A five-foot-tall quartzite statue was found by maintenance workers near the smallest of Giza’s three main pyramids. The widow of an American antiquities collector has returned 8,100 “black-market artifacts” to the government of Mexico. Her dentist husband started collecting in the 1930s. Marco Antonio Santos, head of the Xochicalco archaeological zone, said that some of […]

A shipwreck’s cargo of 50 tons of marble on the bottom of the Aegean has been linked to a quarry and a final destination-the Temple of Apollo at Claros-by Deborah Carlson of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. The new information gives archaeologists a unique snapshot of the building process. Photographs of […]