The Euphronios krater will return to Italy after a final weekend on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum purchased the pot from antiquities dealer Robert Hecht, who is now on trial in Rome for allegedly trafficking in stolen artifacts, in 1972.

More than 3,000 artifacts looted from central Europe were discovered by firefighters in a Prague apartment. The collector died in the fire.

What is the best way to protect the 3.7-million-year-old hominid tracks in Tanzania? Nature presents the options.

Scientists from the University of Indianapolis will attempt to identify the remains of Belle “the Black Widow” Gunness, a notorious female serial killer who reportedly died in 1908. Or did she fake her death, move to California, and continue killing for another 23 years?

Construction crews uncovered human bones while digging the foundation for a parking garage in Lexington, Virginia.

This dreadful article by a television station in Marion, Illinois, describes 1,600-year-old pottery fragments, animal bones, stone tools, and charcoal found at a construction site.

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