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Four archaeologists were among nearly 200 people from six Chinese provinces recently arrested for raiding ancient tombs and selling an estimated $80 million worth of antiquities on the black market, the Beijing Times reported.
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It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies.
In Brief
If you've ever found yourself lost in Manhattan, you know that city grids are a beautiful thing.
In Brief
Large quantities of liquid mercury have been discovered at one of Mexico's most sacred pre-Columbian sites.
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Eastern Floridians who have long been fighting a high-speed rail development in their region claim in a lawsuit that it would damage two "prehistoric sites of cultural importance."
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They were removing "signs of idolatry." That's what an ISIS fighter said in a video published online Saturday.
Art
In Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, opened last week at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, more Greek bronzes are assembled than ever before in the modern age.
Art
After excavation, ancient artifacts embark on an afterlife of interpretation. From Ancient to Modern explores how the archaeology of Mesopotamia reflected fashions and academia of the 1920s and 30s, and influenced contemporary art.
In Brief
On Thursday about 100 peeved archaeologists took over the lobby of the Louvre in Paris, blocking the ticket booths for nearly five hours and allowing visitors to enter the museum without paying admission.
Art
Over the past few years, Libya has been making archaeology headlines not for the exciting new discoveries there, but for the ruthless cultural destruction.
News
Only one library from the classical world is known to have survived along with its texts: the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Ever since its discovery in 1754, archaeologists have attempted to crack open the villa's carbonized texts with knives, chemicals, and unrolling machines, all with little
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Archaeologists are one step closer to piecing together an ancient family tree after discovering the 4,500-year-old tomb of an unknown Egyptian queen named Khentakawess, AFP reported.