In Brief
News that Italy will repatriate almost 800 Chinese cultural artifacts obscures the country's controversial sign on to China's Belt and Road Initiative without the European Union's consultation.
News
Ironically, the secretive street artist once wrote: "Copyright is for losers."
In Brief
The Uffizi's director has used social media to call out Germany authorities who have yet to respond to his requests for restitution.
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Before established a certain cause of death for the Baroque painter, scientists first had to find his body.
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Among other things, the regional tribunal in Lazio objected to hiring committees using Skype to interview distant candidates.
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This is your chance to own a piece of Italy — but there's a catch.
Art
For the past five years, the group Macao has run a thriving, radical arts center out of a former slaughterhouse in Milan. Now the city council wants to evict them.
Art
The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.
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While digging to build a McDonald's in Marino, Italy, workers discovered an ancient road. The fast-food chain paid to restore it — and integrated it into a restaurant.
News
On Sunday morning, central Italy was hit by the country's most violent earthquake since 1980.
In Brief
The town clock in the 13th-century bell tower in Amatrice, Italy, is frozen at 3:36 am, the time that Wednesday's earthquake struck, exacting a death toll that now stands at 241.
In Brief
The few examples of Etruscan language that survive tell more about the dead than the everyday lives of the living, being mostly eulogies in tombs of the elite.