Zola has sold for well over its estimated value, going for $US1.5 million ($1.63 million), auction house Sotheby's said.
BBC News - Google to digitise artefacts at Iraq National MuseumThe internet search giant, Google, says 14,000 images of the precious artefacts kept in Iraq's National Museum will be available online from early next year. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said the world should see Iraq's rich heritage and contribution to culture.
Looted in the 90s. Recovered in 2004. Now Afghan treasures restored to gloryIt was a moment that went a long way to putting Afghanistan and its cultural heritage back on the map.
Egypt warns pharaohs' tombs could disappearThe ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings are doomed to disappear within 150 to 500 years if they remain open to tourists, the head of antiquities has warned.
'Ancient text' seized in IsraelIsraeli authorities say they have recovered a papyrus document which appears to be nearly 2,000 years old.
Who Should Own the World's Antiquities? Last June, the directors of the leading art museums of the United States agreed to limit their acquisitions of antiquities to works that have left their "country of probable modern discovery" before 1970, or that were exported legally after that date.
Mysterious Cleopatra has 21st-century defenderToday, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity.
Hoard Of Hundreds Of Antique Gold Coins Uncovered In Walls Around Jerusalem National ParkOne thousand three hundred year old Chanukah money in Jerusalem: a hoard of more than 250 gold coins was exposed December 11 in the excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Giv 'ati car park in the City of David, in the Walls Around Jerusalem National P …
Murder, mayhem and museumsWhile Iraq struggles to return to peaceful normality, the British have been working to restore some of the country's pride in its past - with a museum.
Man arrested over cat mummyAn Australian man has been arrested in Egypt after allegedly attempting to leave the country with a 2,000-year-old mummified cat and other antiquities in his suitcase, reports say.
Peru to sue Yale over missing Machu Picchu relicsPeru says it will take legal action against America's Yale University to secure the return of thousands of relics from the Incan city Machu Picchu.
An antiquities legend in an 'intrinsically lawless' businessLeonardo Patterson's colorful career includes charges of smuggling and selling forgeries. This year Munich police seized more than 1,000 Aztec, Maya, Olmec and Inca artifacts from him.
"James the brother of Jesus" ossuary hoax case may collapseThe high-profile trial of two Israeli antiquities experts accused of faking a burial box containing the remains of Jesus' brother and other priceless artifacts faced a humiliating collapse Wednesday after a Jerusalem judge advised the prosecution to consider dropping the proceedi …
Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the InternetJERUSALEM (CNN) -- More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before. The high-tech initiative, announced Wednesday, will also reveal text …
Rare 2,500-year-old marble discus found at Yavne-Yam, IsraelRare 2,500-year-old marble discus that was meant to protect ancient ships from the evil eye was found in the sea and turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. To date, only four such items have been found in the world.
Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaohEgyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again.
Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures: How a trove of priceless antiquities survived.Omara Khan Massoudi knows how to keep a secret. Massoudi is director of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Buried treasure: British Museum's secret treasuresAny public museum is like a great iceberg.
The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts -- Antikythera Mechanism and moreNumber one in the hit parade is "The Grooved Spheres" -- Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres.
Trade Shows and Fairs: New York TimesA collection of articles on ancient art, antiquities, and ancient jewelry.
Antiquities at Bowers Museum Owned by Convicted SmugglerHow can the city officials allow this to happen. I suppose the city officials of Santa Ana, are making a profit of this in some way. The corporate interest that Santa Ana has in the Bowers Museum. What other inequities are going on in Santa Ana.
Euphronios Krater ReturnedAs the restless crowd applauded, and flashbulbs popped, the Euphronios krater, at the heart of a three-decade tug of war between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Italian government, received a hero's welcome here on Friday.
Egypt to Choose to Copyright AntiquitiesEgyptian lawmakers are expected to pass a law copyrighting national antiquities and requiring royalties for use in and outside of the country of representations of them.
It is the death of history - Robert Fisk2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers.
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