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Customs agents in New York have seized two stolen Italian artifacts that are more than 2,000 years old.
Stepping into the afternoon sun last month, Jeanne Redd and her daughter Jericca walked away from a federal courthouse with probation papers — not prison time — for their role in the theft and illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts.
The National Museum of Afghanistan on Tuesday unveiled hundreds of looted artifacts, some dating back as far as the 11th century, seized from smugglers trying to sell them on Europe's black market.
The "pot-hunting" culture of the Southwest dates back to the 1800s, when a Colorado ranching family began exploring and excavating the ruined cliff dwellings of the Anasazi, an ancient civilization that flourished centuries ago.
An intensifying federal investigation into the sale of Native American artifacts has brought fear and uncertainty to one of the nation's largest and longest-running Indian artifact shows.
The family of Leonard Bernstein has donated items from the late composer's Connecticut studio — including a conducting stool believed to have been used by Johannes Brahms — to Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
Debbie Harris knew the military dog tag and small metal emblem of a Navy fighter squadron she recently found in the sand near her home on an Alabama beach belonged to a Blue Angels pilot who was killed when his jet crashed there a half-century ago.
Mexico put on display Tuesday selections from the largest private collection of archaeological artifacts ever donated to the government.
The director of Harvard's Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul dredged the artifacts from the sacred lake at the ruins of Chichen Itza.
U.S. officials returned 168 pre-Columbian artifacts to Ecuador on Tuesday as part of an ongoing FBI initiative to repatriate stolen cultural treasures to their home countries.
Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South American tomb. But Ugo Bagnato, an archaeologist, didn't know his potential customer was a federal agent.
The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck. The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912.
Delicately carved emeralds, rare gold nose rings and clay vessels that may have held bones more than 2,000 years ago — all plundered from ancient graves — will be returned to Colombia.
Syrian customs officials seized 40 artifacts stolen from the National Museum in Iraq as they were being smuggled across the border into Syria, state media reported Wednesday.
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.
Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man's country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan's villas, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Idaho State University anthropologists are retracing American Indian trade routes by bombarding arrowheads and other stone tools with radiation that helps locate their origins.
A spot where a pair of outhouses stood 130 years ago is proving to be a treasure trove for archaeologists who braved the lingering smell in the dirt to uncover some 19th century artifacts — and a mystery.
Chile: Family Finds Ancient Mapuche Burial Site Beneath Their House This story from Chile reminds us that we have a problem in the US with the care and preservation of ancient artifacts.
NewsDaily: Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert saysThe 15th century Vinland Map, the first known map to show part of America before explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the continent, is almost certainly genuine, a Danish expert said Friday
Archives' record-keeping lapse - San Jose Mercury NewsNational Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington.
Pottery Found In China Is Oldest Known Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a cone-shaped vase that they date back to 18,000 years ago. It is the oldest known pottery to date.
For sale in NYC: Torture devices from 16th centuryNew York's Guernsey's auction house plans to auction the privately owned collection of historical torture devices — some 252 items — plus rare books, documents and other related artifacts.
Experts: Spot of Mexican surrender in Texas found I found this article to be of interest. I also could not pass up the oppurtunity to remind people that parts of the US were once Mexico. Proving once again that English was not always the prodominent language in the US.
Neolithic settlement found between Basildon and WickfordTHE remains of eight Neolithic houses, between 4,000 and 6,000 years old, have been found between Basildon and Wickford.
Ice-Age Tools Unearthed In Boulder Someone left their tools in a Boulder yard -- 13,000 years ago. The Clovis-era stone tools, uncovered last year, appeared to have been used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed this part of North America until they became extinct. The find was announced by the Unive …
Nighthawkers raid Britain's archaeological heritage to sell on eBayHeritage executives want the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to crack down on 'nighthawkers', who use the latest equipment to find antiquities, which they then sell on websites such as eBay.
Unique Hoard Discovered by Archeologists in Centre of MoscowMoscow archeologists unearthed a hoard of ancient coins, jewels and an icon. Many of the items date back to the 12th century.
Diamonds Suggest Comets Caused Killer Cold SpellThe so-called nanodiamonds are made under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts, similar to an explosion over Tunguska in Siberia that flattened trees for miles in 1908.
Bronze-Age house unearthedTraces of a 3,000-year-old later Bronze Age round house have been found on the site of the new Bognor Regis Community College. A large extraction pit, containing a large amount of prehistoric pottery, was also uncovered in this area.
Weird tales at 'Odd Wisconsin' exhibit in MadisonThere are the extraordinary items: the poster announcing the auction of serial killer Ed Gein's items, Orson Welles' 156-page typed script for "Citizen Kane" and an original speech Abraham Lincoln gave in Milwaukee.
Yard work yields archaeological finds for Texas man One day this past June, Floyd McKee hauled a load of topsoil from near the bank of the Guadalupe River, on which his property sits, and dumped it on the grass in his yard. "It rained that night, and when I went out in the morning, the yard was covered with spear points," he said.
Rare Mummy Found With Strange Artifacts, Tattoo in PeruDisemboweled and decorated with scarlet paint, metal eye plates, and a tattoo, an exquisitely preserved, thousand-year-old mummy has been discovered in Peru.
Obama opposes excluding Russia from G8WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes excluding Russia from the Group of Eight industrial nations, as suggested by Republican rival John McCain, saying Moscow's cooperation was needed in the fight against...
Strange rock from Roswell raises questionsA strange rock with unusual magnetic properties - deeply scored, with what appears to be moon phases, a solar eclipse and the depiction of a supernova -- has been unearthed on the outskirts of Roswell.
Archaeologists Uncover A 'Treasure' In 115 Year Old OuthouseLocal archaeologists are excited about what they found on a recent dig, but its where they found the 115 year old artifacts that's creating the real buzz. It's a snapshot of history found in the most unlikely place. They found the artifacts in an outhouse.
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.
Tse-whit-zen artifacts languish in storageOne of the Pacific Northwest's most astonishing archaeological finds in a generation has languished for more than a year, lingering on metal shelves in a Seattle warehouse, unseen by the public and unexamined by scientists.
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.
Marcus Aurelius in AlgeriaA marble bust of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is back in Algerian hands, 12 years after it was stolen from a museum in the east of the country, the domestic APS news agency reported Wednesday.
Iraqi archaeologists excavate new sites and find 'rare' artifactsIraqi archaeologists have resumed excavations in southern Iraq uncovering three important ancient sites and collecting magnificent items some of them more than 4000 years old.
Egyptian Tomb Raider Dies From 'Curse'But a German man has decided the curse of the mummies is definitely not a myth - and has therefore returned a plundered ancient Egyptian carving which he says has fatally cursed his family.
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