An art scam perpetrated in Indonesia allegedly involves the Radya Pustaka, the country’s oldest museum; fake sculptures; businessmen connected to the royal family and the government; the international black market; an alert archaeology student; and the suspicious death of archaeologist Lambang Barbur Purnomo. New measurements of a hip and upper leg bone from Orrorin tugenensis […]

Police in Bangladesh found a 1,000-year-old statue left by a smuggler on the side of a road. While in Italy, police announced that last year they seized 1,000 artifacts at a country home outside Rome. All of the objects had been stolen from one of Trajan’s villas, and had been incorporated into the modern home.   […]